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Doom for Charity!

Posted by mike May. 7, 2009 @ 11:57 PM EDT

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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May. 8, 2009 | 12:17 AM Flee says:

That's splendid. I find it funny how such a violent game ends up saving lives.


May. 8, 2009 | 12:24 AM BoMToons says:

Incredible! Good on ya!


May. 8, 2009 | 12:26 AM Otto007 says:

OH YEAH BABY!
THIRD COMMENT XD!


May. 8, 2009 | 12:33 AM tyronebiggumz says:

COULD YOU DO CASTLE WOLVENSTEIN NEXT!?!?

please :]


May. 8, 2009 | 12:48 AM xXxAlecxXx says:

YES DOOM


May. 8, 2009 | 1:33 AM BiffTheTimid says:

That's really cool man. I have a lot of respect both you for donating the money, and the foundations you donated to. Both are noble in their own right. Keep up the good work.


May. 8, 2009 | 1:39 AM omegared says:

Awesome has never been so AWESOME! I can believe it those are some of my childhood 1stPSs Ur the man dude! MAN!

thanks.

Also thaats cool of u to donate ur money like u did. :)


May. 8, 2009 | 1:50 AM life says:

The medals are broken. :)


May. 8, 2009 | 1:52 AM aldlv says:

just amazing...
congrats for winner
you have a good heart for giving the prize away... =D, to 2 very good causes
and medals... thanx you so much.. =D


May. 8, 2009 | 5:58 AM Kirk-Cocaine says:

Congrats on winning Mike, you should have given the money to 3D Realms though!


May. 8, 2009 | 8:58 AM skarai says:

Way to go man


May. 8, 2009 | 12:37 PM life says:

Beat the game on doom is still broken. :)

May. 8, 2009 | 3:18 PM mike responds:

sorry, should be working now!


May. 8, 2009 | 1:01 PM BlackCaliber says:

What a stud. I dunno if I could just let go of 3k like that especially since it wasn't in American dollars! Very admirable, sir.


May. 8, 2009 | 3:41 PM life says:

Going through the red door in the chapel at the end of Hexen just brings you to the title screen. If that's the end of the demo then there's no medal rewarded. (I only tried on cleric) Not trying to be a pest, just letting you know the bugs. :)


May. 8, 2009 | 4:26 PM DABridges says:

Awesome news! Yay for violence.
How the hell do you have over 4000 medal points?
oo that's right, you're a programmer. You can do whatever the heck you like.
All play and no work make NG a fun place.


May. 8, 2009 | 4:56 PM groundpwndr says:

You are an alright guy, Mike. I don't care what they say about you.


May. 8, 2009 | 8:27 PM AlxEllis says:

Awesome very good work my man do you think you will have full versions or are they too big?


May. 8, 2009 | 11:57 PM Paryl says:

Newgrounds Anti-Christ.


May. 9, 2009 | 12:57 AM Kajenx says:

Dude, for your next project, do Descent 1!! One of my fave games ever, and I think it's open source now.


May. 9, 2009 | 12:58 AM crapatflash says:

You're an inspiration to us all!... wait ,what am I saying?! You threw away 3000 pounds? ARE YOU INSANE?!?
But really, you SO deserved that win. Flash Doom is awesome, even more so now that you incorporated Hexen and the other one... whatever.


May. 9, 2009 | 1:12 AM RECKLESSFIRE says:

i just played it and i have got to say great job man you Brought happy ness to me once agin with the Classics


May. 9, 2009 | 3:53 AM Cyberdevil says:

How benevolent of you. :/
I'll be blasting my way through that new bundle of games shortly, having the games in flash makes them pretty OS-independant as well, the originals all need addons to work right on newer platforms.


May. 9, 2009 | 10:14 AM Sterance says:

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW MIKE. I'm sure Stallman loves you too.


May. 9, 2009 | 10:58 AM Magical-Mark says:

The mouse control is dodgy but pretty neat.

Congrats on winning and I really loved the triple pack, very nice job, good choice with donating the money you're a good man!


May. 9, 2009 | 6:20 PM tahm10 says:

you should make a pico fps


May. 9, 2009 | 7:19 PM DungeonKirby says:

You are cool men except because is dam hard win portal defenders with you


May. 9, 2009 | 9:25 PM RainbowRiderAlpha says:

Great job!

