So what is this Doomed Again thing ? Basically, it's a complete remake of the classic Doom games based on the EDGE sourceport. Just read this page (and this one) and you'll know everything there's to know about it. So it's a fork of EDGE ? Not really. I do not plan to change the EDGE sourcecode. The DDF files used by EDGE are flexible enough. If you don't know what DDF files are, you should read this. Do I have to own Doom or Doom 2 to run it ? Yes. Although all assets from the original games are replaced with brand-new ones, you'll need the official DOOM.WAD or DOOM2.WAD (not the shareware DOOM1.WAD) for legal reasons. As Doomed Again is a remake of ID's intellectual property, it cannot be released as a stand-alone package. Will it run on Linux ? Yes. Even the editor, which is written in C#, will run thanks to Mono. Will it be free ? Yes. And the editor will be open source. Will it run on my computer ? Probably. Any 1Ghz+ CPU and DirectX 9.0 compatible GPU should handle Doomed Again without trouble. Havings lots of video RAM can be useful, though, as there are lots of high-resolution textures to precache. If you have 512 Mb or more, you should be alright. OMG!!!! This monster/weapon doesn't look exactly like its vanilla Doom counterpart!!!! You suck!!!11!!! Doomed Again is not a faithful recreation of Doom from scratch (what would be the point?). It's a remake. Why is the website so ugly? Because I don't want to spend hours designing a website. When will it be released? When it's done. |