How Doom Fire Was Done

Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18782902

This reminds me of the good old times where I learned programming by reading Denthor's Asphyxia Tutorials [0]!

[0] http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/listed82.html?c...

Since creating this article, there have been implementations for various platforms and languages. If you check out @fabynou on twitter, he has been retweeting them. iOS, android, watches, etc)

A playground of experiments related to this algorithm (more than 40 experiments): https://github.com/filipedeschamps/doom-fire-algorithm/

I literally just started a project to recreate this and eventually riff on it. Feedback welcome. :)

https://github.com/tehcorwiz/demofire