Doom (officially cased DOOM) is the first release of the Doom series by Id Software and one of the games that consolidated the first-person shooter genre. With a science fiction and horror style, it gives the players the role of marines who find themselves in the focal point of an invasion from hell. It was first released on December 10, 1993.
Influence of Doom on Quake
The first Quake was built around its engine with no strong story point. The concept for the game itself was divided between roughly three camps: those (notably John Carmack) who wanted a fast-paced futuristic theme, with no supernatural elements for a change; those (notably Adrian Carmack) who wanted a Lovecraftian occult theme; and those (notably John Romero) who wanted a gothic fantasy game centered in melee combat. In the end, Quake went far in none of these directions and instead blended elements of all, resulting in a mix very similar to Doom's own theme: beginning in high-tech maps and moving on to gothic fantasy levels to battle Lovecraftian monsters. The scenario is practically a direct calque of Doom's: once again, the military-industrial complex devised teleportation devices (called "slipgates") which actually pass through a dimension full of hostile monsters who seize this opportunity to invade and must be thwarted, by the sole surviving soldier stationed at the facility. The Quake HUD's layout is likewise closely modeled on the Doom HUD (which itself is not much different from the Wolfenstein 3D HUD).
Many weapons in Quake are similar to Doom's: the Shotgun, Double-Barreled Shotgun and Rocket Launcher are directly taken from it.
As demonstrated in some Quake alpha screenshots, during the development, some Doom maps were redone for Quake for internal use. [1]
The KEX Engine, which originally grew out of the rendering code and utilities used by the mod Doom64 EX, was used in 2021 to do a 2021 remaster of Quake through a partnership between id Software, Bethesda Softworks, and Nightdive Studios. It was developed by a team consisting of Doom community veterans who previously also worked on Strife: Veteran Edition and the Doom 64 remaster.
The protagonist of Doom is present in both multiplayer-centered Quake titles. Doom (based on the classic "Doomguy") is a character on Quake III Arena, and the Doom Slayer (based on the version from the 2016 reboot) appears on Quake Champions.
Influence of Quake on Doom
Quake had a strong impact on the Doom community. The textures from Quake, or textures designed to mimic the Quake style are used in many popular mods (for example, the Torment and Torture series]]) and Quake-like elements (such as a console or a particle system) have been adopted by many source ports. After the Quake code was open sourced, some ports (most notably Vavoom) borrowed from it.
Capture the Flag, one of the most popular multiplayer mods for Quake, was later adopted by Doom sourceports.
In Doom 3, one of the PDAs you get contains a message from the owner's nephew, thanking him for the "Quake 43" game he got for his birthday.
The 2016 reboot of Doom features the Quad Damage powerup, which functions the same and makes the same sound effect upon pick-up.
The SnapMap module "White Collar Security Zone" is an exact recreation of the layout from the deathmatch level DM4 from Quake with the addition of two doors that can be used to connect to other modules. It is the only modernized remake of an id Software level in another game.