Doomsday Engine

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A portable game engine for classic first person shooters such as DOOM, Heretic and Hexen. Lets you enjoy the original games using modern technology, including high-resolution OpenGL graphics, 3D models, and dynamic lighting effects.

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A Next-Gen engine based on ancient-gen ideas

  by JonusC

What started as an ambitious source-port of the classic Doom videogame and it's derivatives (e.g., Heretic/Hexen), the Doomsday engine has evolved to one of the most impressive enhancements of the videogame both visually and in capability. I'm not sure of the exact specifics of the codebase, but whether or not it actually is true the Doomsday engine seems like a complete engine re-write, supporting many modern FPS features and a highly optimizied ... [More] graphics engine.

There is just too much to say about it, it has near capability to power current-gen games and is overlooked too often by hobbyist/independant game creators. I can however one day see Doomsday maturing into a full-scale engine independant of Doom-esque videogames. So any of you game creators out there reading this, take a look at what this can do - and consider the power of Doomsday for your next game or 3D interactive software idea.

Pros:
+ Extremely impressive graphical engine
+ Very well designed and layed-out (user interface and frontend wise)
+ Very easily programmable with existing tools (for example, map-making with pretty much any Doom WAD or BSP map maker)
+ Uses common fileformats for data and resources, no proprietary garbage (plain text definitions/scripts, MD2 models, OGG and MP3 audio, etc)
+ FAST as hell!

Cons:
- No physics support (yet)
- Limited multiplayer capabilities compared to Skulltag for example (but this is being improved!)
- Lack of detailed documentation for "mod-from-scratch" developers (to be expected with such a dynamic project) [Less]

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    Doomsday 1.9.0-beta6.9 Released

    Posted 5 months ago by da...@dengine.net (DaniJ)

    Doomsday 1.9.0-beta6.9 has been uploaded to SourceForge.net and is now available for download. The release notes are to be found at the wiki as per usual.Statistics : Posted by DaniJ • on 07 Apr 2010, 21:51 • Replies 3 • Views 219

    Addons page is back!

    Posted 6 months ago by webm...@dengine.net (KuriKai)

    Hey everyone. We have finally got the addons page back up and running.
    This time though the addons are only available to download via bittorrent. This is so the websites bandwidth doesn't get used up again.
    And a thanks to freelanzer for ... [More] hosting the http seedsStatistics : Posted by KuriKai • on 20 Mar 2010, 08:55 • Replies 0 • Views 10 [Less]

    Future Doomsday Add-on Distribution

    Posted 8 months ago by da...@dengine.net (DaniJ)

    Prior to our host's web server upgrade just before Christmas we were fortunate to have been granted unlimited bandwidth for this site and our Add-on repository (files.dengine.net). Back when we first set up the Add-on repository the amount of ... [More] bandwidth required to provide that service was relatively small. However just before the web server upgrade we were confronted with the fact that our bandwidth usage had risen dramatically. Although good in the sense that Doomsday is clearly becoming a lot
    ...Statistics : Posted by DaniJ • on 05 Jan 2010, 14:08 • Replies 3 • Views 77 [Less]

    Doomsday 1.9.0-beta6.8 Released

    Posted 9 months ago by sky...@dengine.net (skyjake)

    Version 1.9.0-beta6.8 has been uploaded to SourceForge.net and should beavailable for download very soon. Release notes are in the wiki as usual: http://dengine.net/dew/index.php?title= ... .0-beta6.8

    Discuss here in the News ... [More]
    ...Statistics : Posted by skyjake • on 04 Dec 2009, 11:11 • Replies 0 • Views 1491 [Less]

    Doomsday 1.9.0-beta6.8 Released

    Posted 9 months ago by da...@dengine.net (DaniJ)

    Version 1.9.0-beta6.8 has been uploaded to SourceForge.net and should be available for download very soon. Release notes are in the wiki as usual: http://dengine.net/dew/index.php?title= ... .0-beta6.8Statistics : Posted by DaniJ • on 02 Dec 2009, 15:33 • Replies 8 • Views 152

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