“It always felt like this vague form of superficial hell to me” Doom: The Gallery Experience devs on turning a 90s shooter into high culture | Gaming

“I’ve had a lot of experience in these gallery spaces and it always felt like this vague form of superficial hell to me,” Filippo Meozzi, director and producer of Doom: The Gallery Experience, tells me.

“I work in the art industry as an artist’s assistant, I produce sculptures and other things like that. So, I’m fairly familiar with the process of gallery openings and sort of just the nightmare that is going to Galleries and experiencing these high-brow, drinking wine, [saying] pompous phrases to each other [kinds of people].”

So, when he got the chance to re-create that kind of environment in Id Software‘s 1993 shooter for a school project, he decided to do so.

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