===================================================================== Title : ANOTHER GIRLY DOOM LEVEL [v2.0] Filename : GIRLYB.ZIP Author : Jim McFarland Email Address : mcfarlnd@princeton.edu Misc. Author Info : I wrote PUEBLO.ZIP, too. No girls there. "Well, the deputy walks on hard nails, and the preacher rides a mount. But nothing really matters much; it's Doom alone that counts. And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn: 'Come in,' she said, 'I'll give you shelter from the storm.'" -- Bob Dylan This is an expanded version of my earlier "GIRLY.WAD" I started out cleaning up some texture mistakes, and then it began to grow. If you have the earlier one, you'll recognize a lot of the scenery, but there are some new areas - including a pleasure-garden above the castle - and about 21 new girls. There are many more monsters added, but there's plenty of health and ammo. I have to admit that, even though the level is sprinkled with female genitalia to a pretty embarrassing extent, I've grown rather fond of it, less for the girls than for the various tricks and traps and textures. In par- ticular, the addition of stained-glass windows here and there pleases me no end. Oh, yeah, one more thing. The blue key that lets you into the dens of sin is available only on ultra-violence. You can complete the level without it, but if you wants to see the dirty stuff, you has to pay the price. ===================================================================== Single Player : So to Speak Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes (untested) Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes (untested) Difficulty Settings : Yes New Sounds : No New Graphics : Yes. About 70 porno pics from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica; new title screen, and some stained glass. New Music : No Demos Replaced : No. I've included two demos in the zip file to show how it's done; "girlyx" with the girls, and "girlypg" without the girls. For the newbies, you can run 'em with the [-playdemo] command-line perameter. (You'll need DOOMII version 1.9). * Play Information * Level # : This replaces MAP01 for DOOMII Play notes: 486/66 or better is recommended, cuz all the graphics stretch the engine a bit. Most girly WADs are pretty lame. A couple of pin-ups replacing a useful texture, and a layout that looks like it was thrown together in half-an-hour. Ideally, a girly WAD should be a good WAD in its own right, but with a few dirty pics added to give it the panache of the forbidden, and characterize the atmosphere as one of transgression and danger and sordid corruption. In fact, this WAD genre is more than a little ridiculous, because who really wants to gawk at computer erotica with a Hell Knight breathing down your neck? The reason it exists is because it CAN be done, and (male) adolescents find both DOOM and porn fascinating. Why did I do it? Mostly because it's cool to see a real picture show up in the DOOM world, porno JPEGs are easy to find, and I've got nothing against a little pornography here and there. All the pics in this level, including the title-screen, were found posted in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica during the week or two I spent building the level. For those less blase about exploitative photographs than I am, I should warn you that the pictures are pornographic, not erotic, XXX and all that, because it seems to me that the graphic violence of DOOM makes less-than-graphic sex look out of place. The whole charm of the game is that it's over the top. If such pictures offend you, I would urge you not to download the level, even though it can be played without seeing them. Eventually, your curios- ity will get the better of you, you'll grab the blue key and take a look, and a blast of moral ugliness will engulf you like the Baron of Hell's plasma ball. Who needs that? For those who do want to check them out, there are now 3 'porno' areas, accessible only with the blue key (blue as in blue movies). One is the evil library of obscene literature and strictured pictures, another is near the secret computer-driven escape rooms in the basement of the castle, and the third is the not-so-sunny pleasure garden. In the merry days before the invasion of the zombie armies of death, these were the 'private' areas where the castle's owner could get away from the hustle and bustle of feudal management, and relax with vulgar entertainment, whose possession by his lowly subjects would be punishable by death or castration or three full days and nights in Disneyland's "It's A Small World, After All" exhibit. But now that mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned, no one's enforcing trespassing laws very strictly, so you luck out. This PWAD can be completed by the average player without cheating. ================================================================ ================================================================ * Construction * Base : New level from scratch. Tools(s) used : DCK v3.6 (An excellent level editor), Warm Nodebuilder v1.6 (Thank you, thank you!) Paint Shop Pro (shareware version) Lview1b (to redimension a couple of pics) WinTex 4.3 (to make the new textures) All of these programs are tremendous, particularly DCK and WinTex, which make the technical aspects of level-construction a snap, and free folks like me, who aren't so good at math, to concentrate on environments and traps and, um, other stuff. ================================================================ * Known Bugs * I can get a visi-planes overflow in the pleasure garden, if I lower the monoliths of debauchery, but leave their lights on, run to the southern door and begin to swing my head right and left wildly. Don't do this. Oh, and much to my chagrin, the entire game crashed once - I don't know why - as I nailed a pesky Heavy Weapons Guy on a pillar in the pit of invisible stairs. But I've played it many times since, and it runs like a Porsche. ================================================================ * Copyright / Permissions * The way I see it, Pwads are like jokes: you make them, you don't own them. If they're funny, they'll get repeated. If you use any of this for your own WAD, drop me a line so I can check it out. ==================================================================== * For New Players * To play, unzip the GIRLYB.ZIP file in your DoomII directory, then at the command-line enter doom2 -file girlyb.wad To play the demo, enter doom2 -playdemo girlypg -file girlyb.wad The demo will only work if you have DoomII version 1.9 ====================================================================