John Romero and Adrian Carmack go to Kickstarter with new FPS Blackroom

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Video game legends John Romero and Adrian Carmack - two of four founding members of id Software (Doom, Quake) - have taken to Kickstarter to fund a new but old-fashioned first-person shooter called Blackroom.
The game touts the kind of traits that made old id Software games famous: fast single-player and multiplayer gameplay based around strafing rather than today's cover mechanics. Modding support will be fundamental to the game.
Blackroom's shtick a holographic simulation gone wrong, which means it can jump themes - Wild West to Victorian mansions, apparently, and pirate ships to castles - without you asking too many questions, I guess. Apparently the simulations - or are they? - can get twisted and surreal.
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