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

https://spectrelang.org/log/devlog#cubedoom

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MichaelBollox•3d ago

nice

Panzerschrek•3d 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.

pizza_man•3d ago

which is literally what I said.

mysterydip•1d 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.

pizza_man•1d ago

It's an arena shooter, its visuals resemble DOOM, thus, I call it a DOOM clone.

mysterydip•1d 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•1d ago

> I wrote a DOOM clone

pizza_man•1d ago

Maybe put a question behind the question mark. That's what question marks are for.

doubletwoyou•1d ago

No need to be passive aggressive. I think what comes to most peoples minds when they think of a doom clone at least includes textured walls. But props to you!

pizza_man•1d ago

That's exactly what a doom clone is, textured walls, maybe go to your bathroom if you have one and enjoy your doom clone, all of those textured walls.

solumunus•1d ago

Dude you’re handling this so poorly. I don’t understand why you would have such an attitude when presumably trying to get folk to engage with something you have built.

pizza_man•1d ago

The only thing that's poor is you and your comment.

solumunus•23h ago

Ah, you're going for that engagement at all costs approach. It's desperate but I hope it works out for you.

pizza_man•20h ago

And you're going for the cuckold redditor approach, it's pathetic, and it probably won't work out for you.

kmoser•1d ago

And most Asteroids clones use raster graphics, but so what?

Narishma•1d ago

Not even Wolfenstein 3D, since it doesn't have textured walls. It's more like Hovertank 3D.

pizza_man•1d ago

How about you write Narishma 3D, and then I'll critique that?

danparsonson•1d ago

It's tough to put yourself out there, and the work you've done is impressive - hats off to you for that. I don't read the parent comments as critiques of your work, just your description of it, so maybe take a breath and don't stress about it.

This is a moment in the spotlight for you - it would be more interesting to hear about what you've done here and why it's important to you.

kernzistor45•3d ago

Must be satisfying. a game in your own lang.

samplexBro•3d ago

cool!

natloz•2d ago

Got to love these classic games that were so amazing in their glory days and still fun today!

doubletwoyou•1d ago

The raycasting code here looks pretty similar to that of https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html

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