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Archive Maintainer : Updating the description due to a few typos.
Update to : Lijiang
Advanced engine needed : Tested with GZDoom 3.1 and 3.2 but should work with
limit-removing source ports that accept DECORATE
Primary purpose : Single play
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Title : Lijiang
Filename : lijiang.wad
Author : Patrick LeMieux and Stephanie Boluk
Email Address : [redacted]
Description : Inspired by JP LeBreton's discussion with John
Romero at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6HlBa88js&feature=youtu.be&t=80
and Blackmantis' research at
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/85756-found-doom-sky-source-files/,
in 2017 we traveled to Yangshuo County, China to
try and find the cave from which Tom Atwood
photographed "Yangshuo Cavern" sometime in the late
80s or early 90s. Also known as MAJEST3.TIF, this
image was distributed by Aris Entertainment in 1991
and 1992 via royalty free CD-ROMs like "MediaClips
Majestic Places" and "The Best of MediaClips," an
example of which can be downloaded at
https://archive.org/details/The_Best_of_MediaClips_2.0.1_Aris_Entertainment_1994.
After finding its way into the offices of id
Software during the development of DOOM, Atwood's
photograph of the Karst Mountains became Phobos,
the skybox for the shareware episode of the game,
"Knee Deep in the Dead."
Not Moon Hill or Butterfly Spring or Dragon Water
Cave, asking for the location of "Yangshuo Cavern"
is the equivalent of asking for the location of
"California Hill" when searching for the Bliss
Screen. Beyond the immensity of the mountain range
and vagary of Atwood's original title, in many ways
Yangshuo County exemplifies the larger process of
historical erasure and cultural amnesia in China.
Villages alongside the Li River are undergoing
rapid development; every cave we entered was full
of concrete, colored lights, and costumed Monkey
Kings; and even local cavers and climbers were
stumped...is it even possible to find "Yangshuo
Cavern" in 2017?
The history of Yangshuo is not only occluded when
it comes to DOOM, but also in relation to China
more broadly. Even though the 20 RMB note features
a shan shui-esque rendering of the region's famous
mountains, hills, and caverns along the Li River,
Yangshuo is not an ancient site of Chinese painting
(although it is home to myriad indigenous and
ethnic minority peoples whose art and culture has
been eclipsed by this and other forms of state
propaganda). In fact, shan shui painters only made
their way to the Karst Mountains en masse as
refugees during the Second Sino-Japanese War
between 1937 and 1945. Whether remediated as an
ancient site of national pride or as the backdrop
for the shareware episode of DOOM, for many
Yangshuo may as well be Mars.
In this short, single map .WAD, photographs we took
while floating down the Li River replace the skybox
and sprites of E1M1 while Aris Entertainment's
original musical accompaniment, MAJEST3.WAV,
replaces the music. This is the first of a series
of levels we are designing as an essay/megawad
about the technologies, histories, and cultures of
play around DOOM in China.
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* What is included *
New levels : 1
Sounds : No
Music : Yes
Graphics : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch : No
Demos : No
Other : No
Other files required : None
* Play Information *
Game : Doom
Map # : E1M1
Single Player : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player : No
Deathmatch 2-4 Player : No
Other game styles : None
Difficulty Settings : Not implemented
* Construction *
Base : New from scratch
Build Time : 1 day
Editor(s) used : Slade 3.1.2
May Not Run With : Non limit-removing source ports or ones that don't
accept DECORATE
Tested With : GZDoom 3.2 and 3.1
* Copyright / Permissions *
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
and remix, transform, and build upon the material. If you do so, you must
give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if
changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way
that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the
material for commercial purposes.
* Where to get the file that this text file describes *
The Usual:
ftp://archives.gamers.org/pub/idgames/ and mirrors
