Sorry that the site has been down for so long. Until the dust clears, only the forum and some sites will be available. I'll try and other things up and running as soon as possible.

The file sharing site is going to take a lot longer to get working, as there were 13 gigs of data that have to be uploaded again. That's something that should come within the coming weeks though.

This site is now officially hosted by MancuNET. Please welcome mancubus ii to the team!

This site will have to be shut down over the course of several days while I do the migration. It will likely happen this weekend. I don't think I am going to be able to do a "live" migration as I have done in the past where the site can stay running even while everything transfers, and I also want to do it a little bit more carefully as well.

For the few that do not already know, Risen3D v2.2.20 has been released.

For more info visit the Risen3D homepage.

With only $120 raised in the last donation campaign, I've decided that the time has come to ... well ... "make do with what I have."

I've contacted the owner of MancuNET and DRD Team will be having a new home within the next month. Fact is, I am not very aggressive (or much of a marketing personality) to have continued the donation campaign and done what I really needed to do to get the money for the entire year. But there were other factors influencing the decision, as well; if my marketing weakness was the only issue, it would not have come to this.

What about the money that was already donated?
Because the transfer is not going to be free, I will be refunding the 2013 donation money at a prorated amount, which will be the year's entire donation pool minus costs post-transfer. Everyone will get a portion of their money back, but some will be needed for fees - after the total costs are calculated, they'll be subtracted from the donation pool and a percentage will be calculated; everyone will get the same percentage of their total donation amount returned based on their original contribution.

Why this change now?
$40/mo for a website that gets less than 10k hits per month is a VERY huge amount. Previously the cost was justified with all the extra services that DRD Team ran, such as IRC and project SVNs (not to be confused with the SVN site which is still used quite frequently and will be continued after transfer), which, fact is, aren't really used anymore. If the community doesn't use it, why charge them for it?

But HPACK uses the DRD Team SVN!
MancuNET might be willing to take that over. It's one thing I forgot to discuss that with Mike, but I will soon.

You're giving up on this way too easily, you miserable crone!
That may well be, but $40/mo is a huge financial responsibility - at least it is, for me. Even when the donations come in, there's still other fees such as taxes, domains, as well as paypal and bank fees. My friend has been kind enough to front most of those fees, but there comes a point when one has to just say ... it's just not worth it. Fact is, personally, I need to cut costs across the board. Giving up a website is not the only thing that I've done to accomplish that.

Who is MancuNET? Why them?
MancuNET is owned by Mike "Mancubus II" Lightner who is a very long-time member of the Doom community and tends to be more active on Doomworld than anywhere else (at least, that I've seen). He's the one who currently hosts both the ZDoom and GZDoom SVN's, and probably a countless number of other things too. He's one of the more trusted and looked up-to members of the community, which is why he was my first choice for taking over DRD Team. As far as hosting goes, I'm fairly confident that this is a man who has his things together, and I have faith in DRD Team's future with him.

Who will admin DRD Team?
Not much will be changing there. I will likely retain my status unless I am voted off the island for some reason. If that happens, Enjay and Blzut3 are the two that will succeed me. Obviously, Mancubus II will be getting ownership status, which implies admin as well. I will continue to support and try to improve DRD Team after the take-over, but I will probably work a little bit more in the background.

What now?
DRD Team will continue on. And it will continue going strong! It won't be the same as it has always been, but it will still be here, and it will still focus on its primary goal: to empower the community, especially developers, but also as a resource for players as well.

... and those ads?
They'll be removed. If Mike wants to put ads of his own in, that's his decision.

As many of you know, DRD Team is a site that, because it functions as more than just a website, is hosted on a server that was extensible to the site's needs. However, it is rather pricey, and many of you know how I cannot afford to pay the full bill myself.

So ... it is time, once again, to ask for donations to ensure its continued operation into the future. If you wish to donate, there's always a link on the side of the front page. Or, if you are just reading this news post, you may click here.

The donation format has been changed to be a little different this year. My friend is still handling the money itself, however, to increase transparency and awareness into how it is done, I have started using a site that actually tracks the amount that people pay. This is so you can see, for yourself, first hand, how much money has been raised.

As always, the goal amount is $480 to completely pay the annual bills. That's $40/mo for 12 months. (For those of you wondering, Project Wonderful advertising has not attracted a lot of advertisers, so I didn't get more than about $15 since last year for it)

Thank you in advance, to everyone who contributes! And, if you need a site hosted here, feel free to ask. (Yes, some space has opened up over the past couple of years, so I can support more people now)

I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Hopefully 2013 will be a whole lot better than 2012 was... thank god this year is finally over, eh?

Posted by Blzut3 yesterday... enjoy

Blzut3 wrote:ECWolf 1.1 has been released. Given how game breaking some of the bug were, this release is somewhat overdue. Be sure to scan over the revised release notes and then head over to the downloads page. The tech demo has been updated with a new secret level so be sure to grab that as well!

While this was intended to be mostly a bug fix release. There are a few features thrown in here including move/weapon bob lifted straight from ZDoom. It also includes an initial implementation of mouse look via y-shearing (use Tab+M in debug mode to enable), but there's still no z-axis.

