Freedoom



Freedoom is a project to create a free software/open source Doom IWAD file. Combined with the free source code, this results in a complete Doom-based game. All material in the Freedoom project is released under the modified BSD license, so other projects may reuse any of the Freedoom material for their own purposes as they wish. In fact, this is a secondary goal of the project.

Levels for the project are Boom-compatible; some use Boom extensions. As such, a boom-compatible source port is necessary to play the game, and Freedoom cannot be played with the original source code.

Two subprojects also exist. One is to create a free shareware WAD file as a smaller demo of the project, and the other is FreeDM, which uses the resources from Freedoom to create a free deathmatch game.

The project was started by and is maintained by Simon Howard and Jon Dowland, and is still under development. FreeDM is maintained by Jim "Rellik" McDougald.

Easter eggs

 * Richard M. Stallman features as the replacement for the boss brain (sprite).
 * The texture SP_FACE1 is derived from pictures of prominent members of the Doom community (texture).
 * Instead of Commander Keen, the pink fish popular in some Doom community forums is used (sprite), however this is no longer used in post 0.5 versions due to trademark violations with the character.