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Harris's UAC Labs WAD contains comments which appear somewhat disturbing in retrospect.

includes a reference to his shotgun which he nicknamed "Arlene," after the character of Arlene Sanders from the novels, which he refers to "holding a grudge against" due to the weapon having jammed - other nearby writings project thoughts and emotions onto inanimate weapons and ammunition such as shotgun shells, stating how they "hate to wait." On page 272, Harris says "Doom is so burned into my head my thoughts usually have something to do with the game", while on page 321 amongst others he references the Doom novels. Although this position has largely dissipated, Ty Halderman regularly rejected the maps from inclusion in the idgames archive during his period as maintainer.Ī PDF containing some of Harris' documents and personal writings includes designs for some of his levels (page 112 onward). After the shootings, many websites refused to provide downloads to any of the levels, seeing the shootings as something from which the community should dissociate itself. Though Harris did release several WADs, the alleged CHS levels are not known to be on the internet.

Proctor added that another classmate had told him he had heard the same. Despite this obsession, neither shooter was involved in the mainstream Doom community on the Internet, and their levels and activities were virtually unknown before the shooting.Īccording to a statement made to government investigators of the Columbine attack by then-CHS student David Proctor, who occasionally played Doom with Harris and Klebold via modem, Harris told him in 1999 that he had created a level of Doom that was Columbine High School. In a videotape recorded before the shooting, Harris expressed enthusiasm for the planned shooting, saying it would be "like fucking Doom." He also pointed out that the shotgun was "Straight out of Doom".