John Romero, one of the co-founders of id Software has revealed he's been working on SIGIL, a free megawad for the original 1993 DOOM.
From the official announcement:
SIGIL™ is a free megawad for the original 1993 DOOM® created by John Romero. It contains nine single-player and nine deathmatch levels. The free megawad will be released in mid- February 2019 and requires players own the original 1993 registered version of DOOM® in order to play. SIGIL™ is the spiritual successor to the fourth episode of DOOM®, and picks up where the original left off.
This is really fun, no doubt it will be quite popular especially with the rather large and active DOOM modding scene. Additionally, they're doing some limited edition fan boxes with Limited Run Games.
These boxes, will contain music from Buckethead, along with a custom song written expressly for SIGIL. A tempting purchase for any big DOOM fan, I especially love the sound of a 16GB 3-1/2-inch floppy disk-themed USB. You have until December 24, 2018 to order one and I imagine stock will go quite quickly.
Since it's a mod for the original doom, it should work in GZDoom for playing it on Linux like you would for other such packs.
See more on the official website.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
So I need to reinstall my original doom and GZDoom :D
wvstolzing Dec 12, 2018
Quoting: HamishIs there any reason why it needs a limit removing source port like GZDOOM or can it still be run with something more chocolate?
It may just be that he likes gzdoom; he mentions it somewhere in this video series:
'Devs Play', by Double Fine -- John Romero plays through Ep. 1 of the original Doom, on gzdoom, with commentary:
https://youtu.be/ygp4-kmjpzI
https://youtu.be/rV6HlBa88js
https://youtu.be/yAoDeRXWXw4
... etc., a total of 10 episodes
edit: Actually, check out this playlist instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_IJ5qZToR0&list=PLIhLvue17Sd6u2akeZZdYVBxNtfWZPm5W&index=16
It's episodes 13 through 22.
Last edited by wvstolzing on 12 December 2018 at 8:07 pm UTC
Good ol' Romero being himself, still long haired, black painted fingernails, chugging Dr. Pepper and chitchatting about stuff. Good stuff.
https://www.twitch.tv/theromero/videos
Patreon
PayPal
See more from me