Guiding a player: the visual language of Doom maps

[DavidN]

This is an idea that I'd had kicking around in my head for a while, but took a bit of effort to work up into a full video! Here I explore how the Doom textures have entered our "vocabulary" and how to use them to guide a player through a complex map. Includes some science at the start then specific examples of how to communicate doors, switches, teleports and so on!

[Hellser]

Great video - especially more so to give mappers new and old alike some tips.

[Rachael]

This belongs in "Tutorials", in my opinion - so I've moved the topic, for you.

[Lagi]

interesting, bump to watch later.
Its precious that you speak fluent english, and don't have an irritating tone of voice.

[shino1]

I have a quick something to say - you say in the tutorial that no texture in Doom looks 'shootable' - that is no longer the case, thanks to John Romero. In Sigil, Romero uses the "evil eye" object as a shootable switch - and great majority of Doom players played at least the first level of Sigil because Romero is basically a celebrity in our community.
So, we can totally make the Evil Eye new standard for shootable switches.
Here is the thing I'm talking about:
https://imgur.com/a/ePW03NV