Hell quickly Revealed is a speedrun of all 32 levels of Hell Revealed, a DooM2 megaWAD, in a time of 43:39, on skill 1. Since DooM doesn't allow connecting several demos, don't expect it to be as good as the QdQ speedruns, but it's still quite fast.

I fixed some bugs in QdQstats, and added a new feature, it's now version 1.3. You can now see where triggers are, and what happens when you touch a trigger, pick up an item, push a button, or kill a monster. It's not meant to be used while recording, just to explore what goes on inside those levels you know so well. Check it out and give me suggestions. A new stats version for Scourge of Armagon is coming soon that also has bug fixes and the trigger option. For more info on the trigger option, see triggers.html.

You wait a while for an update, then three come along at once. :)

Resident QdQ hacker Stefan Schwoon has written a small general-purpose demo processing utility called DemTool, which we used to compile and process the Qd100Q demo. Amongst other things it will compress Quake demos and produce LMPC text-listings very quickly. Check it out...

A group of speed runners from Gunnar Andre Mo's Skill 0 Speed Demos Page have started a project called QdQLite, which is basically a Skill 0 version of Quake done Quicker. Skill 0 does not mean no skill! You will see quite a few new cool tricks, and they've already brought the time down to below 16 minutes; they expect it to be at least a full minute faster than QdQr when finished. It'll be out "when it's done." :)

Anyone interested in helping should contact Gerald "Tangent" Tan.

Another month, another trick, another article. Last month's ZigZagging piece generated a lot of e-mail and some brand new discoveries, one of which is a biggie. If speed is ever an issue for you when playing Quake, you probably need to know about wall-hugging; so check out this week's PlanetQuake article, Up Against The Wall!

Taking inspiration from NSD, Yonatan and Nolan have finished work on making the recordings for our 100% kills and secrets project. The runs will be refilmed and tweaked to make a movie like QdQr over the next few weeks - you'll hear when it's done. In the meantime we have put together the traditional first-person perspective demo version of this marathon run (it's over an hour long!), and it is now available for download.