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Welcome to the Doom Wiki, a project to document everything related to id Software's classic games Doom and Doom II, as well as games based on the Doom engine. So far we have created  articles.

This is a wiki, so anyone can create or edit a page. New contributors should read our policies and guidelines first. For the basics on editing, you can refer to "how to edit a page" on Wikipedia. If you need help, or want to discuss general aspects of this wiki, visit Central Processing.

The news board is a place where anyone can post Doom-related news.


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 Encyclopedia

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Games & history

 * Doom, Doom II
 * Final Doom
 * Doom 64
 * Heretic, Hexen, Strife
 * Doom 3
 * Doom RPG
 * All games...
 * Official merchandise
 * id Software
 * Raven Software
 * Doom movie
 * Timeline
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Gameplay

 * Levels (maps, walkthroughs, speedruns)
 * Weapons, Ammo
 * Items
 * Automap
 * Monsters
 * Other hazards
 * Skill levels
 * Multiplayer games
 * Cheat codes
 * Easter eggs
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Community

 * WADs & mods
 * Editing
 * Source ports
 * Fan-made Doom games
 * People, Quotes
 * Websites, IRC
 * Speedrunning
 * Speedmapping
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Technical
You can also browse using the category system.
 * Rendering engine
 * Networking engine
 * Bugs & limitations
 * Source code
 * File formats
 * WAD format
 * Lumps
 * Command line arguments
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 Trivia

Did you know that many sound effects used in classic Doom games were acquired from Sound Ideas' General series sound effects library, which is why they can be heard in various movies and television shows?

(More Trivia...)


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 Resources for contributors


 * Policies and guidelines
 * General source material
 * New articles and files
 * Special pages
 * Central Processing, the place for general discussion
 * Administrators


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 Things to do


 * Walkthroughs for all levels
 * Write about PWADs
 * Editing tutorials
 * Clean up articles
 * Add to stubs
 * Add citations to articles
 * Review articles with disputed content
 * Review pages marked for deletion or merging
 * Doom 3 material
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 Guides and how-tos


 * Help pages
 * How to play Doom on Windows XP
 * Walkthroughs for each level
 * Editing
 * Wiki tutorial
 * Glossary
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