Joke WAD



A Joke WAD is a WAD file which is made as a joke. In some cases, a level may be so bad that it is hard to tell whether it is merely badly designed or a joke WAD of some sort.

Varieties of joke
Joke WADs may take one of several forms:


 * parodies of badly made WAD files: these may include deliberate bugs, look generally sloppy, or use ridiculous graphics. Certain joke WADs are actually fun to play; Mock 2: The Speed of Stupid, for instance, which was intentionally designed not to look serious at all.
 * Some joke WADs may take the engine to ridiculous extremes: Nuts, for example, contains more than 10,000 monsters and playing it is nearly impossible — even on powerful machines — because of the resulting low FPS.
 * Some joke wads are created as a parody or homage to a community event. Most famous of these is perhaps the dwforums.wad series.

nuts.wad and derivatives
Nuts by B.P.R.D. contains 10617 monsters in two rooms and is unplayable as a result. It is featured in Doomworld’s “Top 10 Infamous WADs”. Several sequels and homages have also been created.


 * , by the author of Nuts
 * , by the author of Nuts
 * , by Biohazard
 * , requiring Boom and created by Bejiitas_Wrath
 * , requiring Boom and created by Bejiitas_Wrath

dwforums and sequels
The original dwforums joke WAD was created to parody the community which centred around the Doomworld forums. It was popular enough to warrant two sequels. The first lampooned the #zdoom IRC channel and was released on Doom's 10 birthday. The second was designed as a re-enaction of events that took place on the Newdoom forums.

The author of all three WADs has opted to remain anonymous, however it is believed that it is the same author for all three.



Other

 * : a WAD which played on the Impse meme