planet rome.ro: Happy 14th Birthday DOOM!

Monday, December 10, 2007

Happy 14th Birthday DOOM!

It's that time of year again; time to raise a toast to the venerable DOOM. Blue's News has a nice comment about DOOM. Also, check out DoomWorld for the official site celebration.

I don't really have anything new to say except that working on DOOM was still one of the true highlights of my gaming career. Until you actually work on something as tremendous and magical as DOOM you have no idea what that feeling is like. We totally knew we were making something really special and beyond our previous games which in themselves were groundbreaking as well (Commander Keen; Wolfenstein 3D). I was fortunate enough to experience all that with my friends at id and it was truly awesome.

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the doom freak said...

FIRST COMMENT!!! I <3 U DOOM!!!
i brought my collectors copy everywhere w/ me today, and lord romero, check ur email XD

1:10 PM

Cesar said...

Hi John.

By the time Doom came out I was an avid gamer, and checked every game I could get my hands on, but Doom really blew my mind off.

A few years ago, on this date, I came to think that your games (Doom, Quake) (and Quake 3 too, sorry ;) ) really marked my professional career.

Like I said, when I played Doom, I was blown away, and when the mods started to flourish I was blown away too, but in a different way. Seeing how the content could be modified I immediately started learning how to use several graphic programs and soon I could make some graphical modifications too.
Later, with Quake, I was creating skins for it and started learning 3d programs to create models for those skins.

And a little later with the release of the source code, and while learning the very basics of programming in Pascal, I started to make some mods for the game.

And was at that point that my programming skills took flight, because it was like a revelation! I could, not only see and study the code of a top-notch commercial product, but realize that programming code could be elegant and beautiful too.
And not only the game code, but the tools as well.

But something I came to realize too, from the very beginning, is the incredible quality of the game design in your titles. I certainly can confess that no matter what, I can never go near that level of skills.
For instance, a year or two ago I replayed Doom and Doom2, and was very surprised that, with all the sophistication of current games that we are accustomed to, something as old as Doom was still terribly fun!
And I credit that to the level design. On several occasions I stopped playing and went "damn! this level design is freaking twisted! How can someone be so evil?" And later, checking the author of every level, I noticed that most of the really evil ones were yours.

I also read Masters of Doom several times and even the back-story of Doom was a great inspiration.

All this gave me an understanding that I really appreciate now, and I really try to match that quality and elegance in every programming work I do.

So thanks for making something that greatly impacted on my professional life. I do web programming for a living since 2000 ( I tried to make games, but the economic reality here, in Argentina, makes it impossible. But I keep it as a hobby) and the necessary skills for doing this work with the best quality is, in my opinion, in great measure by the inspiration I received from your work.

So thanks again, John, for your code, for the generosity of contributing to the release of that code and for hours and hours of fun.

Cesar, the Doom enlightened one from Argentina.

9:36 AM

Anonymous said...

New FPS games come and go, but the original DOOM is simply the God of them all. The fuss made about games today does not even come close to the impact DOOM left on the world of video games. Half Life 2 and Crysis are nothing in comparison.
Full stop case closed.

1:18 PM

Anonymous said...

Tell me, John. Would you prefer to still be working at id, or where you are know? Just curious.

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wow, led zeppelin play their first concert in 19 years and doom celebrates its 14th birthday on the came day, talk about coincidence

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Anonymous said...

this is amazing.
Loved Catacomb-3D too and its distorted dimensions

6:54 PM

yoxx said...

14 years! wow

10:31 PM

Anonymous said...

14 years and still kicking ass, amazing accomplishment iD! :>

4:40 AM

Dooley said...

Oh my god... fourteen years.

Doom was what led me down the feverish path of game design, to my ultimate end as... a web developer.

Whoops.

Turns out I missed the garage era by a few years and by the time I was in school, I was not only teaching the class, I was doing so for a fellow who had worked at a couple of companies.

Needless to say, this fellow had some experiences and I did not, never having been in the industry, having just developed mods for years and years and years.

Long and the short, turns out he's never published a single title, even though he's been producer on several, with a few different companies.

Point of the story? I got into Level Design specifically because of Doom, and it was every article by you, John and each of the levels credited to your name that I would study to learn the tricks in keeping a player guessing but moving. Never knowing where they were going, only that they were going the right way.

This is the mark of a keen designer (imo) and your levels always had the player moving forward, but always looking behind them.

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