Three Decades of DOOM (Documentary)

[Dantosking]

Three Decades of DOOM - a documentary cycle video about DOOM-community in its different time periods. Most "YouTube" videoclips are touching the DOOM franchise itself, and it's developers, but they practically do not shed the light on the contribution to it made by it's fans. Three Decades of DOOM fills this gap.

The first episode is describing the significant events from 1994 to 1996. - Why Aliens TC still remains the most often mentioned project? What influence did DWANGO service have on the games, and the multiplayer in particular back then? How did the players organize team matches, using only Deathmatch by default? The forgotten persons, their maps/levels and events in Three Decades of DOOM!

The preliminary showcase of the introductory video will be held on December 9-th in St. Petersburg, at the Russian DoomCon event.
The video will be released on YouTube in the end of this year's December.
Its English version will be ready in the beginning of 2024

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Edited December 7, 2023 by Dantosking

[DRON12261]

[Cutman 999]

HYPE!

[Insaneprophet]

I WILL WATCH THIS!

[MemeMind]

Looks awesome! I am always interested on how the community was back then. 

[Dantosking]

Unfortunately, due to a series of life circumstances, the release of the first episode of the documentary series "Three Decades of DOOM" has been postponed until next year.

 

Having held about 7 LAN parties this year, among which was the Russian Doomcon, I, as the head of LegacyZ and the leader of the above-mentioned project, got burned out and I decided to take a some kind of vacation.

 

Over the past 5 years, my personal life has been exchanged for various online and live events, competitions, tournaments and irregular streams. It's time to tip the scales in the opposite direction. Of course, I could rush as fast as I can and release the episode on December 31st, but how good will it turn out? Things made in haste are rarely of good quality. I'm not very good at video editing or voice acting, but the material requires serious dedication, which I can't provide yet. The three chapters shown at Russian Doomcon need some rework. The people who help me are also busy with their own projects and the main part of the work remains with me.

 

The project will not be abandoned or paused for a long period. A few months will be more than enough time to complete the story of the community's origins.

 

At one point I thought about dividing the episode into at least 2 parts, but now I'm returning to the idea of "one era - one episode". While researching the early period of the Doom community from 1994 to 1996, I came across an immeasurable amount of information. Dozens of map editors and various utilities, hundreds of forgotten tournaments, thousands of wad files and an endless number of messages on the usernet network. Not only the game, but also its fans and their projects are a real phenomenon.

 

Release dates for the Russian and English versions will be announced as soon as they are ready.

We will meet for sure!

 

[Dantosking]

I believe this topic could be helpful with the assistance of researching specific events and persons. 

I still don't have any deathmatch demos from:
-Deathmatch 95 (Qualifications or Finals)
-Quakecon 1996 (yea, there was a DOOM II Tournament)
-The Doom II Release Party/Doomsday Party (The Limelight Club, New York) -n eed more photos and videos, I've seen only 2 pics from there)
Probably these demos were never exist but who knows

Looking for photos of these persons:

Spoiler

[Team TNT]
-Ty Halderman
-Jim Flynn

[The Innocent Crew]
-Denis Moller
-Tomas Moller

[iFrag/Kali Authors]
-Scott Coleman
-Jay Cotton

-Pavel Hodek
-Bjorn Hermans
-Sean Birkel

 

Edited May 24 by Dantosking

[Dexiaz]

I'll post here just because I have 40 followers (lol), possibly someone who could help you will see your message.

[Dantosking]

Approximate content of the first episode.  As soon as the Russian version is ready, we will begin translating into English and finding people for voice acting

[Dantosking]

The documentary's current length is 53 mins
Estimated video length - 1h 30 mins.

[Dantosking]

Still looking for VHS-tapes DOOM tournaments or just LAN-Parties from 1990s

So what I have..

USA:
-Deathmatch 95' at Judgment Day sponsored by Microsoft (Redmond, USA) on October 30, 1995.
-Unknown DOOM II Tournament, USA, 1996.

Russia:
-Heure Cup (St. Petersburg) 
Qualifiers - September 22, 1996 
Final - November 9, 1996.
-DOOM Tournament, Yekaterinburg (semifinals and finals) 1997.
-DOOM Tournament, Tula, 1997.
-DOOM II Championship, Pskov, April 5-6, 1997.

Some screenshots from documentary:

Edited May 11 by Dantosking