{"id":1330573,"date":"2025-09-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/NmsgUhdGVjfQGkHmna79nN"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:00:00","slug":"this-doom-mod-based-on-ye-olde-flash-animation-series-madness-is-fittingly-way-slicker-than-it-has-any-right-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/this-doom-mod-based-on-ye-olde-flash-animation-series-madness-is-fittingly-way-slicker-than-it-has-any-right-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"This Doom mod based on ye olde Flash animation series Madness is, fittingly, way slicker than it has any right to be"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in the days when I used to haunt Newgrounds as a perpetually online teenager, a new episode of Madness<\/a> would always shoot right to the top of the portal charts. The series, created by animator Krinkels, was a sort-of cultural after-dinner mint for fans of The Matrix.<\/p>\n

Madness’ fast-paced, hyper-violent shorts involve grey, cross-faced people blasting each other to smithereens. Central to the series’ appeal was how its action scenes grew more impressive and elaborate with every passing episode, and it was always fun to see how far Krinkels could push things when a new entry dropped.<\/p>\n

I haven’t thought about Madness for a long time (though the series hasn’t gone away, as I’ll get to shortly). But those memories came flooding back when I spied Somewhere in Hell<\/a>, a Doom 2 mod that goes to impressive lengths to recreate Madness’ flashy, bloody action in id Software’s shooter sequel.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in Hell basically replaces Doom’s weapons and enemies with goons and firearms from Krinkels’ animations. But what’s impressive is how modder Recurracy 2 has infused the mod with the speed and vicious lethality of Krinkels’ animations. The legions of monochromatic foes you face move across the maps fast<\/em>, crossing whole rooms in a matter of seconds to get in your face.<\/p>\n

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