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Title:	Ancient Aliens
Filename:	levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/aaliens.zip
Size:	35.85 MB
Date:	07/17/16
Author:	Paul "skillsaw" DeBruyne
Description:	Demos recorded with the original release of Ancient Aliens are compatible with this update. Version 1.1 includes updates to textures. Version 1.2 includes an update to fix a MAP24 crash in Eternity caused by mistakenly rebuilding the nodes in MAP24. Ancient Aliens is a megawad featuring 32 colorful, action-packed maps for Boom compatible ports. Go on a journey to discover the truth about the enigmatic origins of human civilization... I'm not saying it was aliens, but... the truth is out there.
Credits:	NiGHTMARE Espi Eriance Fredrik Johansson Janitor DaGGeR Ola Bjorling Vader XDelusion esselfortium RottKing Nuxius Afterglow AgentSpork Enjay Huy Pham SargeBaldy Tormentor667 Iikka Keranen Cage FuzzballFox 40oz Mechadon zrrion the insect Nightfall Blue Shadow Sock Roger Ritenour Spackle Tarnsman skillsaw GothicDM Team Eternal Doom Team id Software Ion Storm Raven Software Rogue Entertainment Valve Software lupinx-Kassman (see LKTex for details on individual resources) Greenwar 2 Texture Contributors Risen
Base:	Texture wad based on 32in24-14 resource
Build time:	15 months
Editor(s) used:	Doom Builder 2 , GZDoom Builder, Slade, WhackEd, GIMP, Notepad++
Bugs:	None
Rating:	(89 votes)

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Archive Maintainer      : Please place in levels/doom2/ports/megawads
Advanced engine needed  : Boom compatible
Primary purpose         : Single player
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Title                   : Ancient Aliens
Filename                : aaliens.zip
Release date            : May 8, 2016 (version 1)
			  December 30, 2022 (version 1.1)
			  March 16, 2023 (version 1.2)
Author                  : Paul "skillsaw" DeBruyne
Email Address           : [redacted]
Other Files By Author   : Sector 666 (666.zip)
                          Aeternum (aeternum.zip)
                          Vanguard (vanguard.zip)
                          Lunatic (lunatic.zip)
                          Hanging Gardens (hgarden.zip)
                          Valiant (valiant.zip)
                          Valiant: Vaccinated Edition (valve.zip)
                          Sawdust (sawdust.zip)
                          
                          Contributions to various community, team, and
                          personal projects, including Back to Saturn X 
                          Episodes 1 and 2, Stronghold: On the Edge of 
                          Chaos, ZPack, Community Chest 4, Unholy Realms, 
                          and various 32in24 sessions.
                          
Misc. Author Info       : Makes maps for Doom

Description             : Demos recorded with the original release of Ancient Aliens are compatible with this update.
			  Version 1.1 includes updates to textures. Version 1.2 includes an update to fix a MAP24 crash 
			  in Eternity caused by mistakenly rebuilding the nodes in MAP24.

Ancient Aliens is a megawad featuring 32 colorful,
                          action-packed maps for Boom compatible ports.
                          
                          Go on a journey to discover the truth about the 
                          enigmatic origins of human civilization... 
                          
                          I'm not saying it was aliens, but... the truth
                          is out there.

===========================================================================

Port Differences        : ZDoom-based ports and Eternity use MAPINFO for
                          episode selection and story screens.
                          
                          Additionally, in Zdoom-based ports and Eternity,
                          ACS is used to play sound effects occasionally.
                          This is way more cool than it sounds.

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** Credits **

Mapping                 : skillsaw
                          AD_79
                          esselfortium
                          Joshy
                          lupinx-Kassman
                          Pinchy
                          stewboy
                          Tarnsman
                          
Music                   : stewboy

Testing                 : AD_79
                          Altazimuth
                          dew
                          Tarnsman
                          
Coop Testing            : Alfonzo
                          Altazimuth
                          dew
                          esselfortium
                          Pinchy
                          Seele00TextOnly
                          
Texture Credits         : NiGHTMARE
                          Espi
                          Eriance
                          Fredrik Johansson
                          Janitor
                          DaGGeR
                          Ola Bjorling
                          Vader
                          XDelusion
                          esselfortium
                          RottKing
                          Nuxius
                          Afterglow
                          AgentSpork
                          Enjay
                          Huy Pham
                          SargeBaldy
                          Tormentor667
                          Iikka Keranen
                          Cage
                          FuzzballFox
                          40oz
                          Mechadon
                          zrrion the insect
                          Nightfall
                          Blue Shadow
                          Sock
                          Roger Ritenour
                          Spackle
                          Tarnsman
                          skillsaw
                          GothicDM Team
                          Eternal Doom Team
                          id Software
                          Ion Storm
                          Raven Software
                          Rogue Entertainment
                          Valve Software
			  lupinx-Kassman (see LKTex for details on individual resources)
			  Greenwar 2 Texture Contributors
			  Risen
Texture Credits 
from prior versions     : Hacx 2.0 Team
			  Afro Samurai: Resurrection team
			  xymonau
			  Lars Petersson
			  Jim Flynn
			  Capcom
			  Tears for Fears album logo
			  William Neal
			  Gary Cowles
			  NASA Expedition 20 crew
			  Shamus Young
			  Jessica D
			  Justin Fisher
			  LucasArts

