Doom modders fall into civil war as devs launch new engine in protest at GZDoom creator's leadership and use of ChatGPT

technology • 10/16/2025

The lead developer of Doom modder engine GZDoom is at odds with community members over his alleged tyrannical tendencies and recent usage of LLM-generated code.

The future of GZDoom, the community-updated engine behind many thousands of brilliant Doom mods, is in doubt following a bust-up over the lead developer's use of generative AI to create code. The fracas has seen a number of GZDoom developers announce... [2261 chars]