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Doom for Charity!

5/7/09 by mike
Updated 5/8/09

Not too long ago, my Flash port of Doom was nominated for the FHM's 2009 Web Game Awards. With the help of you awesome NG users, it managed to win the contest, including a £3000 cash prize!

It's cool that the game won, but I wasn't crazy about taking the cash prize. The folks at id Software are the ones who created this incredible game -- all I did was recompile it into Flash. That's nothing compared to creating original and great Flash games like Robokill and Portal!

So I've decided to donate the prize to a good cause. I've donated half of the winnings to the Canary Foundation. The Canary Foundation is dedicated to finding simple tests for detecting cancer early, when it's most treatable. You can read a good article on The Canary Foundation over at Wired.

I've donated the other half of the winnings to the Free Software Foundation. id Software has always been a supporter of free software and is kind enough to publicly release the source code to its old games. This lets hackers like me tinker and learn! It seems only fitting to give back to the free software movement. :)

To go along with this blog post, I was planning to update Flash Doom with some bugfixes. Well, I got a little carried away -- because I added support for Heretic and Hexen by Raven Software! Instead of flooding the Portal with conversions, I've packaged them all into the Doom Triple Pack! I did add mouse control, but Flash isn't very good at it, so unfortunately you have to click and drag. All three games have medals to collect. Enjoy!

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promat promat

12/12/10

nice BTW where is the milatary base level in doom?


portal flash is not original, its based on a game, but anyway, bravo for giving all that to charity!


antdog96 antdog96

11/21/09

thats awsome you donated half of your winnings very awsome dud ei respect you for that


dmitricat dmitricat

11/16/09

great! keep up the good work!


jakenator85 jakenator85

11/11/09

I can has cheeseburgar?


Falonefal Falonefal

10/22/09

I love Hexen more than anything.
You made it possible to play Hexen quick.
thus, I love you =D


BrokenPaw BrokenPaw

9/20/09

You're very generous Mike.


ReNaeNae ReNaeNae

9/20/09

ooh! look at you all red and admin'd!

Your name isn't in the list at the bottom of the forum pages tho (in the 'moderated by' section). As an admin, you should make someone fix that! ;P


can what like have look then so the did want yes?


Bees Bees

9/17/09

Ugh Mike. I need help. I had a dream that you hosted a Meet in my town and like 100 NGers came and when I got there you welcomed me and told me a funny joke and we both laughed (don't remember cause this dream was a while ago). Anyway, you were in a very bright green shirt. Just wondering if you have a green shirt. If you do, I'm obviously gay for you.


Great that´s a good thing. I still prefering Doom Triple Pack even if Heretic medals aren´t working for me but I don´t care of that.


with the doom itself i could not open the doors i pressed the buttons it said to press but it didnt work? help small bit of info that might help im a mac


You are a noble man.


COCK. JOKE.


Oh, and there's sometinhg else about that same problem:
Even if I use a noclipping code to get through the exit door and then deactivate it, the exit button doesn't work either! What's the problem with that part, anyway? Please fix that! PLEASE!


Hey, that's great! I love that!
...Except for one thing:
When I'm playing Heretic, I stumble upon something really bad: at Episode 1 Map 5 (The Citadel), the exit door doesn't seem to open, no matter how hard I try! Is something wrong with that part of the game? If so, please fix that up!


INOW WUT HAPINS IN THE END ITS SWEEEEEEEEEEEET
MAN....."WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHO OOOOOOOOOO"


IMUST KILL ILOVE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D


UHAAAAAAARRRGGG!!!!!


Danavers Danavers

7/25/09

Wow, that's great. I got all the medals for the triple pack. Maybe you should try porting three other games, say Blood, Quake and umm Strife (or maybe Marathon or Wolfenstein 3D). Just a suggestion, and it's probably not even possible. =/


mongoid mongoid

7/21/09

Portal isn't an original game either!!

Good call on giving to charity though! :-)


jicart jicart

7/13/09

Very nice


Chaz Chaz

7/1/09

That's a really commendable thing to do dude, and nice work on the great conversions!


SinRift SinRift

6/29/09

Mad props for the donations. Good work on the flash!


thats nice. see? playing videogames help people


Good to see you doing something good for the world, Mike.


