Legendary level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray has died

20 comments

• P03 Locke3

  And here I just found out that Bobby Prince died a few months ago.

• creamfresh6

  He had a terrific sense of humor, too. For example, in Duke 3D he made this hung jury room. A real legend.

  What's the joke?

  • spacegoat18

    

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_jury

    • creamfresh-3
      • spacegoat8

        I literally posted a screenshot and a link to what a hung jury is. Shall I hold your hand and walk you to the joke?

      • Doom5

        Do you not know what a pun is?

• jtrek47

  He also earned a very specific fame for his "You're not supposed to be here" Easter egg in Duke Nukem 3D, which was only accessible via cheating.

  Oh! I remember that one!

  • spacegoat3

    I feel like I encountered this as a kid but wouldn’t have known how to cheat

• JigglySackles22

  It's weird and sad to see prominent figures of my formative youth passing. Time moves ever onward.

  • Nouvellalia14

    I'm usually pretty impervious to feeling old. I'm old, it doesn't surprise me. But hearing "gamers of a certain age" as if I'm a widowed, ancient, southern grandma, did stick in me a bit.

    • JigglySackles2

      It's the same for me...usually. Lol Those few moments really put me in my place for a bit.

• Bonesince199711

  It doesn't say how old he was, but there was this about him starting in the industry later in life:

  ...he said he was 35 when he made his first Doom level, calling himself "a late bloomer with games," while Apogee founder Scott Miller said Gray was "in his 40s" when the studio hired him out of the Doom mod scene to work on Duke Nukem 3D.

  • creamfresh10

    He was 68.

  • Assdddffff3

    He was 68

  • Dunstabzugshaubitze4

    https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Gray_(Levelord)

    he was 68.

• PhobosAnomaly28

  Well fuck. What a guy. Timeless level design - a name that has gone down in history for all the right reasons.

• DosDude12

  He was a legend. Rest in peace.

• 64bithero9

  RIP Levelord. I’ll boot stomp in your honor

• Fishnoodle17

  I loved that shit. I must have played through Duke and Shadow warrior dozens of times each

• gibmiser9

  Levlord takes me back...

  LEVELORD - INSANE crazey man whos a nut!!!! he eats drugs and children. hes nuts!!!!

  SURVIVORE - TEH FPS GAME DISGNAR SHOWDOWN OR SOMETHING AWFUL

  

  • P03 Locke2

    You should be playing BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT.