While the original skewl.wad is lost media, I did digital-archaeology this out of an old external HD in December 2024. Back around 2004, or earlier, I'd started to retexture skewl.wad into something that better resembled my actual school (the original was textured largely at random, including with Wolfenstein textures, dripping acid pipes, etc). I also planned to edit the enemy sprites into students, and give everybody "laser" weapons - inspired by a wad called Twice Risen. Unfortunately I wasn't very good at Dehacked, so the "lasers" were retextured rockets, complete with splash damage!

I got hung up on the sprite editing, and in the end, just abandoned it. Then the round of 2004 Windows XP crashes that cost me Ultimate Hell, among other things, started happening, so I lost the edited sprites and dehack patch anyway.

When I found this, I decided to just complete the retexturing / detailing of the map, and upload it as a "Christmas Present". Also the proportions and scale of the original wad were strangely off, which left some big empty voids in buildings. I put monster closets in these voids... based on a real place (or, at least, a real place as it was in April 2000) it may be, but it's still a Doom map!