MetaFilter posts tagged with Doom

Crouch Behind Cover: Modern Warfare

cthuljew — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:42:02 -0800

Are modern first person shooters a bit too serious for your taste? Be happy they weren't always made that way. [Pre vious ly.]

Its totally 'shopped.

MiltonRandKalman — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:05:08 -0800

Watch Deviant Art's Elemental79 remaster classic game screen caps of Metroid, Contra and Doom into stunning HD works of art. [via Gizmodo]

E1M1: City 17

Sebmojo — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:11:41 -0800

DOOM IN HALFLIFE IN DOOM

Cybermania 94: The Ultimate Shame Awards

Shadax — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:50:30 -0800

Ever wanted to watch a video games award show from 1994 hosted by Leslie Neilson and Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Well, your extremely questionable prayers have been answered (single two hour youtube link, stick around for all the commercials and a very early appearance by Will Arnett)

A Roguelike Primer

Artw — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 07:56:04 -0800

Best In Genre for Neophytes and Veterans Alike

Out of ammo, nearly dead, monsters outside. But! I have a can of meat.

cortex — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:47:07 -0800

If Doom and Nethack lived in Estonia and had a baby, it'd be named Teleglitch, a recently released pixelated action roguelike that will completely murder you if you're not very careful about how you explore its procedurally-generated corridors, fighting off former coworkers, crafting spare parts into new stuff and hunting for ammo and food and clues as to what the hell went so terribly wrong at the Militech R&D facility on Medusa 1-C. The game has a 4-level demo (Windows and Linux, Mac too apparently) which will probably kick your ass plenty all by itself. The visuals are intentionally graphically crude at a glance; big blocky pixels and a fixed overhead camera make for screenshots that look like they are from a modified copy of Doom, running on a box not quite up to the job. But in motion, it all works; the figurative looks to the baddies and the items and the world manages, as with much good horror, to put your brain to work filling in the details. The eerie glitchy voids, the claustrophobic line-of-sight visual masking, the live-or-die attention to sound details, and the terse diegetic scraps of story combine to make a legitimately compelling and tense world. Death is permanent, and really easy to stumble into; ammo is scarce, so aiming (or finding other ways to kill bad guys or escape them) is important; crafting found items can turn trash into treasure at vital moments; randomly generated levels have similar key sections but wholly random layouts and item/enemy/secret distributions. It's brutal and brilliant. Rock Paper Shotgun talks a bit more about what makes it so compelling. Games Are Evil talk to developers Test3 Projects. TotalBiscuit offers a charming and somewhat bumbling tour of the gameplay.

"We are the walking dead!"

stbalbach — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:05:55 -0800

The zombie apocalypse. Threads. Pandemic. Doomsday Preppers. Post-apocalyptic pop-culture fiction of doom. What's it about? A Stanford scholar explains.

It's the end of the world and they know it

zarq — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:40:53 -0800

The most-watched show in the history of the National Geographic Channel isn't Wild, Taboo or even the longest-running documentary series on cable tv: Explorer. It's Doomsday Preppers, a show that documents the "lives of otherwise ordinary Americans" as they prepare for the end of the world. "We struggled with this," Kathleen Cromley, a NatGeo executive producer, says after a screening of the series. "Our preppers have really strong beliefs and they are not always supported by mainstream science. As a network, we are concerned about factual accuracy."
All but one of the 20 episodes that have aired to date can be watched online. Season One (2011-2012) 1) "Pilot" 2) "Bullets, Lots of Bullets" 3) "I Hope I Am Crazy" 4) "Back to the Stone Age". Here's a BuzzFeed profile of Tim Ralston, creator of the "Crovel." (Half-shovel, half-weapon: the Crovel has made Ralston millions in sales.) 5) "It's All Gonna Hit the Fan" 6) "You Shall Not Fear" 7) "Nine Meals Away from Anarchy" 8) "Into the Spider Hole" 9) "It's Gonna Get Worse" 10) "Close the Door, Load the Shotgun" 11) "Disaster Doesn't Wait" 12) "I Suggest We Run" 13) "Extreme Prep Edition" Additional Clips: Season 1 Season 2 (2012-2013) 1) "You Can't Let Evil Win" 2) "Am I Nuts or Are You?" 3) "Bad Times All the Time" 4) "The Time of Reckoning" 5) "Taking from the Haves" 6) "You've Got Chaos" (Not yet online) 7) "Escape from New York" Additional Clips: Season 2

Overshooting faster

doctornemo — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:34:19 -0800

This month we've gone too far, we humans on Earth. "[H]umanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year. We are now operating in overdraft." A couple of days ago global civilization crossed from being in the black to up in the red, according to one view. It's a moving date: "In 1992, Earth Overshoot Day... fell on October 21. In 2002, Overshoot Day was on October 3". Is Earth Overshoot Day a useful concept, a kind of Doomsday Clock for our era? Previously on MeFi.

