I at first thought this was referring to the dementia mod (youtube below), which seems interesting enough to warrant sharing here (I haven't played it), but I appreciate the artistry and learning about the MyHouse (above).
This mod doesn't give up its secrets easily. I ended up using that video as a guide to figure out what I missed. It wasn't ideal but it worked out. I wish HN had a spoiler tag so I could gab about this in more detail!
I bought House of Leaves and am on the third chapter. It tells a very different story. MyHouse.wad is certainly inspired by it but they're completely different.
Apparently this is the TikTok of the creators wife, where she has pictures of the house and some of the wall art that show up in the game. She days they're getting a divorce, it seems he channeled some of that energy into the game and it's artifacts. [1]
FYI to those concerned about doxxing (I assume that's why the downvotes?).
She purposely posted this information about their house. She is aware of the myhouse.wad and posted the info, and she says she right in her feed that she did this with the consent of her ex. She masked him out of the photo he's in.
The mod is great, and I found seeing the real life house just as fascinating.
I couldn't play Wolfenstein because it got too intense. I took a multi-year break from video games and I like what I see, but many FPSes are just too intense to me with its sensory overload. I get the appeal of Fortnite and other Battle Royale style games though, they got that sweet spot of competitiveness and ease of getting into them perfectly.
I can't stand FPS:es anymore. They are so repetitive and you need to concentrate too much. Also I guess I don't think violence is cool/exciting anymore since I got older.
Yes after years of playing FPS, the S in the acronym is pretty boring. I love the First Person perspective, I just wish more games would explore non-combat mechanic possibilities.
It's not a morality thing either, I am just bored of it and feel it is a massive crutch of an industry that's petrified to make a game without combat.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you can download the Windows offline installer from GOG, then use innoextract to extract the desired files: https://constexpr.org/innoextract/
Aside from Doom engine games, this also works for Build engine (Duke Nukem 3D), idTech games, and countless others. Very useful tool for being able to play these games legitimately with a modern engine.
How do I play it? "gzdoom myhouse.wad" doesn't work. "gzdoom -wad myhouse.wad" doesn't work either. There's also a pk3 file in the drive. What is it for?
Follow the download link from [1], download `myhouse.zip`, put `myhouse.wad`
from the zip where your other WADs are. Run GZDoom and use the [Browse…] button in the initial dialog to load `myhouse.wad`. Voilà.
I'm pretty sure the .wad was always there. It was just hidden in the .zip file in the Google Drive download as a red herring. It's not something to be avoided, just play the .pk3 file afterwards.
Your purchased Doom copy of course ; ) (just search for it, come on, the top results give it to you - just like the search results for "how to run myhouse.wad")
GOG's installers are made with InnoSetup, you can use a tool like InnoExtract to get the files out of them (source at https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ or in MacPorts/Homebrew).
You're going to have not the same textures as regular Doom 2 so plenty of designs and custom textures based on the originals used alongside them will look out of place. For playing with MyHouse for the proper experience, it would be best to get proper Doom 2.
I'd never thought I'd see Romero and Danielewski mentioned in 1 article, yet here we are. Now I never fully stopped playing doom, so this one goes on my todo list.
Yeah I'm sure that it's amazing for doom veterans that are unnerved by all the things that are slightly off, but as someone who never played original doom this doesn't particularly speak to me.
