Freedoom
| Freedoom | |
|---|---|
 Shooting at enemy zombies in MAP01 | |
| Genre | FPS |
| Latest release | 0.13.0 (Announcement) |
| Release date | January 29th, 2024 |
| Developer | Freedoom project contributors |
| Code license | GPL |
| Media license | Modified BSD License |
| Engine | Doom |
| Contribute | |
| Freedoom is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. | |
 AUR:
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freedoom |
|---|---|
 Debian:
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Games/freedoom |
 Fedora:
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freedoom |
 Flatpak:
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io.github.freedoom.Phase1 |
 FreeBSD:
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doom-freedoom |
 Gentoo:
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games-fps/freedoom |
 OpenSUSE:
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freedoom |
 Ubuntu:
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freedoom |
Freedoom is a project aimed to create free data replacements for the Doom and Doom II IWAD files, as Phase 1 and Phase 2. Combined with the GPLed Doom Source (such as PrBoom or GZDoom), this makes a completely free (as in speech) game. The data is licensed under the Modified BSD License.[1] Episode 4 of Phase 1 is the Cacoward winning Double Impact which was donated by its creators. The project is aiming for a more direct science fiction setting to differentiate it from Doom. A few forks exists, namely Satanic Infestation, which strives to maintain a hellish theme, GZFreePunk, which utilizes GZDoom specific features, and the custom Lotan's Tomb. The game previously required a Boom-compatible source port, but has subsequently been made compatible with vanilla Doom.
Version history[edit]
- 0.13.0 was released on January 29, 2024.
- 0.12.1 was released on October 22, 2019.
- 0.12.0 was released on October 10, 2019.
- 0.11.3 was released on July 18, 2017.
- 0.11.2 was released on March 3, 2017.
- 0.11.1 was released on February 22, 2017.
- 0.11 was released on February 16, 2017.
- 0.10.1 was released on December 23, 2015.
- 0.10 was released on December 16, 2015.
- 0.9 was released on October 14, 2014.
- 0.8 was released on January 1, 2014.
- 0.7 was released on January 22, 2011.
- 0.6.4 was released on June 15, 2009.
- 0.6.3 was released on January 1, 2009.
- 0.6.2 was released on March 18, 2008.
- 0.6.1 was released on March 5, 2008.
- 0.6.0 was released on February 28, 2008.
- 0.5.0 was released on September 2, 2006.
- 0.4.1 was released on March 3, 2006.
- 0.4.0 was released on December 27, 2005.
- 0.3.0 was released on December 25, 2004.
- 0.2.0 was released on December 10, 2003.
- 0.1.0 was released on April 16, 2003.
Legal issues[edit]
Freedoom versions older than 0.6.4 contain plagiarized music from mods for Doom and Duke Nukem 3D, these were found and promptly removed with version 0.6.4 released on June 15th, 2009, making versions older than that unavailable on the GitHub repository, although they can still be found in the SourceForge repository. There was also a debate on the legality of a font used on various textures prior to being replaced.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Freedoom homepage
- Old Savannah page
- Old Sourceforge page
- Original website (circa 2001)
- The story of Freedoom, historic account by fraggle (video history by TheBaratusII)
- Freedoom on the Doom Wiki
- Freedoom at Repology
- Freedoom on Mod DB
- Freedoom on the Internet Archive
- Andrew Wood (Catoptromancy)'s Freedoom archive
- Freedoom review by PekoeBlaze (older)
- Freedoom review by God Minded Gaming
- Freedoom 0.11+ - UV All Secrets Playthrough by pagb666 on YouTube
- Freedoom: Phase 1 playthrough by Zdenda1990 on YouTube
- Freedoom: Phase 2 playthrough by Zdenda1990 on YouTube
- FreeDoom: Phase 1 - (100%) playthrough by DoomGuysBrutal92 on YouTube
- FreeDoom: Phase 2 - (100%) playthrough by DoomGuysBrutal92 on YouTube
- Satanic Infestation on GitHub
- Satanic Infestation on Doomworld
- GZFreePunk on Doomworld
- Lotan's Tomb website
- Lotan's Tomb on Codeberg