What I love most about the Doom Community...

 ...is how helpful everyone is. Have an idea? Someone knows how to do it (and it's usually only a couple lines of decorate code). Not sure how to change something? Even if it hasn't specifically been done, someone knows where to look to get started. 

And then there's little idiosyncrasies of modding. Like how the dehacked patch is always loaded last. So if you have a nice little Language lump, but the freedoom wad you're using as a template has a dehacked patch, that's going to override it whenever you playtest it, and it's something so silly to get hung up on but I liked having all the strings in one place and honestly it took me much longer than I'd like to admit to figure out why none of the strings were updating like I inherited everything and put in the little dollar sign like I'm supposed to so why aren't you updating

Not an announcement or anything, just playing with the tools again. 

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.

oh dear

Me: I'm going to finish this game before the end of season 9!
Netherlands: *releases rest of the season*
Me: o.O

Normal Day

If the date of posting and the 4-1 didn't give it away, that posting was an April Fool's joke. Unlike any of the others, I can assure you there will be no Terry-esque monsters or other... decorations... in the actual game.

I have a goal to have it done before Season 9 ends, so fingers crossed!

Special Day!

Decided to release Open Beta 4 today. Download link here. To play, click and drag raridoom.wad to zdoom.exe and you should be good to go.

Have fun!