The Collapse of the Colony
A video of a fully completed game of the 1992 PC game DOOM played at the hardest difficulty level. The game is posed as a singular narrative
video and presented as a large scale projection.DOOM's vague plot follows the escape of a "Space Marine" from a scientific research base on
Mars where scientists have unknowingly opened a portal to another dimension. The video is compiled from various "demo files" found on the
internet, the "demo files" were made in the early 1990's by DOOM enthusiast. "Demo files" are records of game inputs and allow users to
playback other players games. They were used to prove achievements to other players, in what became a widespread online competition in the
mid 1990s called "Competin Doom".
DOOM is considered the first truly three dimensional "first person shooter" computer game. Its is hugely important in the development of
3D gaming and graphics technologies.