=========================================================================== Title : LOVINGER.WAD Lovinger Outpost for Doom 2 or MBF Date Finished : October 1999 Chief Author : Dan Patanella (except for MAP06) Email Address : cu412@freenet.carleton.ca Misc. Author Info : Creator of Gatchaman Doom http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/academy/6351/g_doom.html Maintainer of "Animation - American and Japanese" http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/academy/6351/index.html Additional Creators : Captain Zen (for MAP06) Rez (for major design suggestion in several levels) Len Pitre (for working the usual Doom miracles!) Iikka Kerrnen (for the IKATEX graphics) Required Engine : Doom2 (registered) or MBF. Any of the various offspring of Boom should also work nicely, although Lovinger hasn't been tested in them. Installation Notes : If you want to play the WAD using Doom2, copy all files to your Doom2 directory and run LOV_INS.BAT. After which, you simply type LOVD2 at the command line to run. If you want to play the WAD using MBF, copy all files to your MBF directory and type "mbf -file lovinger lovespr -deh lovedeh" to run. Really, it's that simple! :D Description : The Lovinger Outpost is a series of adventures on an alien world. These levels range from green marble fortresses, bleached sandstone aquaducts, the hollowed-out innards of a volcano, a fiendishly designed fortress near the end, and what's left of a once-peaceful UAC retreat in the woods. Each level is mid-sized, and some of them should be especially challenging in deathmatch. Your mission: stay alive while the nasty demonspawn try to hunt you down! Enjoy the nice scenery and the new graphics! Additional Credits to : Len, Rez, Captain Zen, and I all playtested the levels. Aside from that, Rez contributed mightily to the conception of several of the Aquaduct-style levels. Captain Zen jumpstarted everyone's creativity when he joined the project and donated an earlier version of his "Blunder Lodge," including a couple of neat graphics. The good Cap'n also organized our mailing list. And Len was not only the alpha playtester, and contributor of great ideas, but was also the glue that held our motley crew together. Without the above team, none of the levels in this package would be as fun as they are. If you really liked any of this package, it's probably because they did a great job at turning a rough idea into a nice series of levels. Kudos to Rez, Len, and Captain Zen! Iikka Kerrnen created the IKATEX graphics that pop up from time to time. The seasoned Doomer will recognize these immediately. Aside from those, and Captain Zen's Blunder Lodge animations, all new graphics were my work, with alterations suggested by Rez and Len. Raven for the Hexen tree graphics and sounds. Noncontributing Credits : Special thanks goes out to everyone who has written me about my previous levels. Thank you for your advice, praise, and constructive criticism. There are all those stories about the spiders at TJ's cottage that inspired the initial levels of this multipak. :) Special thanks also goes out to Mo. You know who you are, and why I'm proud of you! :) Although I don't get even one red penny for plugging the following albums (not even a lousy autographed photo even!) I may as well tell you that my soundtrack for editing these levels included the Mermen's "Glorious Euphoria," the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, the Who's "Live at the Isle of Wight," "Nuggets Volume One" from Rhino Records and, gasp, various J-pop. =========================================================================== * Play Information * Map # : Map 01 - Map 08 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes, but untested Difficulty Settings : Yes New Sounds : Yes New Music : No. Just do what I do and put a Dick Dale or Deep Purple CD on. :) New Graphics : Yes Demos Replaced : None * Construction * Base : New levels from scratch, plus several sectors cannibalized from my unreleased levels. Oh yes, and the levels fordham.wad and lodge.wad that I created for Ultimate Doom. Build Time : I'm a slow worker. You have NO idea how long it took. :) Editor(s) used : various versions of DEU, DETH, Waded, DCK, BSP, ZenNode Other Software : Paintshop Pro, NWT, Wintex, Deusf, Picture Publisher 4, Digital Studio, MIDI Orchestrator Known Bugs : The Spiderdemons? (drumroll please) :) Thought of the Day : Is it just me or does it sound like Britney Spears is doing a Mae West imitation when she sings "Oh Baby Baby" in "One More Time?" :) Hey, she's supposed to like Doom2, so I'll cut the kid some slack. :) * Copyright / Permissions * Authors may NOT use this WAD as a base to build additional levels. Authors MAY use the new graphics in this WAD. Please mention my name in the credits, and drop me a line so I can download and enjoy your wonderful level from cdrom.com when ready. You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file intact. In fact, tell all your friends about it. * Where to get this WAD * FTP : ftp.cdrom.com