ENDOOM Appreciation Thread

[Arsinikk]

ENDOOM is the a text based screen that used to be shown when DOS Doom exited.

When WADs were released for play in DOS, modders used to create ENDOOMs specific for their WADs.

 

This is what the default DOOM II ENDOOM Looks like:

 

Here's an example from Memento Mori II:

 

 

I create my own ENDOOMs using @jval's ENDEDIT. It's an easy enough tool to use to make your own ENDOOMs!

 

Also you can watch a great tutorial by @Doomkid for another way to make ENDOOMs:

 

 

While not all source ports support showing the ENDOOM when closing the game, a great deal of them do.

Since the option is usually off by default, many people have either forgot about or don't know about the ENDOOM screen, and they don't see the work that modders even today put into their ENDOOM.

 

So I wanted to create a thread of appreciation towards ENDOOMs, so people can see the works of art that are often missed!

 

Don't be afraid to post ENDOOMs that you didn't make! Art is art after all and we can appreciate other people's art just the same!

 

Thanks for reading!

Arsinikk

 

Edited November 16, 2023 by Arsinikk

[Arsinikk]

I'll start by posting my own ENDOOMs:

 

 

[Xyzzу]

I thought about making this very thread, I'm glad you did before me c:

 

I made a couple ENDOOMs. This one from CONF256B.WAD was made with ENDOOMER:

Spoiler

 

This other one in Xerxesia actually has some use, provided you hit F1 and saw the HELP screen first! I made this one using ENDEDIT:

Spoiler

One more for Somnia Super Stella was planned for a long while (perhaps using some other program), but with recent events I'm not sure if I want to bother making it anymore.

[Arsinikk]

I should clarify that you don't need to specifically post your own ENDOOMs.

 

I mean if you really wanna share your own ENDOOMs, that's awesome!

 

I don't want people to think that they can only post their own personally made ENDOOMs.

[Xyzzу]

Yeah, I knew already; just took me a while to make those gifs and people have already seen a few others I would've posted in that other thread.

[Hazel-Rah]

1 hour ago, Arsinikk said:

I'll start by posting my own ENDOOMs:

 

 

What's that second one there? It's really eerie and I love it :)

[Arsinikk]

2 minutes ago, Hazel-Rah said:

What's that second one there? It's really eerie and I love it :)

It's actually an ENDOOM for a WIP single map project that I'm planning to release very soon... Sorry don't wanna spoil too much at this moment.

[Hazel-Rah]

16 minutes ago, Arsinikk said:

It's actually an ENDOOM for a WIP single map project that I'm planning to release very soon... Sorry don't wanna spoil too much at this moment.

Oh, wow. I'm sure it will be brilliant based on the ENDOOM alone :D

[Hitboi]

Requiem, pretty good pixel art for something from 1997


Awsome use of color transitions from dark to light, probably my favourite one.


Makes me feel eviternal (I'm not sure if that's a real word)

[gwain]

 

a pretty basic one I made a month or so ago  

[OpenRift]

I love using the image translation feature in ENDEDIT (when it works, that is)

 

[OpenRift]

And then there's THIS masterpiece

[Drywtler]

Time Tripper (Circuit 1)

[Rancid Sam]

RIP, Aniki.

(From HFFM)

Edited July 5, 2022 by Rancid Sam

[Kinsie]

My paltry contributions to the artform:

 

MetaDoom's nod to the alpha versions:

 

and Reelism 2's photobomber:

[Matakrow]

I always make an endoom screen for my standalone projects. I love crafting these.

[Dusty_Rhodes]

1 minute ago, Matacrat said:

I always make an endoom screen for my standalone projects. I love crafting these.

Quite like the left one. It's cozy.

[Matakrow]

 

1 minute ago, Dusty_Rhodes said:

Quite like the left one. It's cozy.

Thanks!

[Jakub Majewski]

Not released yet, but I made this

[kinker31]

Behold, my mediocre ENDOOM art for an equally mediocre map-pack I made years ago, which also had my first actual level, Doomguy31!

 

Spoiler Alert: It, and the other maps, were very much an amateur's work, and aren't very good or fun, unless you like having to squeeze through super-tight hallways and get assaulted in more ways than one by monsters require a lot more firepower to put down than... the three bullets and two shells I thought was enough to supply you in the entire level pack? Maybe an extra bullet on Medium/Easy?

[Kinsie]

Here's some text mode junk from commercial games to serve some inspiration.

 

[bartekmil]

from various /vr/ wads

[VoanHead]

People are that nice to thank you for playing the wad.

[Deadwing]

Damn, I never knew these existed and they look awesome!

[Hitboi]

4 hours ago, VoanHead said:

People are that nice to thank you for playing the wad.

Wait, is this Revilution! or TNTR?

[MacGuffin]

From BTSX 1 & 2, REKKR, and Pagodia

[VoanHead]

2 hours ago, Hitboi said:

Wait, is this Revilution! or TNTR?

TNTR

[deathz0r]

On 7/5/2022 at 5:03 PM, Kinsie said:

Here's some text mode junk from commercial games to serve some inspiration.

I deliberately used Hocus Pocus' exit splash as a template for the ENDOOM for POOGERS, which was fun recreating from scratch:

 

 

Looks like the vertical rainbow was removed sometime between Hocus Pocus and ROTT.

 

Spoiler

The secret exit for POOGERS MAP29 also has a unique intermission text background that makes it even more blatantly obvious that I was riffing on Apogee, and I deliberately downsized from 640x400 to 320x200 using point sampling because it contains hints towards further progression in the map and I wanted to make the text harder to read:

Spoiler

 

and yes it does also exist as an ENDOOM-compatible lump hidden inside the WAD :)

 

 

I also like HR2's ENDOOM as well:

 

[T.Will]

On 7/5/2022 at 2:55 PM, MacGuffin said:

From BTSX 1 & 2, REKKR, and Pagodia

Thanks for the Pagodia shoutout. It was fun to try and figure out how to make the katakana look good.

[Solmyr]

Damn, that's some pretty cool ASCII art, i had no idea ENDOOM screens could look this good and also give cozy vibes, like the REKKR one.