Doug Merrill (Opulent)

Doug "Opulent" Merrill (born December 3, 1967) is an American Doomer, mapper, speedrunner and former maintainer of the Doomed Speed Demos Archive.

History
Merrill started playing Doom in 1995 and began to show great interest in demo recording. As of January 2022, he submitted over 1330 demos with a total time of 120 hours to the Doom Speed Demo Archive&mdash;ranking him eighth by demo count and seventh by duration&mdash;and more than 50 demos to the Compet-n database. On November 12, 2008, he retired from maintaining the Archive, and was succeeded by Andy Olivera. Together, they received the Espi Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Cacowards.

He created a multitude of levels for single and multiplayer. He used to maintain a website called The Doom II Resource.

He spent a lot of his time on playing games in the, and even claimed to be better at playing Quake II than Doom.

He is employed at.

1995

 * Devious
 * Fire

1996

 * Traps
 * Doom Map
 * Red
 * City
 * Trench
 * Blue
 * Green
 * Cooperative (with Derek & David Merrill)

1997

 * War
 * Cabala (Quake DM map)
 * Allalone

1999

 * TheSpawnSQwads
 * MAP15 (base for Squonkamatic)
 * Squonker2
 * MAP24 (base for Squonkamatic)

2000

 * The SpawnSQwad 2000
 * MAP15 (base for Squonkamatic)

2001

 * Doomworld Speedmapping Compilation #4
 * MAP10
 * Doomworld Speedmapping Compilation #7
 * E1M6
 * Mustache Doom
 * E1 Contest
 * oneweek
 * MAP09: The Archvile's Revenge
 * Half-life
 * Half-life

2002

 * Doomworld Speedmapping Compilation #18
 * MAP06

Current Compet-n records
The following data was last verified in its entirety on July 17, 2020.

Level runs for the PWADs
Doug holds three map records: one for Hell Revealed, one for Memento Mori, and one for Memento Mori II.

Trivia

 * Family members Derek and David Merrill also created several levels each.