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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anytime I think of John Romero, I think of Daikatana and their ad campaign

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Game development wasn't nearly as corporatized back then. At that timeframe the discovery of what's possible was still being invented, let alone formulated. The sheer discovery back then of what you could do in gameplay was a brand new frontier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anyone read our heard the audiobook of Masters of Doom by David Kushner? He goes over the history of both Johns and the history of them creating Doom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've been listening to it in my car over the last few weeks. I'm really enjoying it so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I bought on Audible years ago and have listened to it at least 7 to 8 times. Great book and I learned a lot about the two John's lives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Read his new book and it was a cool look into that era of game design and development. Id games played a huge part in my becoming a computer geek

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He has a new book?

I love John Romero and read all the books about Doom/his life.

Can't wait to check this one out!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

https://romero.com/shop/p/doomguy

Time flies I guess it’s almost a year old already but this is what I was referring to

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So what happened to Blackroom? I'd love to know what happened to that game and the fallout of them pulling the Kickstarter. He clearly moved on to sigil but man I really think he could make a cool new IP with gzdoom if he actually tried, instead of just living in the past with sigil.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I think Selaco beat him to the punch there. I am by no means a game designer but it's seriously impressive what they did with the gzdoom engine. I have a hard time imaging anything that could top it within the same engine.