scwiba

@scwiba

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scwiba@scwiba· 18d

I was aiming for sort of an Unruly Evil meets Dismal Oubliette kind of thing, but I don't think I hit the mark on either one.

Doom screenshot showing a very brown room with a couple torches, a wooden door, and lava flowing in the corner.

A narrow walkway running across the pit of lava. Two mancubi are hurling fireballs at the player.

Another brown room, this time with a stone floor and circle of torches in the middle. An arch-vile and imp are attacking.

The walkway from earlier, but now two arch-viles have claimed it and are in the middle of blasting the player.

scwiba@scwiba· 19d

Prolific TV writer Katharyn Powers would have turned 83 today. She worked on tons of successful shows, but is probably best known as the writer of the worst episode of Star Trek ever aired AND arguably the worst episode of Stargate. A true pioneer.

Title card for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Code of Honor.

Title card for Stargate SG-1 episode Emancipation.

scwiba@scwiba· 19d

I met this powerful creature today.

The tiniest, fluffiest kitten you ever did see. It has gray and black stripes except for its little white feeties and a white chest that looks like a fancy ruffled collar.

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scwiba@scwiba· 23d

I do find myself wishing it was much slower-paced... or involved like a more exploratory loop, so that you had time to take in the sights. Which is essentially wishing it was a different game. Still, I really like it!

A scene from Incision. The player is looking up between a number of modern buildings where a spire of flesh and bone has risen into the sky.

A cold, blue corridor lit by beams of light from above.

Corpses laid out on slabs around a floating pyramid.

Many distant structures and chunks of land floating in a cloudy void. Blood rains down while tall chimneys belch fire.

scwiba@scwiba· 23d

Enjoying the hell out of Incision. Gameplay-wise it doesn't do anything that hasn't been done in lots of other retro shooters, but the world is so gross and beautiful that I can't put it down.

Screenshot from the game Incision, showing rusty old hallways in a very limited orange and red palette.

A big cavern area with molten something flowing out of the wall and weird vines or fleshy fibers hanging from various surfaces.

A dark, vaulted chamber filled with gravestones.

Looking across a bridge while infernal steam rises around it. In the distance, barely visible, two sets of giant teeth.

scwiba@scwiba· Jul 11

I don't usually use Google so I hadn't seen this before, but... 1) the UnMaking has been 40 maps for the vast majority of its existence, 2) there are two maps in the wad so opposite of "compact" that they would break the engine if they were any bigger, and 3) WHAT LORE?

Google AI overview stating that "The UnMaking is a 33-map megawad for Doom 64 created by designer scwiba. Awarded the Machaward at the 2021 Cacowards, this technicolor nightmare mod features heavily stylized, compact maps, and also expands on the lore of the base game."

scwiba@scwiba· Jul 11

Carmack thinks it's a tragedy when AI doesn't get the love it deserves, but when over a hundred real human people get laid off from the company he created he "can't muster anger or outrage over it."

scwiba@scwiba· Jul 3

29 years ago today, the Doom partial conversion STRAIN was released. I can't imagine anything more worth celebrating around this time of year.

The title screen of STRAIN. A shadowy Doomguy sits holding his head in his hands, while various cartoony monsters are depicted all around.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 29

Going Hell mode.

A scene from Doom: the player standing on a floor of tentacles with molten rock formations rising out of it and a glowing eye sigil directly ahead.

A shotgunner firing at the player in a dim, hellish cave.

The tentacle floor area again, with a revenant running toward the camera.

A view of the map showing it to be shaped like a skull with curved horns.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 25

Carmack's brain is like twenty years past the best-by date.

John Carmack twitter post: "If you are asking 'Why push back against anti-datacenter efforts?' I consider it a tragedy that anti-nuclear efforts largely strangled nuclear power in the US based on vibes, and I don't want to see that happen to AI. Public opinion matters, and it shouldn't be ceded unchallenged. If you are asking 'Why should I support AI efforts at all?' I believe we are in the midst of a transition more vibrant than the industrial revolution. Opinions formed a couple years ago about the uselessness of AI are no longer valid. Millions of people and organizations are getting great returns from using it, and the demand for data centers is the market responding to the value signal. That is how progress is made!"

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 25

Conspiracy theory: Chewy will send you a few dented pet food cans as a trial. If you don't complain right away, every subsequent autoship will be stock that's so mangled they would have had to throw out otherwise.

A photo of eight cans of cat food on a wooden table in various states of having been crushed. How they aren't actively leaking is a mystery.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 24

Sixth map! Though this one is a remake of my first 100-line map from ten (!!!) years ago.

Doom screenshot. A courtyard of sorts with stone walls and a pool of nukage.

A dimly lit corridor looking out over a larger room.

A nukage-filled area with a narrow view of the sky. The player has just fired the shotgun at a demon.

Fighting a number of demons, imps, and zombies in a dark room full of computer equipment. A barrel is caught mid-explosion.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 24

Got the gameplay figured out on this one. We're at five completed maps!

