I forgot to add: Here's the music in 2 formats! (One more broken than the other in some ways! :P)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70256161/wtfland.it
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70256161/wtfland.mid

The music was made with the following programs:

- OpenMPT
- My own hastily written and terribly broken IT/MUS converter
- mus2midi
- Anvil Studio to reload and save the broken MIDI
- midi2mus

That's why it sounds a bit screwy in game! :P

=P it seems more like you looked up a list of stuff which would crash vanilla doom and then did all of them

the puzzle room is a really cool idea but you can't get that many planes on the screen in real life

It's not nice to accuse me of deliberately breaking things. I just wanted to make a large map with lots of things because that's what I like. :(

I'm not very experienced with DOOM mapping. My knowledge of DOOM mapping is limited to what I could learn from (video) tutorials and figure out by myself! (if it "works", it works! :P) I was completely unaware of vanilla DOOM compatibility being a big issue with a lot of maps/editors.

I don't know from the top of my head what the limits are of the DOOM engine. I was expecting Doom Builder's map analyzer to tell me that I was breaking compatibility with the original DOOM. It reports a lot of things that don't crash anything, after all! :P

Personally, I think a map editor should, to the very least, warn you if you're exceeding any limits, especially if you're working in DOOM rather than ZDOOM/Hexen/Strife mode.

I could make the puzzle room a lot smaller, but then I'd have to find a solution for custom textures, floors and music as well. They're causing most of the errors. I've tried several hours to get those at least working with the original DOOM, but I got errors despite trying every solution I found. When I replaced all of them with the default textures was when I encountered the crash and gave up on the idea of trying to get it to work with the original DOOM. Making your map compatible with the original DOOM shouldn't be this frustrating!!! :P

I don't know what's exactly wrong with my map. It doesn't help when the editors I use just keep saving it in an incompatible format without throwing any error or warning.

So, I was thinking, it has happened before that people submitted .it files as TIA, .mmf files as Adlib, .it files with MPT hacks as S3XMODIT, .dmf files as SID and didn't get downvoted for it. I know I didn't downvote them for it.

It's frustrating when the tools you're using don't do what they're supposed to do at the end of the day when you've put many long hours of work into it. I hope you'll understand and not give me a pile of 1s.

I have no plans on entering for Doom, but I will note that MPT hacks have not fared well on my end, and if I get suspicious, I will even bother to attempt to load them in the original Impulse Tracker. Surprisingly, although there are graphical glitches if less than 32 rows are involved, they have played back somewhat. However, I have failed to test the case where the row count is above 256.

Although MPT hacks are partially incompatible on my end, .dmf files for SID are outright incompatible on my main computer, and therefore without a render they are effectively no good for my ears.

Note that MPT hacks do use the .it format, so I usually don't completely shoot them down in my votes (however, trying to violate the tempo limitation automatically results in 255 on my end instead of a value greater than 255... but only if I'm using the later build of Schism Tracker. My 2008 build is unable to import those files.). However, wrong file formats do get shot down on my end (I make exceptions for wildchip and allgear under the condition that a render exists if a more obscure format is used that I can't seem to play back).

hey i appreciate the sentiment that you want to make a fun thing and it's too bad that you had trouble getting your map to compatible

but the rules specifically state that maps should work with doom.exe/chocolate doom so i think it would be unfair of me to NOT dock points if i have to use something else to play the map, considering that other entries will (presumably) have adhered to a stricter compatibility standard

so know that when i dock points a) i'm doing it out of a sense of fairness, not ill will and b) the score i give is independent of my enjoyment of the entry in the same way that the entry you made is independent of the regulations of the compo

> : )

With an evil grin on his face, Jangler assured me that he was doing it out of fairness and not out of ill will!

I hesitated, but I knew I couldn't resist his rhetoric. I can only hope he won't punish me too badly for my failure to meet requirements~

i like the songong

the song kinda sounds like something from legend of zelda to me (or other goood snes games like chrono trigger idk)

Wow this is some nightmare fuel right here. The heroic music and gory Doom visuals make such an uncanny combination! Eerie aesthetics aside, I really liked how you transformed the game into a first person bullet hell shmup :)

I also got a peculiar urge to make a JRPG Doom total conversion mod now...

well, the music was good!