Matt Tropiano (MTrop)

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Matt Tropiano (alias MTrop or Mista T), is a Doom level designer, programmer, and podcast host.

He has contributed to many high profile Doom community projects, such as Community Chest 3 and Plutonia: Revisited Community Project, has won a Cacoward in 2013 for his PWAD Forsaken Overlook, and also holds many important roles in the development of The Adventures of Square, a Cacoward-winning independent game. For DoomTools he received the Codeaward at the 2022 Cacowards. He is a semi-regular contributor to Doom Radio and the host of the program Knee-Deep in the Code.

Body of work

1996

• THE MATT ADD-ONS (Official website)

1997

• The Best WAD Ever! (Official website)

1998

• Dimensions of Time (Doomworld/idgames)

2000

• For Dear Life (Doomworld/idgames)

• Bloody Base (Doomworld/idgames)

2004

• Doom Struct (GitHub link)

2006

• Xexis (Doomworld/idgames)

2007

• Community Chest 3 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP07: Simple Complex
  • MAP29: For We Are Many
  • MAP30: Leviathan

2010

• Hexen: Scourge of Viscerus (Doomworld/idgames)

2011

• Plutonia: Revisited Community Project (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP06: Stony Halls
  • MAP16: Gambit
  • MAP28: Dance with the Devil

2012

• Coffee Break Episode 1 (Doomworld/idgames)

2013

• Forsaken Overlook (Doomworld/idgames)
• Various small Doom utilities (Doomworld forums thread, GitHub Link)
• TTVZone! Collection 1 (Doomworld forums thread)
  • MAP03: Knee Deep in the Speedy Shit
  • MAP17: The Pez Dispenser

2014

• The Adventures of Square Episode 1: Cornered by Circles
  • Project Management
  • E1A1: Welcome to Squaresville

• 32in24-14: How the Hamburglar Stole Christmas (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP02: Santa's Got the Shotgun

• Back to Saturn X Episode 2: Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (Doomworld forums thread)
  • MAP08: A Blue Shadow (with Richard Frei (Tarnsman))

• Abyssal Speedmapping Sessions:
  • Session 4, MAP05: A-Bad-toir
  • Session 5, MAP04: Some Kinda Foundry or Whatever I Dunno
  • Session 6, MAP05: Never got a name for this one Matty boy

2015

• Doom Struct Version 2 (GitHub link)

• The Dime Birthday Level Collection (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP04: Rocket In Yo Face (Happy Birthday, Dime)

• Maps4TMD (Happy Birthday Donuts) (Doomworld forums thread, Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP02: A Donut Special Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

• Abyssal Speedmapping Sessions:
  • Session 13, MAP08: With Half-Apologies to American McGee
  • Session 18, MAP14: Brown Crush

• 32in24-15: DWANGO Unchained (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP22: ROCKY

2018

• The Adventures of Square Episode 2: Galactic Lunacy
  • Project Management
  • E2A1: Port Jarlsburger (with Xaser Acheron)
  • E2A2: The Butterforge (with Gus Knezevich (Alfonzo) and Richard Frei (Tarnsman))
  • E2A3: Cheese Crater (with Richard Frei (Tarnsman))
  • E2A5: Wild Bleu Yonder (with Xaser Acheron)
  • E2A6: Geometric Engineering (with James Paddock (Jimmy))
  • E2A7: The Cheddarcombs
  • E2A11: Heart O' Hexas (with Xaser Acheron)
  • E2A12: Great Pyramid of Gouda
  • DM01: Squaresville Outskirts
  • DM05: Treading Caerphily

• Team Rocket: Blasting Off at the Speed of Mapping (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP03: Uncle Touchy's Magic Puzzle Basement
  • MAP11: Down with the Thiccness
  • MAP16: Frank Lloyd Wrong's Aqueduct
  • MAP25: Lands Betwixt
  • MAP27: Snow Problem
  • MAP30: End of Days

• Abyssal Speedmapping Sessions:
  • Session 38, MAP14: It's Getting Hot In Here (So Keep On All Your Radsuits)

• WadTools (GitHub link)

2019

• WadMerge (GitHub link)
• Doomy (GitHub link)
• Doom Struct Java Library (Doomworld forums thread)

2020

• Team Rocket 2 - Looks like we're blasting off again! (Doomworld forums thread)
  • MAP03: It's Impolite To Stairs
  • MAP04: Rocket Ranger
  • MAP15: Symmetrical Death
  • MAP21: Romancing the Spider
  • MAP24: By Christ, The Meat
• DoomTools for Java (Doomworld forums thread, Doomworld forums thread, Doomworld forums thread)

2021

• Abyssal Speedmapping Sessions:
  • Session 50, MAP06: Golden Tornado
• MBF21

2024

• Legacy of Rust
  • Bug fixing and gameplay balancing
• Killing Time: Resurrected
  • Redesign of all 20 PC/Mac campaign levels; additional level design

External links

• MTrop.net
• GitHub page
• Black Rook Software
• Interview with Matt Tropiano at Doom Radio
• Twenty Years a Doom Modder (VideoBrains 2016 Talk)
• In The Keep Podcast - #50 Matthew Tropiano
• Burning Bridges With Bridgeburner - #10 Matt Tropiano on 25 Years of Doom Modding