50 Shades of Graytall

50 Shades of Graytall is a megawad of 18 levels built around the design constraint of using only three textures for walls (namely, , and ). Despite this limitation, the challenge was to create levels that were aesthetically pleasing and offered interesting gameplay. The project was led by Marcaek. Each map was allowed to use one flat of the author's choice as well as. In addition, further textures could be used on non-visible parts (such as the upper and lower textures of a one-sided line) so as to achieve special effects, such as switch sounds (a line only provides audible feedback when activated if it has a switch texture) and sky transfers.

The texture set originates from a joke answer to the question "". DOORTRAK serves a functional purpose but looks ugly when used on spans longer than 16 map units, FIREBLU is often named as one of the ugliest textures in Doom, and GRAYTALL is sometimes thought of as "the original placeholder texture" since it appeared often in the alpha versions of maps to disappear in most of their final versions.

The WAD received one of the 22nd Annual Cacowards.

Levels

 * MAP01: Entrygray by James Paddock
 * MAP02: Tall, Gray, and Handsome by Ezormer
 * MAP03: The Gray, the Blu, and the Trakly by Brendt Pantley (Megalyth)
 * MAP04: The Alfonzone by Gus Knezevich (Alfonzo)
 * MAP05: Concrete Flagellation by Ryan Rouse (Quakis)
 * MAP06: Count Trakula's Castle by NoisyVelvet
 * MAP07: Address Unknown by Michael Fraize (Marcaek)
 * MAP08: At the Mountains of Madness by Cyriak Harris (mouldy)
 * MAP09: The Killing Fields by Josh Sealy (Joshy)
 * MAP10: Big Dwayne's Orbital Concrete and Propane Emporium by Brett Harrell (Mechadon)
 * MAP11: Stardust Mayhem by Breezeep and Cyriak Harris
 * MAP12: The Cake Way by Zachary Stephens (Ribbiks)
 * MAP13: Everlasting Fireblu by Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast)
 * MAP14: Astral Nausea by dobu gabu maru
 * MAP15: The Serpentine Lemniscate by Xaser Acheron
 * MAP16: Mr. Graytall by Chris Balch (TimeofDeath)
 * MAP17: THE END by Michael Fraize
 * MAP18: Killer Color Blindness by Argentum

Soundtrack

 * MAP01: "Open Pod" by Bjorn Lynne
 * MAP02:  - Miranda Mine
 * MAP03: no replacement
 * MAP04: "Funky Davis C." from  by Robert Prince
 * MAP05: "The Boss Is A Phatty!" from DemonStar by Robert Prince
 * MAP06: "Those Chosen by the Planet” from 
 * MAP07:
 * MAP08: TNT MAP16 theme
 * MAP09: "Blood Rush" from the Plutonia MIDI Pack, by Eris Falling
 * MAP10: MIDI version of "BotPack #9" from  by, sequenced by KDS
 * MAP11: "Angry Science" from Back to Saturn X by Xaser Acheron
 * MAP12: "Treasures in the Dark" from STRAIN by Mark Klem
 * MAP13: "Everlasting Fire" from  by Adam Bond
 * MAP14: MIDI version of "The Fall of Zeal" from  by, sequenced by Michael Boyd
 * MAP15: "Zwei" from Seventeen More Times by Michael Mancuso (esselfortium)
 * MAP16: MIDI version of "Moonlight Museum Ver.1" from  by Hiromi Shibano, sequenced by Huepow00
 * MAP17: MIDI version of "" by
 * MAP18: "I Choose the Stairs" from Rise of the Triad by Lee Jackson
 * Title screen: MIDI version of "Crazy in Love" by Beyoncé
 * Endgame screen: "The End of DOOM" from Doom by Robert Prince