Cacodemon

A Cacodemon in E3M2: Slough of Despair

Cacodemons are large, red, round, one-eyed monsters. They attack by shooting ball lightning from the mouth, and float (but move relatively slowly). The Cacodemon graphic first appeared in the code of an alpha version of Doom, released on May 22, 1993; it first appeared as a live adversary in a press release version of Doom released on October 4, 1993.

Inspiration

The original astral dreadnought illustration

The name (which comes from the Greek kakodaimon meaning "bad demon" or "ugly demon") may have been taken from the "Cacodemon" spell in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

The design was inspired by the beholder and astral dreadnought in D&D. In fact, it appears that the sprite was created directly from an illustration of an astral dreadnought taken from a D&D book, which has later circulated on the Internet.

Data

Attributes ID # 3005 (decimal), BBD (hex) Hit points 400 Speed 8 Width 62 Height 56 Reaction time 8 Pain chance 128 (50%) Mass 400 Bits 4211206 Bits list 1: Obstacle 2: Shootable 9: No Gravity 14: Floating 22: Affects Kill %

Sprites & sounds Sprite name HEAD Alert sound DSCACSIT Pain sound DSDMPAIN Death sound DSCACDTH Action sound DSDMACT

Melee attack Damage 6-60 Sound none Ranged attack Type Projectile Speed 10 Damage 5-40 Width 12 Height 8 Sprite name BAL2 Sound DSFIRSHT (firing) DSFIRXPL (impact)

Appearance statistics

The IWADs contain the following numbers of cacodemons:

Game	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Ultimate Doom	62	144	193
Doom II	44	121	188
TNT: Evilution	43	76	99
Plutonia	95	108	123

Hissy

Hissy in 2003

Circa 1997-98, Jonas "Chrozoron" Feragen created Hissy, a plush Cacodemon which quickly become famous in the community. Hissy can be found as a character in Skulltag, Cacodemon Squad and EarthBound Doom; the plush Cacodemon itself is on a "world tour", being passed from one community member to another.

Pixel

Pixel, just after being finished in 2004.

Pixel is a plush-toy cacodemon created in late 2004 by Hughe as a challenge from a friend. He was created to be as accurate in form as possible using five different materials, including all his horns, seperate teeth, upper mouth and single eye. He was created before Hughe had any knowledge of the plush Hissy, and was in no way made to compete with her. In fact, it's said that Pixel finds her rather cute. Pixel himself is now used as something of a mascot and avatar for a small group of cacodemon-adoring Doom fans living in the UK.

Sources

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Cacodemon. As with Doom Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.