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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Doom, is in fact, GZDoom/Freedoom, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Freedoom plus GZdoom. Doom is not a game that can run on modern operating systems unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning GZDoom system made useful by the ZDL Launcher, Zscript and ACL scripting languages, DeePsea editor, and other vital components comprising a fully functioning First-Person Shooter game.

Many gamers play a modified version of the GZDoom system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GZdoom which is widely used today is often called Doom, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GZDoom system, developed by the GZDoom Project.

There really is a Doom, and these people are playing it, but it is just a part of the game they play. Doom is the WAD: the data file containing levels and graphics for the game engine to access. The WAD is an essential part of a FPS game, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete FPS game. Doom is normally used in combination with the GZDoom engine: the whole system is basically GZDoom with Doom or Freedoom added, or GZDoom/Freedoom. All the so-called Doom distributions are really distributions of GZdoom!


#Doom #Freedoom #GZdoom #Zdoom #Copypasta

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D#22 (2024-09-09) #Supplice #demo

Supplice is a GZDoom-based #FirstPersonShooter. Assets are made from scratch rather than recycling from other #Doom engine games, but you can still very much "feel" that it's #GZDoom. Has freelook but no jumping.

The game takes place on a people's co-op space colony that comes under attack from bio-mechanical zombies, and it's up to the #FemaleProtagonist to rescue off-screen civilians and blast through the attackers with some fun weapons.

The Supplice (demo) title screen with its... very questionable logo font, where every character is roughly in the shape of a triangle. The letters are chrome with red outlines. The background is a robotic skull on a metallic and stone surface reminiscent of Alien's bio-mechanical aesthetic. Menu alternatives are "start", "load, "save", "options, "end game", and "quit".
The player is roaming around in a very lush, green environment, fighting what I would describe as bio-mechanical zombies (with guns). The player character's selected weapon is a weird, rotating shotgun, her green armor is filled up, and her health is up at 220%.
The player character is wielding her machine gun (which can be dual-wielded when you pick up a second one) in a cargo area outside the main facility of the first map. Great balls of fire erupt in the middle of the screen as she just fired a few rounds at some explosive barrels to take out the monsters nearby.
At various points in the levels, the player character can interact with computer screens that let her communicate with a science AI that is helping with evacuation and other security tasks, as the colony's regular security AI has stopped responding. This communication is entirely one-sided and consists of the AI monologuing at the player: "Excellent. The backup generator is [online], the power grid is [stable], and I now have <full control> over the facility. This should allow me to monitor the station and prevent future reoccurences, which is very good news. Thank you for your assistance. Now that the mission is complete, I will inform you that our chances of success were, in fact, <suboptimal>. I apologize, but I intentionally chose not to share this fact beforehand to prevent a critical loss of morale, and will continue to withhold the exact numbers for the same reason. They were not high. Page 1/4"
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