Sprite Credits          : Eriance                        
                          Virtue
                          Bloax
                          CeeJay                          
                          Tormentor667
                          skillsaw
                          3d Realms

Fonts                   : Mechadon

Status Bar Font         : AgentSpork

Palette                 : skillsaw
                          (purple range is from BTSX)

ENDOOM                  : Altazimuth

CR* Translation lumps   : xttl

Final ending text       : dew

ACS multiplayer fix     : rhinoduck
                          
Misc Graphics, Splash
Screens, Status Bar     : skillsaw

Sound Credits           : Eriance
                          Raven Software
                          Rogue Entertainment
                          http://www.freesfx.co.uk

Map Listing             : MAP01 - "The Ancient Navajo Wolf Warp" by skillsaw
                          MAP02 - "Sanctum of the Wastes" by skillsaw
                          MAP03 - "Arachnotron Arrival" by skillsaw
                          MAP04 - "Bad Medicine Men" by skillsaw
                          MAP05 - "Last Refuge of the Anasazi" by skillsaw
                          MAP06 - "Sinkhole Showdown" by skillsaw
                          MAP07 - "Dare to Fly Where Eagles Soar" by skillsaw
                          MAP08 - "Ancient Aliens" by skillsaw
                          MAP09 - "The Nectar Flow" by Joshy
                          MAP10 - "Gift of Denial" by skillsaw
                          MAP11 - "On the Origin of Spacies" by skillsaw
                          MAP12 - "Magenta Heat" by skillsaw
                          MAP13 - "Polychromatic Terrace" by skillsaw
                          MAP14 - "Blazing Boulevard" by skillsaw
                          MAP15 - "Wormhole Junction" by skillsaw
                          MAP16 - "Leave Your Sol Behind" by skillsaw
                          MAP17 - "Daylight Under a Dark Sol" by skillsaw
                          MAP18 - "Illuminati Revealed" by skillsaw
                          MAP19 - "Crash Landing" by skillsaw
                          MAP20 - "Code" by AD_79
                          MAP21 - "Cyberbullying: Beyond Earth" by skillsaw
                          MAP22 - "Acerola-Orion" by esselfortium
                          MAP23 - "Trinary Temple" by Pinchy
                          MAP24 - "Culture Shock" by lupinx-Kassman (additional mapping by skillsaw)
                          MAP25 - "Xenoarboreum" by skillsaw
                          MAP26 - "Egyptian Metaphysics" by Tarnsman
                          MAP27 - "Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls" by skillsaw
                          MAP28 - "Floating Arena" by Joshy
                          MAP29 - "The Ones Behind It All" by skillsaw
                          MAP30 - "The End" by skillsaw
                          MAP31 - "Grey Dwarf" by stewboy
                          MAP32 - "Ossuarium Exoterre" by skillsaw
                          
Music Listing           : MAP01 - "Flee"
                          MAP02 - "The Incessant Flow of Time"
                          MAP03 - "Depth Charge"
                          MAP04 - "Desk Lamp"
                          MAP05 - "Toejazz"
                          MAP06 - "Roof"
                          MAP07 - "Featherfall"
                          MAP08 - "Hell Jungle"
                          MAP09 - "The Demon's Serenade"
                          MAP10 - "Vase"
                          MAP11 - "Space Train"
                          MAP12 - "Web of Steel"
                          MAP13 - "Gold Rush"
                          MAP14 - "Moonwalk"
                          MAP15 - "Hypercube"
                          MAP16 - "Space Jiggle"
                          MAP17 - "Other Side of the Moon"
                          MAP18 - "Trapeze"
                          MAP19 - "Long Night"
                          MAP20 - "20 GOTO 10"
                          MAP21 - "Basement"
                          MAP22 - "The Last Dance"
                          MAP23 - "The Greater Good"
                          MAP24 - "Imaginarium"
                          MAP25 - "Alien Forest"
                          MAP26 - "Tales of Old"
                          MAP27 - "Garden of Lost Souls"
                          MAP28 - "Gigabridge"
                          MAP29 - "Colliding Nebulae"
                          MAP30 - "Yuletide"
                          MAP31 - "Tribal Dance"
                          MAP32 - "Birdsong" 
                          Intermission - "Concentration"
                          Title - "Welcome to Egypt"
                          Text screen - "Martian Blues"

