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Every year another Doom birthday rolls by and reminds me of the same thing: I never actually launched the project I started five years ago with @textfiles.com Today, I finally fix that.

Introducing DoomScroll - an endless feed of thousands of user-made Doom WADs from the last 32 years, all playable right in your browser. Our goal was to make decades of work from one of the most creative communities in gaming history more accessible and visible to everyone.

The community has built so much over the years, and there's no question that Doom has had a lasting influence on the game industry as we know it today. Many of today's industry veterans cut their teeth making mods for Doom, and you can see some of their work here.

There's so much stuff here - everything from simplistic maps made by kids just learning how game development works, all the way up through full total conversions with all-new music, textures, and sprites, made by volunteer teams that went on to become full-fledged game studios.

woahhh this looks great! Love the lil level layout showcase in it

Thanks! That was fun to make, it's actually downloading and parsing each wad as you scroll to create those previews. I tried rendering them into gifs but the gifs were bigger downloads and looked worse 😂