SIGIL Update

Art by Montagu Studios

SIGIL has been out for a while now. I uploaded the free version on May 31, 2019. Many YouTube playthrough videos have been uploaded and the response has been good. I had a great team of DOOM technicians helping me make sure all the data was as good as possible. Even though DOOM is 25 years old, every single line segment in a level has a bunch of information on it. Most levels have hundreds if not thousands of line segments in them, so it’s a lot of tech checking.

The awesome team includes dew (Boris Klimes), flambeau, UberGewei, and Keyboard_Doomer – they put up with my work start at about midnight most nights. We have a great Slack channel where we discuss all the tech stuff happening with the latest fixes. SIGIL is up to v1.21 now and it might not see another revision. It’s pretty good now. I toned down the crushers on E5M4, so maybe no more whining. :)

Anyway, the SIGIL experience was really good and I’m excited about what might be next….

If you want to download SIGIL, you can get it here for free:

Also, you might not know this, but we are selling some SIGIL merchandise on the Romero Games site. Check out the evil items here:

SIGIL Almost Ready

The SIGIL update as of today is that we have all the various parts of the package together and they will be boxed up over the weekend. Satan willing, they will be shipping to customers next week! Here are some photos of the goods.

DOOMSDAY 1.12 Server Setup

The newest version of Doomsday is fantastic! You can grab it at http://dengine.net. Just click on the icon at the bottom for your operating system.

I had a problem setting up a multiplayer server, but I finally figured it out. Here’s how to do it:

1) Make a DOOM folder and put both the Doomsday Engine and Doomsday Shell in that directory

2) Copy your DOOM.WAD and DOOM2.WAD into that directory

3) Run Doomsday Engine

4) For each game you need to locate the WAD

5) Now you can select a game and click PLAY

6) Quit the game – you’re just testing and making sure it works

7) Run Doomsday Shell

8) Open the Preferences dialog

9) Check the box “Use a custom IWAD folder” and select the DOOM folder you made

10) Go to Server > New Local Server… and name it, select the game, and click Start Server

11) Run Doomsday Engine to play on this server

12) Select NEW GAME > MULTIPLAYER > JOIN GAME > Custom Server

13) You should see your game in the list. Select it and Connect to Server

You can start up multiple servers in the Doomsday Shell by just starting more New Local Servers.