Doom: The Gallery Experience

January 9 2025

Video: Martinoz

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

As AHN is both dedicated to both the sublime and ridiculous, I thought it was worth sharing news that two game developers have reinterpreted the popular 1990s shoot 'em up classic Doom into a free browser game set in an art gallery.

According to the article linked above:

Doom: The Gallery Experience, created by Filippo Meozzi and Liam Stone, transforms the iconic E1M1 level into a virtual museum space where players guide a glasses-wearing Doomguy through halls of fine art as classical music plays in the background. The game links each displayed artwork to its corresponding page on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website.

"In this experience, you will be able to walk around and appreciate some fine art while sipping some wine and enjoying the complimentary hors d’oeuvres," write the developers on the game's itch.io page, "in the beautifully renovated and re-imagined E1M1 of id Software's DOOM (1993)."

As you'll see from the video above, the comparison to an art show preview is simply uncanny.

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