DOOM

1 DOOM BibleBibleby Tom Hallby Tom HallRevision Number .02 Revision Number .02 Date: 11/28/92 Date: 11/28/92 DOOM BibleContents Table of ContentsTable of ContentsGame SpecsGame Specs SectionSectionDoom Command Line Parameters ..1 Intro and Demo Panel ..3 Play Loop ..4 End of game ..5 Game InfoGame InfoCharacters ..6 Episode 1 ..7 Story .. Bits .. 2 ..8 Episode 3 ..9 Episode 4 ..10 Episode 5 ..11 Episode 6 ..12 Commercial ..13 Stuff: Weapons, Items, Etc..14 DOOM Press release ..15 Random Notes ..16 DOOM Calendar ..17 AppendicesAppendicesGlossary ..AFile Extensions .. BUtilities ..CRandom Extremely Important Info Too Small to RateHaving its Own Section ..DKnown and Unfixed Bugs ..EDOOM BibleSection 1 Command Line Command Line ParametersYou can run Doom with the follorwing parameters:DOOM/bugsAll debug keys enabledDOOM/memShow mem readout in scope or report windowDOOM/EPISODE=xRun episode number x (must have /bugs)DOOM/LEVEL=xRun absolute level x ( )DOOM/END=xGo to end cinematic of episode xDOOM/lotharRun Ep 1, Level 1 in god mode w/ shotsDOOM/backdoorSkip copy protection on commercialDOOM/instoreRuns demo loop until turned offDOOM/followRoutine names printed in readout windowDOOM/diagnosticUpper two windows show diagnostic infoDOOM/bubbiesReplace all actors with naked womenDOOM/prudeCancels effects of bubbies parametersDOOM/drunkOccasionally invokes the bubbies mode I wonder where Buddy is?

2 DOOM BibleSection 2 2. Intro and Demo Loop2. Intro and Demo LoopDemo LoopTitle and Credits:Demon face and creditsCinematicDemoHigh ScoresDOOM BibleSection 3 3. Control Panel3. Control PanelWork on clever, integral menuChoice of trainer (commercial only, has own WAD)DOOM BibleSection 4 4. Play Loop4. Play LoopNew 3-D engineDOOM BibleSection 5 5. End of Game5. End of GameEach game can end three ways: User Abort, player death with no lives left, and playervictory.

3 Each is covered here. Where the episodes differ (like the cinematics), you willfind the necessary information in the Unique Bits section of each OF GAME: USER ABORTWhen the user invokes the during-game Abort, a prompt window appears askingthem to verify. If they say yes, the guy dies in maze and control panel OF GAME: DEATHPull back to see self die, view remains in maze. Window over view of dead guy choice to continue If you don t Control Panel over OF GAME: WINC inematic (see Unique Bits for graphic details) will be very similar for allcharacters, but will show how player s character reacts in one of two small facereaction shots plus individual BibleSection 6 6. Characters6. CharactersThese are the four characters in Doom:Lorelei ChenAge: 27 Weight: 151 Height: 5 10 Physical Description: Muscular, tall woman, attractive, but has strangely too-intenseeyes.

4 Oriental featured in the brown eyes and black hair, which is drawn back into alarge knot. Scar on left shoulder from rock-climbing Description: Fiercely competitive, Lorelei intimidates most people. She wonher troop boxing championship. Lost a bet that meant she had to pull her application fora glory post. Too late to reapply, she got this post. Married for six months once, husbanddivorced her for irreconcilable differences. From European Alliance. No one calls : Fast. Crack shot with : Once wounded, she still tends to push herself to compensate, so woundscan keep ticking off more. Not used to Petro PietrovichAge: 34 Weight: 190 Height: 5 9 Physical Description: Black balding man with thick eyebrows. Missing last joint of rightring finger. Brown Description: Former head of security at AWR (Advanced Weapons Research)Labs, Petro grew tired of the overwhelming bureaucracy of the UAAF. Hisinsubordination cost him his rank, and his assignment on Tei Tenga was his request,made to get away from the epicenter of annoyance while finishing out his term of : Good with standard shell weapons.

5 Can take : Average speed. Not used to missile ParamoAge: 37 Weight: 191 Height: 5 11 Physical Description: Bulky, slightly overweight greek-spaniard with swarthy butunkempt looks. Frizzly dark brown hair explodes and falls off his Description: Dimitri is basically stuck in the low ranks of the military, but thatsuits him just fine. He wants nothing more from life: give him a clear objective and thechance to release aggression through the freely available high-powered firearms, and he : Very good with a ll weapons. Can take a lot of : BibleSection 6 Thi BarrettAge: 22 Weight: 130 Height: 5 6 Physical Description: Red-haired and trim, Thi (Pronounced Tee ) has piercing blueeyes, and is stout but gorgeous. A toss of hair tends to fall over her forehead. She holdsa bewitching dimpled smile in reserve until it proves Description: Thi has a friendly, if straight-laced, disposition.

