On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 09:27:19PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > So it's, of all Doom resources, the lack of _levels_ working with original > (-llish) Doom code that's the problem? This would sound a lot more dire if > less than, say, 1/3 of us who remember the times of original Doom made our > own levels.
Yes. > There's a bad case of Sturgeon's law, of course, but the only difficulty > here lies in sifting through a giant pile of levels and picking the best > ones. > > My own "masterpieces" probably don't belong in the "best" category, but at > least a few could be ok contenders, especially after a few minor edits. > (Temporary URL: http://angband.pl/tmp/mywads/, ignore old copyright > statements, yadda yadda). Thanks. > If you pool mine, yours and a few other random folks' wads, you'll have > enough content to get a good set. And if you want one of famous ones, > there's a good chance authors will agree to relicense. I had a plan to package a collection of PWADs ('patch' WADs - levels) as a package which I never did. I'm going to see about picking that up tomorrow. I've identified two that are "public domain" and featured in a "100 best PWADs of all time" list in the last few years. After that, I'm hoping to arrange access to the DB backing 'http://www.doomworld.com/idgames";, which has user- submitted ratings and a list of txt files supplied with each PWAD. Luckily, there was a widely-used txt-template that offered one of three "licenses" and the majority of people who created levels used the template and picked a license, so it should be possible to identify some highly-rated PWADs which have DFSG-compatible terms. ("you can do whatever you want with this file." was one of the license-texts; one of others was "you may use this as a base for another PWAD, but you must give the original author credit" which I think should pass, depending on how strict you want to be about interpreting the proscriptiveness of "base for another PWAD") -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120430201320.GA16843@debian
