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Computers can now write bad code and ruin more systems than humans can ever dream of? It must be... THE FUTURE!

In Deer Time - Map #1 - Manta (yes I renamed the project from 'PxSp' to 'In Deer Time')

So look man if we're just gonna be online here watching all these big studios come out and lay down on the tracks about Gen AI going "I have to do this for some reason." then I think it's more important than ever to celebrate games from based devs who are out here openly posting "Nuh uh, fuck that."

Alright gang, there's a Senior Level Designer opening on my team. You know the drill. 👇 Please pass this along and AMA* jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions...

First map of my current #YumeNikki inspired #Doom project: Sueños. I saw this map in my head many many nights ago, struggling to sleep, and now it's real!

Am I the only one in the world who watches The Game Awards for the appearance of Flute Guy?

Happy Hellidays and a Merry Anti-Christmas to you all! The 2025 Cacowards are live. Read about all of this year's best content for Doom. Special thanks to our guest artist, the incredibly talented, @xous54.bsky.social. www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2025

Our last retrospective comes from 2012 when the awards expanded to include a larger number of 'runner-up' wads in an attempt to highlight more projects from the community. Pulling from this list we have Frozen Time by Alexander S. and Coffee Break by Matt Tropiano.

The second annual Eggowards are up on doomworld dot com. We wrote about all the Doom stuff we enjoyed this year! www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

THE FETUS HAS BEEN LAUNCHED! I had the honor of voicing several characters, doing sound effects work, and composing a bunch of songs! You can purchase BV TRAX VOL. 1 on Bandcamp or stream it on all your favorite platforms NOW: www.bluevertigo.org/tombfetus/bv...

Captain Wayne launching in the next hour or so - been looking forward to this one for a while, and the demo was great. GZDoom-based silliness. There needs to be more cartoon chaos in FPS games.

Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is available NOW on all platforms! 🤠

The earliest iteration of the menu from Outlaws. Initially a copypaste job from The Thing, the main menu box/colour/font quickly changed but the background art did not.

The Nightdive team is saddened by the loss of friend and industry legend, Rebecca Heineman. Her career spanned decades and impacted millions, with over 60 game credits to her name, including Baldur's Gate, Bard's Tale 3, and Killing Time: Resurrected. www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays. Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons. @nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her: pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...

The story of how Rebecca Heineman overcame corporate incompetence to develop the Doom 3DO port in two and a half months is incredible (via @bghof.com) www.badgamehalloffame.com/doom-3do/

The last toast by the legend herself: I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass - Becky

I'd like to share this old video of hers, where she talks about her time working on the 3DO port of Doom. it's a wild story that stuck with me, and a reminder that sometimes "bad games" have amazing people working on them

RIP to the legendary @burgerbecky.bsky.social. Her accomplishments were as amazing as they were numerous, and I count myself lucky to have met her in person. I also worked on the remaster of Killing Time, a game she was directly involved in. Hope our paths cross again Rebecca, wherever that may be.

RIP to the legend @burgerbecky.bsky.social <3 Please donate to her funeral costs: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Also, check out MAP30 of TNT2! Might as well! I put a fifth of my soul into making it!(!) Again, the download: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/... #doom #doom2 #evilution #megawad #tnt

It's out on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3936330/...

Yeah that e-ink display for the Steam Machine is cool and all but can it do this?

It's recently come to my attention that someone made a fake UZDoom website. DO NOT CLICK IT! The only official website for UZDoom is ZDoom dot org and the ONLY official place to get future UZDoom downloads would be the official UZDoom Github page! Stay safe out there y'all [Boosts appreciated]

was just reminded of an old great thread on Doomworld: the Doom level progress diagram. it was created to address the age old question about when a map should be considered linear or non-linear www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

So many trans people in gaming are walking a path Rebecca created and now she needs our help www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Refresh your supply of blood with our special release Blood: Refreshed Supply coming to PC and consoles later this year! 🩸

MALA PETAKA V1.0, Available Now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2104460/... #GZDoom #Pixelart #Boomershooter #RetroFPS #Gamedev #Indiedev

are you a boomer shooter fan? are you a content creator? then we want YOU to check out Mala Petaka! Mala Petaka comes out on September 26th, and we can use all the help we can get to get the word out. if you're interested, you can find our contact information here: linktr.ee/hellforgestu...

You're an angel that fights a fascist occupied heaven to get your girlfriend back and you glide around and firebomb them. And that's just Episode 1. store.steampowered.com/app/1662010/...

Beyond Sunset is a retro-futuristic cyberpunk FPS with light RPG elements and a Vangelis-style soundtrack. Built in GZDoom (because we hate ourselves). Have as much fun playing it as we did making it! Available now on Steam and GOG, DRM-free. Steam: s.team/a/1665260 GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/beyo...

Beyond Sunset represents a collaborative effort from too many people to name in a single post. It began as a solo project in 2015. Today, it's a first person shooter made with love by a bunch of extraordinarily talented people. #indiedev

Many thanks to @rpgsite.net for this and congrats to @danielgrayshon.bsky.social! Dan usually works behind the scenes at @nightdivestudios.bsky.social, glad to see him get the recognition. (BTW, Dan is one of the two people who have been with Nightdive longer than me!)

Wow, hard to believe it's been 2 decades. Been modding this port since 06 and it's allowed me to do some utterly mad things with the Doom engine. 🔹 The Adventures of Square 🔹 Faithless: Trilogy 🔹 A Boy And His Barrel 🔹 Nameless 🔹 Mercury Rain 🔹 The Joy of Mapping 🔹 Project: Kate Cheers to GZ. 🍻

Every time I see something terrible happening, I learn that it's backed by an organization that's like, "Moms for Whatever" I think it's high time we started outlawing Moms.

I am proud to announce... PEP: Prediction-Encoded Pixels This format is able to compress images (up to 256 colors) smaller than GIF, PNG, QOI, BMP, in almost all cases. A lot of passion and research (and fixation) has gone into this: >> github.com/ENDESGA/PEP <<

I made some maps, you can play them if you want, you also don't have to do that that's fine www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

Delve even deeper into the recent re-release of Heretic + Hexen with Nightdive developer Matt 'Mtrop' Tropiano in our latest Deep Dive podcast interview! 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf6C...

God dang it, D'Sparil

This is a Tom Hall appreciation post. The producer, director, and creative force behind Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triad, and more. Without him, the gaming world wouldn’t be the same.

So in case any of my friends were wondering - yes, the "secret project" I was on was Heretic + Hexen. If you told 11-year-old me that I was gonna work officially on a game I was playing when it just came out, I'd say you were out of your mind.

long summer days? why not make a #doom clone on #pico8? new SDK published with a couple of bug fixes/new features! github.com/freds72/poom...

this duke3d user map visual gag lives in my head rent free.

Steam Summer Sale is on NOW through July 10th - check out our specials!

🚨 NEW DOOM RELEASE 🚨 Here is a modern-day update to my first one-man megawad from 2011, JENESIS! Retooled to work in DOOM + DOOM II without any hitches or bugs. All maps have also received several quality-of-life improvements. Links below ⬇