Erik Alm

Erik Alm in August 2005

Erik Alm is a Swedish Doom level designer and speedrunner. He is perhaps best known for being the author of the "Scythe" series, with Scythe being featured in the Top 100 WADs of All Time article and Scythe 2 winning a Cacoward in 2005. The series's third entry, Scythe X, is yet to be finished, with only the first two episodes released.

He is currently working at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

His Scythe series has been very influential. At the 2018 Cacowards he was awarded the Espi Award for Lifetime Achievement, the first awarded "to a mapper's legacy". The following year, an article on the history of Doom mapping stated that Scythe 2 is "the second most influential PWAD of all time after Alien Vendetta".

Body of work

2001

• Europa 1 (Doomworld/idgames)
• Europa 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
• ea Gothic 1 (Doomworld/idgames)
• ea Gothic 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
• One Week Contest (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01: Industrial IV
  • MAP02: Industrial V
  • MAP07: Hell Simple
  • MAP08: Castle
  • MAP11: Twenty Four Cyber Spirits

2002

• ea Speedmap 3 (Doomworld/idgames)
• NiGHTMARE Speedmapping Compilation #1 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP02
• NiGHTMARE Speedmapping Compilation #2 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01
• Europa 3 - The Dark Side of Vrack (Doomworld/idgames)
• Find it (Doomworld/idgames)
• One Bloody Night (Doomworld/idgames)

2003

• SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #2 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP04
• Scythe (Doomworld/idgames)
• Dan0's Crack Pipe (Doomworld/idgames)
• SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #10 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP02
• SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #11: Special Party Edition! (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP03 (with Schepe)
• X-treme (demo) (Doomworld/idgames)
• Flashback: demo (Doomworld/idgames)
  • E2M6

2004

• SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #12 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP
• End Game (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP04: Garrison
• SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #13 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP11
• Danarchy's Heretic Speedmapping 1: The Sewers of D'Sparil (Doomworld/idgames)
  • E3M2
• Community Chest 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01: The Furnace (as "Eric Alm")

2005

• Scythe 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
• Doom Advent Calendar 2005:
  • DAC20: ea_adven (Doomworld/idgames)

2007

• SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #14: Halloween Edition! (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP09

2009

• Plutonia 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP22: Locus Perditus (with Adolf Vojta (Gusta))
  • MAP24: Outpost of the Evil Dead
• Scythe X
  • Episodes 1-2 (Doomworld/idgames)

He has also recorded several demos, of the IWADs as well as various PWADs.

Current Compet-n records

The following data was last verified in its entirety on July 17, 2020.

Level runs for the PWADs

Erik holds eight map records: three for Alien Vendetta, three for Memento Mori, and two for Requiem.

External links

• Erik Alm's Page of Doom
• Demos list at Compet-n
• Player profile (archived 🏛) at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive
• Demos list at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
• Espi Award dedication
• LinkedIn profile