Matt Powell (cannonball)

Matt Powell, known better by his alias, cannonball, is a British level designer, perhaps best known for his mapsets designed for The Ultimate Doom such as Thy Flesh turned into a draft-excluder and the Return to Hadron series. He has also contributed to various community projects, notably including NOVA II: New Dawn, TNT: Revilution, the Slaughterfest series and the MAYhem series.

As a speedrunner, he submitted over 270 demos to the Doom Speed Demo Archive until June 2020.

Body of work

2012

• cannonball's speedy episode 1 wad (Doomworld/idgames)
• Sparta (Doomworld/idgames)

• MAYhem 2012 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP10: Infiltration
  • MAP11: A Cold Day in Hell

• cbpandemonium (Doomworld/idgames)

• Doomworld Mega Project 2012 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01: Bean
• Slaughterfest 2012 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01: Exodus (with Ribbiks and j4rio)
  • MAP05: Fortress of Damnation
  • MAP09: Core Annihilation
  • MAP10: Total Recall
  • MAP20: True Grit
  • MAP22: Royale Arena

2013

• Where The Base Has No Name (Doomworld/idgames)
• Ragnor's Stronghold (Doomworld/idgames)
• ConC.E.R.Ned (Doomworld/idgames)

• WOOO (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP07: DOOMGUY RACING
  • MAP17: Inside Nyan Cat's Anos

• Doomworld Mega Project 2013 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01: Death Metal (DMP2013B.wad)

• Rayzik's Birthday Doom 2013 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP07: rayzikslaughterday

2014

• NOVA: The Birth (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP15: The Prisoner
  • MAP18: Power Core
  • MAP30: Megiddo (with kildeth, dobu gabu maru, mouldy and Collin Pierce (Arjak))

• Doom 2 in Name Only (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP12: The Factory
  • MAP15: Industrial Zone
  • MAP21: Nirvana

• Thy Flesh turned into a draft-excluder (Doomworld/idgames)

• MAYhem 2048 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP26: Unfair and Square
  • MAP34: 99 Red Balloons

• Doomworld Mega Project 2014 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP05: March of the Mortal Mortars

2015

• Joe-Ilya's Birthday night (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP02: Baron Condo

• Return to Hadron (Doomworld/idgames)

• The Dime Birthday Level Collection (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP05: Canyon Crush

• NOVA II: New Dawn (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01: Panic Station
  • MAP23: Vindaloo Chronicles
  • MAP26: Surreptitious Ichor (with dobu gabu maru)

• License to Ilya (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP12: Final Release Base

• Doomworld Roulette: Session 1 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP12: The Pleasure Dome

• MAYhem 1500 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP05: Domain of the Generically Damned

• Doomworld Mega Project 2015 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP09: 3000CB (DMP15A.wad)

2016

• Sparta 2 - Project Vesuvius (Doomworld/idgames)
• Quarantine Breach (Doomworld/idgames)
• Return to Hadron Episode 2: The Collider's New Clothes (Doomworld/idgames)
• Doomworld Mega Project 2016 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP10: Teenage Mutant Ninja Demons

2017

• TNT: Revilution (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP07: No Man's Station
  • MAP25: Malware
• Doomworld Mega Project 2017 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP14: A Keen Eye

2018

• Slaughterfest 3 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP02: Firestarter
  • MAP06: Wavebreaker
  • MAP14: Blue Shift
  • MAP22: Uprising
• Demonic Deviation (Doomworld/idgames)
• Putrid Industry (Doomworld/idgames)
• Doomworld Mega Project 2018 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • DMP2018cl2, MAP09: Pillbox

2020

• Dark Scythe (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP05: Descend into Sludge
• Return to Hadron Episode 3: Slayers Swansong (Doomworld/idgames)
• Switcheroom 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP10: Purifier
  • MAP14: Waterside
  • MAP18: Infected Well
  • MAP27: Camp Blood
  • MAP28: Caustic Den

2021

• 15 Years a Doomer (Doomworld forums thread)
  • The Plutonia Tea Party
• 10 Years of Doom (Doomworld forums thread)
  • Alfonzo gaslights the Spirit World

External links

• Player profile (archived 🏛) & Demos list (archived 🏛) at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive
• Demos list at the Doom Speed Demo Archive