Notes on the authors of Doom levels.
John Romero's very own DOOM Credits Page
From designer.txt, compiled by Frans P. de Vries:
One Frequently Asked Question regarding DOOM, Ultimate DOOM and DOOM II is:
Who designed which levels?
The following tables provide the detailed answer :)
DOOM
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Map Name Who?
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E1M1 Hangar John Romero
E1M2 Nuclear Plant John Romero
E1M3 Toxin Refinery John Romero
E1M4 Command Control Sandy Petersen
E1M5 Phobos Lab John Romero
E1M6 Central Processing John Romero
E1M7 Computer Station John Romero
E1M8 Phobos Anomaly Sandy Petersen
E1M9 Military Base John Romero
E2M1 Deimos Anomaly Sandy Petersen
E2M2 Containment Area Sandy Petersen
E2M3 Refinery Sandy Petersen
E2M4 Deimos Lab Sandy Petersen
E2M5 Command Center Sandy Petersen
E2M6 Halls of the Damned Sandy Petersen
E2M7 Spawning Vats Sandy Petersen
E2M8 Tower of Babel Sandy Petersen
E2M9 Fortress of Mystery Sandy Petersen
E3M1 Hell Keep Sandy Petersen
E3M2 Slough of Despair Sandy Petersen
E3M3 Pandemonium Sandy Petersen
E3M4 House of Pain Sandy Petersen
E3M5 Unholy Cathedral Sandy Petersen
E3M6 Mt. Erebus Sandy Petersen
E3M7 Limbo Sandy Petersen
E3M8 Dis Sandy Petersen
E3M9 Warrens Sandy Petersen
Ultimate DOOM
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Map Name Who?
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E4M1 Hell Beneath American McGee
E4M2 Perfect Hatred John Romero
E4M3 Sever The Wicked Shawn Green
E4M4 Unruly Evil American McGee
E4M5 They Will Repent Tim Willits
E4M6 Against Thee Wickedly John Romero
E4M7 And Hell Followed John Anderson
E4M8 Unto The Cruel Shawn Green
E4M9 Fear (secret level) Tim Willits
DOOM II
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Map Name Who?
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MAP01 Entryway Sandy Petersen
MAP02 Underhalls American McGee
MAP03 The Gantlet American McGee
MAP04 The Focus American McGee
MAP05 The Waste Tunnels American McGee
MAP06 The Crusher American McGee
MAP07 Dead Simple American McGee
MAP08 Tricks and Traps Sandy Petersen
MAP09 The Pit Sandy Petersen
MAP10 Refueling Base Sandy Petersen
MAP11 'O' of Destruction! John Romero
MAP12 The Factory Sandy Petersen
MAP13 Downtown Sandy Petersen
MAP14 The Inmost Dens American McGee
MAP15 Industrial Zone John Romero
MAP16 Suburbs Sandy Petersen
MAP17 Tenements John Romero
MAP18 The Courtyard Sandy Petersen
MAP19 The Citadel Sandy Petersen
MAP20 Gotcha! John Romero
MAP21 Nirvana Sandy Petersen
MAP22 The Catacombs American McGee
MAP23 Barrels O' Fun Sandy Petersen
MAP24 The Chasm Sandy Petersen
MAP25 Bloodfalls Shawn Green
MAP26 The Abandoned Mines John Romero
MAP27 Monster Condo Sandy Petersen
MAP28 The Spirit World Sandy Petersen
MAP29 The Living End John Romero
MAP30 Icon of Sin Sandy Petersen
MAP31 Wolfenstein Sandy Petersen
MAP32 Grosse Sandy Petersen
Many thanks to Sandy Petersen, now at Ensemble Studios, who provided the
detailed lists for DOOM and DOOM II, and to John Romero, who posted the
Ultimate DOOM list to the doom-editing mailing list on Wed, 12 Apr 1995.
Compiled Fri, 22 Aug 1997.
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Frans P. de Vries | fpv@xymph.iaf.nl | Rec.Games.Computer.Doom FAQ maintainer
Subject: Re: Doom map design credits? From: fpv@thegate.gamers.org (Frans P. de Vries) Date: 1997/05/24 Message-ID: <5m7cd7$5vo@thegate.gamers.org> References: <5lmmnm$eca$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,rec.games.computer.doom.misc,rec.games.computer.quake.misc Organization: Gamers, subsidiary of Abydos, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,rec.games.computer.doom.misc,rec.games.computer.quake.misc Alex Kubiak (awkubiak@ucdavis.edu) wrote: } I know that Quake's "manual.txt" file tells who designed each Quake } map. Is there a similar list somewhere that tells who designed each } Doom/Doom2 map? Here's what John Romero said about that on 17 May 1995 in r.g.c.d.misc: "DOOM level design: i did the first episode, except for level 8 (Sandy did it). And level 4 was a Tom Hall makeover. In the last 2 episodes, Sandy Peterson did mostly new levels, with many of them makeovers of Tom Hall's earlier efforts and one level of Shawn Green's." And on 12 Apr 95 on the doom-editing mailing list: "You may all be interested in who did what level and what the map names are; this is prerelease info since The Ultimate DOOM hasn't been released yet: Map Who? Name ------------------------------------------------------ 4-1 American McGee Hell Beneath 4-2 John Romero Perfect Hatred 4-3 Shawn Green Sever The Wicked 4-4 American McGee Unruly Evil 4-5 Tim Willits They Will Repent 4-6 John Romero Against Thee Wickedly 4-7 John Anderson And Hell Followed 4-8 Shawn Green Unto The Cruel 4-9 Tim Willits Fear (secret level) Tim Willits is the reknowned Raven WADs creator and has been hired by Rogue Entertainment (developers of Strife for id Software). Tim had some spare time to create a couple cool maps for this Special Edition of DOOM. John Anderson, aka Dr. Sleep, also did a very, very nice job on 4-7 (which he originally titled CHIRON.WAD). Amazingly enough, 4-3 was Shawn Green's VERY FIRST MAP! And 4-8 was his second map -- you can definitely see the improvement!" No detailed info is available on DOOM II, but I guess it was a, possibly uneven, split between John Romero, Sandy Petersen and American McGee. -- Frans P. de Vries | fpv@xymph.iaf.nl | Rec.Games.Computer.Doom FAQ maintainer
(But see comprehensive list above -- Lee)