Jon Dowland

Jon "Teppic" Dowland is a Doomer that worked on Doom Legacy and now works on Freedoom.

Brief history
Jon fell in love with Doom back when it was being sold in the high street shops, and was quickly hooked on both playing PWADs and creating levels. He did not get access to the Internet until comparatively late in Doom's history: instead he worked his way through commercial WAD collections such as D!Zone and 3D Game Alchemy.

He was first involved in the Doom community in around 1997 after he read about Doom Legacy in a magazine. Through a link on Doomworld he was introduced to IRC and #doomroom.

Contributions
Most of his work in the late nineties was centred around Doom Legacy. He befriended Gokuma and Ebola, and was involved in a lot of play testing and experimenting with ideas.

He released very little publicly, with the notable exception of smallfun2, a special-effects level demonstrating some effects possible in Legacy, such as coronas, rays of light, lifts on top of other lifts, and others.



Later, he was one of the first people to help beta-test TCP/IP based multiplayer with Legacy and csDoom.

He designed SMMU's console background picture, by Fraggle's request.

In September 2000, he released his first play-oriented level, Lift Tension, which was part of the Doomworld 10 Sectors megawad.

He also contributed textures to the Nimrod partial conversion (2002) for Doom Legacy.

Current
Nowadays his involvement in the Doom community is mostly confined to Freedoom, which he co-maintains alongside Fraggle. He has created texture-patches, levels, sounds, and the current website design.