It was essentially just me and Fuzzball, who supplied some graphics, textures and ideas. SC: How big was your team to create Earthless: Prelude?Įxtremely small.

I essentially made the map larger, gave it some more branching areas to justify the use of all three keys, and made it a WHOLE lot prettier. MAP06, “Eden At War” is a remake of one of my very first efforts which is an extremely dated and pretty broken map. I suppose we could also count the initial build time for the very first incarnation of some of these maps that could easily date back to 2003. They helped me spend quite a bit of extra time afterwards refining things. However, I did wind up making a bunch of changes, often rethinking certain areas or encounters entirely, after my playtesting team got back to me with their various reports. SC: That’s awesome – now let’s get down to business! How long did it take you to complete this first installment (12 levels) to the Earthless saga?Įach map didn’t take me much more than a few days to finish, so altogether the total time spent building the maps initially is probably less than 4 weeks. I hope I get to do something like that again! I was able to compose original compositions while imitating the style of Bobby Prince, who has to be one of my main musical heroes, and write using the sounds of AdLib sound cards, which is a deliciously crunchy and classic sound adjacent to General MIDI. Thanks! It was lots of fun to work with Primož Vovk on the soundtrack for this remaster. SC: Before we get too deep into Earthless: Prelude – we wanted to offer you a huge congrats on producing the score for Apogee’s Secret Agent HD! Then there was a very small and very minor incident with a virus, one that not a lot of people were talking about…I guess that happened, maybe? Gave me an excuse to stay inside and chain myself to DOOM mapping like I usually do. I moved from Australia to the UK to meet up with fellow DOOM buddy Dragonfly and he and I have been sharing a home with two other housemates for the last year and a half now.

Walk us through the time in your life between Deathless and its follow-up, Earthless: Prelude…Ī lot has happened. From your intricate level building and masterful MIDI tracks, you have been a part of so many notable mods. SLAYERS CLUB: Welcome back James! It seems like we do these interviews once a year due to your prolific contributions to the DOOM community over the years. We brought back familiar face and modding devotee James “Jimmy” Paddock for another look behind the scenes at modding DOOM and what drove the creation of this ambitious project. A new Add-on has joined the ranks, and we’ve got another exclusive interview for all you fans of mods out there! This week saw the release of Earthless: Prelude, a 12-map taste of an in-progress megawad and spiritual successor to another notable Add-on, Deathless.

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