TeamTNT explained

TeamTNT
Industry:Video games
Founded:1994
Defunct:2015
Founders:Ty Halderman
Key People:Paul Fleschute
Num Employees:104
Num Employees Year:1995

TeamTNT was a distributed group of Doom mappers, originally formed as a Doom mailing list in 1994. The team are known for creating the TNT: Evilution episode of Final Doom, as well as several free level packs and developer resources for Doom II. Their source ports, the BOOM[1] and Boom-DM engines were used by many level designers during the height of Doom modding in the 1990s.[2] The group was largely inactive from 2008, with their resources remaining online until the 2015 death of administrator Ty Halderman.

History

Origins & Final Doom

TeamTNT developed in late 1994 and early 1995 from the highly active doom-editing mailing list.[3] [4] TeamTNT originally formed as a two-group entity: the Alpha group whose concerns centered primarily on level design and mod work employing pre-existing Doom II resources as developed by the original Id Software team, and the Beta group who would be focused more closely on partial and total conversions including sprite changes.[3] The Beta team dissolved shortly after the official formation of The TeamTNT Trust, the legal entity which dealt with Id Software during negotiations concerning Final Doom.[3] As of February 1995 team membership numbered at 104 members (including all former members of the doom-editing mailing list).

Decline

During the late 1990s membership declined and fluctuated such that as of 1999, membership ranged from 35–40 members with as many as an additional 40 former and inactive members still listed on official member lists.[5] Paul Fleschute broke his "Ultimate Invasion" project away from TeamTNT, though this project never emerged.[6] [7] [8] A number of TeamTNT members were also involved with the LUC project (a game then being developed by Suspension Software based on the Quake II engine).[8] [5] The LUC website went down at some point in the late 2000s without release.[9] Most of TNT's ongoing projects were cancelled in 2007, and the last level pack released by the group was Eternal Doom IV in 2008. TNT website administrator Ty Halderman continued to maintain the /idgames archives[10] until his death from brain cancer on July 31, 2015.[11]

Releases

All of these were released for free, save for Final Doom- though it would ultimately be packaged as a free update to console owners of Doom II in 2019.[12] Several of these were in co-operation with other developers or groups.

Cancelled projects

Some of these were in development in the late 1990s. In 2007 a message was added to the top of TNT's future projects page indicating that these were cancelled.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Haley, James. A Slightly Condensed Genealogy of DOOM Source Ports. Doomworld. 13 December 2003.
  2. Halderman, Ty. The Boom Engine FA? . 26 August 2007.
  3. DoomWorld Interview with Ty Halderman. Doomworld - 5 Years of Doom. p. 1. 8 December 1998.
  4. Kushner, David. Masters of Doom: how two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture. Random House, Inc.. p. 193. . 2004.
  5. Halderman, Ty. Information From and About The Members of TeamTNT . TeamTNT. 1999.
  6. Web site: Invasion II v.1.0b - Doomworld /Idgames database frontend.
  7. Web site: Invasion 1.9. 27 November 1997 .
  8. Doomworld Interview with Ty Halderman. Doomworld - 5 Years of Doom. p. 6. 8 December 1998.
  9. Web site: LUC by Suspension Software . www.gravitydesign.net . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20021207080130/http://www.gravitydesign.net/luc/ . 7 December 2002 . dead.
  10. Doomworld Interview with Ty Halderman. Doomworld - 5 Years of Doom. p. 3. 8 December 1998.
  11. Doom community mourns longtime, award-winning modder Ty Halderman. Polygon. 18 August 2015
  12. Web site: Final Doom and Sigil being added to classic Doom console ports for free . 11 December 2019.
  13. Icarus: Alien Vanguard. Doomworld. 21 March 1996.
  14. Bloodlands. Doomworld. 2 August 1996.
  15. Grievance. Doomworld. 3 December 1993.
  16. Pursuit. Doomworld. 31 October 1997.
  17. Halderman, Ty. Eternal DOOM III is now available! . TeamTNT. 12 January 2008.
  18. Reclamation. Doomworld. 27 February 1999.
  19. The Return. Doomworld. 9 October 1999.
  20. Daedalus: Alien Defense. Doomworld. 10 December 2003.
  21. Halderman, Ty. Other plans we have in mind for DOOM in the months and years ahead . TeamTNT. 14 October 2007.
  22. Eternal DOOM IV: Return from Oblivion. Doomworld.1 November 2008.
  23. Team-Ty-NT (Doomworld Interview with Ty Halderman about Ragnarok). Doomworld.

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