RariDoom v .8.1

Hotfixes! Get your hotfixes here.

The broken door in E4M7 was literally fixed with two clicks and one keypress, but it bugged me enough that once I fixed it, I went through the maps once more, just to check things out. I put the music in E2M8, found another bunch of door tracks either missing the track texture or missing the 'lower unpegged' flag (sighs in E3M2... sighs harder in E3M3... shakes head in despair at E3M8), added a few more decorations, and expanded E2M7, just for fun. Don't think anything changed enough to give it a higher version number, but it definitely feels like an improvement to me.

Get just the wad here; or, if you haven't downloaded the game yet, the full download here.

If you'd like a slightly different take on this game, check out Custom Edition! There are new sounds and new attacks from the changelings, the weapons actually look like magic spells, there are light effects, and a brutal final boss battle. It's a ton of fun. Even the quit sounds are great. The spoiler-ific YouTube video is here, or click here to download the mod directly. Good luck!

RariDoom v .8

It's here! Click here to download the .zip file, extract it, then drag raridoom point 8.wad to zdoom to get started.

Oh, this is such a strange feeling. I've had this project on its own little flashdrive for forever. I didn't think it would take this long to finish, but I also didn't expect so much support from everyone, so I owe a lot to you all, too.

Things get a little more meta after the break, but feel free to jump right in and start playing!

That Fourth Door

So waaaay back when I was building E1M3, I discovered I needed a fourth locked door for the design to work. Thankfully, Doom supports three regular keys and three skull keys, so I just used the blue skull key space. Being the paragon of maturity that I am, I decided it would be funny to add a reference to the "error 502: bad gateway" problem that plagued fimfiction.net at the time. 

As time went on, I found that three doors really sufficed for pretty much everything else I needed, so this door only appeared sporadically past that level (only one other's really coming to mind right now, and it's a secret level so it doesn't count).

Obviously, it's been a while since E1M3, and fimfiction.net has improved as a site, so much so that this error message has become nothing but a distant memory. I supposed I could change it to a green or orange keyspell or something like that, but at this point, it's been there so long it's basically an intrinsic part of the game now. 

And then today fimfiction.net went down and it's still down as of this writing. So I feel a tiny bit vindicated by that. 

...I think.