DBP03: Forest Swords

DBP03: Forest Swords
Authors	Doomer Boards community
Port	Limit-removing
IWAD	Doom II
Year	2018
Link	Doomworld/idgames

Forest Swords is an eight-level episode replacement for Doom II designed for limit removing source ports, created by various members of the Doomer Boards community, led by Jon Vail (40oz). It is the third entry in the ongoing Doomer Boards Projects. Work on the project was carried out during May 2018. It was first released on Doomer Boards on June 1, 2018, and uploaded to the idgames archive on June 12 of the same year. The mapset features a forest and mountainous outdoors theme.

Content

Levels

• MAP01: Rocky Start by Glen McColl (glenzinho)
• MAP02: Canyon Crawl by Jon Vail (40oz)
• MAP03: Guerilla Skeletons by 40oz
• MAP04: Forest Fort by 40oz
• MAP05: The Valley by Mark McGill-Smith (TheMisterCat)
• MAP06: Crisis Center by 40oz
• MAP07: It Doesn't Have a Name by AnonimVio
• MAP08: The Chapel by Michael Jan Krizik (valkiriforce)

Soundtrack

• MAP01: "Fast" by Jeremy Doyle, from Icarus: Alien Vanguard
• MAP02: "Inner Turmoil" by David Shaw (Tolwyn), from STRAIN
• MAP03: unknown track from MAP09 of Lemmings Doom
• MAP04: unknown track from MAP30 of Brad & Company 2
• MAP05: "Water World" by Robert Prince, from Duke Nukem 3D
• MAP06: "Spider on Your Bagel" by Peter Tomaselli (Kniggit), from The Darkening Episode 2
• MAP07: unknown track from MAP09 of Project Mars Base
• MAP08: MIDI rendition of "Castle Center - Main Theme" from Castlevania 64

• Title screen: "Briefing" by Brian Luzietti, from Descent
• Intermission screen: MIDI rendition of "Level Complete" by Yuzo Koshiro, from Streets of Rage (sequenced by Bennettman)
• Text screen: MIDI rendition of "The X-Files" by Mark Snow, from The X-Files

Project timeline

• April 27, 2018 - Jon Vail (40oz) created the development thread for DBP03. A resource pack was shared which included two unfinished maps.
• May 1 - The resource pack was updated to v2, which included fixes for a few textures and sprites.
• May 7 - Michael Jan Krizik (valkiriforce) submitted "The Chapel".
• May 16 - 40oz submitted "Guerilla Skeletons" and "Crisis Center".
• May 19 - 40oz submitted "Canyon Crawl" and "Forest Fort".
• May 20 - AnonimVio submitted "It Doesn't Have a Name".
• May 21 - Mark McGill-Smith (TheMisterCat) submitted "The Valley".
• May 30 - Ilya Lazarev (joe-ilya) submitted a map titled "NV" but it was not accepted because the deadline passed on May 28.
• June 1 - Release of DBP03: Forest Swords.

It is unknown when exactly Glen McColl (glenzinho) submitted their map, it happened sometime before May 28.

Speedrunning

Current records

The DSDA episode records for DBP03: Forest Swords are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed run	23:14	oecleus	2023-06-13	DBP3d2all-2314.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on April 9, 2025.

Gallery

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  MAP01: Rocky Start

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  MAP02: Canyon Crawl

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  MAP03: Guerilla Skeletons

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  MAP07: It Doesn't Have a Name

Trivia

• As with the previous DBP, the theme was decided by popular vote via a poll held on Doomer Boards. However, the choice of potential themes was reduced from the previous poll.
• The project's title is a reference to the English DJ of the same name.
• The intermission screen features a still of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the 1987 film, Predator.

External links

• DBP03: Forest Swords at Doomworld/idgames
• DBP03: Forest Swords at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
• Release thread on Doomer Boards
• Release thread on Doomworld forums