Stop trying to save the Earth, it's too late

escabeche — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:05 -0800

"...by persisting in the false belief that coral reefs have a future, we grossly misallocate the funds needed to cope with the fallout from their collapse." In the New York Times, ecologist Roger Bradbury argues that it's too late to save a big chunk of the Earth's environment, and that we should instead spend our resources getting ready for the challenges we'll face once that part of the world is destroyed. Marine scientists offer varying opinions on how doomed the reefs are, ranging from "Yep, they're doomed" to "If we stopped increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere today, they would probably stick around in some more or less degraded form" to "it’s clear to me that corals as a group of living things will almost assuredly* construct glorious reefs in millenniums to come of unimaginable richness."

The How Not To Kill Your Baby Official Growth Chart Of Doom

the young rope-rider — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:51:56 -0800

The How Not To Kill Your Baby Official Growth Chart Of Doom [via mefi projects]

Cheaper than music

klangklangston — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:29:35 -0800

Psychonaut by The Cosmic Dead is free psych rock. Going Up, Coming Down by Sudden Death of Stars is free French psych with sitars. Kosmonaut 1 by Kosmonaut is free Tangerine Dream-style space rock. Sedan by Sedan is free hypnotic piano and drums. Ouroborus by Hypatia Lake is free stoner rock. Watch Your Back by Butchers is free slacker noise psych. Tumbleweeds by Across Tundras is free prairie rock. Concrete Light by Luger is free neo-kraut in a Stereolab vein. Born to Deal in Magic: 1952-1976 by Shooting Guns is free instrumental stoner doom. You Can't Win by The Runnies is free female-fronted organ trio psych. War of the Giants by Axxicorn is free stoner metal. Much more in this ILX thread and Fastnbulbous's Year End Stoner-Doom-Psych list.

I'm gonna sing the Doom song now

coriolisdave — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:06:17 -0800

China's economy poised to join the rest of us in the toilet. I certainly hope one of you smart people can prove this article wrong.

The source of our doom

smcg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:26:35 -0800

id Software have released the source code to Doom 3 under the terms of the General Public License. Driven by founder and programming legend John Carmack, id have released the source code to several of their previous games, following up on their early days in shareware. These do not contain the full game – any game assets, such as textures, sounds, and maps are still proprietary – but enable other programmers to study and build upon the foundations of their games. Particularly popular are Fabien Sanglard's articles on his impressions of the Quake World and Quake II sources. Bonus links: Sean Barrett, previously of Looking Glass software, discusses the internals of Thief's Dark Engine; and what if Quake was made today?

When I'm gone, my mind remains a planet

cashman — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:46:37 -0800

Hip hop’s last enigma. 90 minutes of music and interviewing one of the best lyricists there is, via the Red Bull Academy Lecture series. The interview with DOOM is slow in places, but features many tracks played in real time. DOOM talks about everything from the death of his brother, to the reasoning behind his multiple personas, to why the interesting hip hop records are the ones that you have to decipher, to how Rhinestone Cowboy was done to fill out MM Food, to the message behind the mask partly being the desire to have the music (sound) be the selling point. He talks about his recording process and tools, working with people like Bobbito and 3rd Bass and wanting to work with Kanye in the future. Also, about how creativity for him is like a wave, or an energy stream. He says Madvillainy 2 will be out soon, that he'll be done with his part by January.

No one rivals Doom! NO ONE! Doom is supreme! There is no power on earth, no intellect in all creation to equal Mine!

Artw — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:57:37 -0800

The Many Moods of Doctor Doom.

