Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse
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Author	Andrew Stine
Port	Limit-removing
IWAD	Doom II
Year	2004
Link	Doomworld/idgames

This level occupies the map slot MAP01. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP01.

Exquisite Corpse is a single level PWAD for Doom II. It was produced by Andrew Stine (Linguica) and consists of 12 1024x1024 unit regions joined together into a rectangle, with each of the 12 regions designed by a different author. The "gimmick" of the level is that after the first author, each successive author only got a tiny sliver of the directly adjoining regions to their own, and had to design their own region with a faint idea of what the regions next to theirs looked and played like.

The authors, as listed by region from left to right and top to bottom are:

1. Andrew Stine (Linguica)
2. Ray Schmitz (shitbag)
3. Darksoul
4. Simon Broadhead (Volteface)
5. Fiend
6. Mike Watson (Cyb)
7. _5hifty
8. Chris Hopkins (chopkinsca)
9. Maximillian Daley (Blackfish)
10. Scrum
11. Josh Simpson (EarthQuake)
12. Boris Iwanski

Walkthrough

Map of Exquisite Corpse

Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector, thing, and linedef numbers in boldface are secrets which count toward the end-of-level tally.

Secrets

1. (sector 58)
2. (sector 103)
3. (sector 179)
4. (sector 339)
5. (sector 348)
6. (sector 1020)
7. (sector 1075)

Speedrunning

Current records

The records for the map at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive are:

Style	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed
NM speed
UV max
NM100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist

Miscellaneous demos

Style	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes

Deathmatch

Player spawns

This level contains fifty-five spawn points:

1. facing south-east. (thing 1)
2. facing east. (thing 2)
3. facing east. (thing 3)
4. facing east. (thing 4)
5. facing east. (thing 149)
6. facing east. (thing 150)
7. facing east. (thing 151)
8. facing east. (thing 152)
9. facing east. (thing 167)
10. facing east. (thing 168)
11. facing east. (thing 169)
12. facing east. (thing 170)
13. facing east. (thing 239)
14. facing east. (thing 240)
15. facing north. (thing 241)
16. facing north. (thing 246)
17. facing north. (thing 279)
18. facing north. (thing 280)
19. facing east. (thing 281)
20. facing east. (thing 282)
21. facing east. (thing 283)
22. facing east. (thing 284)
23. facing east. (thing 285)
24. facing east. (thing 287)
25. facing east. (thing 335)
26. facing east. (thing 336)
27. facing north. (thing 337)
28. facing north. (thing 338)
29. facing east. (thing 339)
30. facing east. (thing 340)
31. facing east. (thing 413)
32. facing east. (thing 414)
33. facing east. (thing 415)
34. facing east. (thing 416)
35. facing east. (thing 418)
36. facing east. (thing 487)
37. facing east. (thing 488)
38. facing east. (thing 489)
39. facing east. (thing 490)
40. facing east. (thing 531)
41. facing east. (thing 532)
42. facing east. (thing 533)
43. facing east. (thing 534)
44. facing east. (thing 535)
45. facing east. (thing 536)
46. facing east. (thing 636)
47. facing east. (thing 637)
48. facing east. (thing 638)
49. facing east. (thing 639)
50. facing east. (thing 732)
51. facing east. (thing 733)
52. facing east. (thing 734)
53. facing east. (thing 735)
54. facing east. (thing 736)
55. facing east. (thing 738)

Statistics

Map data

Things	805
Vertices	8405*
Linedefs	8275
Sidedefs	5698
Sectors	1323

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 6968.

Things

This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Zombieman	18	18	16
Shotgun guy	44	41	45
Heavy weapon dude	31	39	45
Imp	89	83	74
Lost soul	6	7	8
Demon	18	21	23
Spectre	8	12	12
Revenant	13	17	19
Cacodemon	3	7	7
Pain elemental	0	1	1
Hell knight	14	21	16
Baron of Hell	4	5	14
Mancubus	2	3	6
Arch-vile	4	4	7
Cyberdemon	2
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Chainsaw	1
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	3
Chaingun	2
Rocket launcher	2
Plasma gun	2
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Clip	24	24	26
Box of bullets	10	12	13
4 shotgun shells	32	36	42
Box of shotgun shells	12
Rocket	3
Box of rockets	5	7	8
Energy cell	3
Energy cell pack	5	5	6
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	24	29	29
Medikit	18	17	18
Armor	4
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	56	43	43
Health bonus	25	41	41
Supercharge	2
Megasphere	1
Backpack	3
Berserk	1
Partial invisibility	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue keycard	1
Red skull key	1
Yellow keycard	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Exploding barrel	10
Teleport landing	13

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Zombieman	18	18	16
Shotgun guy	44	41	45
Heavy weapon dude	31	39	45
Imp	89	83	74
Lost soul	6	7	8
Demon	18	21	23
Spectre	8	12	12
Revenant	13	17	19
Cacodemon	3	7	7
Pain elemental	0	1	1
Hell knight	14	21	16
Baron of Hell	4	5	14
Mancubus	2	3	6
Arch-vile	4	4	7
Cyberdemon	2
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Chainsaw	1
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	3
Chaingun	2
Rocket launcher	2
Plasma gun	2
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Clip	24	24	26
Box of bullets	10	12	13
4 shotgun shells	32	36	42
Box of shotgun shells	12
Rocket	3
Box of rockets	5	7	8
Energy cell	3
Energy cell pack	5	5	6
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	24	29	29
Medikit	18	17	18
Armor	4
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	56	43	43
Health bonus	25	41	41
Supercharge	2
Megasphere	1
Backpack	3
Berserk	1
Partial invisibility	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue keycard	1
Red skull key	1
Yellow keycard	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Deathmatch start	55
Exploding barrel	10
Teleport landing	13

Inspiration and development

Exquisite Corpse draws its name from an surrealist parlor game where players would write sentences by having each person add a new word to the sentence without being able to see the words that came before. In September 2004, Linguica created a Doomworld forums thread entitled "Exquisite corpse" community WAD seeking to create a PWAD following the same principle. He quickly recruited 11 level designers and after creating the first 1024x1024 region, sent the authors for the 2 adjacent regions 64x1024 slivers of his own region for them to connect their own regions to. Then he sent slivers of those regions to the next authors, and so forth.

To make sure the level was at least somewhat playable, Linguica also gave each contributor a general sense of the player's expected weapon loadout, and tasked certain contributors to add colored keys or colored key doors in turn.

Trivia

Exquisite Corpse is credited as the "main influence" in the 2005 megawad Congestion 1024, and can thus be argued to be the originator of the restricted-space genre of maps, also found in Claustrophobia 1024, Congestion 64, MAYhem 2048, 2048 Unleashed, and others.

External links

• Exquisite Corpse at Doomworld/idgames
• Exquisite Corpse (archived 🏛) at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive