Legendary level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray has died

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• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well fuck. What a guy. Timeless level design - a name that has gone down in history for all the right reasons.

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• JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s weird and sad to see prominent figures of my formative youth passing. Time moves ever onward.

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  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m usually pretty impervious to feeling old. I’m old, it doesn’t surprise me. But hearing “gamers of a certain age” as if I’m a widowed, ancient, southern grandma, did stick in me a bit.

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    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s the same for me…usually. Lol Those few moments really put me in my place for a bit.

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• Fishnoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I loved that shit. I must have played through Duke and Shadow warrior dozens of times each

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• Bonesince1997@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It doesn’t say how old he was, but there was this about him starting in the industry later in life:

  …he said he was 35 when he made his first Doom level, calling himself “a late bloomer with games,” while Apogee founder Scott Miller said Gray was “in his 40s” when the studio hired him out of the Doom mod scene to work on Duke Nukem 3D.

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  • creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He was 68.

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  • Assdddfff@fedinsfw.app ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He was 68

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  • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    doomwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Gray_(Levelord)

    he was 68.

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• DosDude@retrofed.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He was a legend. Rest in peace.

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• 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  RIP Levelord. I’ll boot stomp in your honor

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• creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He had a terrific sense of humor, too. For example, in Duke 3D he made this hung jury room. A real legend.

  What’s the joke?

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  • spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_jury

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    • creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Levlord takes me back…

  LEVELORD - INSANE crazey man whos a nut!!! he eats drugs and children. hes nuts!!!

  SURVIVORE - TEH FPS GAME DISGNAR SHOWDOWN OR SOMETHING AWFUL

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You should be playing BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT.

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• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And here I just found out that Bobby Prince died a few months ago.

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