Stumbling through Crystal Maze GZDoom Edition

[davidn]

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It's been a long, long time since I just showed a game off - but I want to give some attention to a ZDoom game that's been criminally overlooked!

This is an amazing conversion of The Crystal Maze into first-person form by Stephen Clark, "The Ultimate DooMer". It's incredible to see the set transformed into Doom geometry, and there are 32 games of varying scope and complexity - some of which seem to also have taken inspiration from Knightmare. This is my chance to prove that I can do better than the protozoa we watched being led around by Richard O'Brien weekly.

If you want to try it yourself, get:
- A copy of Doom II from GoG or Steam or something
- GZDoom from here: http://zdoom.org
- The mod from here: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/a-c/cr-maze

Then look up a guide on how to set it up, I'm not explaining everything!

Comments

[davidn]

Ah, don't get me started on the logistics of the show - I'll reveal just how deep my obsession goes :) Each zone in the physical set consists of six or so rooms, each of which can house one of several games - maybe two or three rotated per series, with each series having completely unique games. So the GZDoom maze is physically larger, but the games behind each door remain the same - so there are 32 compared to the show's 45 or so per series.

I can't believe you've never played Doom! Even if you want to go through without monsters, I think it's the kind of thing that you'd appreciate immensely on a technical level - I can get lost in the wiki for days, reading about the workarounds that they came up with to simulate a full 3D world on the computers of 1993.