And with the save function working I can FINALLY beat Doom. I beat Hexen because it's quick, but Doom always took me more than one sitting, and without a save feature, I was very mad.

Very,

very,

mad.


May. 10, 2009 | 4:37 AM DBrackett says:

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.

May. 18, 2009 | 8:39 AM 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!

Updated: May. 18, 2009, 8:40 AM

May. 11, 2009 | 4:36 PM FlashPopcorn1337 says:

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.


May. 11, 2009 | 5:36 PM mongoid says:

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

:-)


May. 11, 2009 | 6:25 PM Chdonga says:

That shit was tight, yo!


May. 13, 2009 | 11:34 AM Allam says:

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


May. 13, 2009 | 11:34 AM Allam says:

non-arrow keys*


May. 13, 2009 | 11:45 AM Allam says:

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


May. 13, 2009 | 6:47 PM PorkytheHedgehog says:

MIKE, YOU ARE A HERO!


May. 13, 2009 | 6:56 PM blaziken789 says:

Holy shit your medals!! D:


May. 14, 2009 | 1:17 AM XionGlydus says:

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.


May. 14, 2009 | 8:16 AM poison-bananas says:

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

because it doesnt work on xp =(


May. 14, 2009 | 8:36 AM Allam says:

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


May. 14, 2009 | 5:45 PM Rucklo says:

mike...

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


May. 16, 2009 | 8:35 AM GOTHCLAWZ says:

So I hear you're a wizard.


May. 16, 2009 | 10:30 AM TheIncredibleD says:

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


May. 17, 2009 | 9:15 AM XionGlydus says:

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.

: )

May. 18, 2009 | 8:32 AM 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!


May. 18, 2009 | 3:48 AM Quatroking says:

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.


May. 19, 2009 | 2:42 AM Gorgorothx says:

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


May. 19, 2009 | 9:38 AM Sweeper128 says:

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


May. 19, 2009 | 11:27 AM kelmaster1 says:

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.


May. 25, 2009 | 8:12 PM DrJam says:

Nice work...


May. 25, 2009 | 11:55 PM Kenshi says:

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?


May. 26, 2009 | 10:38 PM FrozenFire says:

An admirable action my good sir


May. 29, 2009 | 1:28 PM scottmale24 says:

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


Jun. 4, 2009 | 3:32 AM Angerpains says:

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


Jun. 5, 2009 | 10:49 PM lockjones23 says:

thats nice. see? playing videogames help people


Jun. 29, 2009 | 2:55 PM SinRift says:

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


Jul. 1, 2009 | 2:15 PM Chaz says:

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


Jul. 13, 2009 | 12:03 AM jicart says:

Very nice


Jul. 21, 2009 | 4:03 AM mongoid says:

Portal isn't an original game either!!

Good call on giving to charity though! :-)


Jul. 25, 2009 | 2:01 PM Danavers says:

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. =/


Jul. 28, 2009 | 8:16 PM fabolousbob says:

UHAAAAAAARRRGGG!!!!!


Aug. 2, 2009 | 4:25 PM antman1996 says:

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


Aug. 2, 2009 | 4:27 PM antman1996 says:

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


Aug. 9, 2009 | 5:33 PM BruMarioBro says:

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!


Aug. 9, 2009 | 5:38 PM BruMarioBro says:

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!


Aug. 10, 2009 | 3:34 AM MattyMayhem says:

COCK. JOKE.


Sep. 9, 2009 | 8:58 AM GrenaderMan1 says:

You are a noble man.


Sep. 12, 2009 | 2:46 PM mowgomorgan says:

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


Sep. 16, 2009 | 8:22 PM IngeniousCheese says:

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.


Sep. 17, 2009 | 9:26 PM Twilight says:

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.


Sep. 18, 2009 | 8:51 PM BazookaJack says:

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


Sep. 20, 2009 | 1:06 AM ReNaeNae says:

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


Sep. 20, 2009 | 2:51 PM Itsbroken2 says:

You're very generous Mike.


Oct. 22, 2009 | 12:52 PM Falonefal says:

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


Nov. 11, 2009 | 1:58 PM jakenator85 says:

I can has cheeseburgar?


Nov. 16, 2009 | 10:03 AM dmitricat says:

great! keep up the good work!


Nov. 21, 2009 | 7:22 PM antdog96 says:

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

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