DBP07: The Merry Christmassy Doom Project

DBP07: The Merry Christmassy Doom Project

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

The Merry Christmassy Doom Project is a five-level mapset for Doom II designed for limit removing source ports, created by various members of the Doomer Boards community. It is the seventh entry in the ongoing Doomer Boards Projects. Development on the project began on October 30, 2018, and it was first released on Doomer Boards on December 24 of the same year, giving it an almost two month development cycle as opposed to the typical one month norm. The WAD was uploaded to the idgames archive on February 5, 2019. The mapset features a Christmas theme, which would become a yearly tradition following the project's release. The project is also noteworthy for being the first DBP to feature a monsterless progression-stopping map as well as being the first project not led by Jon Vail (40oz).

Content[edit]

This WAD does not use a DeHackEd patch and instead all custom content is created solely by adding new sprites to fit the theme.

Custom monsters[edit]

Most of the monsters use new sprites that are themed around Christmas. A cacodemon now looks like a giant Christmas tree decoration, an imp wears as red and white Santa hat, and so on. And only three monsters are visually very different from their original versions:

Santa: A regular zombieman that now looks like Santa Claus. It wears a red and white coat and hat, and is armed with a green rifle.
Elf: A Wolfenstein SS that now looks like a short creature with a white beard, dressed in green clothes and a hat with a long cap.
Pantsless Doomguy: A Commander Keen replacement that is only encountered once at the very end of MAP02. He looks like Doomguy, but without pants, so his white underwear with red spots is visible.

Custom items[edit]

Many of the items have also been visually altered to fit the theme. And, as with the monsters, some of them are quite different from the original:

Small green present: Replaces stimpack.
Large blue present: Replaces medikit.
Candy cane: Replaces health bonus.
Red sack: Replaces backpack.
Santa suit: Replaces radiation shielding suit.

Levels[edit]

MAP01: An Unexpected Visitor by Big Ol' Billy
MAP02: Empty Present by SuperCupcakeTactics
MAP03: Evil of Snow by Jack Stewart (Jaxxoon R)
MAP04: Coal for Christmas by Jaxxoon R and Glen McColl (glenzinho)
MAP05: Yule Probably Die by Big Ol' Billy
MAP06: End by Big Ol' Billy

Soundtrack[edit]

MAP01: MIDI rendition of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
MAP02: MIDI rendition of "Last Christmas" by Wham!
MAP03: MIDI rendition of "Do You Hear What I Hear?" by Harry Simeone
MAP04: MIDI rendition of "Driving Home for Christmas" by Chris Rea
MAP05: MIDI rendition of "Feliz Navidad" by José Feliciano
MAP06: MIDI rendition of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", traditional arrangement

Title screen: same as MAP06
Intermission screen: MIDI rendition of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" by Harry Reser and his band

Gallery[edit]

External links[edit]

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2018	DBP01 \| DBP02 \| DBP03 \| DBP04 \| DBP05 \| DBP06 \| DBP07
2019	DBP08 \| DBP09 \| DBP10 \| DBP11 \| DBP12 \| DBP13 \| DBP14 \| DBP15 \| DBP16 \| DBP17 \| DBP18 \| DBP19
2020	DBP20 \| DBP21 \| DBP22 \| DBP23 \| DBP24 \| DBP25 \| DBP26 \| DBP27 \| DBP28 \| DBP29 \| DBP30 \| DBP31
2021	DBP32 \| DBP33 \| DBP34 \| DBP35 \| DBP36 \| DBP37 \| DBP38 \| DBP39 \| DBP40 \| DBP41 \| DBP42 \| DBP43
2022	DBP44 \| DBP45 \| DBP46 \| DBP47 \| DBP48 \| DBP49 \| DBP50 \| DBP51 \| DBP52 \| DBP53 \| DBP54 \| DBP55
2023	DBP56 \| DBP57 \| DBP58 \| DBP59 \| DBP60 \| DBP61 \| DBP62 \| DBP63
2024	DBP64 \| DBP65 \| DBP66 \| DBP67 \| DBP68 \| DBP69
2025	DBP70 \| DBP71 \| DBP72
Project leaders	40oz \| Big Ol' Billy \| BiZ \| dmdr \| glenzinho \| JadingTsunami \| Jaws in Space \| Jaxxoon R \| joe-ilya \| Kontra Kommando \| LunchLunch \| matador \| SuperCupcakeTactics \| vertigo