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Every year another Doom birthday rolls by and reminds me of the same thing: I never actually launched the project I started five years ago with @textfiles.com Today, I finally fix that.

Introducing DoomScroll - an endless feed of thousands of user-made Doom WADs from the last 32 years, all playable right in your browser. Our goal was to make decades of work from one of the most creative communities in gaming history more accessible and visible to everyone.

The community has built so much over the years, and there's no question that Doom has had a lasting influence on the game industry as we know it today. Many of today's industry veterans cut their teeth making mods for Doom, and you can see some of their work here.

So if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it. Maybe something you made is in here? doomscroll.cx

woahhh this looks great! Love the lil level layout showcase in it

Thanks! That was fun to make, it's actually downloading and parsing each wad as you scroll to create those previews. I tried rendering them into gifs but the gifs were bigger downloads and looked worse 😂