The Cacowards
Official account of the Cacowards team. Celebrating the Doom modding community since 2004!
- Happy Hellidays and a Merry Anti-Christmas to you all! The 2025 Cacowards are live. Read about all of this year's best content for Doom. Special thanks to our guest artist, the incredibly talented, @xous54.bsky.social. www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2025
- Our last retrospective comes from 2012 when the awards expanded to include a larger number of 'runner-up' wads in an attempt to highlight more projects from the community. Pulling from this list we have Frozen Time by Alexander S. and Coffee Break by Matt Tropiano.
- With the recent release of Heretic+Hexen, Christopher Lutz's 2011 award-winning 'Icebound' gained popularity again as the first featured community add-on through the platform's mod browser. Several other Cacoward-winning mods can be found there, as well.
- Our retrospective continues with 2010 and a pair of wads both created by talented mapping duos; Josh Sealy & Darkwave0000 with 'Speed of Doom' and Jon Vail & Jamie Bainbridge with UAC Ultra.
- While the Cacowards continued in 2009, NewDoom, one of the longest running Doom websites, finally shuttered for good but not before releasing the 'NewDoom Community Project 2.' Despite a very buggy initial release, many members worked to make it bug-free in 2025. www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...
- Looking back on the 2008 Cacowards is bittersweet; You have 'Escape from Castle Chezcrea' by Paul Hiebert which hasn't aged a day when compared to modern wads, and 'Back to Basics' by Esa Repo who passed away the following year.
- By 2007 it was clear that rumors of the Doom community's death had been greatly exaggerated. With releases like Songs of the Damned by Trevor Primmett and The Outer Darkness by Varun Abhirama Krishna, Doom modding wasn't going anywhere.
- In 2006 Vae Victus 2 by Derek Braun, and IC2005 by Ian Cunnings were both lauded as two of the best maps of the year. Both of these represented the last of a series and their respective author's final creative works for Doom.
- Next we move on to 2005 with another pair of award-winning wads, Crimson Canyon by Jeffrey Graham and HeDRoX by Rodrigo Acevedo. Hard to imagine these maps are twenty years old.
- The countdown begins! As we await the annual ceremony, let's look back on 20 years of Doom awards. From 2004 we have Tremor and Decade, two wads that showcase early 00s mapping and still look great and are fun to play.
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- @doom.com and @bethesda.net we know Legacy of Rust was well-received, but it's not customary for authors to give themselves awards!
- What better way to celebrate 1000 followers than with 1000 lines! This series required authors to make a map using no more than 1000 lines. In 2021 '1000 Lines 3' was recognized as one of the year's best projects. www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...
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