date: 2022-01-31
subject: Fizz's boss level addition to Forest.wad

Fizz's boss level addition to Forest.wad - 2022-01-31 - TOGoS's Journal

I had a dream that you had made a 5th level for forest.wad and were having me play it. I started out in this building that was like a 'town', and there were people in there I could talk to, and then I exited out a door in the back and there was this big canyon with all these cool spires behind it, and I had to go down into the canyon. At first I was flying around and you were like "why are you flying" and it was because I had accidentally hit "f" which I guess I thought was the jump key but jump was space. Anyway, I took this road down into the big canyon and entered another building, and this was the boss building, and the boss was like the Wizard imp, and he did all this cool magic, and the building had different interesting effects inside that definitely required ZDoom (which made it funny that it was an additional level to forest.wad, which was for old Doom 1), like 3D platforms, and shiny things, and this closet full of junky pipe fragments, which I figured were probably voxel sprites, but I wondered why you'd gone to all that work to make them because they looked like garbage. And also there was something about a touchscreen with buttons, and a new feature in ZDoom was that these screens could send MIDI messages to a script instead of just numbers, which made it possible to have a screen with lots of buttons.

Well this boss was really hard and scary, so I was running away, and I ran back to the town building and closed the door behind me, and stuck some black square to it, and that seemed to be stopping him, and that was funny because it was like he was a cat somehow. Oh yeah, the 'town' was a two-story building, and the boss building had like 3 or 4 floors with these spiral staircases that I was rushing up and down while trying to get away from him.

—me to Fizz

That's super rad.

—Fizz to me