The documentation is being updated as I have time (if anyone is willing to help please contact me for a wiki account), but in the mean time here's an interpreted version of the Mercurial log:

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Fixed: Dogs could not walk through open doors. Fixed: Angel of Death animation was all wrong. Fixed: Angel of Death sounds. Fixed: Ubermutant did not sight the player. Fixed: Spectres tried to play the wrong sound in Spear of Destiny causing a crash. Fixed: Mouse Y axis movement was not clamped resulting in noclip like behaviors. Fixed: Use case insensitive file lookups on all platforms. Fixed: Offsets in TEXTURES can now be negative. Fixed: Clipping of tall weapon sprites. Fixed: Sprite mirroring didn't work. Fixed: Errors with sounds in The Ultimate Challenge. Fixed: Having over 100 health resulted in a crash. Fixed: Widescreen display artifacts when too close to a wall. Fixed: View window size needs to be even. This fixes some resolutions like 1366x768 Fixed: Weapon switches were not cancelled at death resulting in possible finite loops. Fixed: --file read the second argument after it. Fixed: Action pointers now keep track of owner so jumps work properly on weapons. Fixed: Monsters that had both a missile and melee attack would not perform the melee attack. Fixed: The angle variable in decorate wasn't converted to degrees. Fixed: Projectiles didn't play their seesound when spawned. Improved VGAGRAPH loading code to guess when finding bogus data. Improved location of base data ("IWAD") files. Slightly changed the depth fog so that it doesn't fade to black quite so fast. Still doing something completely wrong here. The save directory is now configuration directory unless overridden by --savedir. Added WolfensteinMonster actor which, if inherited, sets the defaults approprietly for Wolfenstein style monsters. Added mouse look. It's a cheat for now since the implementation isn't finished (no z-axis). Use Tab+M to enable it. Added weapon and movement bobbing code from ZDoom. Added support for binding keys to next/previous weapon. Added GAF_NOAMMO for A_GunAttack and duplicated WAF_NORANDOM as GAF_NORANDOM. Added A_JumpIfCloser, A_JumpIfInventory, A_TakeInventory, and A_ChangeFlag. Added chance parameter to A_ActiveSound (0 = never, 256 = always (default)) use ASP_CHASE to have the same probability as A_Chase. This is useful for Wolfenstein style monsters so the active sound plays correctly. Use A_ActiveSound(ASP_CHASE) A_Chase("*","*",CHF_NOPLAYACTIVE). Added meleerange property. Added minmissilechance property. Added ALWAYSFAST flag since Wolfenstein monsters resemble fast monsters in Doom. Added RandomSpawner class. Added messagecolors, messagefontcolor, and menuwindowcolors to MAPINFO. Added flat and finaleflat support for art screen backgrounds. Added entertext, entertextislump, and extertextismessage. Notify the user if there are any undefined, but referenced actor types. Notify the user if a map is in an unknown format. Removed flags from DECORATE that shouldn't be set by the user. Removed missilechance (use missilefrequency with a conversion rate of 0.005).

I probably should've posted this 2 weeks ago, when it was new news, but hey, better late than never, right?

Anyway, despite DRD Team being Doom heavy, it was never strictly Doom stuff, so this deserves to be on the front page just as much as anything else does, and I definitely think more people should check it out, to be honest. So without further ado - here is the original post: (that I should've duplicated to the news page 2 weeks ago >_>)

Blzut3 wrote: 
So now I can stop vaguely descibing what ECWolf is, since you can see for yourself! ECWolf 1.0 has been released and hopefully everything works. Oh and supposedly today is the 20th anniversary of Spear of Destiny.

A few things to note:

• First read the release notes.
• I don't have the patching utility working on Windows yet. For the most part, this is an issue with me and compiling on Windows. Hopefully it won't be long before I can figure out what exactly is happening there. Not a huge problem, if you have Wolf3D on Steam or you have the version that came with Return to Castle Wolfenstein, then you definitely have the right version
• I don't have an editing guide written. If there's someone that would like to maintain a wiki for this then that would be great. Otherwise you pretty much have to go on the scripts included in ecwolf.pk3. I'll try to at least get a minimal text documentation going, but this may take a week or two. For the most part though if the name of something matches, you can assume it works like the ZDoom wiki says it should. (Of course ECWolf has drastically less features.)

I would like to give a shout out to all the people who help test the pre-release versions of ECWolf (these are the people to blame if it doesn't work):

• Andy_Nonymous
• Apothem
• Bashe
• Bouncy
• Richter Belmont
• wildweasel
• Woolie Wool/Executor

Without further ado, head over to the downloads page to grab ECWolf for your platform of choice. Be sure to check out Woolie Wool/Executor's tech demo.

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Although the official site still shows 1.5.6 as the latest version, GZDoom 1.6.0 is available and has been so since the same day ZDoom 2.6.0 was released. Until the technical issues that prevent the homepage from being updated are solved, you can get the latest official version of GZDoom from this direct download link.

For many in the Doom community, this new source port needs no introduction. However, there are still some who have no idea what this new thing is or why it even exists.

Well, some people in Skulltag decided they could no longer work together, and so they parted ways and forked it to a new project. Enter Zandronum - the newest, most up-to-date version of what used to be Skulltag.

Unfortunately, it also meant the proverbial death of its parent source port, as no more active developers remain. Many fond memories will be missed from that era.

So what are you waiting for? Go check it out if you haven't already!