Well, my birthday is tomorrow but I am just freeing up time to do whatever I want, computer free, with my wife, and a TV, and snacks, and Qdoba, and a forest drive, and whatever else.
I'll be 41, and I still screw with doom. As nostalgic as I feel lately since I'm getting older, I felt the need to finally work on "Otherworldly" with my storyline and soundtrack I've already done. I just need to make the levels (sigh). Since I know very little about GZDoom's ACS features, I've decided to resurrect a very stale and old series "Chambers of Death" I made in 26 years ago when I was 15 and add a whole mess of new 8-map episodes to make it 200 levels long! This may sound exciting but fear not, for the levels are all the same design over and over with new additions and scripts here and there to test things. The original trilogy was based off of my first working level and more or less also served as a way to test editing of vanilla features way back when.
The first nine episodes are the first three games. Everything after that up to Episode 25 is all intended to be new stuff. I'm not sure if I will make it this far without blowing my brains out (bad joke I know) but still, I might get so bored making it that you'll be less bored playing it, as it may end up shorter than 200 full maps. You basically walk around two walls and exit in the first level. The level is shaped like a "Z", somewhat, hence the new name (And it was built for ZDoom and GZDoom, also hence the new name).
Below are some screenshots of various maps, I'll feature just a few of the 200, because I'll leave some of the cooler ones up for suprise. There are actually some cool ideas I intend on filling inside of some not so cool ones for that very element of suprise. You'll probably wonder why I ended up putting so much work into some of them and wasting that time within this paticular mod, but I'm testing things. If I like something I'll probably use the ideas later for real levels!
So prepare yourself, it's coming this year! (I hope)
