The gameinfo section of MAPINFO defines global properties for the game. Every property is required to be defined.

Block syntax

gameinfo { properties }

Block properties

• advisorycolor = "<color>"

Defines the color to use for the background of the advisory (aka PG13) screen.

• advisorypic = "<picture>"

Defines the texture to use for the advisory screen.

• border = inset, "<topcolor>", "<bottomcolor>", "<highlightcolor>"
• border = <offset>, <unused>, "<tl>", "<t>", "<tr>", "<l>", "<r>", "<bl>", "<b>", "<br>"

Sets the border for the play screen. The inset variant uses a thin solid color border. The second variant allows tiled graphics to be used for the border. The unused parameter used to be the size and is kept for ZDoom compatibility.

• borderflat = "<texture>"

Graphic to use for the background of the border area.

• creditpage = "<texture>"

Graphic to use for the credits screen in the demo loop.

• doorsoundsequence = "<sequence>"

Sets the default sound sequence to use for doors. Of little use at the moment.

• drawreadthis = <bool>

Sets if the "read this" option should appear in the menu.

• finalemusic = "<lump>"

Music to play during ending intermissions.

• gamepalette = "<lump>"

Sets the lump to use for the game palette.

• gibfactor = <float>

Sets the factor of the spawn health that much be reached for an extreme death to be triggered.

• highscoresfont = "<font>"

Font to use for high scores table.

• highscoresfontcolor = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for high scores table font.

• intermissionmusic = "<lump>"

Music to play during normal intermissions.

• menucolor = "<border1>", "<border2>", <border3>", "<background>", "<stripe>", "<stripebg>"

Sets the various colors for use in the menu.

• menufade = "<color>"

Color to use for the menu fade.

• menufontcolor_disabled = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for unselectable menu elements.

• menufontcolor_highlight = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for highlighted menu elements.

• menufontcolor_highlightselection = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for selected highlighted menu elements.

• menufontcolor_invalid = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for invalid menu elements (unavailable episodes for example).

• menufontcolor_invalidselection = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for selected invalid menu elements.

• menufontcolor_label = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for normal, unselected menu elements.

• menufontcolor_selection = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for selected menu elements.

• menufontcolor_title = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for the fonts in menu titles.

• menumusic = "<lump>"

Music to play while the menu is active.

• pageindexfontcolor = "<textcolor>"

Color to use for art screen page index.

• pagetime = <value> - Does this actually exist?

Sets the amount of time a page is held on screen during the demo loop.

• playerclasses = "<class>", ...

Sets the selectable player classes.

• pushwallsoundsequence = "<sequence>"

Sets the default pushwall sound sequence to use. Of little use at the moment.

• quitmessages = "<string>", ...

Sets the messages to display when confirming the quit game action. If preceded by a $ character, it will use strings from LANGUAGE.

• scoresmusic = "<lump>"

Music to play while displaying the high scores table.

• signon = "<texture>"

The graphic to use for the background of the sign on screen.

• titlemusic = "<lump>"

Sets the music to use during the demo loop sequence.

• titletime = <positive integer>

Sets the amount of time, in seconds, the title screen is displayed during the demo loop.

• translator = "<lump>"

The default map translator to use for binary format maps.