Tom Mustaine

Tom Mustaine (a.k.a. ParadoX, formerly Clock Paradox) is an American mapper, music composer, and game designer who co-founded Ritual Entertainment and, after Ritual was bought by MumboJumbo, co-founded Escalation Studios with Shawn Green. His major Doom-related works include contributions to the Master Levels for Doom II; the commercial add-ons Hell To Pay and Perdition's Gate published by WizardWorks; and levels in TNT: Evilution and Memento Mori. He also contributed some of the music tracks in TNT: Evilution, Perdition's Gate, and Icarus. He is Bob Mustaine's son.

As part of Escalation Studios, he worked on Doom Resurrection, the 2009 iOS rail shooter co-developed with id Software. Later, he worked on SnapMap as a general designer. In 2018, Escalation Studios was sold to ZeniMax Media and became Bethesda Games Studios Dallas. As of 2026, Tom Mustaine still works at the studio.

Body of work

1995

• HEU (Doomworld/idgames)
  • 4dwango.wad
• #1dwango.wad (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP06
  • MAP09
  • MAP13
• Doom2 Map14 Homage
• Master Levels for Doom II
  • MAP01: Paradox (PARADOX.WAD)
• Dwango6.wad
  • MAP11 (early variant of MAP01: System Control)
• Memento Mori
  • MAP03: Interlock
  • MAP14: Aquaduct

1996

• TNT: Evilution
  • MAP01: System Control
  • MAP10: Redemption
  • MAP17: Processing Area
  • Soundtracks for MAP05, MAP10, MAP17, MAP18, MAP20, MAP22, MAP28, title music
• Icarus: Alien Vanguard (music)
• Hell To Pay (music)
• Perdition's Gate
  • MAP01: UAC Main Lobby, Shipping and Receiving/Main Gate (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP02: UAC Executive Areas, Interlock (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP03: UAC Executive Areas, Recreation Area/Yard
  • MAP04: UAC Executive Areas, Storage Area (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP05: Executive Areas, Sub-Basement Entry (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP06: Sub-Basement, Waste Areas (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP07: UAC Nukage Areas, Nukage Monitor/Flow Control Facility
  • MAP08: UAC Nukage Areas, Waste Tunnels/Drainage Tunnels
  • MAP09: UAC Experimentation Labs, Hangar/Storage Area (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP11: UAC Secret Teleporter Lab
  • MAP12: Entryway to the Worlds of the Ancients (with Bob Mustaine and Jimmy Sieben)
  • MAP13: Distant Worlds (with Mackey McCandlish)
  • MAP15: Teleporter Central (with Mackey McCandlish)
  • MAP16: The Alien Shrine (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP17: Interdimensional Control (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP18: The Throne of the Vile
  • MAP20: The Last Stand (with Bob Mustaine)
  • MAP29: The Bomb Facility
  • MAP30: The Escape

1997

• Mountain King Version 2.0 (Doomworld/idgames)
  • MAP01
  • MAP02
  • MAP03
  • MAP04

1998

• Paradox 2 (Doomworld/idgames)

2009

• Doom Resurrection

2016

• Doom (2016)
  • General designer for SnapMap

Music

Tune name	TNT levels	Icarus levels	HTP levels	PG levels
"More"	MAP05, MAP17
"Infinite"	MAP10, MAP18
"Horizon"	MAP20
"AimShootKill"	MAP22, MAP28
"TNT Title"	Title music
"Classic Evil"		MAP08
"Slow Evil"		MAP10
"Hell"		MAP14
"Slow Evil II"		MAP17
"SUPER Slow Evil"		MAP27
"FastTrack"		MAP28
"Face Of Evil"		MAP30
"Gresta"		MAP31
"Icarus Theme"		Text music
"Ominous"			MAP02, MAP18	MAP02, MAP32
"Pluck"			MAP03, MAP19	MAP10, MAP17, MAP24
"Liquid"			MAP04, MAP15, MAP24	MAP07, MAP23
"Envelope"			MAP08
"Teeth"			MAP09, MAP29	MAP25
"Pacemaker"			MAP12, MAP23	MAP03, MAP19
"Nasty"			MAP14, MAP27	MAP11, MAP18, MAP28
"ControlCV"			MAP17	MAP13
"Time"				MAP01
"Intermission"				Intermission music
"PG Title"				Title music

Trivia

• Mustaine was a participant in the Deathmatch '95 tournament, placing between sixth and eighth in the semi-finals at Judgment Day.
• Tom added a tribute to his mother, Jan Mustaine, who passed away a few months before the release of Doom (2016) to the back side of the pedestal holding the green armor in one of the SnapMap modules based on the original Hangar.

External links

• Personal website (archived 🏛)
• Escalation Studios (archived 🏛)