Me and my DOOM tattoo are happy now. Thank you.


FrozenFire FrozenFire

5/26/09

An admirable action my good sir


Kenshi Kenshi

5/25/09

I have a question about your game pack, it may be a stupid one, but.

On Doom, when you try to go to the other two episodes, it says "This is a shareware version, get the full version to play this." Can you buy it in flash? or is that saying buy the game itself?


DrJam DrJam

5/25/09

Nice work...


kelmaster1 kelmaster1

5/19/09

Nice work man, very thoughtful of you. Also humbling of how you view your works to others.

Oh ya, some douche on Digg is trying to get visits to his site with your game. Fellow NG-ers are there to help in comments to steer them to the true creator.


Sweeper128 Sweeper128

5/19/09

You've been Cock-Blocked by digg. Your game is up there, but it's on a different site, not Newgrounds.

http://digg.com/pc_games/DOOM_Triple_
Pack_including_DOOM_I_Hexen_Heretic


Gorgorothx Gorgorothx

5/19/09

Love the triple pack! It's really cool of you to donate your earnings to good causes! Cheers ;)


Quatroking Quatroking

5/18/09

You should try to get the Commander keen source and recompile that. I've loved those games and they would do great in a flash environment.


XionGlydus XionGlydus

5/17/09

Allam, thanks for the reply but I'm not 100% sure you understand what I'm getting at. Most people who've played Doom, Doom II, Heretic and Hexen will all know how frustrating the controls are without a mouse look option. This is not present in the game and Mike has stated that he is having trouble (or at least I'm very sure) making the mouse have full functionality for looking, without the hassle of dragging across the screen.

Felt I should just elaborate a bit for you.

: )

5/18/09 mike responds:

Yes, unfortunately there is no way to implement the traditional FPS mouse-look functionality in Flash. The dragging is really the best that you can do. Bummer!


Aww man... you should have given me enough to get flash. :(


Conal Conal

5/16/09

So I hear you're a wizard.


Rucklo Rucklo

5/14/09

mike...

you're good people! keep being awesome! :)


Allam Allam

5/14/09

XionGlydus: I found out that the game menus didn't have options for changing controls, but Mike added the option on the game selection menu that affects all three games.

Great idea since the games are so similar, but a bit confusing since now there's two levels of game options that some people might miss at first glance :p


do you think it would be possible to port arkania blade of destiny?

because it doesnt work on xp =(


XionGlydus XionGlydus

5/14/09

I still really hope you try and update the controls on these games. I seriously would LOVE to play them if they had better control schemes.


Holy shit your medals!! D:


MIKE, YOU ARE A HERO!


Allam Allam

5/13/09

heh, nvm, found the key binding menu, was looking inside the game option menus instead of the game selection screen. duh.


Allam Allam

5/13/09

non-arrow keys*


Allam Allam

5/13/09

Yo Mike, I'm left-handed and I can't effectively use the arrow keys to play this game, any chance of providing an option for key bindings or at least an alternate setup for us left-handed people out there?

Great stuff otherwise.

Thanks.

Allam


Chdonga Chdonga

5/11/09

That shit was tight, yo!


mongoid mongoid

5/11/09

You're a good man, Mike! Keep up the good work.

:-)


Nice,but why don't you make more flash games? You're a very good programmer,so it doesn't seem like you're struggling with anything.


DBrackett DBrackett

5/10/09

If ID software is about open source, then why do they still care about making money on their 'old' games?

Its not open source when they push you to buy their old dinosaur (yet fun) games....Free software is about freedom, check out the GNU public license and all those goodies. Those games are not covered and fall under the catagory "Shareware" or "Freeware" because they STILL require you to pay...

Good you gave money to the people in need, and the open source peeps.

5/18/09 (Updated 5/18/09) mike responds:

I think this is a pretty unforgiving viewpoint. First off, the Doom source IS released under the GNU Public License. The software itself is now totally free -- only the game assets (art, levels, etc.) are copyright. At the same time, id has every right to make a living from their work and to protect their franchises (hell, there is an official iPhone Doom coming soon!)

id is one of the few companies that actively supports the Linux community and releases the source to their old engines. These engines have probably helped countless people and spawned tons of open source projects!