DBP59: Zeppelin Armada

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DBP59: Zeppelin Armada
Title screen
Authors Doomer Boards community
Port Limit-removing
IWAD Doom II
Year 2023
Link Doomer Boards thread

Zeppelin Armada is an 18-level steampunk-themed megawad 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 59th entry in the ongoing Doomer Boards Projects. Work on the project was carried out during May and June 2023. The first version was released on Doomer Boards on July 3, 2023,[1] and on Doomworld forums on July 4.[2] The project was released in two forms - a "full" version containing steampunk weapon and sound replacements, and a "clean" version using the default Doom weaponry. Both versions also include a custom status bar and status bar face. As with the previous DBP, it had a two month development cycle as opposed to the usual one month time period. Version 1.1 was released on July 27.[3] It was compiled by BiZ and contains various bugfixes.

One of the highlights of the mod is that it implements NPCs that the player can interact with in order to have dialogue or take/turn in a quest.

Story[edit]

The time travel experiments of you, Dexter Hornbuckle, have brought forth doom and allowed demons to invade this reality. You must defeat the demons and repair the rift in time.

Content[edit]

The mod uses an internal DEHACKED lump to create a custom monster and several ambient sound things. Custom PLAYPAL, COLORMAP, and UMAPINFO lumps as well as a custom status bar are also included.

There are two variants of the release - clean and full. The latter additionally contains replacement sprites and sounds for the following weapons: pistol, shotgun, chaingun, and rocket launcher.

Custom monster[edit]

Banger
Replaces Wolfenstein SS and is identical to zombieman.

Development[edit]

On February 5, 2022, Jon Vail (40oz) created a discussion thread on Doomer Boards where he pitched the concept of a steampunk-themed DBP. It took 40oz about a year to prepare the project for launch. The development started on April 27, 2023.

Project timeline[edit]

  • April 27 - 40oz created the development thread for DBP59. A resource pack was shared which included one demo map.
  • May 10 - The resource pack was updated to v2.
  • May 13 - 40oz shared a concept map with a quest involving an NPC.
  • May 15 - Thelokk submitted "At Last, Exiled".
  • May 18 - The resource pack was updated to v3.
  • May 24 - J. Wesley Hocker (thehockster) shared a beta of his map called "Precious Cargo" for 40oz to add a quest there. However this map was not finished and did not made it into the final WAD.
  • May 28 - MortisCausaDonatio submitted "Leaving Remnant Square".
  • May 31 - 40oz submitted "Nightwatch".
  • June 6 - Snowy44 submitted "Clockwork Sky" and 40oz submitted "Compass Canopy".
  • June 7 - Redead-ITA posted an unfinished draft of a map, that would be later completed by Sergey Burow (SilverMiner) and called "Highcloud". 40oz also submitted "Tumblerock Rapids".
  • June 9 - 40oz submitted "Living Library".
  • June 11 - LunchLunch submitted "New St. Icarus".
  • June 15 - Glikkzy submitted "Industrial Bureau".
  • June 16 - kvsari submitted "Bad Balloons". 40oz also submitted "Whistlestop Harbor" which was made from the demo map, included in the resource pack, and his earlier concept map with NPCs. BiZ came up with the idea for the story and concepts for final and credits maps.
  • June 17 - The resource pack was updated to v4.
  • June 18 - SilverMiner submitted finished "Highcloud".
  • June 19 - 40oz submitted "Aeroport Pavilion".
  • June 20 - SuperCupcakeTactics shared an unfinished map, its parts will later be used by matador in his map. 40oz shared the internal beta v1 of the WAD with 14 maps.
  • June 23 - 40oz submitted "Airship Subterfuge".
  • June 24 - Mike Fredericks (Gokuma) submitted his map that was later rejected for various reasons.
  • June 25 - indigo shared the contents of text screens and an edited COLORMAP.
  • June 27 - NoisyVelvet shared their unfinished map that did not made it into the final WAD. BiZ submitted "Flying Time Fortress". matador submitted "Silvermoon Wharf".
  • June 28 - 40oz shared the internal beta v2 of the WAD with 16 maps.
  • June 29 - russin submitted "Can We Get Much Higher". shibainumaster submitted their map that did not made it into the final WAD.
  • July 3 - Release of DBP59: Zeppelin Armada.

Gallery[edit]

Technical details[edit]

  • Judy, the daughter of the WAD's protagonist and the first NPC that the player encounters, "talks" to them via the midtexture text and "gives" them 50 gold that can be used in the first quest.

  • Lucian, a shopkeeper NPC, provides the first quest of the WAD - to gather 90 gold to be able to buy a super blunderbuss from him. The amount of gold that the player already "owns" is shown in the black rectangle behind the counter.

  • A cutscene which the player can advance by repeatedly pressing the button.

Levels[edit]

Trivia[edit]

  • There was a minor controversy at the DBP59 launch: characters from The Excavation of Hob's Barrow were used as the basis for NPC sprites without permission or credit. 40oz did this unknowingly because he thought that these characters were from some unknown old game. After the discovery, he contacted the developers and even bought a copy of the game to apologize. Although the developers happily agreed to keep their characters in DBP59, 40oz created new replacement sprites that were introduced in the mod's v1.1 update.

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 40oz (3 July 2023). Doomer Boards thread. Doomer Boards. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  2. ↑ matador (4 July 2023). Doomworld forums thread. Doomworld forums. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  3. ↑ AskYourDrAboutUVFast (27 July 2023). Doomer Boards post. Doomer Boards. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
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