Amsterdoom

Amsterdoom is a first person shooter developed by Davilex and published in March of 2000. Davilex was a developer of video games, computer games and computer software from the Netherlands. The game is set in the city of Amsterdam, which has been invaded by alien creatures. It takes place in several well known locations like the central station, red light district and Schiphol Airport. The game was created to be an entry level FPS for people that had little experience with such games.

Around October of 2001 the game was renamed and republished as Amsterdam Monster Madness. The game was only released officially in the Netherlands. Davilex states that this is a business decision: the game failed to reach its intended audience in the numbers it hoped for. The change of the game and the box art was made to appeal more to a general audience instead of a traditional gaming audience, who in some reviews were very dismissive of technological and gameplay aspects of the game compared to other shooters like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament.

The game Invasion Deutschland (also by Davilex) published after this game uses a lot of the same assets, level designs and enemies from Amsterdoom. That game takes place in several locations within Germany, in cities like Berlin and Cologne.

News[edit]

Article describing that discusses a computer game that caused some controversy, and Amsterdoom is brought up as an example case.
News article describing controversy about a new upcoming game called Amsterdoom, where the writer states that you can supposedly kill parking attendants in a virtual re-creation of Amsterdam
Commentary about Amsterdoom and the controversy that happened in the press in the weeks before release. Places the game in a more realistic context of what actually happens in the game, and the developers intent.
Announcement of the availability of several Amsterdoom related music tracks that could be downloaded from the game's website. Also mentions an upcoming version of the game made for the German market.

Reviews[edit]

Amsterdoom review in PC Gamer UK #84
Amsterdoom review in Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, March 2000
Review by newspaper Trouw discussing the game and has reactions from the department of Amsterdam concerning parking attendants and the Rijksmuseum, which is one of the locations used in the game, March 2000

Technical information[edit]

Paper called "Ray tracing as the future of computer games" by Juri A. Oudshoorn. Oudshoorn was one of the programmers of the game. Discusses several aspects of the game engine, rendering techniques and editors used for the creation of Amsterdoom.

Forum threads[edit]

Thread on tweakers.net from March 2000, with people discussing the game

Miscellaneous[edit]

Screensaver of the game included on a pack-in disc for the Eigen PC magazine

Game credits[edit]

Productidee

Rudolf Wolterbeek Muller

Projectleiding

Edwin van Dessel
Vincent Beek

Productontwerp

Peter Cossee
Richard Duijnstee

Technisch ontwerp

Lambert Wolterbeek Muller

Programmering

Arjan van den Boogaard
Frits Broekhuis
Jacco Bikker
Juri Oudshoorn
Mike van der Voort
Paul de Feyter

Grafische vormgeving

Alejandro Gasch Kuhne
Anko Elzes
Arjan Ubert
Camiel Feij
Jan-Pieter van Seventer
Marc van den Boom
Mathijs Mahon
Milan Polle
Peter van Dranen
Remi van Loenen

Rudy Seedorf
Shawn Burnam

Documentatie

Marleen Overduin

Muziek en geluid

Marwijn Mommersteeg
Nico Verrips

Intro animatie

Bumble Bee Studios

Kwaliteitscontrole

Didier Pippel
Jan Molenaar

Marketing

Ellen van Meerendonk