06 Jun 2023
Only 6 months between updates, not too shabby. What’s been going on over here?
Back in January, I helped assemble (and made a map for) an awesome Something Awful Forums community Doom 2 map pack. It’s called The Diseases, and Casualties this year being 1632 and is based on a list of various maladies afflicting London in 1632. The amazing mappers (shoutouts to Granggg, A.o.D, LeschNyhan, and WeirdSandwich!) came up with their own interpretations of the causes in the list like Palsie, Quinsies, and Made Away Themselves. My map is MAP02: Teeth, and I had a blast making the map! It’s Boom-compatible, so grab PrBoom+ or DSDA Doom and give it a crack!
That ate a month of my spare time, but the weird shit I built was worth it.
I spent a solid night over the past weekend trying to get this working, and eventually I succeeded. But the problem was I couldn’t just run the installer through Steam, I had to use Bottles to install it and I couldn’t even use version 11.3. I had to install Version 11.2 offline, then let that update to 11.3. At least it’s working now and I can hook up a MIDI keyboard to the Deck Dock for portable tune jammin’.
Also I’ve been doing a lot of musical tooling around but at some point I need to hunker down and makes some actual tunes. That’ll be a brand new sidebar dropdown when that happens.
The header bar is a bit lopsided at the moment, I will be sure to make the icons symmetrical before they all slide off the precariously-unbalanced shelf.
