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Big Ol’ Billy
@bigolbilly.bsky.social
Doom modder | bouzouki, etc. with Wasted Wine | PhD, ex-academic (expect some sociology)

Doom projects: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Big_Ol%27_Billy
Music: https://wastedwine.com
Solo music: https://manifestsons.bandcamp.com/album/rich-idiot-condos

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Hello! By way of introduction, here are four Doom projects I released this year:

PhoboChromaPhobia — 11 colorful maps for ZDoom
Osterity — 8 maps for vanilla Doom
PREEKARITY — 1 large map for limit-removing ports
Wayward Puritans — spooky 1-map near-total conversion, with additional ending map
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

Magma
Clipse
John Zorn & Lou Reed
Of Montreal
John Tesh (lol)

Also probably 100+ performances at the NYC Ballet thanks to my now-wife who worked there 🩰
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

Fear Factory
Blind Guardian
The Chats (twice)
200 Stab Wounds
T.S.O.L.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

Dream Theater
Darkness Tranquillity
Opeth
Gojira
Presidents of the USA
January 20, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Making A Video Game
January 20, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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I'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.
January 20, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Since his socialist ideology was written out of the history books.. In his own words:

"If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell."

Happy MLK Day.
January 19, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Appropriately getting back to Black Reconstruction today after a pause of several months. It’s as illuminating and sobering as ever:

“O twin of monarchy that lives to rob and kill, […]
That keeps a robber gang in kingly rights enthroned,
Then turns their robberies to legal acts condoned”
January 19, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Sometimes you ask yourself what final touch your map is missing and, more often than not, the answer is 🔥🤘HELL KEYBOARDS🤘🔥
January 18, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Morning.
January 18, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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I'm building the Vicar's corrupted castle in #Crocotile3D

#gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #PixelArt #Horror #spooky
January 17, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Finishing up this cool little collection from @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social. This story from Sara Century, about an isolated woman who discovers an eye growing in the wall of her apartment while the world outside crumbles into chaos, really hitting hard rn.
January 16, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Keep making art, y'all.
Yes, even now.
Especially now.

💚
January 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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margaret st. 🌂
January 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Despite my longtime megawad skepticism, I’ve gotta admit that the (too) vast canvas of 32 maps is p good for pushing one towards goofy one-off gimmicks, which is obv my shit. Case in point is “Trio Astronauta” from the space ep of my wip megawad, where I go all out on triangles and groupings of 3 🚀
January 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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I survived the Verizon outage, it was very uncomfortable and I got so much reading done #survivor #verizonoutage #strongertogether
January 15, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Every Doom mapper has to indulge in a bit of shameless Romero worship at least once. Here it was fun to dress up a pretty non-Romero central gimmick in classic E1 looks (plus a few other JR tropes).
January 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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No new pictures where are you at mentally
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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I unironically love color banding so, so much.
January 12, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Some scenes from the “Space Temple” episode of my wip megawad. Pretty happy with how I used the stock Doom palette’s notoriously limited pink/purple range here. The result feels almost like the ep has its own custom palette, but it’s almost all stock resources with just a couple of custom tex
January 12, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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picnic #doom #oc
January 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
More pics from the monochrometex episode of my wip megawad. I was on the fence about this theme for a while, since the project generally sticks to IWAD textures with light map-specific embellishments, but these solid colors do bring out something cool in Doom’s default palette and colormap.
January 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Pictures taken in the midst of creation.
January 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Dear Penthou—er, Doomworld—Forums, I never thought it would happen to me. But there I was, sitting at my computer, making a 32-map megawad for Doom.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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I had fun putting together a little homage to Doom, as if I were kitbashing a game mod from scraps of 90s FPS classics like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Heretic, and Blood.
January 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM