Chocolate-doom
Chocolate doom
https://www.chocolate-doom.org
Minimal Doom game engine
Chocolate Doom is a minimal vanilla chocolate doom engine, meaning it emulates the original one even including some of it's bugs (e.g. save buffer overrun, but can be disabled).
Before running, you may want to setup the game settings like keybindings using the chocolate-doom-setup program. Then to play Doom, Chocolate Doom requires IWAD files (which have all the levels and assets), such as the ones of the Freedoom project, which may be already downloadable through your package manager. Then specify them via e.g. chocolate-doom -iwad [path to your freedoom .wad]
Documentation
https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/User_guide
Download
https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/archive/refs/tags/chocolate-doom-3.1.0.tar.gz
User level
Beginner
VCS Checkout
Categories
- Game:action
- Game:shoot-em-up
- Graphics:3d
- Interface:command-line
- Interface:console
- Interface:x-window-system
- Program-build-automation:make-related
- Programming-language:C
- Runs-on:GNU/Linux
- Runs-on:Windows
- Runs-on:BSD
- Runs-on:OS X
- Software-development:game-development
- Use:gameplaying
- Use:interface
- Use:software-development
Licensing
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Fabian Greffrath | Author |
| Samuel Villarreal | Author |
| Jonathan Dowland | Author |
| Turo Lamminen | Author |
| Alexey Khokholov | Author |
| James Haley | Author |
| Simon Howard | Author |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Users | Changelog | https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/releases |
| Users (for feedback, questions or suggestions) | Mailing List | chocolate-doom-dev-list@chocolate-doom.org |
| Users | Homepage | https://www.chocolate-doom.org |
| Users | Bug Tracking | https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/issues |
| Users | Download | https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/archive/refs/tags/chocolate-doom-3.1.0.tar.gz |
| Developers | VCS Repository Webview | https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom |
Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Required to build | automake |
| Weak prerequisite | sdl_net |
| Weak prerequisite | libsamplerate |
| Weak prerequisite | libpng |
| Required to build | autoconf |
| Required to build | make |
| Required to build | cmake |
| Weak prerequisite | sdl_mixer |
| Weak prerequisite | fluidsynth |
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