{"slug": "freedoom", "name": "FreeDoom", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 2.708, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-07", "latest": "2026-03-28", "why": "Except that you can get FreeDOOM as a replacement, even for PWADs", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Except that you can get FreeDOOM as a replacement, even for PWADs", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://freedoom.github.io", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["FreeDoom", "Freedoom", "FreeDOOM"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 760934016, "item_id": 47558376, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558376", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-03-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "No need to put ID copyrights, just a mention to FreeDoom creators.", "excerpt": "https://freedom.github.io Use Deutex, GNU make and Pillow for Python to compile. Then wou will have up-to-date IWADS to be used aywhere. No need to put ID copyrights, just a mention to FreeDoom creators.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CSS is DOOMed"}, {"id": 759250658, "item_id": 47453166, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453166", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-03-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the FreeDoom assets perfectly blend ingame", "excerpt": ">which they were) 1) No, is not the case, stop the FUD. 2) Simutrans it's half propietary and a good atempt of SPAM, dear friend. 3) Ok, fair, you corrected yourself. But on OpenTTD the OpenSFX and the rest are actually a way to create both compatible graphics and sounds with the existing MODs and stand out as themselves, kinda like FreeDoom: it's obviously made to be compatible with the Doom assets for walls and the", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"}, {"id": 759104272, "item_id": 47444017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444017", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-03-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "projects like FreeDoom", "excerpt": "False. Look at https://osgameclones.com and projects like FreeDoom. You must be young and it shows how disconnected are the new generations on libre reimplementations.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"}, {"id": 758129345, "item_id": 47383084, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383084", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-03-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "they are done in such smart way that most PWADs and TC are totally playable without clashes", "excerpt": "FreeDoom does that with Doom and it has compatible assets but not in the same style altough they are done in such smart way that most PWADs and TC are totally playable without clashes, from Requiem to Back To Saturn. On game engines, reimplementations are not derivations at all but tools for interoperability, totally legal to create. From Wine to most of the stuff of https://osgameclones.com, to GNUStep against NeXT/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"}, {"id": 737099520, "item_id": 46068720, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068720", "by": "anthk", "date": "2025-11-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I daily play FreeDoom with daily build WADs", "excerpt": "I've seen ZMachine games under a pen and also under a PostScript file. PS, unlike Doom fanboys claiming otherwise with PDF files embedding JS (and I daily play FreeDoom with daily build WADs). ZMachine games are the 2nd most ported game in existence. The first one must be Tetris. Which has been interpreted under the ZMachine itself. A Z3 game can run platforms which Doom can just dream: - A PostScript virtual machine", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: KiDoom \u2013 Running DOOM on PCB Traces"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["free replacement for doom assets", "free game assets"], "compared": [{"slug": "openttd", "name": "OpenTTD", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442834", "title": "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846090", "title": "OpenMW 0.50.0 Released \u2013 open-source Morrowind reimplementation", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557960", "title": "CSS is DOOMed", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381746", "title": "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051449", "title": "Show HN: KiDoom \u2013 Running DOOM on PCB Traces", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991853", "title": "Red Alert 2 in web browser", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 760934016, "item_id": 47558376, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558376", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-03-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "No need to put ID copyrights, just a mention to FreeDoom creators.", "excerpt": "https://freedom.github.io Use Deutex, GNU make and Pillow for Python to compile. Then wou will have up-to-date IWADS to be used aywhere. No need to put ID copyrights, just a mention to FreeDoom creators.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CSS is DOOMed"}, {"id": 759250658, "item_id": 47453166, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453166", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-03-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the FreeDoom assets perfectly blend ingame", "excerpt": ">which they were) 1) No, is not the case, stop the FUD. 2) Simutrans it's half propietary and a good atempt of SPAM, dear friend. 3) Ok, fair, you corrected yourself. But on OpenTTD the OpenSFX and the rest are actually a way to create both compatible graphics and sounds with the existing MODs and stand out as themselves, kinda like FreeDoom: it's obviously made to be compatible with the Doom assets for walls and the", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"}, {"id": 759104272, "item_id": 47444017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444017", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-03-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "projects like FreeDoom", "excerpt": "False. Look at https://osgameclones.com and projects like FreeDoom. You must be young and it shows how disconnected are the new generations on libre reimplementations.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"}, {"id": 758129345, "item_id": 47383084, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383084", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-03-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "they are done in such smart way that most PWADs and TC are totally playable without clashes", "excerpt": "FreeDoom does that with Doom and it has compatible assets but not in the same style altough they are done in such smart way that most PWADs and TC are totally playable without clashes, from Requiem to Back To Saturn. On game engines, reimplementations are not derivations at all but tools for interoperability, totally legal to create. From Wine to most of the stuff of https://osgameclones.com, to GNUStep against NeXT/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"}, {"id": 737099520, "item_id": 46068720, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068720", "by": "anthk", "date": "2025-11-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I daily play FreeDoom with daily build WADs", "excerpt": "I've seen ZMachine games under a pen and also under a PostScript file. PS, unlike Doom fanboys claiming otherwise with PDF files embedding JS (and I daily play FreeDoom with daily build WADs). ZMachine games are the 2nd most ported game in existence. The first one must be Tetris. Which has been interpreted under the ZMachine itself. A Z3 game can run platforms which Doom can just dream: - A PostScript virtual machine", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: KiDoom \u2013 Running DOOM on PCB Traces"}, {"id": 735895200, "item_id": 45993450, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993450", "by": "wwfn", "date": "2025-11-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://freedoom.github.io/ does that for the still proprietary DOOM assets", "excerpt": "https://freedoom.github.io/ does that for the still proprietary DOOM assets. Though the DOOM engine itself is open source, so a slight different situation than Command and Conquer.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Red Alert 2 in web browser"}, {"id": 734923248, "item_id": 45932703, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932703", "by": "anthk", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Except that you can get FreeDOOM as a replacement, even for PWADs", "excerpt": "Except that you can get FreeDOOM as a replacement, even for PWADs: https://freedoom.github.io Get a daily build.", "context": "", "use_case": "Free replacement for DOOM assets", "switched_from": "", "story": "'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately"}, {"id": 733549601, "item_id": 45846850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846850", "by": "klaussilveira", "date": "2025-11-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "https://osgameclones.com Also: https://freegamer.blogspot.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenMW 0.50.0 Released \u2013 open-source Morrowind reimplementation"}, {"id": 733543650, "item_id": 45846478, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846478", "by": "mdtrooper", "date": "2025-11-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I know few projects in this point, OpenTTD and FreeDoom.", "excerpt": "I love this kind of free software (or open source) project. It is a hard work for several years. I think that the goal or finish of this work is the engine and a new (similar to old close game) set free assets (sprites, 3D models, maps, music...). And I know few projects in this point, OpenTTD and FreeDoom. Are there more projects in this point?", "context": "", "use_case": "free game assets", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenMW 0.50.0 Released \u2013 open-source Morrowind reimplementation"}]}