A scene from Doom. A baron of hell faces away from the player, lit by a tall, sinister light.

A wide arena with rusty floor and a pit in the middle, full of blood.

A mancubus and cacodemon infighting, exchanging fireballs at close range.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 24

I may have been too obvious about what I'm ripping off here.

Doom screenshot depicting a techbase room with tan walls and a gray metal floor.

A very dark room with many tech pillars. The player is firing the pistol at a zombie.

A room partially open to the sky. Zombies are closing in on the player.

A narrow hallway with the ceiling too high to see. Imps are coming out of a brightly lit nook.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 23

Downloading the game the whole world is talking about.

Screenshot of Steam interface showing the game goblinAmerica being downloaded.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 21

What would Knee-Deep style maps be without an Anomaly?

A scene from Doom showing a techbase room with multiple levels. There are rockets on the lowest floor and a rocket launcher on the highest one.

A sprawling outdoor environment with many marine corpses scattered around. A star-shaped flesh orifice has opened in the sky.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 20

Another map roughed out. But I kinda don't know what to do with this one. I ran out of lines before it really had any progression to speak of.

Doom screenshot. The player is in the middle of a dark room, with light cast on them from a glowing red wall.

A wide arena with a canal of blood running through it.

The same room from a different angle. An arachnotron is laying down fire on the player from a higher alcove.

Same room again, but all the enemies have been killed except for one cacodemon.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 15

A second map has hit the wad.

A screenshot from Doom showing a long, featureless hallway.

A dark area with nukage and enemies at various heights.

The same hallway seen in the first screenshot, but the floor has fallen way to reveal a more complex series of walkways.

A shotgun zombie firing out of the darkness.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 14

First completed map of the year. Tiny 128-liner with 86 monsters.

A techbase environment from Doom. The player is facing down an imp in tight quarters

Many imps and imp corpses in a dark room with watery floor. The player is firing rockets into the horde.

An arch-vile using its fire attack in a silver corridor. A door next to the player seems to have opened onto a black void.

The player and some revenants trade rockets.

scwiba@scwiba· Jun 14

Trying to get through the mental mapping block I have by just making whatever comes to mind.

A screenshot from the game Doom. A custom map in the style of Knee-Deep in the Dead, with two imps approaching the player.

A techbase courtyard where a number of imps surround a red key.

Cramped stone and metal corridors. An arch-vile is resurrecting a chaingunner while the player wields a shotgun.

A gray walkway stretching off into a huge, rocky, outdoor area. At the end of the walkway is a tall structure with a forked peak.

scwiba@scwiba· May 22

"Huge, open area with hardly anything in it" is one of my favorite tropes from early Doom mapping, but that you don't see much of anymore. Nowadays I think prevailing wisdom is to scale stuff like this down or to break it up visually.

The outdoor area at the end of Doom's E1M8. Uninterrupted dirt for probably what would be a half mile if this was a real space, and the only thing interrupting the vista is the star-shaped boss arena in the center.

A massive room of metal in the appropriately titled "Metal" -- map08 of TNT: Evilution. Four burning barrels in the distance look like little candles at this distance, and the floor has these strangely small nukage pits that do basically nothing to add visual interest to the scene.

An absurd expanse of grass in Memento Mori 2 map26, surrounded by vine-covered walls. Two imps comically approach the player across the vastness.

A huge lava-flooded room with an exit on the far side. Three imp turrets are placed on pillars in the lava, as if they pose any threat at this distance. From STRAIN map29.

scwiba@scwiba· May 5

There's no room on my lap for his head so I'm just expected to hold it up until he's done snoozing.

Close-up of a black and white cat's sleeping face. His head is cradled by a human hand.

scwiba@scwiba· Feb 1

I kinda love that this game just rips straight from Link to the Past, right down to the way the map is displayed. The dungeons are just sidescrolling Zelda dungeons. The overworld progression is Zelda. The magitek armor is... well, that's not Zelda I guess.

The overworld map from Ganbare Goemon 3. It's displayed with the exact same mode 7 angle as the one in Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

A ninja character fighting an enemy in a sidescrolling sequence.

Futuristic buildings with NPCs wandering around. The player character is piloting a mecha suit.

scwiba@scwiba· Jan 31

This game knows its audience.

Dialogue from the Super Famicom game Ganbare Goemon 3. "Fireworks Dealer: I'm thrilled it went well! Here, take this fireworks bomb!"

And the following line, "Just don't throw it into cracks in walls at someone's house to open up new paths."

scwiba@scwiba· Jan 29

Still works. Still crashes.

scwiba@scwiba· Jan 29

Hey, anybody remember this cool bug I discovered?

scwiba@scwiba· Jan 29

One more update to The UnMaking! This covers the last of the fixes to known issues from the anniversary update. Very happy with the state of things now. www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

scwiba@scwiba· Jan 25

Me every time I think I know what I'm doing: