Ten Day Vacation is one of my favourite WADs and my most favourite DBP. It was playing this WAD that helped me decide to start mapping. I commend @joe-ilya for choice of theme as I love it. In fact, I like this WAD so much I have replayed it the most. And, I have just played it again!

Please find attached FDA's of runs through each map. Recorded in DSDA Doom on complevel 2. kvsari_dbp27_fda.zip

MAP01 : "The Title" by 40oz
I like this map for the amount of storytelling you can make as you play. It is dripping with atmosphere.

What I do not like is the twitching human at the start in the lonely cave. What's up with that? I think the presence of that decoration subtracts from the variety of storytelling you can do.

MAP02 : "Birdemic 3" by 40oz, Supercupcaketactics, Chaingunner
If the first map was good, this one is an excellent follow on maintaining the high level of quality and storytelling. Perhaps it's because it was stitched together the map has a real "this is the tourist part" and "this is the functional service area that the tourists don't see" part.

What I do not like is the abundance of corpses... but it makes sense so isn't as bad as that one twitching one in map 01.

MAP03 : "The Slayover" by Bigolbilly
Very nice map. Short and sweet and a secret inside a secret which originally took me ages to find. Gives you that island hopping feel.

MAP04 : "Resort To Violence" by joe-ilya
Another wonderful map. Love the romp through the hotel (and the love bed) ending with a showdown with a mancubis boss in his big blue chair. Once again the storytelling stays strong and true. Loving the holiday theme of the WAD by this point.

MAP05 : "Blue Sea" by Zillah
Not too hard. I think it's a villa.

MAP06 : "I Poisoned The Water Supply" by A2rob
I can imagine this map to be the utilitarian, grimy functional part of tropical paradise. The necessary water purification plant for example. That would be tucked out of the way of all the hotels, casino's and beaches. Phew.

It's HARD! I'm not such a good player and the level is punishing enough without resorting to such high damaging acid. I consider it unfair as much health is placed in the acid. You cannot avoid damage in getting health. Also, some parts force inescapable damage (the platform with the arachnatron where there is the environment suit and switch). I died many times in these sections. I believe greatly reducing the damage amount of the acid floors would double or triple the goodness of this map.

MAP07 : "Gran Jota" by Zillah
A nice breezy map. I very much enjoy this map especially after the nightmare that is the previous map. It makes for good juxtaposition with the previous map. Feels like you've island hopped to some ancient Tiki Temple. Storytelling is maintained.

MAP08 : "Bungalow Brawl" by 40oz
Good combat geometry, hard but not too hard, plenty of fights, excellent ammo placement, lots of health. Yep, standard 40oz with another high quality Doom map.

But... storytelling.. kinda pauses (doesn't break because it is good combat geometry). I feel as though this map could easily fit in a standard techbase type of WAD and it was given a splash of tropical paint and placed in this WAD instead.

MAP09 : "Praia De Icarai" by Glenzinho
I consider this to be the best Doom map I've ever played. It was this map that made me decide to give mapping a try (eventually, I wouldn't start until much later). Its storytelling potential is immense. It's big and beautiful. And it is internally consistent and hews to a central unifying principle; well it is modeled from a real place after all.

MAP10 : "Credit Roll" by joe-ilya
Nice short map. Rick can't roll me. Makes for a good outro.

You should do a map for the coming Heretic project @sexybzzrak . Also, eat your Natto!

Apart from screenshots, video, theme etc, I like to consider the wad author.

Have you guys had a look at the Cube Engine? It applies that concept of collaborative map editing and does it in engine.

Spawn Cell

UAC is at it again! They've recovered samples from the IoS and begun to run their usual biological experiments on it. Something like generating their own expendable workforce without having to worry about safety inspections or unions. It doesn't work out. You have to go in there and shut down their mad experiment.

Now on idgames!
Spawn Cell

This is my first WAD, but not my first map. I have no idea what I'm doing. Please let me know what you think.

Tested in DSDA on Complevel 2.

@Cuppykeks
I'm plodding slowly on my map. No screenshot. You mention a village; may this village have a well?

Bought myself a copy of Heretic. @Cuppykeks , I now have HERETIC.WAD. @joe-ilya , looks like I need to give it a playthrough.

Now on idgames. Top post updated.

@Cuppykeks
Banquet Of Flames
kvsari_fda_sct_banquetofflames_t1.lmp
kvsari_fda_sct_banquetofflames_t2.lmp

Focused gameplay on using bombs and a challenging crusher section. I like how reducing the armoury to three weapons greatly increases the tactical positioning in the battles. The time bombs are quite necessary to surviving most battles. You provide ample tomes of power to wring extra value from the limited weapons. The Phoenix Rod is a good choice for third weapon as it's punishing to misuse and goes right through the ghosted enemies. Any other weapon (unless I missed them) would have made the battles too easy. I also like that low tier enemies were mostly used throughout.

The geometry of the level itself evokes a real fantasy village with a sense of panic due to all the flames. The double tiered outside of the raised paths and water down below provides nice movement obstacles and highlights the character of the village. The menacing floating structure at the end is a nice bit of storytelling to show who's responsible for this attack. The inside of this structure is strangely charming.

The map is very busy with dense detail. I think the length is appropriate.

A good map. I didn't find anything jarring or unfair.

Damn, I'm playing through Hexen right now actually (but using another source port).

Wasn't @MattFright working on some kind of community project? How is that coming along?

Sadly I also cannot make the time commitment to run a regular community project series, merely contribute maps.

Yes, it's here. Hello there.

Thank you for your replies @JadingTsunami and @Cuppykeks . I've decided to go with your suggestion of manually building the resource WAD in Slade.

I would like to know of other peoples methods for creating resource WADs. My main mapping experience has been participating in community projects such as the DBP's (and one here) and releasing one short 3 map WAD myself. While working on my simple 3 map WAD (Spawn Cell), I had great trouble putting everything together in Slade. What I envision is to make a resource pack for myself with all the textures I'll need, custom DeHackEd stuff and then carry out the mapping.

So for making resource WADs, how do you go about it? Do you use DoomTools, do you bash everything together in Slade, do you use DEH9000 or edit the DeHackEd by hand? I'm not so much asking about which graphical editing tools you use (althought I am interested to hear about it), but which methods/tools are used for organizing and building the resource WAD once all graphics, sprites and sounds have been found or created.

Would something like this suit the project? https://soundcloud.com/oracle666/celadon-haze-arael-remix

Thank you very much for playing! I appreciate it.

Now on idgames. Top post updated.

Update to RC2.2. Top post also updated.

Changelog;

ALL

• Fixed various textures that weren't animating by re-introducing the swan table.

MAP01

• Sprinkled barrels.
• Changed grate door to "U" section to be red keyed on the other side locking player in.
• Added some bullets to flooded underground section.
• Made the annoying hell knight pop-up happen before the player ascends onto the machine block.
• Added monster block lines to prevent imps from wandering behind buildings.
• Reduced damage of nukage.

MAP02

• Added armour bonuses to help indicate which platforms to jump onto.
• Slightly re-arranged some ammo so as not to double up on the armour bonuses.

MAP03

• Fixed unintended route which skipped a linedef that raised the imp pit.
• Added more of those bone pillars to make the big fight in the first eye-switch a lock-in battle.
• Fixed the red columns so bumping into them at speed in -cl 2 doesn't clip into the megasphere/cell-charge-pack stored within before IoS reveal.

Not changed;

MAP02/MAP03
I really don't know how to make navigation easier without re-doing the whole thing. Sure lighting and bonuses help but I think the problem is a deeper structural one. I don't mind the "you need to remember where you've been" style of gameplay, so there must be a way to execute it much better than I have done so in these two maps. For next time.

RC2.1 is not uploaded because it's an internal step to not lose progress on changes whilst stumbling about in slade trying to fix the animated textures.

I want to upload to idgames soon (one week) so if there's no showstopper bug...

Uploaded RC2.

Just finished Three's a Crowd. What a high quality WAD! This is what I was talking about. Each map tells its own story and a part of the overarching story. Every map is different and not a single slot is wasted on filler (in my opinion). My favourite level would have to be MAP29 Sheer Poison. Not because I think it's the funnest (I hate the constant damage) but because it clearly communicates through the gameplay itself and the map geometry (where you start in a fake warehouse but really you're in hell), that the IoS is done playing around and is really trying to kill you this time. Combined with the music it gives a sense of hopelessness. That death is inevitable and that your struggles are almost over; give up, you'll die anyway, soon you can sleep. This level communicates a sense of sadness due to the inhospitable environment coupled with the cruel deception at the start. The last level, MAP30, is the only IoS fight I've encountered which isn't a let down. The strength of the multi-map build-up of the IoS and the sacrifices of the Doomguys gives gravitas to this enemy (without relying on the spawner!).