How long was Evilution in development for?

[SiFi270]

I was just thinking about how two of its maps shared its names with Doom 1 levels, and suddenly wondered if that's because it was originally going to be a Doom 1 megawad and the levels are from that far back in development.

[Guff dotD]

8 minutes ago, SiFi270 said:

I was just thinking about how two of its maps shared its names with Doom 1 levels, and suddenly wondered if that's because it was originally going to be a Doom 1 megawad and the levels are from that far back in development.

 

There's likely no chance that TNT was going to be a D1 wad.

[SiFi270]

I think the chances are a lot higher if development started before Doom 2 was released, which is why I'm asking.

[Jaws In Space]

January 1995 - Team TNT Founded
July 1995 - The Casali's Join Team TNT
24 October 1995 - ID buys TNT Evilution (Some maps removed from project by Shawn Green)
17 June 1996 - Final Doom is released

[SiFi270]

All right. Before I made the thread I did check the wiki page for the wad itself, but that post persuaded me to check out the team's page, which lead me to the page on Wikipedia they apparently still have in this day and age, and that finally lead me to this old Ty Halderman interview that gives a date of "late 1994" at the very earliest. So yeah, most likely at a point when Doom 2 was available.