'The first level I made was a big outdoor area with about 40 single-sprite trees and, uh, somewhere around 50 mancubi.'
Doom 2 was my favorite game in the '90s, but I didn't really love playing it. I played with cheats, primarily IDCLIP, which granted Doomguy the ability to walk through walls and thus explore the boundaries of maps, and was so blown away by the 3D worlds of id Software's classic that battling monsters and collecting keys seemed boring by comparison.
I didn't have the internet for most of the '90s, so I wasn't aware of what was going on in the Doom mapping community. My uncle gave me a few disks of some fanmade .wads he'd downloaded and, crucially, a janky Doom map editor called WADED. That program changed the course of my teenage years. Instead of being a normal kid who rode his bike around town and spent time with friends, I was a normal kid who stayed alone inside and listened to black metal while making Doom levels.
WADED didn't have a steep learning curve, but it took me a while to figure out. Once I learned lines needed to form enclosed shapes, and then needed to be turned into sectors to form a room, my excitement knew no bounds. I could create anything I wanted! Small problem, though—turning a closed shape into a sector would, at least 30% of the time, cause the program to crash. Oh, well! I had nothing better to do than try again.
I was pretty keen on making levels that resembled real urban spaces. My specialty was levels with lots of outdoor environments, riddled with rectangular buildings decorated in elaborate tryhard facades. Enemy placement was mostly an afterthought. I didn't build my levels with a player in mind because thereany other players. I couldn't upload them anywhere, and the few friends I had weren't big on Doom. I would sometimes show my mum, and she would say she was proud.
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