This level was originally made for a project called The Ninth Gate that I was working on with Pablo Dictter, Tobias Münch, Damian Lee and Karthik. The idea was to make a set of levels inspired by Episode 4 of The Ultimate Doom — basically maps with lots of wood/marble in them. We never got around to finishing it though (blame real life and laziness), so we have now decided to release the finished levels individually.
Most of this level was made during 2001-03 with DoomCAD (yes!), so the architecture is pretty simple, though detailed. The exit area was made with Doom Builder. No new graphics, except a titlepic. The level music is from Duke Nukem 3D, the other tracks were composed by Damian Lee (originally for The Ninth Gate). It plays on E4M1, and you need a limit-removing port like ZDoom to play it. Oh and since most of you, dear readers, are non-Doomers and will probably never play this, I'm going to be a little generous with the screenshots so that you can at least see what it looks like —
Credits
- Pablo Dictter and Karthik - Thanks a lot guys for the feedback and for playtesting this level on the lower skills.
- Doug "Opulent" Merrill - It was awesome to see somebody other than me playing this on UV. The demos were mighty useful. Thanks!
- Damian Lee - The music tracks rule! Especially the endgame MIDI.
- Joel Murdoch - For no particular reason. You can stop coughing now BTW.
Related Links
- [ 03/08/07 ] - Review of "The Outer Darkness" on The Outpost of Doom II (thanks a lot for the review Ismaele!)
- [ 03/08/07 ] - Update on NewDoom.com
- [ 02/08/07 ] - Update on Doomworld.com (thanks all for the comments!)
- [ 02/08/07 ] - Karthik writes about The Outer Darkness
12 comments:
Coming from someone who was there from the very beginning of this map...
Awesome work, an inspiration to my mapping too... it's great to see this amazing map released.
I will do a detailed writeup on my site about this. :)
WOW! =) That's nice. I hope to play it soon! :)
yeah gr8..gimme the game n make me play it :P
Karthik -- Thanks! Now release your maps soon.
Ismaele -- Already downloaded huh... cool. It's nowhere as big as your maps though ;)
Rajeev -- Yeah yeah... gonna send you a email soon...
the link doesn't work for me :-(
ok since i am sooper cave-womanish about it...I will only say this! It looketh awesome....visual and all great...now playing and stuff...I think I am gonna wait until you do what you wanted to do "for people like us"....good work! and thanks for privilege
Hey this stuff looks pretty good :)
Congrats on releasing the level!
hope to play the game v.soon :)
Pablo -- Try the yousendit link.
Shreya, Pratyusha -- Much thanks! Yeah you'll get to play it pretty soon :)
Now it's reviewed on my web-site, "Outpost of Doom 2"! ;)
It is really wonderful and challenging! :)
Thanks a lot Ismaele! Man you're super quick!
Off the play the game.... looks killer. Awesome stuff man, you continue to amaze me everytime you do something creative.
Some areas felt a bit too cramped and some ambushes (by shotgun zombies) were totally unfair mostly due to the fact that you're running low on health most of the time. Other than that, I liked the map.
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