it could be argued that in the greater scheme of things the majority of these spaces are not important. places to play at being space marines, or to go on a pretend quest

goddess knows i fret over wasting even more of my finite lifespan on videogames

even so, my fascination remains

i'm going to start a new streaming project in which i explore the ~2000 wad files of Maximum Doom, a compilation of levels from when id itself decided to jump on the doom wad shovelware bandwagon

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Maximum_Doom

many of these maps suck. few are remembered. but that's part of why it's so interesting to look at these old virtual spaces some 20 years on