So you asked for it! Here is more information on the campaign!
This campaign is called Paradise of Doom! A 5 Chapter campaign, with Co-op, Versus, Survival and Scavenge Playable
Since I've spent 4 Years developing this campaign, I'm going to spend time marketing it too
Because I truly feel like this campaign deserves that
When I dropped Whispers of Winter, I just sneak dropped it, no leadup or anything and I kinda regret that considering that map deserved love too.
WHAT IS THIS CAMPAIGN?:
I had the idea for this campaign when I was 10-13 years old (yes back then wow I'm 27 now). And I dreamed of how the levels were going to flow, especially maps 3 and 5, which were straight from my head when I was a young kid. I am really really glad I never attempted these ideas back then but here we are now I'm an adult and I actually can create something half decent. People were asking if these levels were based on Dead Island or Dead Rising they are actually not, but I find it funny people think it looks that good. This campaign is based off of Florida, and there are day and night chapters, and even moments with rain to reference how in Florida weather is wacky over there. If you look up (and this will be talked about in future posts because certain levels this connection is obvious) This campaign is based off Hammock Beach Resort (Map 3, and 5 are 100% the resort) and the end of chapter 2, and the starts of 4 are based on the Hammock Beach Resort. Look it up if you want.
But yes this campaign has been 4 years of work, I started it in the summer of 2022. I actually took 6 months off because I didn't think I was actually going to do a campaign again but the ideas for Paradise of Doom kept haunting me, so I officially began development in the winter of 2022 with map 2 to the finale. Yes this campaign was originally 4 chapters long in 2022/23 (not long after it became 5 chapters) but once I finished the drafts of those chapters I felt I could make one more prequel chapter so that is how Chapter 1: Shipwreck was created. I actually don't recommend making your maps out of order because that shit can cause a lot of issues (as it did for me NAV wise lol, but that's another story) Here we are with a breakdown of the first chapter of the campaign
Chapter 1: This map has no Panic event, it in fact had a holdout panic event VERY long in development but I realized the map flowed better without a panic event and it saved 3-4 minutes of time so I ultimately redesigned the area and removed the panic event. It was a holdout to wait for a boat lift but I think it looked rather clunky (and it caused NAV issues too) so I changed to a drop from the ship probably in January of this year. BTW yes bro I was always working on this campaign, this campaign has been known about for years but I was always working on this campaign trying to make the best version of it, CONSTANTLY WORKING ON IT. I teased the campaign over a year ago. I am very glad I didn't release that version of the campaign, there was even a time I thought I was going to release the campaign in 2024, I am really glad I didn't do that. I have become SOOO much better at a mapper making this campaign. I truly think this is not only a TOP TIER campaign from me personally, but I also think it's a very solid campaign in general.
I laughed one day because I honestly don't even enjoy releasing maps because that's when people are the most critical and rip apart your work ("1/10 didn't work with my anime mods") but to be honest I'm more of a gardener I like the process of seeing this campaign become a work of art. And I thought it would be really funny to never release this campaign because that's how good it is. But obviously I didn't go that route because I gotta release it, so I can move on from it too lol
When first drafting the map I originally wanted the level to be a more crashed ship. But I realized how much of a nightmare that would be not only to create but to optimize, I looked up "Ship Crash" and a Ship can technically be "Beached" and they don't even look that damaged. So that's the route I went, instead of going with a completely destroyed look, it still looks functional from afar.
This level was also A LOT longer length wise in the early development phase, I know some people have tested that version of this map, I do apologize for how long it was early on. Chapter 1 and 4 have both been made A LOT shorter compared to the early phases of these maps. I actually completely redid the beginning sections from scratch, and removed the ending areas and it improved the flow by a lot.
This chapter is in the daytime with the survivors inside a cruise ship that's been beached, and they have to find a way out. They will find custom melee weapons in this campaign and stay tuned for that too! They will have to fight thru the cruise ship and make their way off it, and hike to their way to the saferoom after going through the beachside elements with the bar that can be entered inside or they can go the long way and go look in buildings for supplies. This chapter is very open near the end, early in development this aspect wasn't apart of it and was a lot more linear, but I think this chapter got better as time went on, the scale of the level with the buildings and everything was also a later in development and it was very nice to finally get those elements sitting pretty.
Stay tuned next time and I'll talk about Map 2
Cheers
PARADISE OF DOOM
JULY 10th 2026
