Fortnite can run Doom now, making it officially as useful as gut bacteria and rat neurons

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An Unreal Engine developer has got classicDoomrunning inFortnite, in a manner of speaking broad enough to justify a series of headlines about it, including my own. Jackson Clayton honoured the proud tradition of getting the 1993FPSto run on things where no Doom should be by porting classic opening stage E1M1, via level editorUltimate Doom Builder, into Fortnite’s Unreal editor as a 3D model. Welcome, newcomer Fortnite, to the vaunted halls currently occupied bygut bacteria,jar-grown rat neurons,lawnmowers,teletext,electric toothbrushes,Windows notepad (sort of), anda pregnancy test.

But can#Fortniterun DOOM?Obviously I can’t publish this, but it was a great way to learn more about Materials and PostProcessing in#UEFN#FortniteCreativepic.twitter.com/POlf4obJlm

The practical upshot of this is that Clayton is able to use Fornite’s building system in the level. Speaking toKotaku, Clayton says that after porting the level over “it was mostly removing Unreal’s fancy effects to make everything unlit and unfiltered. I used Unreal’s material system to give the Doom Marine [sprite its] choppy spinning effect, and a PostProcess material to pixellate the screen and show the gun.”

The Unreal Editor For Fortnite (UEFF) is ““too high-level” for a one-to-one code translation, says Clayton, so he had to “get creative” to spin up a convincing facade of the FPS grandpappy inside the plucky Battle Royale also-ran. Clayton is also an indie dev, having released games likeCastillo: The Nine Circles on Steam. Castillo is “Doom-inspired”, says Clayton, so the experience he’d built up helped with this worthy endevaour.

The main motivation behind all this? Clayton simply enjoys a little trolling. “I wanted to put together a video to trick my friends, so I ported the map and created the post-process materials, and they really liked it.”

Wait, wait, I missed one! Doom has also run on ajailbroken tractor! There’s plenty more onthis Tumblr pageif you fancy a bit of rabbit holing. My personal wishlist for the future of bizarre Doom ports include a digital casio watch, a vape, and also a furby somehow, hellish creatures that they are. Although my actual wishlist is just to getDoom: The Dark Agesrunning on my normal PC as soon as humanly possible.