I still remember my first game of DOOM, this FPS monument released in 1993! It was super scary walking around those dark hallways trying not to get killed!
Well that's changed a lot, you'll see, because developers Filippo Meozzi and Liam Stone had the brilliant idea of transforming this hostile environment into… contemporary art gallery! An offbeat experience that brilliantly parodies the very pompous atmosphere of openings.
No more demons and shotguns, in this game you play a sophisticated visitor strolling with his glass of wine in the once bloody corridors of E1M1, now repainted in immaculate white in the “white cube” style of modern galleries.
The works on display come from the royalty-free collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the developers have taken their attention to detail to the point of reproducing typical opening behaviors:
- Sip your wine with the left click, taking contemplative poses
- Interact with the works via right click or space key
- Change your drink using the number keys on your keyboard
- And pause your cultural experience with P
The onion jam on the foie gras toast will of course be the grandiloquent comments that you can leave in front of each work, wonderfully parodying the sometimes abstruse jargon of contemporary art criticism, between sips of wine and pseudo-philosophical considerations on “the duality of man in this paradigm that is the circular infinity of everyday life” (yes, it’s the end of the holidays today, that inspires me…).
Technically, for this transformation, the developers used the Construct engine to faithfully recreate the atmosphere of the original DOOM while modernizing the experience:
- Full support for touch controls for mobile devices
- Dynamic lighting system highlighting the works
- Minimalist interface respecting the aesthetics of the 90s
- Web version and executable for Windows available
Beyond its parodic aspect, this game transforms this virtual space of violence that is Doom into a place of artistic contemplation, thus parodying in passing the social behavior of the regulars of this type of place.
Now if you want to sip a glass of wine, eat a piece of cheese and give out loud your most high-pitched interpretation possible about pixelated paintings, head over to DOOM: The Gallery Experience on itch.io.
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