ZPack - Random Maps for ZDoom
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Authors | Various |
Port | ZDoom |
IWAD | Doom II |
Year | 2008 |
Link | Doomworld/idgames |
ZPack - Random Maps for ZDoom is a 2008 megawad by members of the ZDoom community which contains 30 levels, divided into three 10 map episodes. It requires ZDoom 2.2.0 or later to play (or alternatively, GZDoom 1.1.0 or later). Although the maps are divided into episodes and use the ExMx lump name scheme, the WAD is for the Doom II IWAD. An announcement of a remaster called ZPack Rejuvenated was made on March 16, 2022, calling out to the map authors to be involved once more to improve their maps.[1] The project was finalized and released on August 12, 2024, requiring GZDoom 4.12 and higher to play.[2]
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Development[edit]
The project was initially thought up as being a kind of Community Chest for the ZDoom engine. Each contributor would make a map as they so desired and the end results would be strung together. As contributors began to join in and discussion got underway, some actual rules and guidelines formed. In the end, the agreed upon set of rules was still fairly lax (e.g. mappers were basically free to do what they wanted thematically and for gameplay, as well as could submit multiple maps) while having just enough structure to try and maintain a cohesion between the maps (e.g. mappers could not implement their own new weapons, which would clearly break the flow when no other map has the weapon or ammo for it). While ideas such having a central hub and allowing the player to choose maps in any order where tossed around, the correlation between map theme and difficulty was noted by some contributors and eventually a set order divided roughly by theme was settled upon. As the submitted maps began to reach a peak count it was then decided that the sets should be turned into episodes, with the easier and largely techbase-oriented maps going into the first episode and more difficult, hellish maps going into the later ones.
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Monsters and other changes[edit]
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Levels[edit]The Remains of UAC:
Descent to Darkness:
Armageddon:
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Soundtrack[edit]
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External links[edit]
- ZPack - Random Maps for ZDoom at Doomworld/idgames
- ZPack - Random Maps for ZDoom at the ZDoom wiki
- ZPack - Random Maps for ZDoom at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
- ZPack Rejuvenated on Realm 667
References[edit]
- ↑ Tormentor667 (16 March 2022). ZPack Rejuvenated Announcement Thread. ZDoom forums. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ↑ Tormentor667 (12 August 2024). "ZPack Rejuvenated: "Random Maps for ZDoom" released!" Mod DB. Retrieved 24 October 2024.