The Doom Speed Demo Archive hosts speed demos recorded for doom engine games, including the original works by id, related projects such as heretic, and custom content created by the community. DSDA is currently hosted at doomedsda.us by Andy Olivera, who, along with Opulent, has served the doom demo community for well over a decade. The archive currently stores over 49k demos, with 4k hours of content.
The goal of this project is to create a new dsda, from scratch, implementing a variety of features and improvements, such as support for additional categories, heretic / hexen demos, zandronum demos, and extra stats / options.
- Heretic and Hexen support
- Zandronum demo support
- Extra site-wide stats (e.g., average demo time)
- Ranking / sorting by tics
- Category cross-listing (pacifist -> uv speed)
- Additional categories (e.g., stroller)
- Live feed of recent demos
- List of level times for movies
- Date of recording
- Twitch / YouTube links for players
- Demo video links
- API
- Record timelines
- Table views
- Movie comparisons
- And more to come
The archive can be set up locally for testing purposes. The steps are relatively straightforward:
- Install ruby 2.4
- Make sure bundler is installed (
gem install bundler) - Clone or download this repository
- Move into the
dsda-rdirectory - Run
bundleto install all the gems (libraries) you need - Run
bundle exec rails db:resetto set up the databasebundle execmeans to run the following command using the predefined gem versionsrailsis the web frameworkdb:resetresets the database, migrates it to the current schema, and adds seed data
- Run
bundle exec rails sto start the server (smeans server) - Navigate a browser to
localhost:3000(may take time to load) - Click on Wads to see the list of wads
- Click on the one with lots of demos
- Download one of the demos to confirm everything is set up
- The files are plain text, so you can open the "zip" in any editor