Boris Iwanski

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Boris Iwanski (formerly known as Tarin) is a long-term member of the Doom community from Germany and author of a variety of PWADs, including the Forgotten Base series, a number of Freedoom resources and several early Skulltag levels. He was the owner and webmaster of the WADs in Progress website until its shutdown in October 2019. After making programming contributions to level editor Doom Builder 2, he helps to maintain its fork Ultimate Doom Builder. He received a Codeaward at the 2022 Cacowards for his submissions to Ultimate Doom Builder.

Body of work

1999

• ACS Stuff

2000

• Forgotten Base Special Edition aka fbase1-4 (Doomworld/idgames)

2001

• Doomworld Speedmapping Compilation:
  • Session #1, MAP12
  • Session #3, MAP09
  • Session #4, MAP17
  • Session #7, E1M7
• Skulltag
  • D2CTF1: McKinley Heritage
  • D2CTF3: Verflutcher Temple
    • included in Skulltag versions 0.91 to 0.97d5

2002

• NiGHTMARE Speedmapping Compilation:
  • Session #2, MAP06
  • Session #3, MAP03
  • Session #4, MAP01, MAP02, MAP03, MAP06
  • Session #5, MAP03
  • Session #7, MAP07
  • Session #8, MAP01 (with Nick Baker (NiGHTMARE), Mike Watson (Cyb), Joe Pallai, Kenny Coughlan (KennyJC) and Kim Bach (Torn))
• 10 Sectors (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP20: Ganymede Outpost
• Energy Control aka Forgotten Base 5 (Doomworld/idgames)
• Telesky (Doomworld/idgames)
• Skulltag
  • D2DM8: Dark Estate
    • included in Skulltag versions 0.93 to 0.95k

2003

• NiGHTMARE Speedmapping Compilation:
  • Session #9, MAP06
  • Session #10, MAP03
  • Session #11, MAP01
• FBase 6: Remanasu (Doomworld/idgames)
• Skulltag
  • D2DM5: The Volcano Installation
  • D2DM6: Last Bastion
  • D2CTF2: Mt. Capture
  • D2CTF4: Area -51 Degrees Celsius (with Doomsphere)

2004

• Exquisite Corpse (Doomworld/idgames) (with 11 other level designers)
• Community Chest 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP29: Event Horizon

2017

• The Joy of Mapping 4: Summer School (Doomworld/idgames)
  • E3M5: The Unbroken Pathway

• The Joy of Mapping 5: Winter Weekend (Doomworld/idgames)
  • E2M3: A Pity Place

2018

• The Joy of Mapping 6: Joy Eternal (Doomworld/idgames)
  • E4M7: Slave to Sin

2020

• Isolation (Doomworld forums thread)
  • Strain 1, MAP10: Demonic Phlegm Usurpation

2022

• Hordamex (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP12: Aquifever

External links

• Iwanski's personal webpage (archived 🗺) from 2003
• Tarin's Doom place (archived 🏛) from 2001
• Tarin's DooM place (archived 🏛) from 2000
• WIP - WADs in Progress (archived 🏛)
• A short interview on Icarusweb