Have you ever wanted to browse art from the Metropolitan Museum in a first-person shooter interface? You are in luck because DOOM: The Gallery Experience exists. (Instead of a gun, the protagonist carries a glass of red wine.) https://kottke.org/25/01/doom-the-gallery-experience
DOOM: The Gallery Experience

Have you ever wanted to browse art from the Metropolitan Museum in a first-person shooter interface? You are in luck because DOO

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Holy crap I'm not even a gamer and I wanna play this. (perhaps that the point?)

@kottke seems like a suggestion worth implementing: https://x.com/JasozzGames/status/1875607042301554928
Jason Smith (@JasozzGames) on X

actually what the hell, ive got a few minutes to burn

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@kottke - Does firing the gun sip the wine?
@jmax @kottke yes. And it's not just wine, there are other "guns".

@jmax @kottke @zeh

oh please do tell how

@PChoate @jmax @kottke

It's a "secret" I suppose. You can get a sixpack of beer on the corridor to the left before the "Exit" hallway (you need to get near the "Exit" first, so the wall will open).

You can see that in this video at 1:20: https://youtu.be/107QBE3EBys?feature=shared&t=74

The ammo panel also shows "Gin" and "Water", but I think those are not actually in the game.

DOOM: The Gallery Experience [100% SPEEDRUN] - 1:51

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@kottke Is there anything Doom can't do?
The Simpsons-Wait a minute. This game is educational! HQ 4:3

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@kottke I canโ€™t figure out how to upgrade the wine to a BFG (glass).

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i could not possibly approve of this more strongly

@clive @kottke

So instead of firing the gun do you get to toss the wine at paintings, to ruin them and gain points? And if you explore enough of the gallery, do you find a bowl of soup on the lfoor, and you can pick that up and then go around making paintings additionally nervous of soup attacks? Just wondering here

@clive @kottke The comment about speed runningโ€ฆ I feel scene. Many years ago I visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam with my brother the art history professor. I finished passing through a gallery and wondered where he was at. I found him way back in the very first room entranced by the layering of the paint of the lace of someone's collar.
@kottke so what does the fire button do?
If it unleashes
Oh, very deep. Dark even
I'm out but if it throws glass at and is upgradable to a gun then cool
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I can't help but roll my eyes at all the people heaping effusive praise over the Doom Gallery Simulator when it's at best a facile easy joke that's been made a billion times before and at worst just completely misses the mark about what's wrong with gallery culture while also throwing museums and other institutions of public art under the bus.

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@kottke this is pretty much how it feels wandering around Vatican in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
@kottke hahaha brilliant! now I feel old, but also kinda sophisticated. ^^
@kottke Finally, an art gallery where it's okay to press up against the walls going "OOMPH OOMPH OOMPH"
@kottke borrowed from a discord I'm in: "sip and stare"