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John Romero Creates New Doom Level (gamasutra.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the I'm-back dept.

jones_supa writes: Legendary game developer John Romero took to Twitter to spread the word that he has made a comeback to the world of Doom by designing an all new level. Romero's return to the game that jumpstarted his career in game development is a fun little Friday surprise for developers, especially Doom enthusiasts, some of whom are thanked in the readme file accompanying the level. The new level, E1M8B (ZIP), is described simply as "My Boss level replacement for e1m8...22 years later." E1M8 is, incidentally, the final level of Doom's first episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead.

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  1. Re:Play it, its good! by Lisandro · · Score: 3, Informative

    Doom Builder 2

  2. Re:OT: How do you run doom on Windows 10? by Spacelord · · Score: 4, Informative

    Get a source port that works on Windows. Chocolate-doom for the most vanilla experience, but there's also zdoom, prboom, prboom-plus, doomsday, and plenty of others.

  3. Re:Play it, its good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, take this map that was created and balanced for the base doom engine by one of the original designers (visplane overflow limitation aside), and play it with a mod that takes out the entirety of doom's gameplay and replaces it with a ton of resources cobbled together and stolen from 500 different products.

    The recommendation of Doom Legacy is a bit bizarre, that engine was all but abandoned years ago as far as I know. There are more sensible ways to play this map:

    Eternity Engine
    https://www.doomworld.com/vb/eternity/67069-eternity-engine-3-40-46-bifrost/

    Zdoom
    http://zdoom.org/Download

    PrBoom+
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom-plus/

    And if you want some window dressing to update the way the game feels, perhaps perkristian's smooth weapons (https://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-editing/46131-smoother-weapon-sprite-animations-released/) or sound/music (http://www.perkristian.net/game_doom-sfx.shtml). Or Smooth Doom by Gifty (http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45550).

  4. Re:"...22 years later" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Grandpa? John Romero is only 48. Hell, he's only 10 years older than me.

    You must be a little kid if you think that's old.