Retro isn't old, it's timeless.
The definitive DOOM deep-dive that will make you go from 0 to smart on the amazing lore behind the paradigm-shifting, controversy-causing gib-fest known as DOOM.
It's DOOM that made console owners cry of envy, ushered the era of fast and bloody gaming on the PC and helped fuel the massive tech revolution of 90's PC hardware.
00:00 Start
01:44 Title / E1M1
03:24 The Story of id Software -- Emerging Ideas
13:07 Development -- The Butt End Of Space
22:05 Release -- Suck it down!
35:36 Technology -- Binary Spaces
42:02 Design -- Scary, dark, fast
52:23 Legacy -- Outliving itself
1:01:12 The Vault
1:07:06 Outro -- Eternally, yours
I've poured hundreds of hours into this project so I could deliver you the best video I could. Here's some of the research material.
📕 READING
The Game Engine Black Book: DOOM: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
Masters of DOOM: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222146.Masters_of_Doom
Doom in workplaces https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_in_workplaces
BSP whitepaper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/965105.807481
Who made which map? https://web.archive.org/web/20130416031813/http://rome.ro/lee_killough/history/levels.shtml
📽️ VIEWING
BSP explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMZsMMlubg
Wolf3D VR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9n_TkFIttk
The NeXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn7qIl59MAQ
Uncle Sandy on DOOMs development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwV3uwM19EY
MVG on DOOMs code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU4-7jltj0o
Karl Jobst and DOOM: https://www.youtube.com/@karljobst/search?query=doom
Uncle Civvie plays DOOM - cool discussion in comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rCTpwLdYQA
DOOM console ports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=784MUbDoLjQ
The Pumpkin Man on DOOMs internals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L7v3vRA65E
The DOOM 3DO disaster:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF1_wg2d_Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBbIil2HPSU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgrQgvlpBM
🧭 OTHER
Visual "id Software themed" tour of Shrevport: http://romej.com/2012/06/places-of-doom-where-id-built-games/
Audio investigated: https://www.perkristian.net/game_doom-sfx.shtml
The code: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM
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