Esa Repo (Espi)

The Espi award.

Esa "Espi" Repo (November 12, 1981 - August 29, 2009) was a Finnish Doom level designer, artist, and speedrunner. He is best known for Suspended in Dusk and Back to Basics, as well as MAP27 of TeamTNT's Eternal Doom IV: Return from Oblivion. Espi was known for his sleek, minimalist level design, as well as for his attention to detail, with the term "material texturing" coined to describe how he treated textures as actual building materials when designing levels.

Espi passed away in his sleep in August 2009 due to cancer. At the 20th Annual Cacowards, a new category was named the "Espi award," in his honour.

Body of work

2000

• Barons o' fun (Doomworld/idgames)

2001

• 10 Sectors Part 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP14
• Minigun (Doomworld/idgames)
• E2M1ER (Doomworld/idgames)
• Entryway (karmea.wad) (Doomworld/idgames)
• Linna (Doomworld/idgames)
• E1 Contest (DSDA)
  • E1M8: laitos.wad
• Guns PC (Doomworld/idgames)
• The One Level With All Those Teleporters (Doomworld/idgames)

2002

• Laitos (Doomworld/idgames)
• Ruma (Doomworld/idgames)
• Narcosis (Doomworld/idgames)

2003

• Kill the Cybie - single player version of Narcosis (Doomworld/idgames)
• SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #8 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01
• SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #9 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP02
• Speed Mapping Ness style (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP02 (as "Espis")
• Teh Pain Emmental (Doomworld/idgames)
• Flashback: demo (Doomworld/idgames)
  • E2M1
  • E2M2 (with Kim Bach)
  • E2M3 (with Kim Bach)
  • E2M4
  • E2M5
• Doom Birthday Cake (Doomworld/idgames)

2004

• ZooM
  • LOUNGE: The Lounge (with Kara Rader (Nanami), Tom White (Hyena), Bill Koch (Bloodshedder), and Jason Masihdas (Amaster))
  • weapon sprite edits

2005

• Suspended in Dusk (Doomworld/idgames)
• Doom Advent Calendar 2005:
  • DAC13: Flashback E1M8 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • DAC15: Flashback E2M9 (Doomworld/idgames)

2006

• Newdoom Community Project (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP12: Infested
• Hellcore 2.0 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • Graphics

2007

• Back to Basics (Doomworld/idgames)

2008

• Eternal Doom IV: Return from Oblivion (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP27: The Shrine
• Flashback: demo 2 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • E2M1
  • E2M2 (with esselfortium)

2009 (posthumous)

• Alley Cat (Doomworld/idgames) - SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #9 MAP02, updated by Sarge Baldy

2010 (posthumous)

• Freedoom leftovers (Doomworld/idgames)
  • Graphics

2017 (posthumous)

• Espi Compilation from Hellcore (Doomworld forums thread)

Current Compet-n records

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

Level runs for the PWADs

Esa holds one map record for Requiem.

External links

• Espi's site (archived 🏛)
• Demos list at Compet-n
• Demos list at the Doom Speed Demo Archive