It is said that it's Doom, but it was stylized as DooM then later as DOOM.

You also discovered Company Name Conundrum: id, iD, ID, or id Software?puffleboi wrote:"iD Tech 1" ones
m8f wrote:You also discovered Company Name Conundrum: id, iD, ID, or id Software?puffleboi wrote:"iD Tech 1" ones
m8f wrote:You also discovered Company Name Conundrum: id, iD, ID, or id Software?
Gez wrote:It's been styled as "id Sofware" by the company*. The normal styling would be "Id Software", with uppercased first letter since it's a proper name. ID implies an acronym, which it isn't*, since it's supposed to be the id as in id, ego, and superego of Freudian psychology. The styling "iD" is a complete aberration. If I may direct your attention to the logo that appears in Doom:
does this look like an upper-case "d" to you?
* I've read that very early in the company's existence, they explained it as being ID for "In Demand", and there was also the thing about Romero's "Ideas from the Deep". But they solidified on "id" as the term from psychology quite soon.
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