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Blaston Dev Resolution Games Hires id Software Co-Founder Tom Hall For ‘Unannounced Projects’
id Software co-founder Tom Hall is joining VR-dedicated studio, Resolution Games.
The developer is joining Resolution as a Senior Creative Director. Resolution confirmed to Upload that Hall will be working at the studio full-time, though will be operating remotely in San Francisco; Resolution itself is based in Stockholm, Sweden. The team also confirmed that Hall will be working on “unannounced projects” at the studio.
Hall is an industry veteran, having helped found id alongside John Romero and John Carmack (who, obviously went on to do some VR work of his own) in 1991. Though he left the studio in the early stages of developing Doom, he later joined Duke Nukem developer 3D Realms and went on to co-found Ion Storm alongside Romero. That studio also developed titles like Deux Ex.
“These are still the early days of what will become a fascinating technology woven into our lives, and I can’t wait to see what bold, fun experiences we can make together,” Hall said in a prepared statement.
Resolution is best known for accessible VR games like Acron: Attack of the Squirrels and Angry Birds: Isle of Pigs. Currently the team is working on two announced projects, including Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale. Last week at the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition we also revealed the first gameplay for Blaston, a VR dueling game in which players face off in 1 vs 1 matches. These types of experiences are very different to the games Hall worked on in his 30+ year career. We’ll be keeping a close eye on the developer’s work at Resolution Games, then.
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QuestZDoom Receives Update, Includes Isabelle From Animal Crossing
QuestZDoom released last month and gives Oculus Quest users a way to play classic Doom games and mods in full 6DoF VR. Now, a new update is available for QuestZDoom, which adds some minor features and bug fixes, while also bringing a new companion to the game — Isabelle from Animal Crossing.
Yes, really.
Announced on Reddit, the update is mostly minor changes including compatibility for more mods that require a later version of GZDoom (the engine on which the mod runs) and a change to player movement that makes it more consistent with other VR games. You can read the full patch notes here.
While not strictly part of the update itself, the announcement also came with a bonus surprise — the launcher will soon have a new option to install a mod that adds an ‘Isabelle companion’. The mod, initially available for flatscreen Doom, adds Isabelle from Animal Crossing as a 2D companion in-game.
While it’s unlikely anyone would complain about Isabelle joining you in Doom for no reason, the mod is actually referencing a series of jokes from earlier in the year. Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal both released on March 20, which led to people joking about Doomguy and Isabelle becoming best friends. Even the official game accounts got in on it, and then there was this amazing fan-made video that sees them team up to kill some demons.
Now, with the Isabelle companion mod, we’re all a little bit closer to living out that video in VR. You can watch some footage of the mod running on 2D Doom here — QuestZDoom will be updated to include VR support for the mod in the near future.
If you want to know how to install and play QuestZDoom on your Oculus Quest, check out our guide here.
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How To Install And Play Doom In VR On Oculus Quest
You can play DOOM on basically every gaming platform out there, as well as many objects that were never intended for video games (such as calculators and pianos) and now, as of today, that list also includes the Oculus Quest.
The Quest version of DOOM is by way of QuestZDOOM, a sideloaded launcher that enables you to access free versions of DOOM and other related content, as well as the original DOOM, DOOM II, Heretic, and Hexen if you own those games already. Included with QuestZDOOM is also a list of mods you can install to enhance the audio, change weapon textures to 3D models or voxel designs, and even new map packs.
Installing via SideQuest
There are two required apps to install in order to play QuestZDOOM on the Oculus Quest — the launcher and the engine. These are two separate APKs that can be installed via SideQuest.
If you haven’t used SideQuest before and don’t know how to use it, you should follow the setup instructions in our guide here. However, if you’ve used it previously and know the basic process, all you need to do is install the launcher and the engine via SideQuest and you’re good to go.
You can either follow the links above or locate the launcher and the QuestZDOOM engine in SideQuest’s Games and Apps tab or search bar.
Once installed, start the ‘launcher’ application from your list of Unknown Sources in the Library tab inside your headset. From there you’ll select which core game files to launch, such as FreeDoom, followed by any other assets or mods you want to enable.
It’s all pretty straight forward with lots of options. The user interface isn’t great for VR, it’s basically a giant window that looks like an old-school PC game launcher, but it works well enough.
Installing Original WAD files
Now if you want to use QuestZDOOM to play the original DOOM, DOOM II, Heretic, or Hexen, you can do that as well — including with some of the great mods available. In order to do this you need to legally own the full games already on PC. If you don’t, there are lots of very cheap ways to grab them:
- Ultimate DOOM on GOG ($5.99 | Includes Elder Scrolls I & II as a bonus)
- Ultimate DOOM on Steam ($4.99)
- DOOM II on Steam ($4.99)
- DOOM II + Final DOOM on GOG ($9.99 | Includes Elder Scrolls I & II as a bonus)
- Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders on Steam ($4.99)
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic on Steam ($4.99)
- Heretic + Hexen 4-Game Collection on Steam ($9.99)
At the very least I recommend trying the original DOOM (the Ultimate DOOM version works great) to get an authentic retro feel with a jolt of blood-soaked nostalgia.
