The Doom Engine WAD Reader and Extractor is an application designed for viewing and extracting information found inside data files known as “WAD” files.

For the longest time since I created levels for DOOM and DOOM-based games I wanted to get into the technical side of the idTech1 engine, but sadly I never got around that. I don’t know why it turned out this way. Maybe because there’s never enough time, or maybe because I was so much involved in the Quake engine development scene.

I always wanted to build a DOOM-like game. I have a great appreciation for the technical design style and fast game-play. To save valuable time I decided to use DOOM’s original art assets while I develop the game engine to spare myself the extra effort and management of new original art asset development. Using original DOOM assets will further help doing a more direct comparison against the original DOOM.

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