The full Ancient Aliens OST is available on
                          Stewboy's bandcamp:

https://stuartrynn.bandcamp.com/album/doom-ancient-aliens-ost                       
                          
Additional Credits and Special Thanks
from lupinx-Kassman  	: Thanks to Skillsaw for helping finish the map when the deadline was looming. 
			  He designed the areas starting from the red key door which includes the windy bridge and islands connected to it, 
			  the vile fight arena in the "lower" section of the level, 
			  the set of ring teleports in the lower section that lead to the exit, and the exit staircase
			  arena with the revenants that leads to the final arena along with the surrounding UFOs. 
			  He also retextured various areas, made gameplay additions and fixes, and
			  added extra detail throughout the map. And though I added the saucer intro, the saucer design is based on his 
			  numerous saucers throughout the megawad. Thanks to Jim Flynn, Bob Reganess, and Roger Ritenour who were major influences
			  for me at the time. The first mega armor platform after ascending the rope is a rough reference to the megasphere lift 
			  in Jim Flynn's "Trapped on Titan" map. The "Aboo Ocean" name in MAP24's intro blurb is a reference 
			  to aboocean.wad (the filename for Bob Reganess's "Shoreleave" episode). The wooden ladders used throughout MAP24 are like 
			  the wooden ladder used in Roger Ritenour's EarthZD. Thanks to the bands
			  Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Tears for Fears whom I listened to while 
			  working on the map. Their album iconagraphy could originally be found as the Tarkus tank
			  in the plasma rifle secret in MAP24, and the Tears for Fears sun symbol used in intro screen and
			  as part of the "Gateway of Knowledge" at the end of the map in prior versions of the map. The sector-based shadow 
			  is still in the shape of the Tears for Fears logo. Didn't want to risk disrupting speedruns by altering the shadow 
			  to match the new sun emblem, so now its permanent memory of what once was. The plasma gun secret's TV is the TV
			  from Spackle's YakWorld. The bed was originally going to be a reference to a bed from Dino T. Manzella's Townhouses map, 
			  though it ended up becoming a reference to my dumb real-life avocado colored bed at the time. 
			  The small ceiling hand sector near the intro of MAP24 is based on a low-scale image of 3d_molier's cartoon hand 3d model.
			  The visual trick of the moving prisoner was inspired by a similar trick used in Hugo Elias's McFearsm.wad.
			  Thanks to Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for "Sky Santuary Zone"
			  Epic's Unreal Gold, and iD's Quake 3 which were large inspirations for the theme of MAP24. All resources in this wad prefixed 
			  with "KS_" are described individually in detail in OldResourceCredits.txt of LKTex.

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* What is included *

New levels              : 32
Sounds                  : Yes
Music                   : Yes
Graphics                : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : Yes
Demos                   : Yes
Other                   : MAPINFO, PLAYPAL, etc.
Other files required    : None

* Play Information *

Game                    : Doom 2
Map #                   : MAP01-MAP32
Single Player           : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Designed for
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : No
Other game styles       : None
Difficulty Settings     : Yes

* Construction *

Base                    : Texture wad based on 32in24-14 resource
Build Time              : 15 months
Editor(s) used          : Doom Builder 2 , GZDoom Builder, Slade, WhackEd, 
                          GIMP, Notepad++
Known Bugs              : None
May Not Run With...     : Gameplay mods that change the palette or don't 
                          use .png graphics.
                          
                          If you encounter garbled texture graphics while 
                          using a mod try changing the load order.
	
* Disclaimer *
	
NOTE: GOTHICTX.txt requests that the below disclaimer not be modified, but cdrom.com isn't around anymore. 
	Replace the links in the disclaimer with the following respectively: 
	https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/deathmatch/megawads/gothicdm 
	https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/deathmatch/megawads/gothic2
		  
	* DISCLAIMER *
	This PWAD contains select texture(s) and flat(s) that can originally be found
	in GothicDM or Gothic2. Credit and thanks go out to the artist(s) of said
	flat(s) and texture(s) and also to the rest of the Gothic Crew (1997/98). The
	ORIGINAL GothicDM(2).ZIP can be found at CDROM.COM. Each said PKZIP archive
	contains thirty-two professional quality levels and music.
	http://cdrom.com/pub/idgames/levels/doom2/deathmatch/megawads/gothicdm.zip
	http://cdrom.com/pub/idgames/levels/doom2/deathmatch/megawads/gothic2.zip

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