James Haley (Quasar)

James "Quasar" Haley has been a member of the Doom community since 1997, and is best known as the lead programmer of Team Eternity, creators of the Eternity Engine and WinMBF source ports. He is also a Doomworld moderator and Doom Wiki administrator. Since 2017, he is a full time game developer for Nightdive Studios.

In 1998, Quasar acted as the chief beta tester for the little known port Random Doom. From 1999 to 2008, Quasar was a central figure in the Raven source code licensing campaign, which sought and eventually obtained the release of the Heretic and Hexen code under the GPL.

Quasar also developed Chocolate Strife, the addition of Strife support to the Chocolate Doom code base through a four-year intensive reverse engineering project, alongside Samuel Villarreal (Kaiser). It is still an ongoing project as of 2016.

In February 2011, Quasar spearheaded the proposal to move the Doom Wiki onto its current hosting arrangement at MancuNET. Since that time, he has stepped up his administrative activities and takes responsibility for most backend maintenance tasks. He also codes the wiki's customized version of the Monaco skin.

At the Cacowards in 2020, Quasar received the Espi Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Doom projects

1998

• MBF (Play tester)
• The Eternity Engine
• Random Doom (Chief beta tester)

2003

• Mock 2: The Speed of Stupid (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP03: Fortress of Moooo!

2005

• WinMBF

2009

• Chocolate Strife

2014

• Strife: Veteran Edition
  • MAP36: Castle Clash

2017

• Calico

2018

• Fuck Trump (Doomworld/idgames)

2020

• Doom 64 (2020 re-release)
• Strife: Veteran Edition (Nintendo Switch release)

Other projects

• Noctropolis (2015 re-release)
• Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (2015 re-release)
• Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (2017 re-release)
• Forsaken Remastered (2018 re-release)
• Turok: Dinosaur Hunter Nintendo Switch port (2019)
• Blood: Fresh Supply (2019)
• Turok 2: Seeds of Evil Nintendo Switch port (2019)
• SiN Gold v1.13 update (2020)
• Quake (2021 version)
• PowerSlave: Exhumed (2022)

External links

• Team Eternity site
• Quasar's profile page at Doomworld
• Espi Award dedication
• LinkedIn profile
• Thread about Raven source code reissue at Doomworld