Doom Classic Screenshots, Still A Work In Progress
May 28, 2009
id Software's Wolfenstein 3D Classic has been selling like hotcakes ever since it was placed in the App Store. People tend to gravitate towards these classic titles for the iPhone because they are games people have grown to love, and they usually bring back some fond memories. If the success of Wolfenstein 3D Classic is any indication of things to come, Doom Classic for the iPhone is going to be one huge success.
John Carmack is the technical director for id Software as well as the co-founder. He basically has had a hand in everything id has ever made. Carmack has been working on the iPhone version of Doom for the last several weeks, putting other projects on hold to get a working version of Doom Classic up and running. He recently updated id's website with a few new screenshots of the game along with a progress report concerning the games development:
Wolfenstein 3D Classic was a quickie project to satisfy my curiosity and test the iPhone waters, but Doom is a more serious effort. In addition to the millions of people with fond memories of the game, there is still an active gaming / development community surrounding the original Doom, and I don't want to disappoint any of them.Carmack goes on to explain how Doom Classic is running at a smooth 30fps, while the game looks and feels just as it did when you first played it in 1993:
With the speed (a solid 30 fps, even in the more aggressive later levels), the audio, the resolution, and the rendering quality, it is Doom as you remember it, which is quite a bit better than it actually was.Doom Classic will allow you to play the full original game along with local Wi-Fi multiplayer. Carmack stated that they will update the game after iPhone OS 3.0 is released to support Bluetooth multiplayer. Carmack is currently taking a break from Doom Classic as the first build has been submitted to beta testers, but he assumes the game should be ready for submission to the App Store sometime next month.