Now to get any of these original id Software games working in VR on Quest, it’s very simple:
- Install the apk files for QuestZDOOM and the launcher on your Quest following the steps above.
- Start the launcher in your Quest at least once.
- Install and run at least once the games you want to copy over to your headset.
- Navigate to the local files of your game installation. For example, Ultimate DOOM on Steam installed to steamapps/common/Ultimate Doom and from there open the ‘base’ folder.
- Locate the file named ‘DOOM.WAD’ and copy it.
- Now plug your Quest into your PC and open up SideQuest. Wait until the bubble in the top left corner is green and the Quest is fully connected.
- Click the folder icon to open the file browser on your Quest.
- Scroll down and open the ‘QuestZDOOM’ folder in your Quest directory.
- Open the ‘wads’ folder in this directory.
- Paste in the source wad file for the original id game you’d like to play, such as ‘DOOM.WAD’ or ‘DOOM2.WAD’.
- Close SideQuest and unplug your Quest.
First Time Setup
The first time you open the launcher, a few files will need to be downloaded, which can take a minute or two depending on your internet connection speed. You’ll be able to see the files being downloaded underneath the QuestZDOOM logo. Just wait for it to finish, it works like a patcher you might see for a PC game or MMO.
From there everything is organized into columns: Core Games, Maps / Conversions, Gameplay Mods, Weapon Packs, Textures / Sounds, and Other Files.
You might notice that upon launching one of the games that the main menu is basically a 2D square in your face, but once you actually start the game everything will fall into place as a fully immersive 6DOF experience. The pixelated visuals oddly feel at home in VR, especially if you enable a weapon pack like voxel weapons or 3D weapons.
VR Options
Once you get inside the game, I highly recommend immediately opening the Options and taking a look at tweaks you can make. Under ‘VR Options’ you can adjust things like your character’s height if it feels off, change the angle of snap turns, enable teleportation movement, change walking speed, and even alter the angle and size of weapons.
After adjusting those, you should go into the ‘Customize Controls’ menu and assign the change weapons button to something easy to access, like one of the grip buttons, and make sure everything like shoot, interact, and jump are easily accessible as well.
That’s about it! If you have any questions about playing QuestZDoom let us know down in the comments below and don’t be shy about reaching out to the developers (like Simon “Dr. Beef” Brown) for feedback or questions as well.
Let us know what you think!
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Playing The Original DOOM In VR On Quest Is A Bloody Blast
With more creativity and technological power at our finger tips than ever before, the most excited I’ve been about VR in quite some time comes from playing a VR version of a game originally released in 1993. Go figure.
Nostalgia is a powerful, weird thing. I’ve never really considered DOOM to be one of my all-time favorite game franchises, but there was something magical about stepping foot inside the dark, bloody, and downright creepy demonic compounds of the original two DOOM games — complete with their archaic, blocky textures and visuals.
Using the upcoming QuestZDOOM mod from DrBeef I was able to not only simply and easily play FreeDOOM in VR thanks to GzDOOM, but also access my PC copies of DOOM, DOOM II, Heretic, and Hexen using the same launcher. It was like a 90s-era gold mine of bloody, gory, pixelated violence in VR.
What makes this mod so nifty is that once you install the apk files and open up the launcher on your Quest, everything is handled from inside the headset. Using the launcher UI (which you can see in the gameplay video above) you select which core games you want to launch, like DOOM, DOOM II, Hexen, etc., and then pick from an assortment of mods available to download. I really enjoyed using the voxel-style weapon mod because the default sprites are flat 2D models and feel really strange in VR. There’s also a realistic 3D model mod that makes your guns look like they were ripped from a modern game.
Other mods include a high-resolution texture pack that makes everything nice and sharp, remastered audio, and even tons of map packs. I never really got into modding DOOM very much, so all of this was like new content for me. Back to Saturn X was especially impressive and felt like I was playing a new sequel in the same iconic 90s style.
The menus are overflowing with options as well. You can remap all of the controls, setup teleportation movement, and adjust plenty else. There are also lots of cheats to pick from if you just want to have some high-octane fun.
There isn’t a solid release date for QuestZDOOM just yet, but we’ve been told it will be launching on SideQuest later this month for free. However, if you want to play the original DOOM, DOOM II, Hexen, or Heretic (like we did for most of this gameplay video) you’ll need your own legal, legitimate copies of the game with which to copy over some files to your Quest.
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood Review
Wolfenstein: Youngblood introduces the Blazkowicz twins, Jess and Soph, as well as co-op, RPG-style progression, and non-linear missions. It stumbles at times, but when you’re deep in the fight with a friend by your side, Youngblood can be great fun.