joepallai

every couple of years I end up taking a break from Doom, but I still end up checking the forums and looking at maps; I'm just not playing or editing during these periods. I'm currently in one due to work.

I'm 53 and knew about Doom from Sandy Peterson's article in Dragon magazine and also his last game review article where he says he's taking a job in Texas at id Software. I couldn't play Doom at the time because my computer was an 8088. Fast forward a year or two and my English teacher's kid offers me the shareware copy of Doom but by then I only had a 386 so took his shareware copy of Wolf3d (wasn't a fan). The next year (1995) I had a 486 and started playing Doom and using shovelware disks to play PWADS. I was 25 when I finally played Doom.

HMP

just turned 53

65 on Netflix. It was a good sci-fi story that was tense at times. I really enjoyed it.

In a time before the ubiquitous in-game goal marker, the arrow was a simple but effective tool. I've used health potions in the shape of an arrow to hint at useful secrets in one of my newer maps.

Started reading "Last Call" by Tim Powers and am not disappointed. The man knows how to tell a story.

Never finished Quake (hated the sound in that game and the 3d models) but enjoyed Q2 and Q3 thoroughly.

I used WadAuthor from the 3d Alchemy book.