Shacknews Doom feature

[scwiba]

Shacknews just published this huge piece on Doom (the original, 2016, and everything in between) I thought y'all might enjoy reading. Viggles, Skillsaw, and I were interviewed for the section on modern WADs, which is pretty radical. It's a heck of a read, though.

 

Doom: To Hell and Back

[Linguica]

Geez, that's like a novella. Also oh hey there's my interview too!!

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I'm currently off-and-on working a new vanilla Doom "map" that will show off another little-used avenue of exploiting the Doom engine, and I have various other ideas in store for the future.

And yeah this was the "Antrywey" savegame thing.

[Mordeth]

Author's note: Mordeth could not be reached for comment.

 

...Really?

[Megalyth]

30 minutes ago, Mordeth said:

...Really?

Yeah, we haven't  seen that guy in like 20 years.

[Bauul]

3 hours ago, Ryathaen said:

 It's a heck of a read, though.

You're not wrong!  It's nearly 40,000 words long!

 

Very cool interviews though!  Well done to you, Ling, @Viggles and @skillsaw.

[Szymanski]

Surprised my login still works, wonder what cyb is up to now

[lupinx-Kassman]

Very well thought out article, even if it is a bit of a novel =). I'm flattered my Ancient Aliens map was one of the featured shots and got covered a little. I was in a slump with some other botched ideas before the thought of ruins stretching into the clouds came to mind, and nearly lost hope again when I was having trouble translating the bluish-grey hues of the textures to the palette. Turns out converting the clouds to greyscale and the sky to a monochrome shade of baby blue was surprisingly convincing enough =P. 

[fraggle]

5 hours ago, Linguica said:

Geez, that's like a novella.

Yeah, this looks like it should have been about 10 different articles. Actually, it looks like it is 10 different articles inexplicably on a single page. Frustrating to see what's obviously an epic piece of work torpedoed by its own bad presentation.

[Doomkid]

Yeah, it seemed like a lot to take in so I just scrolled to find a bit that looked particularly interesting. Doomworld history and Doom mapping/modding history in general is something I always love to read about. Seems like no matter how many times it comes up, I still learn some new detail I'd never noticed or thought of before. Good stuff aside from the page being several miles long rather than a few separate pages!

[Deleted_Account]

I sat down with a nice cup of tea and read through this. Very interesting stuff, thanks for sharing.