Show HN: I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language

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• Panzerschrek 2 days ago
  > At runtime each frame casts a set of rays from the player’s position, stepping through the map grid until a wall collision is detected.

  It's not how Doom works. It's more like Wolfenstein 3D.

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  • Narishma 36 minutes ago
    Not even Wolfenstein 3D, since it doesn't have textured walls. It's more like Hovertank 3D.
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    • pizza_man 20 minutes ago
      How about you write Narishma 3D, and then I'll critique that?
  • pizza_man 1 day ago
    which is literally what I said.
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    • mysterydip 1 hour ago
      You said “such as Wolfenstein 3D or the original DOOM”, which is only half true. You call it Cubedoom, a DOOM clone, but it’s using wolf3d techniques.

      I love raycasters, I’m making one right now. But they aren’t DOOM clones.

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      • pizza_man 1 hour ago
        It's an arena shooter, its visuals resemble DOOM, thus, I call it a DOOM clone.
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        • mysterydip 1 hour ago
          That makes sense. Many shooters at the time were called DOOM clones, regardless of their technique. It might mean something different to people today since the genre is now first person shooters, but it’s still valid.
    • pwdisswordfishq 1 hour ago
      > I wrote a DOOM clone

      ?

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      • pizza_man 1 hour ago
        Maybe put a question behind the question mark. That's what question marks are for.
  • kmoser 1 hour ago
    And most Asteroids clones use raster graphics, but so what?
• natloz 12 hours ago
  Got to love these classic games that were so amazing in their glory days and still fun today!
• kernzistor45 1 day ago
  Must be satisfying. a game in your own lang.
• MichaelBollox 2 days ago
  nice
• samplexBro 1 day ago
  cool!
• chitinlabs 1 day ago
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