Trivia / My House

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• Approval of God:
  • John Romero, co-creator of the original Doom, has streamed himself playing My House.
  • Mark Z. Danielewski, the author of House of Leaves, from which the mod was loosely adapted, has tweeted a link to Power Pak’s video exploration of the mod, which we can take as a tacit endorsement as well.
• Colbert Bump:
  • Both Power Pak's two-hour video essay on My House and Vinesauce Vinny's playthrough of it on stream drew a considerable amount of attention towards the wad. It's gotten enough attention that John Romero himself has streamed himself playing it.
  • The mod itself in turn drew attention towards House of Leaves (from which it took heavy inspiration), and to The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet.
• Demand Overload: An unusual example: The popularity of the wad was so great that the hosting platform for the contents of the secret gravestone QR code suffered outages from the number of fans trying to scan it.
• Dummied Out: A mirrored version of the Ending 1 empty lot exists, but is impossible to access under regular gameplay.
• Reclusive Artist: Very little is known about who Veddge is and whether any of the mod is actually based on real events. They indeed created their Doomworld forum account in 2006, only returning in 2023 to ask some questions in random threads before posting the wad and going silent again. The only current information about the actual creator comes from his ex-wife's TikTok.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Though Veddge/Steve's Google Drive files and Doomworld forum posts are meant purely as unfiction worldbuilding around the wad's backstory, some fans have taken the wrong message from the process of unraveling the wad's mysteries and believe there's an Alternate Reality Game to be deciphered from discovering the "truth" about the creator and/or the actual house. The conversation in the wad's Doomworld thread in particular has consistently steered to deter such discussions and maintain respect for Veddge's privacy, culminating in a temporary closure of the original thread following the discovery of the TikTok of Veddge's ex-wife and further personal details deemed too intrusive on the matter, and newer posts that try to bring up content related to it.
• Word of Saint Paul: While Veddge himself remains anonymous, his ex-wife was communicative on TikTok for a time and divulged some information about the mod's references; notably, some of the collected items like Pumpkin Rick and the rubber duck's "chugga chugga horse horse" description, reference several in-jokes within the creator's social circle, and the overall theme of loss seemed to have real-life parallels to the couple's separation. Eventually though, she stepped back from talking about the mod and delisted videos and comments discussing it, leaving some information lost to the void.

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