Additional mapping was done by AD_79, esselfortium, Joshy, lupinx-Kassman, Pinchy, stewboy and Tarnsman. Follow the instructions and it shouldn’t be too difficult to get it working.įully 24 of the maps were designed solely by Skillsaw, who also had his hand in a few of the others. Getting it running is a little harder than it should be, but you basically need copies of Doom and Doom II – they’re on Steam and doubtless elsewhere – and zDoom, an updated version of the engine that lets all this magic happen.

You can download the full thing over on the Doomworld forums, as well as see some more gorgeous shots of what they’ve managed to make Doom look like with custom texture work. It’s totally free, assuming you own Doom, and it’s probably brilliant.ĭefinitely one of the best FPS games of all time – probably the best? There’s nothing like Doom. Some of the best are put together by Paul ‘skillsaw’ DeBruyne, and yesterday he released his latest megawad – a 32 map long campaign – called Ancient Aliens, developed with the help of several other mappers. Despite the mechanics behind the original and its sequel being over 22 years old and even getting it to run these days requiring more engine hacks and custom coding than most full games, the fanbase is loyal enough, the mappers skilled enough and the game just damn good enough that new WADs are coming out all the time. Doom mapping is a massive, still pumping engine of productivity.

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