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Advanced engine needed  : Boom
Primary purpose         : Single + Coop play
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Title                   : impping! - the imp rocketing community project
Filename                : impping.wad
Release date            : 07/26/2025
Author                  : Community Project led by purple_ruberoid
Email Address           : [redacted]
Other Files By Author   : Lines progress
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Description             : The idea is simple - the community project
                          dedicated to imp rocketing!
                          
                          The main challenge here was to make interesting
                          maps with somewhat peculiar limitation in mind -
                          minimum 99% imps on a level on UV difficulty.
                          The main weapon is the rocket launcher;
                          other weapons are available, of course.

                          We have 26 playable maps:
                          - 22 regular maps,
                          - 3 secret maps,
                          - 1 credit map.
                          All are playable and accessible through normal play.
                          Good variety of styles, difficulty, architecture.
                          Mostly slaughtery, maps are placed generally
                          from easy to hard, with some exceptions.

                          Imppressive!
                          Thanks everyone for mapping!

                          Some more readings and screenshots can be found here:
                          https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/154029/

Additional Credits to   : lots of textures from 32in24-15_tex_v2.
                          couple of textures/flats from jimmytex.
                          "Faucet" textures by ShadowyMV.
                          FULL CREDITS can be found in included credits.txt
                          file or in CREDITS lump inside the wad,
                          along with MIDI credits.
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* What is included *

New levels              : 26
Sounds                  : Yes (plasma shot replacement)
Music                   : Yes
Graphics                : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : Yes (minor but good changes)
Demos                   : Yes
Other                   : PLAYPAL, COLORMAP, MAPINFO/UMAPINFO
Other files required    : none


* Play Information *

Game                    : DOOM2
Map #                   : 01-23, 31-33
Single Player           : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Player starts + some ammo
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : No
Other game styles       : None
Difficulty Settings     : Yes


* Construction *

Base                    : New from scratch
Build Time              : ~ 2 months build time + 1.5 months compiling/testing
Editor(s) used          : UDB, SLADE3, GIMP,
                          https://c.eev.ee/doom-text-generator
Known Bugs              : MAP07 is not beatable without monsters
May Not Run With        : Vanilla and vanilla focused ports
Tested With             : DSDA-Doom 0.29.3, GZDoom 4.14.2

* Copyright / Permissions *

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
and remix, transform, and build upon the material. If you do so, you must
give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if
changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way
that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the
material for commercial purposes.

* Where to get the file that this text file describes *

The Usual: ftp://archives.gamers.org/pub/idgames/ and mirrors
Web sites: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/154029/


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* Some additional text/info *

Imps! They're not the weakest by health but the absence of hitscan attack
makes them the easiest to deal with. I believe the combination of pain and
death sounds with explosions makes it the most satisfying to disintegrate.
Looks like I'm not alone in this, so I hosted a community project around
my favorite thing in Doom - imp rocketing :) 

Notable changes:
- ammo:
- - more rockets: 100 / 200 with backpack 
- - fewer bullets: 100 / 200 with backpack
- keys:
- - orange skull instead of yellow skull
- smaller hitbox for candle - for mapping convenience
- palette:
- - lighter blue range (unchanged from 32in24-15_tex_v2)
- - orange range more saturated in the beginning and darker to the end
- - COLORMAP edited to support this palette
- lots of remapped textures/flats/sprites because of the palette