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[Klear]

So... has anybody done that yet? Replace Doom's graphics, so that instead of zombiemen there are lowercase h's, weapons are brackets and the doomguy's face is now just "@"? Hell, you could even remake some of the special levels from DoomRL..!

Because if nobody did that before...

Klear has been possessed!
Klear has begun a mysterious construction!

Edit:

Screenshots, first batch:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Here's a door, a barrel, and a small health. It's so disappointing that it only gives you 1HP... and here I thought DoomRL was harder.


This is what pistol looks like, though I'll have to make it smaller. You can't see shit with it equipped. (Edit: fixed now) That red thing is a pool of blood.


When I was little, I always wished I knew how to get outside. I'm kinda ashamed I couldn't figure it out most of the times.


Two formers and a dead body. I'll have to make the formers bigger.
BTW, it's pretty much impossible to tell apart sergeants and lowly zombiemen, since there's quite a lot of shadows.
These two have pistols... I think.
Oh! And the red thing at the bottom edge of the screen might be ASCIIfied bullet impact, also known as blood.


Some random items. I have fists ready, and they are invisible. Obviously.


A couple of imps showing you how mirrored sprites can pose problems. It looks much worse on formers and demons.
Thank god most of the enemies will be horizontally symmetrical.


Ouch!


Ahhh.. at last! Exit.. uh... I mean stairs...



The trees look more like crosses, ready for crucifiction. And you didn't believe me that ASCII will be an improvement!

Screenshots, second batch:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It took me a while to figure out how to make the background black, but it was worth it.


This is actually episode selection screen. The fourth one is invisible, not sure how I should call it.


I think I've spent more time trying to make the chainsaw look less like a wiggling pink dildo than anything else.
Ultimately, I've failed.


Shotgun is looking good, and so are barrel explosions.


Doom palette turns some blues into green, so this is what plasma looks like =(


You hear mechanical footsteps...


BFG 9000. There's nothing more manly than... wait, why is it pink?


With this shot, I wanted to show you how you can see enemies through other enemies, but the damn imp still managed to hide behind the Demon.

Download and installation:

Attached is the DoomRL.wad file with all the graphics and a .bat file which will allow you to run it, as long as you have ZDoom inside the Doom directory. It should work fine, but it's my first time doing something like this, so anything can go wrong.
I've tried to run it on vanilla Doom, but that just throws an error message. I can probably fix it, but it would be a major pain in the ass and as long as ZDoom works, it shouldn't be needed.

I've replaced all relevant textures and sprites present in Ultimate Doom, I think. It works just fine with Doom 2, but a lot of stuff is missing there.

Enjoy!

[slartie]

I'm not afraid to admit that I just got that DF reference.

Now I'll crawl back into my nerd cave.

[ParaSait]

I'm not afraid to admit that I just got that DF reference.

Me too. :3

But Doom with huge ascii graphics would look, erm... pretty horrible, I imagine.

[Klear]

Hehe... I actually stopped (well, more like paused) playing DF when I discovered DoomRL few weeks back.

Also, great! I was afraid somebody beat me to it. I've just about familiarized myself with some Doom modding tools and swapping the small lo-res sprites with even lower-res pseudo-ASCII sprites is going pretty well... I'll post some results when I have some results. That means soon.

[GrimmC]

Not sure how this would be received by the mainstream Doom community, but give it a shot :P

[Klear]

Not sure how this would be received by the mainstream Doom community, but give it a shot :P

I'm doing it just for you! Well, and myself, obviously. I mean, it's high time I made a mod for Doom. I used to make a lot of maps for Duke 3D (that was way before I even had internet, so I guess it's all lost now) and then I pretty much only did stuff for Blizzard's games. But I really want to mod doom, for old time's sake.

Plus it seems nowadays it's very easy.

Edit: It seems to be high time to make this mod, btw, seeing that a graphical version is around the corner.

[Klear]

Klear has created "AsciiDoom", a doom mod! It menaces with spikes of ASCII. On it is an image of a former human. The artwork relates to discovery of Doom RL by Klear in winter 2011.

I'm not yet finished, but probably about halfway there. Here are some screenies:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Here's a door, a barrel, and a small health. It's so disappointing that it only gives you 1HP... and here I thought DoomRL was harder.


This is what pistol looks like, though I'll have to make it smaller. You can't see shit with it equipped. That red thing is a pool of blood, btw.


When I was little, I always wished I knew how to get outside. I'm kinda ashamed I couldn't figure it out most of the times.


Two formers and a dead body. I'll have to make the formers bigger.
BTW, it's pretty much impossible to tell apart sergeants and lowly zombiemen, since there's quite a lot of shadows.
These two have pistols... I think.
Oh! And the red thing at the bottom edge of the screen might be ASCIIfied bullet impact, also known as blood.


Some random items. I have fists ready, and they are invisible. Obviously.


A couple of imps showing you how mirrored sprites can pose problems. It looks much worse on formers and demons.
Thank god most of the enemies will be horizontally symmetrical.


Ouch!


Ahhh.. at last! Exit.. uh... I mean stairs...



The trees look more like crosses, ready for crucifiction. And you didn't believe me that ASCII will be an improvement!

So yeah. I'm making this. It makes the game a little harder, since you don't see enemy animations. Otherwise it's quite pointless, as expected, but wait unitl I'm finished with graphics and start remaking levels!

Unless somebody really REALLY wants to play this, I'll wait with uploading the mod itself until I finish it (at least Doom 1 stuff).

[ParaSait]

:D I love how those armor shards are like ^^
But it's a tad awkward that it looks like you're holding the weapon upward.

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

I really want a gameplay video ASAP, I'll push this on the ChaosForge promo channels, cause it's hillarious :D

[ParaSait]

I really want a gameplay video ASAP, I'll push this on the ChaosForge promo channels, cause it's hillarious :D

Yeah and promote it as "final version of DoomRL-G". Hilarity ensues. :P

[Klear]

It is done!

It's attached to the first post in this thread. It should work fine, but it's my first time doing something like this, so anything can go wrong.

I've replaced all relevant textures and sprites present in Ultimate Doom, I think. It works just fine with Doom 2, but a lot of stuff is missing there.

I think I will next replace all fonts and remake the interface a little to make it look more like DoomRL, then I'll add the Doom 2 specific graphics, and after that probably start learning Doom mapmaking, so I can make some DoomRL special levels.

BTW - if there was an invisibility powerup in DoomRL, what would it look like? That's the only item I left the way it was.

I really want a gameplay video ASAP, I'll push this on the ChaosForge promo channels, cause it's hillarious :D

I'm no good with videos, but the mod is somewhat finished, so anybody can to give it a go.
Menu is already DoomRLified, but try to avoid opening help, options, save and load menus to keep up the illusion, since the submenus are unchanged.

Edit:

Moved the attachment and screenshots to the first post.

[Shoop da Whoop]

Now you have to make "#"-walls and floor from points!

[Klear]

Now you have to make "#"-walls and floor from points!

I'll do that when I start working on custom levels, since I think that in the vanilla game there is a lot of textures that are used both for walls and floors/ceiling. It would be a lot of work and prove to be quite... messy.

BTW, did anybody try the mod? I'd like to know if it works outside my computer.

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

ParaSait, I challenge you to do the video :D

[ParaSait]

ParaSait, I challenge you to do the video :D

Here you go. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqneH337TFU