{"id":90496,"date":"2016-04-25T17:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90496"},"modified":"2016-04-26T07:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:10:48","slug":"doom-creators-unveil-new-fast-paced-first-person-shooter-blackroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90496-doom-creators-unveil-new-fast-paced-first-person-shooter-blackroom","title":{"rendered":"Doom creators unveil new fast-paced first-person shooter &#8211; Blackroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doom creators John Romero and Adrian Carmack have reunited to create a new, fast-paced FPS titled Blackroom.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been announced on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/nightworkgames\/blackroom-a-new-fps-from-romero-and-carmack?token=07458251\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a><\/strong>, and aims to recapture the fast-paced action and visceral combat presented in games like DOOM and Duke Nukem.<\/p>\n<p>Blackroom is an arena shooter which will feature a collection of drastically different levels, allowing for diverse gameplay and unique multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p>Gameplay occurs within a holographic world that is constructed inside a giant black room. These holograms may range from sci-fi settings to Wild-West landscapes. The degree of freedom offered by the level design will hopefully allow for many different and interesting maps.<\/p>\n<p>Blackroom will feature classic shooter mechanics, including rocket jumping, ensuring that gameplay is fluid and action-packed.<\/p>\n<p>The Kickstarter campaign will continue for another 32 days (as of today 25 April) and has a crowdfunding goal of <strong>$700,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If successfully funded the game will release for PC in Winter 2018 and will feature full modding support, dedicated servers and local multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Blackroom and help fund the campaign <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/nightworkgames\/blackroom-a-new-fps-from-romero-and-carmack\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v7-nKfsEevA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to stream and record Xbox One games to your PC without a capture card\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89871-how-to-stream-and-record-xbox-one-games-to-your-pc-without-a-capture-card.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to stream and record Xbox One games to your PC without a capture card<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Games you can play this week \u2013 snipers and swords\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90401-games-you-can-play-this-week-snipers-and-swords.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Games you can play this week \u2013 snipers and swords<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to You can get free Wi-Fi on Freedom Day\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/90403-you-can-get-free-wi-fi-on-freedom-day.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can get free Wi-Fi on Freedom Day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doom creators John Romero and Adrian Carmack have reunited to create a new, fast-paced FPS titled Blackroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":90500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18280,18278,883,1608,2202,3272,2366],"class_list":["post-90496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-adrian-carmack","tag-blackroom","tag-doom","tag-duke-nukem","tag-fps","tag-john-romero","tag-kickstarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90502,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90496\/revisions\/90502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}