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Re:John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its... by abcd_f on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:26AM (#38599266)
> The shareware relase of Doom had four months of development

This is incorrect. Doom took a year.

This was literally in the first answer Carmack gives on the Twitch stream yesterday - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAkaJsvAXs&t=493

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Re:John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its... by 8372049 on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:08AM (#38600313)
GP talks about the shareware release, which was just the first episode, not the full game.

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Shareware

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Re:John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its... by abcd_f on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:15AM (#38600358)
Doom was released (as shareware, upgradable to the full version) after a year in development.
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Re:John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its... by davexunit on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:16AM (#38600806)
Yeah, from what I can tell Romero is referring to Wolfenstein taking 4 months to shareware release here: https://youtu.be/QvAkaJsvAXs?t=3580
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