iron-doom

README & build instructions work in progress.

Iron DOOM is a DOOM wad renderer/viewer written using WGPU, notably: with no code from the original DOOM project.

All wad specifications have been implemented either via:

• The Unofficial DOOM Specs
• Doom Wiki
• ZDoom Wiki
• BOOM reference

I've tested this with:

• DOOM / DOOM2
• FreeDOOM
• Heretic
• Chex Quest

Running the code

The last Rust nightly is required:

rustup default nightly
rustup upgrade nightly

Then, run cargo run --release from the id_viewer project.

Soon this will be accessible via a Web interface.

AI Disclosure

I did not use agentic Large Language Models (LLMs) to create this software. This would have gone against my goals for the software:

1. Learn Rust.
2. Reimplement DOOM in a "clean-room" environment. Even if LLMs aren't the original code which is a source of endless debate, they likely have DOOM in their pretraining mix and thus that'd be somewhat cheating.

I had GitHub Copilot (the tab autocomplete) on while creating this project.

I also may have asked ChatGPT a question or two. I rationalized this as similar to the "Game Engine Black Book DOOM" which sometimes pulls out code snippets.