6 Father was asargeant in the UAAF, a career soldier that gave Thi a strong sense of duty and in unarmed combat competition. She volunteered for this post because no onewanted it, and with a desire to have a variety of experience in her military : Faster than Average. Hard to hit. Does incredible damage with : Low hit of course, Dacote: the guy that diesAge: 29 Weight: 202 Height: 6 2 Physical Description: Very fit and powerful, Buddy always wears a hat that says BEOS which stands for Butt End of Space. Caucasian with brown/Blond hair and green Description: Popular and courageous, Buddy got sent to Tei Tenga Darksidefor showing up a superior officer. His stay here is just temporary though he was senthere as a security advisor. Buddy has a good sense of humor. Inside Info: Dacote standsfor Dies at conclusion of this episode. OTHER NAMESR oland Trague, Warren Apisa, Taradina Cassatt, Melanie Butch Bucelli, JanellaSabandoDOOM BibleSection 7 7.

7 Episode One:7. Episode One:This must be kept small and powerful. It is limited to a 700K download StoryEpisode One: Evil Unleashed or All Hell Breaks LooseYou are a soldier in the UAAF (United Aerospace Armed Forces) assigned to thesecondary military research base on the darkside of the giant moon Tei Tenga (nicknamed the Butt End of Space ). You and four friends are having a game of cards in the hangarbay. One of your friends leaves to go on , the research team are doing experiments at the anomalies found on themoon. There is a flash of horrible light and energy and two gates open at equidistant pointson the moon s surface, the larger of the two at the lightside. Every awake is quickly reaching for the alarm button has his hand chopped off. Briefly your friend isgrabbed, his hat falling off in the lab. Then they spread out through the airducts andpossessing sleeping people with short while later, a strange alien creature bursts into the room.

8 ( What the hell? )A fight ensures. Whoever s left in your squad investigates the base, where a dark talebegins to unfold. A bunch of small hostile alien creatures have invaded the base. Strangesymbols are drawn everywhere in the blood of dead soldiers and scientists. The more yougo forward, the stranger and grosser the walls become. One your way, you find yourfriend s you make it to the control lab. You also find a gate to another place in thewreckage of what was a containment chamber. One the other side, you find two hugebeasts in a circular natural rock canyon and the remains of the lab team. Between thebeasts is your friend and they quarter him. You defeat the beasts, turn to leave, only to findthe hole closing! You re trapped here! You climb the rock walls, and look at yoursurroundings from the top of this extinct volcano: Oh, DOOM BibleSection 7 ActorsThese actors appear on episode one:Other playersOther players will look similar, but their suits will be of different colors.

9 Other colorchanges will reflect different weapons and in the commercial game, HumansOnce human, these poor folks were possessed in their sleep. Their uniforms can bepalette changed to reflect different ImpsAnnoying little bastards, the imps come in different flavors, with later ones firingspikes and TroopsThese guys do a lot of damage up close. Later Troops cast SargeantsThese guys do a lot more damage up close. Later sargeant cast floor-boiling BrothersTwin terrors at the end of episode one, these guys do the following:(Insert interesting description of behavior and how they are beat here.)DOOM BibleSection 7 Unique Unique BitsUnique to this episode are the following bases on the planet Tei Tenga used to be the glory posts, but lack of progress with theresearch has cased money to be funneled away to the point of its current staff a group ofdedicated, almost messianic scientists and a skeleton crew of security two bases are Lightside and darkside: the planet does not rotate, so there is no dayor night.

10 The anomalies being studied are on the planet s magnetic CinematicThe intro cinematic goes like this (a lot of pictures are repeated, so don't worry):View from space of planet (ballmapped):Military research base, moon Tei Tenga (rotates)(shows "Lightside" and "darkside", then rotates to darkside and zooms in and fades out)Zoom into room with live guys playing cards. Small pictures of each of their eyesblinking, looking to other side. Back to main : I'm out. I gotta go on duty anyway. See you : Pay-up or die, (leaving, door shuts): I'll pay you after my shift, Petro. I got some money BibleSection 7 View of side of moon. Sparks and red light at both : Would you go, Paramo?See frightened faces of lab guys, flashed and faded on eyes : Leave me reaches for alarm, chopped off (Both in strobe flash.)