SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero

Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by pdpi on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:29AM (#18653939)

Needing the original Doom is par for the course for this sort of megawad project, even if it’s Romero making it. There’s a bunch of tricky licensing issues around shipping the original Doom wad that you’d need for core game resources.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by PostOnce on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:16AM (#18654075)

Yeah, understandable; that's what I meant by the "let's ignore you need DOOM" part, because everything Romero made he's giving away free. So his business model is still "it's free digitally, but costs for the box set".

What I wanted to avoid was people saying "oh but it's not free you have to buy DOOM", which is irrelevant to the idea at hand.

Now that I think of it, locomalito did this before, http://www.locomalito.com -- he makes retro freeware games, and occasionally sells box sets of those for a fee.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by ido on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:55AM (#18654230)

I've looked into it & you're basically making cents on the dollar on these limited edition boxed sets due to manufacturing cost at such a small scale + shipping. It's nice for a hobby but not a good way to make a living.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by PostOnce on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:42AM (#18654416)

Sure. It could always be used as a promo tool / halo product though; e.g. the press you can generate with the limited edition could move units of the non-limited one.

But you're right, generally it's a hobby or just a gesture for the fans, not a business decision -- and that's cool.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by Zardoz84 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:34AM (#18655177)

Today it's very easy picking DooM from GOG or Steam, or any warez site.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by gadders on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:45AM (#18654430)

Does "Original Doom" also include the version on Steam?

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:06AM (#18654525)

I hope so, I've preordered already in the hope that SIGIL runs on the original release - then I'll be playing it on my actual 486 when it arrives!

Obviously I'll have to transfer the WAD over but it's set up so that Win 3.1 can see my NAS so the fact that it ships on USB media hopefully shouldn't present a problem.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by Zardoz84 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:35AM (#18655180)

Install Zandronum or ZDoomGL, and copy the doom.wad to it. You will get a much better experience.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by gadders on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:43AM (#18664811)

Good tip, thanks.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by throwanem on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:36AM (#18655185)

Yes.

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