2022 A Doom Odyssey
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| 2022 A Doom Odyssey | |
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| Authors | Various |
| Ports | Boom-compatible, MBF-compatible |
| IWAD | Doom |
| Year | 2022 |
| Link | Doomworld/idgames |
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This mod was a runner-up for the 2022 Cacowards on Doomworld! |
2022 A Doom Odyssey is a 2022 megawad for The Ultimate Doom, created for Boom/MBF-compatible source ports with UMAPINFO support. It is intended as sequel to 2002 A Doom Odyssey, which was made twenty years before, and contains a total of five new episodes, each consisting of 10 maps. The project was organized by Paul Corfiatis (pcorf) and the 2022ADO team over the span of five years of development. Public beta testing was started on Doomworld forums on September 14, 2022. After fixing all loose ends the WAD was uploaded to the idgames archive on October 31, 2022.[1]
2022 A Doom Odyssey was selected as one of the runners-up at the 2022 Cacowards.
Contents
Content[edit]
Levels[edit]All levels designed by Paul Corfiatis (pcorf), except where noted otherwise. Starbase Antipathy:
Gateway to Jigoku:
Al Dante:
Tormented Suffering:
Incendio Crucio:
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Soundtrack[edit]All songs composed by pcorf, except where noted otherwise.
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Built-in demos[edit]
This WAD features four built-in demos. All require Ultimate Doom with the PrBoom+um v2.6+ source port to view them. The demo levels are:
| Demo | Level | Skill | Tics | Length |
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| DEMO1 | E1M5: Suspense Base | 4 | 4577 | 2:10.77 |
| DEMO2 | E2M3: Budonoki | 4 | 11185 | 5:19.57 |
| DEMO3 | E3M4: Disquietude Consternation | 4 | 12010 | 5:43.14 |
| DEMO4 | E4M6: Fort Docks | 4 | 9246 | 4:24.17 |
Trivia[edit]
- E2M1 and E4M5 were originally made for "2002 A Doom Odyssey" but ended up being rejected. After tuning up, they made their way into the sequel.[2]
- Paul Corfiatis shared some information about the episodes and their inspiration:[3][4]
- Episodes 1 and 2 were made in the style of the original Doom episodes, with more detailing.
- "Starbase Antipathy" uses only textures, enemies and weapons that were encountered in the original episode 1.
- "Gateway to Jigoku" introduces cacodemons, lost souls and the plasma gun, like The Shores of Hell.
- "Al Dante" is a mix of Doom's episode 3 episode and the Hell levels of Whispers of Satan.
- "Tormented Suffering" was made in the style of Death Tormention.
- "Incendio Crucio" is a take on John Romero's SIGIL.
- The super secret levels in each episode can be reached after killing all barons of Hell in E1M8, E2M9, E3M9, E4M9 and E5M9 due to the special actions in the MAPINFO and UMAPINFO entries. The super secret exits do not count as secrets as they will prevent 100% secrets in older source ports.
- According to the PDF packaged with the WAD, the first completed level was E1M8 (August 20, 2017) and the last was E3M6 (October 18, 2022).
- Many of episode 2's maps have Japanese titles; jigoku (じごく) translates to "hell".
- All of the non-secret maps in episode 5 are named after demons from The Lesser Key of Solomon, and specifically the 1904 version edited by Aleister Crowley and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.
- The name of episode 3, "Al Dante", is a combination of the Italian term al dente, describing something that has been cooked to be firm to bite, and the name of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, who is most famous for his seminal Divine Comedy, whose first part, Inferno, tells of a journey through Hell.
External links[edit]
- 2022 A Doom Odyssey at Doomworld/idgames
- 2022 A Doom Odyssey at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
- Doomworld forums thread
References[edit]
- ↑ pcorf (14 September 2022). Doomworld forums thread. Doomworld forums. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ pcorf (1 November 2022). Doomworld forums post. Doomworld forums. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ↑ pcorf (15 September 2022). Doomworld forums post. Doomworld forums. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ↑ pcorf (17 September 2022). Doomworld forums post. Doomworld forums. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