Why use 2.5d when 2 will do?

kaibutsu — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:04:43 -0800

The Doom Roguelike is really much better than it has any right to be, and has come a long way over the last four years of development. Its spacey sister is the Aliens Roguelike (previously). Here are some tutorial videos to get you started, and mefi's own JHarris' review of DoomRL from 2007.

A History of Violence

obscurator — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:49:43 -0800

Bethesda Softworks [the current owner of id Software] argued that the game's crude graphics had been surpassed by many modern titles and, as a result, the violence it depicted had far less of an impact.

As of 1 September, Germany has lifted it's 17-year ban on sales of DOOM ((previously)though not regarding the physical media) to minors. DOOM II, which contains several swastika-laden levels from Wolfenstein (previously), however, will still remain verboten.

A Whiskey Crisis Looms on the Horizon

Stagger Lee — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:05:10 -0800

More apocalyptic doom and gloom, but today's flavor is whiskey.
Aging bourbon is expensive—and distilleries are cutting corners to speed up the process. Will the entire industry decline?

The Fallacy of Sprites

theodolite — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:03:15 -0800

Learning from Doom: Latvian artist Viktor Timofeev explores the "digital ruin" of the classic 1993 shooter DOOM, taking dozens of annotated snapshots along the way. It might be the only time you'll see 16th-century Mannerism, El Lissitzky, and Arachnotrons mentioned in the same place.

On Fallout: We had a time travel [setting] with dinosaurs for a while

ersatz — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 06:00:30 -0800

Matt Barton's Matt Chat started as a series of discussions on classic video games from Elite to System Shock 2. It now features interviews with the likes of Chris Avellone (Planescape Torment), Tim Cain (Fallout pt.1, pt.2); Arcanum, Brian Fargo (The Fall of Interplay, Waste land and Fallout, Bard's Tale and Wizardry), John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake and the infamous Daikatana) and Al Lowe (Leasure Suite Larry pt.1 and pt.2). Max Payne with Scott Miller. Duke Nukem 3D with a side dose of Carmack, Romero and thoughts on Duke Nukem Forever with Scott Miller. Nancy Drew with Jessica Chiang. Ralph Baer, inventor of Magnavox Odyssey. History of Cinemaware (Defender of the Crown etc.) with Bob Jacob. Syndicate with Sean Cooper. Rebecca Heineman, a fourt-part interview. There are also some interviews on the early days of these creators, as well as discussions of gaming classics.

Doom in your browser

Chocolate Pickle — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:45:25 -0800

Doom was a classic game, revolutionary in its time. And it took a high-end machine to run it, like a 486 running 25 MHz (ooh! aah!). Times have changed: it's been ported to Javascript, and it will run in your browser.

"We have no idea what to do next."

doctornemo — Thu, 05 May 2011 07:19:25 -0800

"All of us in the environment movement, in other words – whether we propose accomodation, radical downsizing or collapse – are lost." Is human civilization hitting the sustainability wall? If so, the environmental movement seems blocked about what to do about it, broods George Monbiot. Nobody likes a "steady state economy", and the worse things get, the harder that option is to achieve. Plus green contradictions might vitiate effective action: "the same worldview tells us that we must reduce emissions, defend our landscapes and resist both the state and big business. The four objectives are at odds." Interestingly, Monbiot also thinks we have too much fuel. Not enough to keep us going forever, but enough to keep humanity from taking big steps to anticipate the eventual peak. Which is bad: "Collapse will come one day, but not before we have pulled everything else down with us." Innovations are coming too late. Is this right? If so, what's the plan? Make better stories? "None of us yet has a convincing account of how humanity can get out of this mess. None of our chosen solutions break the atomising, planet-wrecking project."

What went right and what went wrong

hellojed — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:03:02 -0800

For the 25th Game Developers Conference, organizers hosted several postmortems for classic games such as Out Of This World, Doom, and Maniac Mansion. They are now free to view online. Games Included are: Out of This World / Another World Doom Bejeweled Elite Maniac Mansion Marble Madness Pac-Man Pitfall! Populous Prince of Persia Raid on Bungeling Bay

No civilisation by 2100?

wilful — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:33:56 -0800

The world is well on track to achieve 4 degrees of warming by 2100. In September 2009, a conference organised by the Tyndall Centre looked at this scenario, with the papers recently published in a special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Pr. Anderson of the Tyndall Centre suggests that only 10 percent of humanity may survive this conflagration.