Dario Casali

Dario Casali, circa 2006

Dario Casali (born July 28, 1974, 50 years old) is a game designer best known in the Doom community for his contributions to Final Doom. During the 1990s he went by online aliases Punisher and Number 6.

While working on Memento Mori with his brother Milo, Dario met several members of TeamTNT, and eventually joined the group. He created two levels and co-authored another for TNT: Evilution, then designed half of the levels in The Plutonia Experiment. He has not worked with TeamTNT since Final Doom was published.

In 1997 he moved onto mapping for Quake, releasing single player episode Prodigy Special Edition along with five DCDM deathmatch levels. This modding experience lead Dario to getting hired as a level designer on Half-Life. Until 2022, he worked at Valve under an "expert" role.

In October 2021, he began sharing Let's Play videos of his Doom WADs and the community-made sequel Plutonia 2 on his YouTube channel.

Body of work

1995

• Jail (Doomworld/idgames)
• Runriot (Doomworld/idgames)
• The Best series
  • The Best 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
• Punisher (Doomworld/idgames)
• Memento Mori (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP24: Diehard
• No Mercy (Wad Archive (archived 🏛))

1996

• Punisher 2 (Wad Archive (archived 🏛))
• Punisher 2: The Contest (Wad Archive (archived 🏛))
• Final Doom's TNT: Evilution
  • MAP18: Mill (with Ty Halderman)
  • MAP31: Pharaoh
  • MAP32: Caribbean
• Final Doom's The Plutonia Experiment (16 maps)
  • MAP02: Well of Souls
  • MAP04: Caged
  • MAP06: Baron's Lair
  • MAP07: Caughtyard
  • MAP08: Realm
  • MAP10: Onslaught
  • MAP11: Hunted
  • MAP13: The Crypt
  • MAP14: Genesis
  • MAP17: Compound
  • MAP20: The Death Domain
  • MAP22: Impossible Mission
  • MAP25: The Temple of Darkness
  • MAP26: Bunker
  • MAP28: The Sewers
  • MAP31: Cyberden
• The Plutonia Experiment demos (Doomworld/idgames)
  • Demos of all MAPs
• Seej (Doomworld/idgames)

1997

• Requiem
  • MAP23: Hatred

Non-Doom work

• Half-Life
• Team Fortress Classic
• Global Operations
• Half-Life 2
• Left 4 Dead
• Team Fortress 2
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Portal 2
• Half-Life: Alyx

Personal life

Dario and his brother Milo are the sons of Love Is... cartoonist Kim Casali.

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the open-content Wikipedia online encyclopedia article Casali brothers.

External links

• Various maps by Dario and Milo Casali, as preserved in the coverdisc of PC Review Issue 60 (Doomshack)
• Casali's personal website (archived 🏛)
• MobyGames profile
• YouTube channel
• Demos list at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
• 5 Years of Doom Interview from 1998