SmugMug > popular > Video Games > This picture was taken near the end of Quake 1's development period in 1996.  American is sitting at his desk, checking out my map E2M1 (with the original Quake interface for the Base theme, in fact).  The computer he's using is a NEXTSTEP system made by HP (nicknamed the Gecko), in fact the machine name of his computer was "idtokay".  Under his desk, the black hardware looks to be an older NeXT Computer.  The room we were working in at that time was called the War Room -- we were all working in the same room while the rest of the office was being built out.  To the right of American's desk was Tim Willits', and then my desk.
SmugMug > popular > Video Games > This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. This is the DOOM chainsaw sitting in a bucket, ready to be scanned by Kevin to create the image of the chainsaw in DOOM. The reason it's in a bucket is because it leaked oil! That's also why there's newspapers all around it. :) Heh heh, yes, the name of the chainsaw was Eager Beaver. The little Post-It Note next to the chainsaw says "Borrowed from Ann Graver Holz". Ann was Tom Hall's girlfriend at the time and since she had a chainsaw (Most of us apartment-dwellers did not own a chainsaw!), she let Tom borrow it. Tom, um, forgot to give it back to her.....so........it's still around. Tom is going to do something with it, probably sometime this year!
SmugMug > popular > Video Games > This is the great Bobby Prince, our music composer between 1991-1994.  He did the music for Commander Keen 4, 5, 6, Catacomb 3D, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, DOOM, DOOM II.  In this picture you can see Bobby at id's apartment office during the summer of 1992, working on the music for Wolf3D and Spear of Destiny.  This picture is probably from the month of June.  The computer he's using in the pic is a 386/33. Heh.

Bobby shipped a ton of his equipment to the office.  You can't see the rack he has full of stuff, just off-camera.  He was just awesome to work with.  Before doing music, Bobby was a lawyer for a long time.

If you want to hear more of Bobby's music, just play Duke Nukem 3D - half the music in that game is his.  And it's excellent stuff as well - I listen to it almost every day still.
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SmugMug > popular > Video Games > This is me, Kevin and Adrian posing for a pic during DOOM II development.  I'm always looking nutty in pics - cause i'm nutty!
SmugMug > popular > Video Games > PC Gamer, May 2003, Most Controversial Game article.  Not bad for a 10 year old game!
SmugMug > popular > Video Games > This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. Tom's busy working on a map in my map editor, DoomEd,
but don't worry - you won't be able to make out anything on the screen! Tom started many of the original DOOM maps
and after he left, Sandy Petersen finished them -- some of the maps had very little work done to them, in fact.

On Tom's monitor is a little printout that says, "Quality". He always has notes stuck to his monitor to keep him reminded
of .... things. That orange thing could very well be the very first keyboard wrist pad -- made by a friend of his back before you
saw them in stores. The speaker at the far right is one of the first Altec Lansing clamshell models. The microphone in front
of Tom was there for NeXTSTEP's awesome email feature - built-in voice emails! We always sent them back and forth... I think
I might have some of them lying around here...
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SmugMug > popular > Video Games > Dria in Bountry Hunter Armor in Grampa's Tattoine Mansion
This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. This is the DOOM chainsaw sitting in a bucket, ready to be scanned by Kevin to create the image of the chainsaw in DOOM. The reason it's in a bucket is because it leaked oil! That's also why there's newspapers all around it. :) Heh heh, yes, the name of the chainsaw was Eager Beaver. The little Post-It Note next to the chainsaw says "Borrowed from Ann Graver Holz". Ann was Tom Hall's girlfriend at the time and since she had a chainsaw (Most of us apartment-dwellers did not own a chainsaw!), she let Tom borrow it. Tom, um, forgot to give it back to her.....so........it's still around. Tom is going to do something with it, probably sometime this year!
 > This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. This is the DOOM chainsaw sitting in a bucket, ready to be scanned by Kevin to create the image of the chainsaw in DOOM. The reason it's in a bucket is because it leaked oil! That's also why there's newspapers all around it. :) Heh heh, yes, the name of the chainsaw was Eager Beaver. The little Post-It Note next to the chainsaw says "Borrowed from Ann Graver Holz". Ann was Tom Hall's girlfriend at the time and since she had a chainsaw (Most of us apartment-dwellers did not own a chainsaw!), she let Tom borrow it. Tom, um, forgot to give it back to her.....so........it's still around. Tom is going to do something with it, probably sometime this year!
This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. This is the DOOM chainsaw sitting in a bucket, ready to be scanned by Kevin to create the image of the chainsaw in DOOM. The reason it's in a bucket is because it leaked oil! That's also why there's newspapers all around it. :) Heh heh, yes, the name of the chainsaw was Eager Beaver. The little Post-It Note next to the chainsaw says "Borrowed from Ann Graver Holz". Ann was Tom Hall's girlfriend at the time and since she had a chainsaw (Most of us apartment-dwellers did not own a chainsaw!), she let Tom borrow it. Tom, um, forgot to give it back to her.....so........it's still around. Tom is going to do something with it, probably sometime this year!
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