The 10x10 Project (idgames) [-cl9]

Congrats on release! Played a little bit of the secret map and thought it was cool.

JadingTsunami
Keeping the textures fresh and giving every room a unique look was the main goal of the project so I'm glad that came through.
Hold onto your butts because that serious difficulty curve spikes even higher in MAP05. I've had some complaints about it. There was a guy that recorded his playthrough, which I really appreciated and was enjoying quite a bit, but then he threw a bit of a tantrum when he couldn't beat MAP05 (he wasted all of his cells at the start of the fight, saved, and never tried the fight over again actually making use of the cells). Hopefully you fare better in that map, but if not, I am open to any feedback you might have.
walterc
I actually always pick out my textures first before mapping. I usually just pick them based around a color scheme. It takes some experimenting, but when you have them all side by side, it's easy to see what works together and what doesn't.

dr_st
Three archviles actually. I like archviles

Yeah, I really liked MAP03 as well. The battles are cramped but not too cramped.

Also I have to say that this is one of the most thorough efforts to differentiate skill levels I've seen in recent WADs. Completely different monsters and items between easy, medium and hard really make this a compelling play for players at varying degrees of competence.

Great work lunchlunch. So far I've only done the first map. Here is the demo; Attachment Deleted

I found the first map to be fun and nerve wracking with those monsters getting you from behind and close quarter encounters with AV's. I especially liked the part where you had to hide behind the pillars as you advanced to the rocket launcher and two AV's in the window above. It's cover based gameplay without the 3rd person cover based mechanics; the best of both worlds.

Thanks for your comments and demos, guys, I've had a lot of fun watching these today.
dr_st I really tried to do what I could to make sure the different difficulties were scaled and balanced, I'm glad it's working out for you. I can see what you mean about the DOOM (2016) arena vibe. When I first started making maps, I had only played the IWADs, but I was also playing through DOOM Eternal on my XBOX and I think that really influenced me towards making and playing arena-based maps.
Fryuko Wow, playing it safe in MAP03 definitely was worth it. That was really cool to see you learn and master the map at the same time, especially the claustrophobic cyberdemon room. Great FDA, very tense. That mancubus in MAP02 is definitely a bastard, I'll admit. You can pistol him to save ammo but it was balanced so there's just enough shells to kill him with, and if you get the hidden backpack near the start, even more so.
joe-ilya Ya know, sometimes I forget just how damn good you are at the game until I watch a demo of yours. Blowing through encounters with ease and finding every secret is one thing, but it's the little things like standing precisely at the edge of a tall lift to trigger it from above so you don't have to wait for it down below that really make this clear. I wasn't aware anybody actually played continuous without saves, but it looks like a ton of fun after seeing you do the whole WAD in one go this way. It really makes dying even more of a punishment. Great playthrough, and God bless you for UV-MAXing the secret level.
kvsari Thanks for the demo. It was fun to watch you figure out the soulsphere secret. You were pretty curious about certain walls with DOORTRAK on them, and I'll confirm for you that everything in this WAD that has DOORTRAK on it will open somehow. I love watching demos but if at any point during the more challenging levels this starts to feel like a chore for you, don't feel obligated to record, I want players to have fun first and foremost. If it doesn't get frustrating though, keep 'em comin'!

lunchlunch
here're my attempts at map01 and map02
UV, cl 9
Map01 didn't finish in these demos^ (I did on 16 November in Zdoom on ITYTD but forgot the map)
Map02 finished

I liked the maps, and would suggest making the lifts wait 1 second rather than 3, as the Boom allows to do such things

Im dying to play this when i get home to my PC.

Very creative encounters and the maps are very beautiful! I finished up to MAP04 and started getting burned out by MAP05. MAP04 took a lot out of me. The maps are very tough but I was determined to win. The monster density in most of these encounters is very heavy. I had a really hard time with a lot of it. I'd liken it to playing a lot like Sunlust at times. I did feel like I was fighting with the terrain a lot. The detail in the floors are pretty bumpy, details jutting out of the walls are easy to clip on, and even the vertices used on some of the straight lines will sap my velocity if i touch the map geometry at all, which happened often. It made a lot of my deaths feel unfair.

I really like the design. Theres a lot of creative encounters I've not seen imitated quite like this in many of the maps I've played, and the gameplay is very tantalizing in a way that makes me want to keep playing but I am a little hot-headed right now and could use a break lol

Tried to continue recording some demos where I left off. I managed to complete MAP04 without dying although I skipped around half of the arch-viles during the finale. I wasn't confident enough to pull it off alive. The demo is not my first attempt, but I forgot a lot since the last time I played this.

MAP04 Demo Recorded through the latest version here.

I really enjoyed the increased scale of fights here and none of them felt unfair. The non-linear design is also pretty great. I did all my previous attempts in a completely different order, but the one in the demo turned out to be way more efficient.
I couldn't find any of the secrets, but I was not actively looking for them. Only had problems with the starting room but that is my fault, I'll have to get better at dealing with Archies. I might as well missed a hidden weapon there that would make it easier.

Gave a couple of attempts to map05 as well, but I just kept dying at the first key fight with all the imps and cacos. I'll need some strategies before attempting it for real.

this sounds cool but i hate slaughter maps sorry