Phil Salvador

(Does anyone know what this style is called? It's in the old Electronic Arts and Sierra logos to.)

I don't talk a lot about my adventures in Doom modding, but it's something I did! For about two years during the pandemic (on and off but fairly actively), I helped out with an extremely goofy horde-style Doom mod that we finally released this spring. I'm taking a long break to focus on other stuff, but I'm super proud of my contributions to this.

We packed way too much weird side content into this mod. It was basically just an excuse to make each other laugh as much as possible during a bleak time, and then we gradually tuned it into a game that I think is actually pretty fun and well-balanced? A notable Doom YouTuber called it "astonishingly good," which is a heck of a compliment. I've been wanting to do a co-stream with the lead developer where we walk through everything we crammed in.

My big hope is that we win one of the Cacowards, the annual community awards for Doom modding. The previous version of the mod already won a Cacoward back in 2012, and I want to be the only two-time Cacoward-winning video game archivist in the world.

I made this when I was 13 years old. Seeing it show up on my feed was like a jumpscare.

Thinking of streaming after fixing dinner? Tempted to do either Macintosh nonsense or PS1 nonsense.