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Varun's Cacoward

Wednesday · 12 Dec 07 · 01:04 AM IST | Posted by Karthik | Category: Doom

For those who don't know what I am talking about, the Cacowards are an annual feature at Doomworld, where they recognise achievements in Doom mapping for that year. They are announced on Dec 10 every year, to coincide with Doom's birthday (10 Dec 93, 14 years now!). I saw the article Doom Turns 14 at Doomworld, followed the link to view the 14th Annual Cacowards, and I'd actually read most of it when one particular entry on the list caught my attention —

Varun's level, The Outer Darkness was recognised as one of the Top Ten levels released in 2007! He'd already gone off to sleep sometime before I saw this, so I went and woke him up, and told him that Doomworld had posted the Cacowards, and that there was something he had to see. He pointed at me with a questioning look. If there were subtitles here, they'd have probably read "So, you got something?". I shook my head and pointed right back at him. Subtitles: "No man, you did".

No need to reiterate what I've already said about this great level [his site, my post], I'm very happy for Varun. Great work, man!

By the way, this is the 100th post on this site since I did the redesign in 2006. Was thinking of posting something special to mark the occasion, glad to have this to write about!

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Varun

13 Dec 07 · 09:06 AM

Thanks thanks! Hehe if you didn't see that article I wouldn't have even known about this...

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