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Oblige: random DooM/Heretic/Quake/Hexen* level generator

Sun, 09 May 2010 10:55:21

borsuk

Hi A browser version of Heretic rekindled my interest in DooM engine FPS games. I started reading DooM wiki on wikia, and read about Oblige. It's a random level generator for DooM, Heretic, Quake and Hexen*. It produces quite nice results - nothing comparable to handcrafted WADs, but very playable (if somewhat repetitive). DooM generator is especially polished right now. For a sample, I recommend this DooM2 WAD I generated: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/s15kjb">http://www.sendspace.com/file/s15kjb</a><!-- m --> (generated for DooM2 and Doomsday Engine source port which I use, but probably compatible with other source ports) One way to use the generator is to just have fun. But you can use it to speed up map creation: randomly generate some levels, take nicest of them, and modify by hand to make them more interesting and prettier. That would be the best of two worlds. I hear you have problems recruiting talented mappers, and/or ones you have are overworked. You should be interested. Oblige homepage is here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://oblige.sourceforge.net/">http://oblige.sourceforge.net/</a><!-- m --> By the way, what's your favourite level editor for DooM engine games ? Years ago I used Deu II, but perhaps there are newer, better tools ? *Note that HeXen support seems to be currently disabled, but considering the generator is under active development (!) it shouldn't take long.
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:05:51

AndiNo

Thanks for this information, it's very interesting! The only program I knew that could do the same thing was SLIGE: [url:1xdknf7n]http://www.doomworld.com/slige/ I did not expect another level generator to be created for these old games. Nice! <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/orc2.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

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