“Miss you, Tom.”

(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories.) This is a really enthralling video walking people through a 2023 fan-made Doom level myhouse.wad: When I say “a fan-made Doom level,” I’m not doing it justice. It is not just a cool map, or just a technically impressive one. myouse.wad treats the Doom game engine as a canvas to tell a particular, and perhaps even poignant story, and a story could have only been told this way. From the author of the map, by way of an introduction: Last August I lost a good childhood friend of mine, and took it pretty hard. When I was visiting my hometown for his funeral, I connected with his parents who shared with me some of his old belongings. Among them was a copy of an old map of his, backed up on a 3.5″ floppy from high school. Thomas and I were into amateur Doom mapping in the early ’00s, but I had never seen this map of his prior to uncovering it on one of the old floppy disks. As a way of paying tribute to…