DOOM changed my life. Yes, really. :)

Done / To-Do

Contributions so far.

• Add to/update 1990s history & the classic games where I can
• Add to/update Timeline, Gamers.org, idgames archive, Usenet, RGCD Support Team, Doom Help Service
• Add/update stewards: John Van Essen, Piotr Kapiszewski, Ty Halderman, Richard Ward, Tony Lezard, Raphaël Quinet, Mike Newton, Joost Schuur, Ian Mapleson, Paul Falstad, Tom Neff, others?, me
• Play through all of Doom II, TNT: Evilution and The Plutonia Experiment, and proofread/improve their levels' pages (and Ultimate Doom's) along the way (or afterwards)
  • Of course I played Doom II numerous times back in the day, so the trip down memory lane was augmented via Brutal Doom on GZDoom.
  • The late great Ty Halderman kindly sent me a boxed copy of Final Doom in 1996, but I never got around to playing it until now. :)
  • While I do own boxed copies of Hexen and Strife, I never got around to playing more than their demos. I did however complete Heretic: SotSR.
• Analyze and improve map views images
• Create the DMMPST map statistics tool to generate wiki-ready mapdata, things and map skel structures
• Operate the XymphBot account to automatically:
  • update Statistics sections of map pages and add new map skeletons via the dmmpstBot script
  • upload map view images via uploadmapBot and add them to map pages via mapviewBot
  • generate navigation boxes for map series via navboxGen and add them to map pages via navboxBot
  • perform other checks and edits via various Bot scripts
• Add or update (as appropriate) data tables for Things in Doom, Heretic, Hexen & Strife, using tools compiled against each game's INFO.C file to extract relevant information directly from the engine's data tables (imaginatively titled DMINFO, HTINFO, HXINFO & SFINFO)
• Try and figure out if a GIMP script can automate placing map spots as much as possible
• Odd 'n ends as I encounter them
• Fix archive.org & dead links
  • I believe archive.org links should point directly to the most recent valid archive, so wiki users won't have to hunt down the date bar there themselves