Case study

rea-doom-term: a text-only reconstruction of DOOM

rea-doom-term rebuilds DOOM (1993) as a playable Rust terminal game with WAD parsing, fixed-point math, movement, combat, and text raycasting. Its evidence log links reconstructed subsystems to original source functions and tests; the terminal renderer uses a different visibility and texturing approach.

Targets: Game
Category: Community REA investigations
Relationship: Author-reported mixed workflow
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 0
Last commit: 2026-10-21
Language: Rust
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A Rust toolchain supporting edition 2021 and crossterm 0.28.
Prerequisites: Supply your own WAD to load an original map; a built-in map is available without one.
Testing evidence: The author reports testing real-WAD loading with Freedoom Phase 1 v0.13.0; id WADs were unavailable for that test.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{rea-doom-term-case,
  title = {{rea-doom-term: a text-only reconstruction of DOOM}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/schererstefan/rea-doom-term}},
  url = {https://github.com/schererstefan/rea-doom-term},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/rea-doom-term-case/}}
}

Plain text

rea-doom-term: a text-only reconstruction of DOOM. https://github.com/schererstefan/rea-doom-term (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/rea-doom-term-case/

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README.md GitHub · schererstefan/rea-doom-term · Revision 8ffc9cc
docs/ANALYSIS.md GitHub · schererstefan/rea-doom-term · Revision 8ffc9cc