MOOD, or A Martian Anabasis

Boy that loathsome Spiderdemon was
something else, I tell you what.

But wait a minute, where's the hidden
door you were promised, to whisk you
back to Daisy and the green fields of
Earth?

Was that ever a thing?

Looks like you're humping it home,
soldier. Chin up, eyes forward, now...
march!

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About

This mod starts where the original Doom (1993) left off. Instead of a magical, deus ex hellspawn portal whisking you directly back to Earth, you're tasked with taking the long way home—a marine's erotic journey from E3M8 to E1M1.

Experience the original Doom (1993) backwards! The level order has been reversed, and the start & exit points have been swapped on every map.

This project was intended as a way to get familiar with Doom mapping tools (SLADE, in this case), and I wanted to do so with a minimum of edits to the original geometry. However, in some cases, the conceit of the WAD forced me to reconsider level flow, and the placement of monsters & secrets & triggers, and so on.

I also learned, about two thirds into the conversion, that you can't use MAPINFO in (personal favourite) Chocolate Doom! This WAD therefore targets the GZDoom line of products; knowing this, I might have scaled back some of the more drastic changes (using GZDoom's modern niceties), but much like the Doom Marine, I'm just a tired little guy.

In any case, I've tried to recreate the original "intent" of each map as much as possible.

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Instructions

1. Download the WAD
2. Download GZDoom
3. Download an IWAD
4. Configure GZDoom to run your IWAD
5. Drag & drop the MOOD.WAD file onto GZDoom.exe
6. TEAR. AND. RIP.

Drink pairing

Rum & coke, on the rocks

Music pairing

Master of Puppets, Metallica

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Known Issues

• I'll fill this section with Issues, when they become Known!

References

• I wrote a very short post about the origins of this WAD
• There's another item named MOOD! Whereas it's an external tool that programmatically inverts the horizontal axes of an arbitrary WAD, my own project is intended to reverse the flow of each level.
• Shoutout to eevee and David X Newton, whose tutorials were essential.
• MOOD owes a philosophical debt to Pong 6D, in particular their failed Wolfenstein experiment

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