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The Doom Engine, is the game engine that powers the id Software games Doom and Doom II, as well as Raven Software's titles Heretic and Hexen, then finally wrapping its final license with Rogue Entertainment's Strife.

Graphical system features:

  • Renders in VGA 320x200 256 colors
  • 35Hz page-flipped screen updating
  • 2D Sector-based maps

  • Floor and ceiling texturing
  • Wall texturing
  • Animated wall and floor/ceiling textures
  • Transparent wall textures (holes)
  • Sector lighting, with animation of lights
  • Screen-size and low detail mode (horizontal pixel double) for slower computers
  • Certain colors on sprites can be remapped to a different color automatically
  • Top-down automap feature

Audio system features:

  • 11,025Hz playback frequency
  • 8 sound channels
  • Stereo support
  • Adlib (OPL2 FM), General Midi and Gravis Ultrasound support for music
  • PC speaker support

Networking features:

  • IPX
  • Serial, with null modem cable
  • Modem
  • Synchronized - players must have the same settings as the other for proper play
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About Blaze with 0 comments by J_C_A on Mar 26th, 2013

Since my models haven't got much attention here or anywhere.. I haven't got much motivation to continue them.. so here comes some Sprite Action!

The sprites aren't exactly animated, they just have Alive, Death and Gib frames on all angles. I don't think it's really necessary to have much animation. If you have time to look at them if their arms or legs move, then the game is too easy. In the videos I was playing at the currently hardest difficulty (maybe the double ammo doesn't fit there anymore?).

About the difficulty levels... at the moment they change enemy movement & missile speeds, and how often the enemies attack. I was thinking every setting could be adjusted/customized separately from each other. I guess there could be some presets too.

The jumping/flying could be limited a bit, so there would be some stamina/energy for it, or be like the special powers in Abuse: only have 1 at a time, use as much as you like, level change remove it. So there could be some other powers too.

It's using a custom version of Chocolate Doom. At the moment my code changes are bit messy/experimental, and is partially using Dehacked, but maybe that part is totally unnecessary. I had thought of adding some other than gameplay changes too, but I understand nothing about the rendering parts of the code... Maybe I'll try that stuff again sometime later.

Also I think I won't try to sell this anymore if I ever get this complete. So maybe I'll put together some playable demo sometime soon.

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Freedoom is a project to create a complete Doom II-compatible IWAD file which is Free Software' The IWAD file is the file used by Doom which contains...

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The game is a Modification of the DooM game, By ID software, currently In production And will be released as a free game, We only have part of the First...

Project Savior

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Updated 1 year ago TBD Single Player Third Person Shooter

Project Savior is a sci-fi horror shooter for ZDoom source port, similar gameplay-wise to games like System Shock and Strife. Unlike the traditional Doom...

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Updated 5 months ago Released May 31, 2010 Single & Multiplayer Platformer

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HLModder
HLModder Mar 13 2013, 2:19pm says:

I LOVE THIS GAME AND MAKE WADS ALL THE TIME!

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Kontra_Kommando
Kontra_Kommando Mar 6 2013, 1:49pm says:

Love this game

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Wolfyboy
Wolfyboy Apr 2 2012, 9:05am says:

Why isn't there a seperate engine-page for ZDoom or GZDoom? They are much more advanced then the vanilla Doom engine they derived from.

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Mastermagic
Mastermagic Sep 10 2010, 9:22am says:

A page about Doom Engine The Great... with Heretic screen on top!
I knew Heretic is more attracting: the "only" FPS set in fantasy\medieval enviroment.

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DEAD_FiSH
DEAD_FiSH Jun 28 2011, 10:17am replied:

And Hexen.

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Ichiman94
Ichiman94 Feb 23 2010, 3:05pm says:

still good engine for modding :)

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unknow5763
unknow5763 Nov 28 2009, 3:08pm says:

i still make wads and play the orginal game

+7 votes     reply to comment
Bioko
Bioko Nov 27 2009, 12:24pm buried:

(buried)

Still anybody who play this "game" ?

-17 votes     reply to comment
Sharlowidalot
Sharlowidalot Apr 4 2011, 11:38pm replied:

I certainly play it!

+3 votes     reply to comment
Nerdking13
Nerdking13 Nov 28 2009, 2:54pm replied:

the doom engine still is very good and easy to use, just not in its normal form. EDGE, Skulltag, Zdoom and Doom Legacy are all Derived from the doom engine and are very advanced.

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Released Dec 10, 1993
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