[07-04-04] Map Credits

Discover the map designers behind Duke Nukem 3D's episodes and Atomic Edition levels, including hidden signatures and creator abbreviations.

Here are the people who designed the maps for Duke Nukem 3D.

Name Abbreviations:

• AB - Allen H Blum III
• LL - Richard Bailey Gray (The Levelord)

Episode 1

• AB - Hollywood Holocaust
• AB - Red Light District
• AB - Death Row
• AB - Toxic Dump
• LL - The Abyss
• AB - Launch Facility
• AB - Faces of Death
• AB - Dukematch Level 1

Episode 2

• AB - Space Port
• AB - Fusion Station
• LL - Incubator
• LL - Warp Factor
• AB - Occupied Territory
• AB - Tiberius Station
• AB - Lunar Reactor
• AB - Dark Side
• AB - Overlord
• LL - Spin Cycle
• LL - Lunatic Fringe

Episode 3

• LL - Raw Meat
• LL - Bank Roll
• LL - Flood Zone
• LL - L.A. Rumble
• LL - Movie Set
• LL - Rabid Transit
• LL - Fahrenheit
• LL - Hotel Hell
• AB - Stadium
• LL - Tier Drops
• AB - Freeway

Atomic Edition Map Credits

Name Abbreviations

• AB - Allen H Blum III
• RP - Randall Pitchfird II (Spelt differently in the game credits)
• KS - Keith Schuler
• GB - George Broussard

• RP - It's Impossible
• AB - Duke Burger
• GB - Shop N Bag
• AB - Babe Land
• RF - Pigsty (It says "RF" in the maps file. Typo probably for RP)
• KS - XXX Stacy
• KS - Critical Mass
• AB - Derelict
• RP - The Queen
• RP - Area 51

Note that in this list, E4L06 Going Postal is missing. However, within the map itself, it is credited to Allen H Blum III (see below).

Duke87 informed me that all the levels in the game have some kind of identifying mark somewhere on the map as to their creator. They usually are tiny rooms accessable only via DNCLIP and practically findable only via DNSHOWMAP. Sometimes it's relatively near a normally accessable area, and sometimes its so way off you'll almost miss it.

In Hollywood Holocaust, Red Light District, Death Row, Toxic Dump, Launch Facility, Spaceport, Fusion Station, Occupied Territory, Tiberius Station, Lunar Reactor, Dark Side, Overlord, Stadium, Freeway, Duke Burger, Babe Land, Going Postal, Derelict, and Faces of Death, there are three rooms in the shape of the letters "AHB", standing for Allen H Blum.

In The Abyss, Incubator, Warp Factor, Spin Cycle, Lunatic Fringe, Raw Meat, Bank Roll, Flood Zone, LA Rumble, Movie Set, Rabid Transit, Farenheit, Hotel Hell, Tier Drops, and Critical Mass, there is a similar signature, only the rooms form the letters "SUYT". SUYT, also found in E1L05, The Abyss as an egg stands for the crude acronym "Show Us Your Tits". Since all of the levels with the rooms spelling out SUYT are made by the LevelLord, it's apparent that it is his signature.

Shop-N-Bag has the letters "GB" (George Broussard).

XXX-Stacy and Critical Mass have the letters "KS" (Keith Schuler).

In It's Impossible, Pigsty, The Queen, and Area 51, It's the Rsp II Duval Magic rooms mentioned in the Easter Egg section.

Note that in the CD Sleeve that came either with the Plutonium Pak or Atomtic Edition map design is credited to Randall Pitchford II, while the game credits screen and the included document it's all quite different - likely an oversight.