Zeppelin Armada

Btw I don't have an "n" at the end of my username unlike in the maplist

There's some HOM/missing textures at the end of MAP05.

I may have skipped something but did my text screen stuff not make the cut?

Reposting wad with the textures added.



www.dropbox.com/s/e0xakfafm9pv4d9/DBP_59_full.wad?dl=0

www.dropbox.com/s/9e1u3048i8l5cpx/DBP_59.wad?dl=0

MAP05 has a shortcut to the end I missed. No idea if I should fix that since the bfg was supposed to be a reward for those who find it. (I rather pput a fencet there and an alternate way to unclock the bfg)

About the graphics lifted from The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, I'll take the blame for that. It was negligence on my part I think. The art for that game is so believably retro that I was actually tricked into believing it was from an a long forgotten point and click adventure from the 90s!

I can explain how I got to using those sprites, not as an excuse... just thought I'd share the story. I'm happy to replace those sprites with originals and buy the game.

Its on the front page of their website

cadgames.weebly.com/

I was originally looking up sprites from Monkey Island, and other point-and-click story adventure games of the period. From what I've read, many of those games are difficult to run on modern hardware and many of those are free now.

I personally don't have a lot of experience playing those types of games -- i grew up on doom and other shooters, so I wouldn't be able to tell where the art is sourced just from looking at it.

I had already put together a template for a 256 width texture which would contain 8 32px width sized slots with images of NPC's to be used in the wad. In parallel I was building out a tech demo for working NPC dialogue trees in the Doom engine, and needed graphics so it would make any sense to the mappers, visually.

While looking for sprite sheets ripped from Indiana Jones and Beneath a Steel Sky to use, it would happen that an unlabeled WIP sprite sheet from Hob's Barrow came up in the search, and stylistically was 'close enough' to the time period emphasized in this steampunk project and were perfect dimensions. It had a lot of miscellaneous parts so i kinda quickly cut and pasted them together to use for the demo. I should have just made them on my own in the first place but I needed to show this to the mappers and didnt want the concept it to sit, unspoken, waiting on me to make the art.

In context, these doom projects are primarily mapping projects that are pretty much developed on strict timelines of unpaid game industry style crunch. (We've made 60 of them in the span of 5 years!) So I've taken some shortcuts in the essence of time to support level designers in this pursuit.

In development, no one mentioned recognizing these sprites from anywhere and so I didn't feel prodded to update them. This is likely because there probably isn't a lot of overlap between fans of point and click adventures and level designers for boomer shooters. Having interactable NPCs in a doom map was a new frontier for us.

In development between the mappers we already started making maps with these characters in it and making up stories and quotes for them so it just kinda stuck.

Personally, its not my proudest work in graphics editing, so I'm happy to make original replacements. As a creator, myself, I find it really weird for people to recklessly repurpose assets I've created and I know that frustration of seeing your work used without credit. I'm very sorry for that and won't make that mistake again!

That's not an excuse for shamelessly ripping off someone's work (and livelihood) without credit and so I'll gladly buy the game and create original replacements.

already done. ill share his reply when it arrives.

Hello guys !!
This project has been nominated for best mapset at the DOOM AWARDS 2023 !!
Good luck :-D !!

Sorry CK and K5. I was rushing to complete the map. Sadly the alphabet texture doesn't have any numbers (we should probably fix that in future wads).

I will correct my hasty spelling mistakes, thanks for letting me know

Freaking awesome. Was playing the beta here and there. Good improvement on the statbar.

Some of the most amazing maps I've ever seen, and good fun.

I've started playing the full version today and it seems like megaserk secret in MAP02 is broken. I can't find a way to reveal the switch to enter the secret closet.

Upd: I think the midtex switch texture right in front of the steering wheel in snowy44's map in the red key looks cursed and I noticed that there's an issue with 'killable' NPCs in LunchLunch's map: the blood midtextures are bleeding into the floor.

imgbox.com/g/JBt2vXYVRY

Just played through the whole thing.

-Small misalignment in LunchLunch's map (screenshot #13)
-This switch changes texture when pressed (screenshots #20 and #21)
-Ugly texturing error in Highclouds (screenshot #23)
-You can go through this railing in matador's map (screenshot #26). This shouldn't be changed, it actually makes getting back up easier
-Screenshots #27 and #28 show that a switch that should lower the pillars preventing the player from exiting the map has lowered itself. Idk why that happened
-Screenshot #32 lololol
-Screenshot #36 and #37 show a dialogue window that needs to be fixed
That's all. I'll play the wad without pistol starting each map in the near future.
Screenshots: imgbox.com/g/bn1rx0w17n