Three times the Doom engine fun in a browser

Posted May 21st 2009 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Browser, FPS

We are not sure how long it will be before id Software decides to push out a "cease and desist" order on this but while its there it's certainly cool to play. The Newgrounds web site has got a triple play of the original Doom, along with Doom engine games Heretic and Hexen, available to play for free via their Flash-based browser site.

The programmer who ported these games is simply called 'mike' online and he's done a terrific job of getting all three games to run well (although it does require the new Flash 10; sorry, other web browsers). He's been working on this for a while now under the radar but we suspect that since id still sells these games they won't take too kindly to having them available to play for free; that's what Quake Live is for.

[Via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

Tags: doom, heretic, hexen, id-software, newgrounds, raven-software

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Doom source code has been released so this is fine.Posted at 4:06PM on May 21st 2009 by Smurfy

These are only the Shareware versions, so its fine to use them this way. The source code being released doesn't matter though, since they didn't release the PAK's of the missions (outside of the shareware/demo version) for free. Posted at 5:28PM on May 21st 2009 by Sonic