Christopher Lutz

Christopher Lutz, leader of the Chaos Crew, is an American Doom level designer known for his heavily detailed maps. Many of his levels are highly acclaimed, with Caverns of Darkness, Phobos: Anomaly Reborn and 10 Sectors all being included in Doomworld's Top 100 WADs of All Time article, Crucified Dreams winning a Cacoward in 2006, The Dying End winning another in 2007 and Icebound winning one in 2011.

Lutz first experience with Doom started when he purchased the shareware version of Doom from Staples when walking from school in the Spring of 1994, at the age of 15. His first foray into the Chaos Crew was when Gregory Jackson and Joel Murdoch emailed him about his first WAD, proposing him the idea for a new original project. Jackson was initially disappointed with the work Lutz produced, so they scrapped the original idea and started a new mapset, which would become Caverns of Darkness.

Iikka Keränen (Fingers), Sverre André Kvernmo (Cranium), Paul Schmitz and Justin Fisher are major early influences that shaped his approach to level design.

He prefers limit-removing format when working on levels.^[1]