MyHouse.WAD

December 20, 2023 10:10 PM

Inside Doom's My House Mod MyHouse.WAD Did you play doom? Did you play custom levels? This will be interesting for you. The Doom wiki give a pretty good explanation about what's going on but I think going in blind is best. The original poster said this: Excited to finally release this tribute map. Last August I lost a good childhood friend of mine and took it pretty hard. When I was visiting my hometown for his funeral, I connected with his parents who shared with me some of his old belongings. Among them was a copy of an old map of his backed up on a 3.5” floppy from high school. Thomas and I were into amateur Doom mapping in the early 00s but I had never seen this map of his prior to uncovering it on one of the old floppy discs. As a way of paying tribute to him and all the great memories we had together, I took the plunge and installed Doom Builder in order to polish up his map and add a few modern amenities just for convenience sake. I haven’t touched an editor in over 15 years so it was quite a surprise to find out how easy mapping has become. I may have gotten a little carried away with these new UDMF features and, as such, the map is designed for GZDoom. From the text file:
posted by ShakeyJake (8 comments total)

Back to Saturn X 3 has a five-map preview and is teasing a release!
posted by Earthtopus at 10:39 PM on December 20, 2023

Previously
posted by one for the books at 12:16 AM on December 21, 2023 [4 favorites]

As a non-Doom-modder, I found it a bit difficult to actually run this. Here are step-by-step instructions to get started:

• Download the latest GZDoom
• Download both myhouse.pk3 and myhouse.zip from the MyHouse GDrive "files" folder
• Place myhouse.pk3 in the same folder as gzdoom.exe
• Unzip myhouse.zip and place myhouse.wad in the same folder as gzdoom.exe
• Read myhouse.txt and see that the relevant version of Doom is Doom2 (mods generally require a base game IWAD and mod PWAD)
• Find a "doom2.wad" file on the internet and place it in the same folder as gzdoom.exe
• Drag myhouse.wad onto gzdoom.exe

posted by Phssthpok at 1:03 AM on December 21, 2023 [7 favorites]

(One good place to find “doom2.wad” is at GOG for, right now, $2 USD. There are other ways as well.)
posted by Callisto Prime at 2:32 AM on December 21, 2023 [4 favorites]

> Find a "doom2.wad" file on the internet

Make sure to verify the checksum against the ones from the Doomwiki folks.
posted by genpfault at 7:26 AM on December 21, 2023

How's the bathroom look?
posted by Sphinx at 8:55 AM on December 21, 2023

I actually had a look at this a week ago, and only after reading this post did I discover about the placing of the PK3 file, so thanks for that. The .wad is actually a fairly fun set of doom levels, but not quite what I was led to expect.
posted by Sparx at 2:45 PM on December 21, 2023

This is art... though I did take the much easier route of just watching a playthrough.
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 3:16 PM on December 21, 2023 [1 favorite]