Starting July 1st at 12AM EST, The Joy of Mapping is returning again to help mappers young and old to get the spark of creativity that they need to make and finish a map all of their own. This time round, you could be joining a crack team of mappers (new and adept alike) to create a whole episodic megawad of material together. And it'll only take a week to map it all. Check out the threads on ZDoom and Doomworld for more information. A countdown timer til the event starts can be found here. See you there!

A conversion that aims to faithfully bring the original NES land of Hyrule to life in the GZDoom engine. The DOOM and Zelda games have been huge sources of influence and inspiration for detwelve personally. Now adays he finds the fandoms and creator communities that have grown up with these franchises equally inspiring. He has long held dreams to see this world realized in 3D and to create a DOOM mod. This is his first project and he has a great time learning ZScript and the basics of how to develop something for the GZDoom engine.

Does anyone of you still remember Eriance and his ambitious project Demon Eclipse? A addon for Doom with countless self-drawn new enemies and weapons, unique detailed maps and a totally thrillng experience? Well, then you might also still remember that this project has been cancelled a few years ago, the drama has been terrible but nobody was able to stop Eriance from his decision. And out of nowhere, the dead has been resurrected: Hell Forged is the successor to Demon Eclipse. Thanks to Tarnsman's feedback from some time ago, he's convinced Eriance (now called Amuscaria) to focus on the Hell-tech theme of Demon Eclipse instead of having two essentially different games in a single package. Hell-Forged is currently planned to be a single 9-map episode set in another world being invaded by Hell. Although Episode 2,3, and 4 were designed and much thought put into them, it's unlikely those will be completed. The focus is for Hell-Forged's 9 maps and ~dozen new enemies and bosses. More information can be found at the development thread.

Just spotted a new release at the Doomworld forums from Dave Billing which has the promising title The Phobos Incursion. The project is a new episode 1 replacement for Doom which does exactly what you might expect: Deliver 9 new maps from scratch heavily inspired by Knee-Deep in the Dead. It catches the look and feel perfectly and also gameplay-wise is a very interesting experience you should definitely try. Check the release thread and the authors homepage for more information and also a download link.

Texture packs give Doom a new fresh lick of paint to its existing gameplay, but quality packs are a work in and out of itself. Ukiro's OTEX pack is one such work that stands among the top of the hill. The Power of OTEX mapset puts four maps together in this little project by Kinker31. As you can tell by the thread, the maps look fresh, vibrant, courtesy of the OTEX pack that is used. But what is more rare is that these maps are made for Deathmatch and Deathmatch related modes. As maps of this kind are currently far and inbetween, let alone made for Boom level format, the Power of OTEX has its charms. Get your friends together and put aside the differences as you battle eachother in these fresh new DM maps.

First of all, I want to thank Blue Shadow and Gothic for their amazing work in the past years when it came to sorting and adding new content to the Realm667 repository. You help has been priceless and the community benefited a lot from your effort - so thank you for that. 

Both have ended their active involvement here a few days ago, so the Realm667's currently submission-status is on hiatues, the submission forums are locked. But that hopefully won't stay forever that way if there are volunteers who are interested in helping to keep the repository alive. If you are used to GZDoom/ZDoom editing and modding and if you have little knowledge about content management systems (it's quite easy, promsied), drop me a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with some information about you and why you might be the right one to do this - looking forward to your emails until then :)