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Doom title screen

Doom (or DOOM as a brand) is the game that started it all. It was first released on December 10, 1993, when a shareware copy was uploaded to an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin.

The development of Doom began in 1992, with John Carmack writing the new game engine while the rest of id Software was finishing Spear of Destiny (the sequel to Wolfenstein 3D). When the full design phase began in late 1992, the main thematic influences were the movies Aliens and Evil Dead II, and the Dungeons & Dragons campaign the developers had been playing, where the forces of hell invaded the material world...

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A cacodemon.

Trivia

Did you know that Doom contains a shocked status bar face expression which is almost never displayed due to a bug in the game?

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Welcome to the Doom Wiki
The wiki about the Doom series that [[Help:Editing|anyone can edit]]

25,226 articles since January 2005

About the Doom Wiki

Welcome to the Doom Wiki, a project to document everything related to id Software's classic games Doom and Doom II, as well as games based on the Doom engine. So far we have created 25,226 articles.

This is a wiki, so anyone can create or edit a page. New contributors should read our policies and guidelines first. For the basics on editing, you can refer to "how to edit a page" on Wikipedia. If you need help, or want to discuss general aspects of this wiki, visit Central Processing.

The news board is a place where anyone can post Doom-related news.

Game-related contents   (all pages)

Games & history

• Doom, Doom II
• Final Doom
• Doom 64
• Heretic, Hexen, Strife
• Doom 3, Doom 4
• Doom RPG
• All games...
• Official merchandise
• id Software
• Raven Software
• Doom movie
• Timeline

Community

• WADs & mods
• Editing
• Source ports
• Fan-made Doom games
• People, Quotes
• Websites, IRC
• Speedrunning
• Speedmapping

Gameplay

• Levels (maps, walkthroughs, speedruns)
• Weapons, Ammo
• Items
• Automap
• Monsters
• Other hazards
• Skill levels
• Multiplayer games
• Cheat codes
• Easter eggs

Technical

• Rendering engine
• Engine networking component
• Bugs & limitations
• Source code
• File formats
• WAD format
• Lumps
• Command line arguments

You can also browse using the category system.

Game guides and how-tos

• Help pages
• How to download and run Doom
• How to play Doom on Windows XP
• Walkthroughs for each level
• Glossary

Doom Wiki needs you!

• Walkthroughs for all levels
• Write about PWADs
• Doom 3 material
• Doom Editing tutorials
• General source material
• Doom Wiki's policies and guidelines

• Article stubs and wanted articles.
• Upload images - see the Special:Upload page!
• Clean up articles
• Add citations to articles
• Review articles with disputed content
• Review pages marked for deletion or merging
• Investigate unclear image copyrights
• You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates.
• New articles and files

General help

To write a new article, just enter the article title in the box below.

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Not sure where to start?

• Find out more about the wiki on the About page.
• If you are new to wikis, check out the tutorial.
• Editing help.

Talk and more...

• Check out Doom Wiki:Central Processing to see what the community is working on, to give feedback or just to say hi.
• Special pages
• Administrators

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