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Generated interpretation, not documentary evidence. Reused original illustration of a fictional computing desk and wireframe corridor, not DOOM footage, a real editor or a copied map.
Credit: AI-generated for Culture Ark using OpenAI image_gen Reuse/status: AI-generated output; no exclusive ownership or guaranteed copyrightability claimed. Underlying works, marks and cultural permissions remain separate. Reused original illustration of a fictional computing desk and wireframe corridor, not DOOM footage, a real editor or a copied map. The original phrase 'spawned modding' should not be read as a verified claim that all game modification began with DOOM. The 1993 game is distinct from DOOM 2016. Published source code does not authorize unrestricted reuse of game art, music or data; no repository, WAD or game binary was downloaded.
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The following original text is preserved, including its selection/vote claims. Preservation is not independent verification of every assertion.
Why: The first-person shooter that spawned modding.
What to preserve: Game, WAD files, ports to everything
Year and origin: 1993 · United States
Vote: 6/9 (historian 2 · future kid 2 · curator 2)
Learn more: Doom (1993 video game) on Wikipedia
Supplemental context
DOOM belongs in a cultural archive as a played work and as a focus of modification and exchange. Bethesda's anniversary account dates the original release to December 10, 1993 and explicitly notes that it was not the first first-person shooter. The developer's published source repository adds another preservation distinction: source code is not the same thing as the game's data. A future reader can use that distinction to understand why preserving software involves versions, dependencies and permissions as well as images. Player-made maps and later ports belong to related creative histories, not automatically to the original release.
Creator/community: id Software; later port developers, level makers and modding communities Place/era: United States; original computer game released December 10, 1993
Context and limits
The original phrase 'spawned modding' should not be read as a verified claim that all game modification began with DOOM. The 1993 game is distinct from DOOM 2016. Published source code does not authorize unrestricted reuse of game art, music or data; no repository, WAD or game binary was downloaded.
Where to learn more
- https://apiarybee.com/community/reading/biggie-nu-series-008-noahs-ark-set-d-culture-2000
- https://bethesda.net/en-US/news/doom-turns-22
- https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM
Apiary library | Original Culture Ark article
Public ID and individual routes: pending publisher allocation. Internal source ID: D-0511
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