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Doom Editing Digest Vol. 01 Nr. 342
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doom-editing-digest Monday, 10 July 1995 Volume 01 : Number 342
re: peewad for wimps
Re: Ultimate Doom & non-gore Doom?
Re: Ultimate Doom & non-gore Doom?
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From: Jim Kennedy <jimk@oeonline.oeonline.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 01:10:17 -400 (EDT)
Subject: re: peewad for wimps
On Sat, 8 Jul 1995, drake o'brien wrote:
> Scott Jordan asks:
>
> >I'm also looking for a PWAD for wimps. My 6 year old daughter likes to
> >play DOOM. It'd be nice if there were a PWAD which took it from it's
> >current 'M 17+' rating down to something tamer. You know, maybe magic
> >wands instead of weapons, no gore, etc
>
> I've seen this thread come and go a few times on r.g.c.d.e. & there seems
> to be quite a few people interested in designing levels for children.
> But it also seems that the thread gets broken because people bite off a
> bit more than they can chew since the idea more or less implies a total
> conversion and nobody has the time for that while raising a young family.
> Every time the idea comes around again I think how it's a great and
> doable idea - but people interested in it have to get together and form
> their own minigroup in the doom-editing community, exchanging files and
> ideas etc. From what I gather a lot has already been done, making a lot
> of pieces for this kind of total conversion, but it's never been put
> together and the files seem to get lost because alone they just aren't
> enough.
Are you on the wad-team list? Maybe they would be interested in such a
project? I just got on the list myself, so I'm relatively new to it.
Or would enough people in here be interested in starting a group
project like that? Me, I'm only a Doom level designer, Doom 2 is very
similar and I expect to work on levels for Heretic as well.
.........Jim
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Jim Kennedy | The College Board BBS
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From: Jim Kennedy <jimk@oeonline.oeonline.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 01:02:39 -400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Ultimate Doom & non-gore Doom?
On Sat, 8 Jul 1995, Scott Jordan wrote:
> How have registered users been informed that Ultimate Doom was available?
> I've still not seen anything other than what's been posted here.
I don't know, but I have seen messages about it on the FidoNet DOOM echo
as well as in here. I think the net's are faster at getting the word out
than normal marketing schemes.
> Does anyone know when DEU 5.3 might be out? I've looked at a lot of other
> editors but haven't found one that I'm as comfortable with as DEU.
Have you looked at DETH23.ZIP? Its a DEU look-a-like, but is a GCC
version so it will see all of your computers RAM and it can edit;
Doom, Doom 2 and Heretic.
> I'm also looking for a PWAD for wimps. My 6 year old daughter likes to
> play DOOM. It'd be nice if there were a PWAD which took it from it's
> current 'M 17+' rating down to something tamer. You know, maybe magic
> wands instead of weapons, no gore, etc.
Boy that's a tough one. Heretic would be the one for magic wand kind
of stuff, but its still rather violent. New add-on levels are starting
to pop-up for it....you could try creating your own level, to meet
your needs. The violence is one of the things people like about these
games, I think you will be hard pressed to find such a level without
the blood & gore.
It would seem like there would be a better game for a child
her age than Doom or its spinoffs. Have to checked your local
computer store (ie. CompUSA, Egghead)? There are other shareware games
also, you might try "Jill of the Jungle" by Epic software, my friends
young daughters liked that a lot - the hero is a woman.
..........Jim
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Jim Kennedy | The College Board BBS
jimk@oeonline | (810) 478-9647, 24hrs, 14.4K
| FidoNet: 1:2410/146, Livonia, MI, USA
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From: Scott Jordan <sjordan@wins0.win.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 10:06:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Ultimate Doom & non-gore Doom?
>
> Have you looked at DETH23.ZIP? Its a DEU look-a-like, but is a GCC
> version so it will see all of your computers RAM and it can edit;
> Doom, Doom 2 and Heretic.
>
I'll take a look at Deth. There are some very good editors out there.
But, I'm used to the look and feel of DEU and want to work on D2 levels.
Since Deth sounds like a DEU clone, it might do the trick.
> > I'm also looking for a PWAD for wimps. My 6 year old daughter likes to
> > play DOOM. It'd be nice if there were a PWAD which took it from it's
> > current 'M 17+' rating down to something tamer. You know, maybe magic
> > wands instead of weapons, no gore, etc.
>
> Boy that's a tough one. Heretic would be the one for magic wand kind
> of stuff, but its still rather violent. New add-on levels are starting
> to pop-up for it....you could try creating your own level, to meet
> your needs. The violence is one of the things people like about these
> games, I think you will be hard pressed to find such a level without
> the blood & gore.
>
> It would seem like there would be a better game for a child
> her age than Doom or its spinoffs. Have to checked your local
> computer store (ie. CompUSA, Egghead)? There are other shareware games
> also, you might try "Jill of the Jungle" by Epic software, my friends
> young daughters liked that a lot - the hero is a woman.
>
Yeah, Doom's not the greatest thing for young kids. However, in all cases
that I'm aware of, they love it. (A friend's 7 year old nailed me but
good with a plasma gun one night...) Maybe I can put something together
before Newt Gingrich and Jerry Falwell see one of their grandkids playing
Doom. Given things around here, the galciers will probably come first...
Scott
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