The Machinations of myhouse.wad (How it works) - Part 2 

I love how "for reasons which are beyond the scope of this video" immediately implies that there _is in fact a reason_ and yet that it is somehow so obtuse and convoluted to explain that even someone going this in-depth on the details of the map doesn't want to get into it right now and that implication made me immediately crack the hell up.

i was NOT ready for the absolute IMPACT the phrase "you will now have to defeat shrek" would have until i heard it

out of all the things said in this video, i think my favourite has to be "this leads to a copy of the house with the house conspicuously missing"

this map is an unhinged work of art

I never would have thought the bathroom sequence was actually 16 different versions of the room. That is a cool way to make the BFG secret work tho!

I absolutely adore your commentary. “They’ll also find they can sink down into the bathwater which goes slightly deeper than the average american bath but not in a way that’s unwelcome.”

The Childhood Nightmare actually spooked me pretty good the first time I played this part. He'd moved just far enough up that it looked as if he'd appeared in the middle of the park, without even making a sound, and seeing his silhouette moving around with no noise at all was more unsettling than if there'd been a big obvious jumpscare noise. I also wasn't sure he was killable, and spent the first minute or so running around the park, peppering him with buckshot and wondering if I was even doing damage.

The fridge remains completely unscathed in every single version of the house. This has no significance, but I just wanted to put it out there.

you also did forget to mention that the closet in Altered House (with no doors) contains a green shirt acting as armor, and the gift shop in the airport has a bloody, yellow heart shirt that acts as megaarmor.

Thanks for providing us with yet another entry into what is unfortunately becoming a multi-part series: Childhood Nightmare Shreks.

Anxiously awaiting part 3! I actually wrote my thesis on House of Leaves, --and-- I do game design, so this is a delight.

I saw this game on a Vinesauce VOD yesterday evening, and despite never being much for DOOM (any of them) I had to play this WAD. Stopped the video at the airport, but in that first session, I couldn't even get there. I didn't know how to respawn after dying, so I ended up in the hospital. Terrified. At 2am. Went onto the wiki at that point to get my bearings, and proceeded through the daycare and flooded house. That bathhouse, though.. after a couple encounters with the ghosts, I was done. Finished it today. What a game! I especially loved all of the House of Leaves references, always dreamed of a playable Navidson house. I'll have to give vanilla DOOM 2 a try now that I have it.

Mirrors always confused me since I was a kid, I hurts me head trying to understand how I can look around the corner of a mirror and see things outside of the mirrors view. It really made it feel like another world.

These analyses are amazing. There is so much in the wad to appreciate. Much more care and effort went to making it then I expected at first.

I can definitely see some inspiration taken from the Backrooms as well, specifically the Brutalist House and the Flooded House looking like a piece of "The Windows" and the "Poolrooms" respectively.

I never thought in a million years I'd see/hear Storybook Glen referenced in a Doom video. I went there as a kid when visiting relatives in Aberdeen, I think we were the only people in the entire place and it was freezing. Anyway, great videos!

It amazes me to no end that: - all three analysis videos of this wad that I watched call the concrete house "brutalist" - that this is an actual architectural style - that all three videos correctly identified it as such I never learned these things in school :D

Hi @DavidXNewton. In the airport, noclipping, there is a passage that goes from the "security scan" area to a copy of the "garage"-like area of the brutalist house. It's behind the mural, specifically where the soldier stands in front of the US flag. There is also another passage behind the mural, too, just before the scanner closest to the wall; it doesn't lead anywhere, though. They look like the passages might have been built to allow a way to get back to the brutalist house from the airport. Is there anything in the scripting or the map-build that indicates that perhaps line-sectors can be opened up in the mural? Being able to get back to the brutalist house from the airport would allow players to visit the brutalist house three times. Right now, the player can only get to the brutalist house twice: once via the bathhouse and floating tiles, and once using the 'Escape' portal from the house's basement utility room, both of which are single-use paths. If the player can visit the brutalist house thrice instead, they can get 1) the TV static, 2) the megasphere, and 3) all the items, thereby enabling the player to get 100% items *and* secrets, *and* the TV static, whatever it does. So: is there a way to open up the mural passages in the airport somehow?

So much effort went into this wad. After experiencing all the endings i wanted to see more!

Something tells me analysing this map made you just as vaguely uneasy and confused as playing it.

I remember the bathroom demon was the moment the wad jump scared me because I was getting put into a relaxed state by the music and environment of the was till that moment

Very nice video! I played this map slightly before this series, and it's one of my favorites by now. Another curious thing, which isn't mentioned in the video, is an item in a gift shop in the airport. In the gift shop, there is several t-shirts hanging against the wall, yeallow one has a huge bloody stain on it (nearby t-shirts got smaller stains on them too, nice attention to the detail here). If you walk to it and press "use", you''ll take it - bloody yellow t-shirt will disappear and player will get a 200% armor bonus! I wish this t-shirt was blue, since, you know, blue armor. And in My House there previously was a green t-shirt which acted as green armor, so...

