Doom (franchise)

Background

Doom (also known as "DOOM") is a franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Sandy Peterson, Adrian Carmack, Tom Hall, American McGee, Shawn Green, Dave Taylor, Kevin Cloud,Gregor Punchatz and Robert Prince [1]. Doom games are played as first-person shooters where you control the "Doomguy" (also known as "Slayer" or "Doom Slayer", typically fighting demons that invaded from hell.

Doom (franchise)

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Controversy

on November 9th 2022 Mick Gordon (the main composer of Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal) posted a long statement on Medium in response to an open letter posted by Marty Stratton (the executive producer of Doom Eternal) on reddit [2][3]. Mick Gordon states that he hasn't been paid for a majority of his work on Doom Eternal [4], that important information was being withheld from him [5], that he wasn't informed about the the open letter about him and that he was offered hush-money [6].

Mick Gordon has still not been fully paid for his work on Doom Eternal [7]

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Incidents

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The major installments in the series are:

Doom (1993)

Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Final Doom (1996)

Doom 64 (1997)

Doom 3 (2004)

Doom (2016)

Doom Eternal (2020)

Doom: The Dark Ages (2025)

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References

[1] https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/gdg25y/doom_eternal_ost_open_letter/

[3] https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce#7f12

[4] https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce#b04c

[5] https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce#7133

[6] https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce#ac56

[7] https://medium.com/@willdavidstevens/opinion-its-doom-s-30th-anniversary-but-what-about-mick-gordon-9c66396ffdbc