Freedoom Instruction Manual

I had some free time and made a manual in the style of the original Doom manual.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ue6ujl2sh6auf75/Freedoom Instruction Manual.pdf?dl=0

UPDATE: Fixed grammar and added some more images.

That's a really good idea :)

Maybe something like this should be also generated through git and maybe even included in the download, or at least be part of the website at https://freedoom.github.io/ (perhaps it could be made into html and committed to the website repository?)

Some things:

- I believe it should be "QUIT GAME", not "QUITE GAME" :P

- The name for the "Pain Bringer" was changed. It's now "Pestmeister", the "Pain Lord" I'm not so sure if it was renamed or not, it's just a placeholder for now (the new one is supposed to be a lizard named "Nukeptile"... I honestly don't like the concept, personally).

Hi there! I just corrected the text, feel free to find more typos :) I'm not a native speaker.

I enjoyed a lot playing Freedoom and wanted to contribute with something. I guess the original intent of the project was to be an alternative for testing and for allowing people who never played Doom to experience something like the original game, so a manual would be something they propably would need.

I have found another possible typo, where it says "Freedoom phase 2, the exiting sequel to Freedoom phase 1"

Shouldn't it be "exciting"?

Anyway, nice work.

Thanks! It should be fixed now.

This is nice work. Would you consider donating the sources for the project itself?

Hello! Yes, of course, if my manual is good enough, feel free to add, remove, or use it in any way you guys want. Also, here's the orginal Microsoft Word file I made because I'm poor as hell. That one and the .pdf are all yours.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7yxur2du9igkniw/FreeDoom Instruction Manual.docx?dl=0

I think it would be neat if the title screen pic on the first page of the manual was in the correct aspect ratio... or maybe just use the high-res version that should be floating around somewhere here still.

I don't have a larger, better image to use, so I stretched it. I had made the manual for fun, so I didn't pay much attention to it, THEN it ocurred to me that maybe I should post it here to see if someone likes it. I'll search the forums to see if a find a better one.

Hi, since i like freedoom and the project itself a lot i want to contribute, but since i majorly suck at drawing stuff, i decided to contribute by pointing out grammatical flaws (or personal nitpicks :P) i came across in this PDF:

Probably important:

• Page 3, right under "Using Freedoom menus":  "you’ll star t in the first Level of the";
• Page 5, on the Keys under "On-Screen Information": "to open doors and activte switches";
• Still Page 5, on the Elevators: "are automatic and will active themselves when", not exactly a grammatical mistake, but maybe activate would make more sense here;
• Page 7, on the Exploding Barrels under "Dangerous Freedoom enviroments": "Shot them a few times to make" (yeah i really think you should replace that with Shoot);
• Page 10, on Pain Lord (I thought this guy was supposed to be called "nukeptyle"? anyway): "Lord’s armor is twice the more resistant." (personal nitpick, but "has twice the resistance." or "is twice as resistant." sounds much better IMO);
• Still Page 10, on Summoner: "It is bad to let them live, it is bad to kill them as well." (Another personal nitpick, but maybe try "It'll cause a mess when killed, but it's much better than to let them flying around.")

Okay, this are some other nitpicks i had, some aren't important (at least to me) at all (but still i'd like to see what do you think of these):

Hey, thanks for reading the whole thing! I think all the grammatical mistakes should be fixed now, but if you find more let me know. As for the nitpicks, I added some of your suggestions but left these as they are:

• Tip on page 3: This was made trying to emulate what the originial manual says about dying:"Save your game and save it often. When you die, you're back at the beginning of the level, toting that little pistol again. That ain't good, especially after you progress to some of the tougher levels." So I kept it like that.
• About Page 7, Toxic wastes: "Melting" sounds to me like insta-kill, and sometimes walking on damaging floors makes little to no damage if you're fast enough. Maybe changing it to a more neutral "damage"?
• Page 10, Flame Bringer: Another original Doom stylistic choice. It makes no mention of how the Arch-Vile projectiles work, so I kept it like that.

Anyways, thanks for helping me to improve it.

On ‎5‎/‎30‎/‎2019 at 3:09 AM, Ferk said:

That's a really good idea :)

Maybe something like this should be also generated through git and maybe even included in the download, or at least be part of the website at https://freedoom.github.io/ (perhaps it could be made into html and committed to the website repository?)

 

Some things:

 

- I believe it should be "QUIT GAME", not "QUITE GAME" :P

 

- The name for the "Pain Bringer" was changed. It's now "Pestmeister", the "Pain Lord" I'm not so sure if it was renamed or not, it's just a placeholder for now (the new one is supposed to be a lizard named "Nukeptile"... I honestly don't like the concept, personally).

 

I prefer the names of Pain Bringer and Pain Lord which will hold a place in my heart, it just sounds better than PEZtboi and Nukenewt.

I like their original names too, I just wish their sprites were a little bit more different from each other.