Remember back in the early 90s when the way to make a game yourself was to mod Doom?

Just kidding, I’m not old enough to remember that. But Doom was (and still is) an amazing way to hack together a game. With GZDoom, the process is easier than ever. Whip up a map using Doom Builder, SLADE (my personal favourite), or even VSCode, and bam. Thanks to UDMF, GZDoom’s text based map format, you can be mapping in mere minutes without the holy trinity of BSP, Light, and Vis.

As nice as Unreal is, I don’t want to spend tons of time rebuilding the same First Person Character & inventory systems every time. That said, it’s probably a better choice if you’re building a big game.

But GZDoom is great for prototypes and home-brew games. And even if none of what I just said matters to you, you can still play Doom.