Id software had made a living developing high-quality 2D games, but with Wolfenstein in 1992 and then DOOM the following year, they made a historic leap into 3D, taking advantage of the quickly evolving PC hardware landscape to push the boundaries of the industry.ĭOOM was open sourced in 1997 with the README carrying the words, “Port it to your favorite operating system”. A brief history of DOOMĭOOM was a game developed in 1993 by id software and released in December of that year. Showing that DOOM could run interactively on would be a way to push the boundaries of performance on the product and have a tangible demo that we could point to as a stake in the ground - showcasing the exciting possibilities presents. It felt like a perfect project to port to built on our serverless compute environment, to experiment with different applications of the product. Due to its approachable codebase and clean abstractions, id Software’s DOOM has become one of the most ported games in history.