God this map a work of art, when I saw a 4h play through of this map I loved it. Never felt such unease and no wonder the house always felt disorienting(referring to pt 1)

Man... Ever since B3313 was released, modding has never been the same.

I could watch a thousand of these sorts of videos. Thanks for taking the time to make them, I know they're not easy.

I like this analysis a lot it shows an inventive way to play the mind and tell a vague story, has 'memory' vibes of dream/weird Scape encounters and presents questions in a smart way.

DAMN this map is INSANE, I have not seen a playthrough or played it myself yet, but I am so intrigued. The amount of work put into this is truely insane, as I saw in a comment on the first video, I too reckon this map was made by pros

18 different bathrooms? I thought there are like two for each side of the room, wow. And I got the BFG by accident on my first time and never managed to replicate it because I had no idea what I did differently the other times I went there!

This doesn't seem like the kind of house a rabbit should live in.

This WAD is just crazy. The Doom methods employed to trick the player is VERY imaginative!

I just played this map in a voice chat with my friend a few days ago and we had a blast with it! I'm glad I played through it (mostly) blind, even if I did eventually have to use a walkthrough. I saw Vinny from Vinesauce play a bit of it and decided I needed to try it myself lol. Projects like this fascinate me to no end and it's super cool to get a good look behind the curtain and see exactly how the map screws with you. Really looking forward to Part 3!

I've seen a lot of analysis videos about "My House" but I love how this one goes more in depth about the technical aspects! It scratches my "but how did they do it?" itch!

Part 1 Recap - 0:00 Mirror World - 0:44 Daycare - 6:34 Flooded House/Lockers- 10:00 Airport - 15:08 “For Sale” Ending - 21:11 End of Part 2 - 22:26

These are amazing videos! And your voice and dry humor are very addictive!

You can see a teleportation happen at 9:51 as the texture on the door changes slightly.

Oh wow, the mirrored underhallS use a midi with the note order switched over the same melody? It's funny, some early Amiga and Acorn games actually had limited releases where this happened by accident - namely James Pond II - so it's cool to see that effect achieved intentionally for an added sense of unease and horror. I'm impressed, it's an underestimated touch that does a lot for tension.

The tricks are all surprisingly logical, the map is still mindboggling though

Speaking of the Berserk Pack, you can pick up the first version by running into the wall when standing on top of the toilet, with some luck the collision detection will fail and let you pick up the item. Then you can punch the wall and get a second Berserk Pack. I found this out when I watched my friend stream this mod where he did the wall pickup accidentally.

I haven't played many doom WADs (2 including this one). this has such a unique concept that I've never seen it a game before. I love the concept of non-euclidean spaces in gaming, especially when they're used to change a small area like a house.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fBhpF-4MK9o.html The irregular sectors in this kitchen actually serve purposes you can see in the footage; the ones next to the sink actually give the floor a slightly different coloration; I'm unsure if this is done by altering the reflectiveness of the sector's surface or not, but you can definitely see the floor looks a little more wet than the rest. But if you're referring to the ones surrounding the blood spatters... those are just there to make the floor look bloody. actually given your clear understanding of doom mapping you're probably not talking about those ones

10:48 I like to think I'm pretty good at being aware of the really odd things that we Americans do differently from the rest of the world, but having very deep baths is news to me. That line made me crack up though

This also feels like an advanced tutorial on how to make doom maps with all the info

The texture for the chalkboard in the daycare center is from one of several chalkboards dating from December 1917 discovered sealed behind the walls of Emerson Middle School in Oklahoma City while undergoing renovations in 2015. No idea what meaning, if any, that has to the WAD, but something of local significance to me, as Emerson Middle School is just a few miles away.

15:12 I think the airport may be Dallas International Airport, it’s a US airport that has tons of conspiracy theories about it, not that it helps matters that it had odd murals and a Cole toon of rooms, tunnels and other logistics that is the size of a small city built under it for no reason as most of it is unused.

I'm loving this little series here, it's a fascinating dive into the meticulous work that this mysterious author has done

The analysis is interesting on a technical level, thank you

Oh, very worth noting, cheat strings have been changed and actually provide hints to the mod.

There is a Megasphere in the Brutalist section of you jump off the ledge with the pumpkin to the window below. There is a backpack in the lockers just before the pool in the Bathhouse.

And I thought Onions had layers. They don't hold a candle to this map.

Great analysis! Amazing how complicated this map is.

Honestly I found the mirror world part to be more chuckle inducing for the enemies that have those MooD, WooD or DooD mods do to a guy listening to backwards camel noises than Shrek did. Although when I came across him I just said "Shrek?! Oh boy..." and then as an enemy I just thought how silly and crazy it was to fight him in a WAD like that especially when I first killed him I thought he exploded into stuffing and not rocks. Also a side detail not covered yet in either part 1 or 2, I believe the altered house you can come across a closet that has a green t-shirt that disappears shortly when touched and cleverly gives you a full 100 green armor. It gets walled off like other things do in the house eventually and in the burnt house the closet door becomes all noisy and creaky with no t-shirt whether you picked it up or not.

Amazing work with these videos, you're answering tons of questions I had after experiencing this mind bending map.

