Doug Merrill (Opulent)

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Doug Merrill (alias Opulent, 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. Until 2018, he submitted 1337 demos with a total time of 120 hours to the Doom Speed Demo Archive—ranking him eighth by demo count and seventh by duration—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 Quake series, and even claimed to be better at playing Quake II than Doom.

He is employed at General Dynamics Corporation.

Body of work

1995

1996

1997

1999

2000

2001

2002

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.

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