i'm working on a BIONICLE mod for DOOM 2!
it's in the early stages still, but i already have enemy replacements, custom weapons, and custom music by the talented KDNX!
and with your help, we could achieve even more! if you're interested in playtesting or contributing to the mod, fill out this form and i'll gladly have you aboard and send you the alphas when they're ready!
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I need to tell you all about MyHouse.wad, a fan-made DOOM map that came out recently and stood out as a masterclass in game design, horror, and liminal space storytelling (cw for themes of death and loss).
If you've heard enough and you want to play it, there's a quick guide for getting started at the beginning of this article - The Doom mod of the year just dropped in a mysterious forum post, and goes so hard we don't even want to spoil what comes next | PC Gamer
If you just want to know more about the map... read the rest of the article. Or this article - MyHouse.wad is not another gimmicky Doom map with ingenious level design – Boris Bezdar (bezdarbor.com)
Or better yet, watch this video essay that shows playthroughs of the various endings and does a phenomenal job of presenting the content and capturing what works so well about it -
This map is something truly special! Happiness is worth fighting for...
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MyHouse.wad
On March 2 2023, a user called Veddge posted this thread in the WADs and Mods Doomworld forum:
MyHouse
Excited to finally release this tribute map. Last August I lost a good childhood friend of mine and took it pretty hard. When I was visiting my hometown for his funeral, I connected with his parents who shared with me some of his old belongings. Among them was a copy of an old map of his backed up on a 3.5” floppy from high school. Thomas and I were into amateur Doom mapping in the early 00s but I had never seen this map of his prior to uncovering it on one of the old floppy discs. As a way of paying tribute to him and all the great memories we had together, I took the plunge and installed Doom Builder in order to polish up his map and add a few modern amenities just for convenience sake.
I haven’t touched an editor in over 15 years so it was quite a surprise to find out how easy mapping has become. I may have gotten a little carried away with these new UDMF features and, as such, the map is designed for GZDoom. From the text file:
Doom 2 - GZDoom, hardware renderer
1 map: Not much of a challenge and roughly 10 minutes of play time. All difficulty settings implemented.
Jumping & crouching disabled, freelook is fine
Lots of Doomcute!
Making maps of your house was all the rage back-in-the-day, but I feel like this is a pretty adorable and detailed tribute to my friend and a great way to share something of him with a community we loved. Miss you, Tom.
Download myhouse.wad
Contained within is a link to a Google Drive folder containing myhouse.wad—a DOOM map of a normal 20th century suburban house where you mow down baddies and collect a blue, yellow, and red keycard to reach the exit—photos, text files, screenshots, and some images of a sketchbook.
There is also another version of the mod in a different format: myhouse.pk3. Opening this file to start a new game shows the map exactly the same as myhouse.wad ... until it isn’t.
Read Vegge’s original post, poke around in the GDrive, don’t look up anything else if you can help it, and give this a go. If you’re stumped, you might need to get some fresh air outside. General content warnings in the tags; spoiler cws under the cut. Obviously there is much more to this map than it seems ...
general content warnings for myhouse.pk3: blood, gore, violence, guns, weapons, pov, monsters, zombies, demons, flashing lights, eye strain
spoilery content warnings for myhouse.pk3: liminal spaces, the backrooms, unreality, substance abuse, alternate reality, enclosed spaces, open spaces, animal death, mirrors, mirror world, spiders, fire ... please ask me to tag anything i missed! this is still a very new puzzlebox of a game and it’s possible there’s still more to discover ...
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I love myhouse.wad and b3313 cause they have, like, similar energies but different messages? Myhouse is about being so very familiar with place that you feel trapped in it, even when you're somewhere else. And b3313 is like coming back to a place you THOUGHT was familiar, but actually there's so much more than you realized and the further you go in the smaller you feel and your instincts are telling you to let sleeping dogs lie but your morbid curiosity keeps pushing you deeper...
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On one hand I'm really glad that I was introduced to myhouse.wad through a really good and in depth lore video. But on the other hand I really wish I had listened to his advice at the start and played it blind because holy shit what a mindfuck I wanna play it but now I spoiled it for myself :(
Curse you power pak
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I was playing lilith.pk3 earlier and when i quit out it crashed my fucking computer
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