I think this is easily the greatest Doom map ever made.

You weren't kidding, Mr Blobby is a fever dream of a child's TV character. Go ahead and google it if you want a new sleep paralysis demon.

I actually jumped in my seat a little at 9:05 because I had a plushy dog that looked exactly like snuggs, I haven't seen it in years and it brought back a flood of memories all at once

This was excellent, thank you! Along with the excellent pacing, I appreciated the demonstration of the principles you were talking about in dummy levels, without laying it on that that was what you were doing.

Dude your videos are hella under-rated!! Amazing work!

I don't play Doom but I've been gaming for many years. I've been so intrigued by this map and all its details. Thank you for explaining the mechanics behind it, it's fascinating!

8:15 so I don’t know if you knew this or it passed you by but it looks like the outfit that Michael Myers wears as a kid when he kills his sister in the first Halloween (I also think they use a similar outfit in 4 or 5 when they dress the little girl in the outfit and get her to act all shade like)

Wow there really is an incredible amount of technical work put into that mod, and you didn't even cover the swimming and breath mechanics here (unless Doom 2 had that and I just forgot).

9:06 I was NOT expecting a Sutty and Sweep reference. Holy crap, I just spilt my coffee. Also, 9:56 I do wish that Mr Blobby was used instead of Shrek. 😂

If you listen to this without any visuals, It just seems like a very rich persons house tour

Awesome and very complete analysis !

I remember being taken to Storybook Glen as a small child! It must have been when we were visiting my great aunt up in Scotland in the late 80s or maybe very early 90s. I don't really remember anything specific - I think there was a hut that was something to do with Mother Goose? From what I recall I actually really enjoyed it and was eager to return, which I think we might have done a year or two later when I was just old enough for it to be a bitter disappointment.

Part one of your analysis popped up as a video on the sidebar last night and I am so glad it did. I waited until the morning to start watch your playthrough of this map and the analysis videos, and damn has this been a treat to watch. The map is absolutely amazing and you are a heck of a fun person to watch. I'm gonna have to binge your channel while waiting excitedly for part 3! Also it's amazing that I now know of two different Doom-playing rabbits on RU-vid.

Brilliant video!

9:53 hur mr blobby, that would have been terrifying

i think the ring being placed there was a symbol of " the love i could never reach " not a direct quote from the journal but still

15:13 If I've learned one thing from Binyot and Joey playing Doom all these years, it's to *never* check the bathrooms.

Can't wait for part 3!

I'm not sure if the person(s) who made this WAD are of sane mind or they're goddamn brilliant. there's no in between.

Well done on a great video! Thank you

this maps wild!!!! i saw someone else play the map as a lets play and i had to know how it worked. suuuuper interesting

I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE MIRRORED SECOND LEVEL, THAT'S GENIUS

This is excellent work.

The fight against shrek was the most hilarious part of the mod

7:15 i think those sectors are just the outlines for the blood spots on the ground

Fantastic video. Absolutely entranced by this whole experience, so getting to see how it works under the hood (despite having absolutely zero understanding or experience with doom mapping) is seriously amazing. I do have to ask... Is the clown costume you find in the closet in the daycare supposed to be a reference to something or is it just supposed to be creepy? I've seen several people react like it's some kind of reference, but I have no idea what they're talking about.

Boy it's a great job the scripts didn't get their comments removed on release

bro i played this and had nightmared for 3 days straight, best mod ever.

1:37 that isnt a skull key!

17:18 so proud of their transitions

seija would have loved this wad

waiting part 3!!!! so good!

7:14 Are you talking about the ones to the right near the counters? They're reflective areas in-game.

This is either madness or brilliance,

Okay but now I need context for what the Chugga Chugga Horse Horse duck is supposed to be though because I don't really do doom anything usually and I feel like I'm missing out on a fantastic bit

-- Holy guacamole, this map is three times as big as I thought it was. I'm impressed.

I just realized the little balcony at the Bath House is a fragment of the Brutalist House's little entry area.

I like the way you pronounce "area"

Yes my bath only goes down 10 meters and not 20 meters. - Proud US Metric User

This video happens across the reason the cover over the mirror when going from the gas station back to the altered House is at a visible speed - it's likely set to the same system as the items in front of the mirror are, which, due to one being the visible cover in the attic, have to move at a visible speed. Why the one in the attic isn't just a different action or script and the others made like the rest of such details, I do not know.

9:07 I thought I saw an evil teeth grin right above the plush head and a little to the right, but it is just the ground texture...

Awesome, and very funny

I always thought that some of the concepts of myhouse were inspired by Stephen King's works--the car vaguely resembles Christine, the airport scene resembles Night Flier, the hemodemons kinda look like the Langoliers. Maybe not, though.

"making the former humans 'left handed' " real

I wonder, what actually happens if you walk backwards through most of these transitions?

Amazing wad and equally amazing breakdown! Are there any similar WADS or HL2 maps/mod that are like this?

8:26 this looks so great

The effort put into this wad is insane. This is making use of every GZDoom trick you can imagine.