Gloomstein.

In November 2010, Gary Acord was looking at the game "Smiley Heads A Safari" (detailed at the bottom of this page), and became enthused about the gameplay. But the characters were a little bit crude and not quite enjoyable to him to make the game very realistic. Gary had been looking for some game into which to import the Wolfenstein characters and a few of the characters from the wolfmod games he had created. So he thought he would experiment and make a game for his own pleasure. After he made the game, he got to thinking that others might also like it. He hadn't planned to distribute the game himself originally, but then after perusing the ways Doom mods may be distributed, requiring the registered Doom, he discovered an accepted way of distributing this game with his mod changes. Then, he needed a name for the game. He had just created a game called Gloom, and he slapped on the name Gloomstein. Thus, the game was born. Built on the earlier hack game as a base, he added the Wolfenstein characters, Pacman, a character from Heretic, and even used his own Zapper from his Acord games as a statue. The wad could be distributed as an add-on for the registered Doom. Just enter "Doom -file Gloomstn.wad". He has a Play.bat file included with the wad file which says to install the registered Doom into the directory to play the game if you haven't. And, after registered Doom is installed, enter Play.bat and the game will play. The only problem is that on some computers with the registered Doom, the intro demo in the game won't play (it says "wrong game version"), the music isn't quite as clear and has static, and the poor music seems to strain the game and slows it down. If you can, download the original Doom3 hackgame from Dosgamer.com or somewhere, rename Gloomstn.wad to Doom wad and use the .exe file from that game to play the game best.
Doom3 - Mr. Smiley Head's Safari
by
Impact Software

version 7.0 (by Jive)



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The stuff of the v6.0 was legalized, pwadized, and submitted to the /idgames-ftp-archives by
FunDuke --> funduke@hotmail.com

The review at the beginning of this template has been written by FunDuke.
The review at the end of this template has been written by Jive --> gzdoom@doomwadstation.com
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Review                  : Comic-styled, weird, underground classic.
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Primary purpose         : Mainly new graphics and sounds, and modified levels.
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Title                   : DOOM3: Mr. Smiley Head's Safari v. 7.0
Filename                : d3safari.wad d3safari.deh for the v6.0
                          Doom3.wad for the v7.0
Release date            : DOOM3 v. 5.0 was released Jun/Jul 1995
                          D3SAFARI v. 6.0, the legalized version, Jul/Aug 2006 by FunDuke
                          DOOM3 v. 7.0, the final version, Nov. 27, 2006 by Jive
Author                  : Impact Software
                          Main Hacker/Programmer:      Calvin Wong
                          Editor/Hacker in Chief:      Ken Wu
                          Graphics Design/Pics Artist: Calvin Wong
                          Debugger:                    Calvin Wong
                          Inovation/Idea:              Anthony Ong
                                                       Mike Tam
                                                       (Flying Bear Studios / Sparrowbird Software)
                                                       Jonathan Chang
                                                       John Wei
                          Beta Testers/
                          Engine Construction:         Calvin Wong
                          Special Thanks:              Flying Bear Software/Studios
Email Address           : -
Misc. Author Info       : Impact Software, Flying Bear Software and
                          Sparrowbird Software are [have been] organization
                          -s of young hackers (14 years and over [in 1995]).

Description             : Comments by Funduke for the v6.0:
                          'DOOM 3 - Mr. Smiley Heads Safari' was an

                          underground version of DooM.
                          The makers of d3safari were a group of young
                          hackers, who called themselves IMPACT. They have
                          merged several previously existing levels and
                          enemy-replacements for DooM, that have been made
                          by other people, into an iwad, added some weapon,
                          item and title-graphics, made by their own, and
                          released that with a hacked v. 1.2 doom -executable.