Recent ZDooms will even automatically find Doom II, on any platform, if it was installed by Steam or GOG. Slick. I covered getting those in the first Doom mapping post, and it still applies. How the fuck did u make this map in a week DID U JUST LIKE NOT SLEEP ALL WEEKĪnyway, you will need ZDoom and Doom II. If you’re not sold, here are some rave reviews: Or if you don’t care about combat and just want to tour the map, you can play with no monsters, or do kill monsters in the console, or use freeze to freeze them all, or notarget to make them ignore you (unless you shoot them). It does support difficulty levels, and in the style of Doom II, the map is practically barren on easy.

I’m going to spoil the progression as well as most of the secrets, and some of this may not make any sense if you haven’t seen it. If you have any intention of ever playing my map, you should do that before reading further. I’ve described the course through the map as I go, and I’ve tried to include some context for people whose knowledge of Doom is only “you shoot monsters”, so I hope it’s at least a little accessible. I put a lot of thought into it - or tried, anyway - and have a lot to say about it, so this is my developer commentary. Results: pretty good! I’m pretty happy with it, and a few people have played it and enjoyed it. I spent six straight days doing virtually nothing but working on this Doom map. So when the Doom Upstart Mapping Project 2 was announced, with the goal of just getting something done with the short time limit of a week, I figured I should give it a shot. More recently I’ve actually made a few maps that got as far as having an exit (!), but I never really finished them, and I haven’t published them anywhere. I started a good few maps when I was a teenager, but I tended to get bogged down in making some complicated contraption work, and then get bored with the whole idea and lose interest. I’ve been… orbiting? the ZDoom community for over a decade, but only really contributed in the form of minor wiki edits and occasional advice.

Despite spending 29,000 words explaining why and how you should make a Doom level, I’ve yet to actually publish one myself. Yes, dear readers, I have a confession to make.

Doom shut down the portal secrets