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Looks neat, particularly the top row, the bottom left one would look really cool with a more visible (lit) muzzle IMO. The best place for these kinds of posts are either in the Share Your Sprites Thread, or if you really want a thread for just your own work to be shared, you can host it in the Creative Works Subforum!

Big fan of hobomaster22's Doom Launcher. I stick with v3.6.5.0, although the newer versions are neat too.

What SCF posted was a frankly reasonable and supportive post and you cherry-picked parts of it out of context to argue against. Don’t be needlessly rude.

The Cacowards were great this year. There have been so many good .wads, and the Cacowards continue to be a fine reflection of that fact. I don’t envy the writers having to draw the line every year! Even after extending Cacos to Silver, HM's, and Sidebars, it seems like there will always be this Zeno's/Coastline Paradox for representation. I feel like I should say something 😄. It’s really nice to have my little maps mentioned here. It wasn't expected, and I'm humbled and think you are all cuties. I'm proud of what I have made, and folks like @ShallowB, @EduardoAndFriends, @thelamp, @sandwedge, @Clippy, @mancubian_candidate, and many others have made me feel appreciated by making and sharing gameplay videos. Not to mention the nice comments and support from @baja blast rd., @Not Jabba, @plums and everybody in the release thread. That’s plenty! 🙂 Oh and btw, 99% of this is DEHEXTRA (or BEX, I forget), IIRC the only *zDoom thing I did was make the Doom Doll from Slime City have it's own pickup sound! 😉 That's kinda cool that it comes off like that though!

Another great year! Congrats to all the winners and thanks to the panelists!

You like me, you really like me 🥲

New textures. My levels tend to be pretty representative, and Doom’s vanilla textures don’t cut it for me. I have tried on numerous occasions and the creativity doesn't spark the same way if my texture palette isn’t themed and various.

I really like this point of view. I feel like some exploits can be responded to like desire lines. It’s honestly quite of a gift to catch an exploit or sequence-break or softlock, in addition to catching a potential flaw in a level’s design; you can potentially find avenues of movement that are intuitive to the player. Case by case, naturally. In response to OP, I definitely try the plausible jump or item grab when the opportunity clearly presents itself. Sometimes I try it out of morbid curiosity when I feel it’s clearly unintentional. Sometimes I don’t bother if I feel like it’s not worth the effort or my time. At it’s best it feels like a different layer of conquering the space as opposed to killing a room of enemies, though.

Way to go @jo2ukegappy, this is a cool resource for beginners, hope to see you expand upon it as you grow as a mapper yourself, I'm sure you're aware how this perspective can help. I'm impressed with your enthusiasm and productivity, +1 to you :) Make sure to include that cool ruler of yours when if/when you talk about level metrics. If I could find metrics.txt by Scott Ampoker, I'd share it. This LINK appears to be a breakdown of relevant metrics and may be a helpful resource.

Romero's guidelines are, well, guidelines. You can map however you please and diverge from them whenever and however you'd like to. There are a lot of approaches to design but ultimately they are just based off of an individual's success or bias toward them, they will help you get as far as you find them useful, eventually you need to carve your own approach. Be wary of people telling you the "right way" to do things, it helps to understand what design challenges are actually being addressed with these methods rather than faithfully following solutions. There is nothing stopping you from building iteratively and then returning to polish older sections later (you probably should be doing this anyway). Adding additional levels to any game is going to increase the workload exponentially for reasons like this. Main takeaway is to design the way you feel comfortable, try not to get paralyzed by the potential that something may not be perfect, because it never will be. The best anyone of us can do is have our projects be done. If you want actionable advice... Judging from what you said in the OP, I'd suggest plotting a progression scheme in a document or on paper first, timebox it, and then move forward. You shouldn't expect yourself to adhere to your initial design plans ever, as you and your project will grow during development. It will always be messy and feel sloppy or broken when you're in the middle of it and plans will and should change as you move forward.

Dug through some of my folders and found stuff to share. I did some edits of Take No Prisoner's poster textures games/jokes The "frames" in case you wanna make your own a cute arcade flat Arcade cabinets: Doom/Dumb: Frogger/Fragger: Pacman/Cacoman: Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3: Heretic: NUTS.WAD Pieces of the Cabinet: Sector/Midtex arrangement reference: Bonus unaltered version of Cacoman :^)

It's a google search away

I think you didn't check the bool to use ammo on one of your A_FireProjectile's for the primary fire. take a look here: https://zdoom.org/wiki/A_FireProjectile

Do you know where the screenshot came from?

@Tangra Hey man, sorry for hurting your feelings with my post. You can DM me if you wanna talk it out instead of derailing the thread.