A techno-magic themed WAD written for NanoWADMo 2019! It's also an idea I had wanted to explore for a while, making a WAD based on an album and turning the song titles into levels.

I chose the first disc of Helloween's "Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy" for two reasons:
1. Its theming and evocative song titles,
2. It's quite short.

Keeper3 was made from start to finish in a month (incorporating weapons, monsters and other assets from some of my past projects). I tried to limit my techbase comfort zone to only a couple of levels and explore some cave areas, castles and an Egyptian level with almost entirely original textures!

Out on a distant dwarf planet beyond the solar system, the UAC subsidiary Vulkan Inc has been tapping a promising source of geothermal power. The planet's interal temperatures are far in excess of natural levels, giving it a breathable atmosphere and even liquid water despite its huge distance from the sun. The struggling corporation is ardent in their efforts to accelerate extraction of this energy and set themselves up to profit off the growing power demands on Earth - a huge set of extraterrestrial drilling complexes have been set up to extract every valuable resource the planet has to offer. The latest addition is Borehole SG3, a superdeep vertical tunnel currently under construction that is on the point of breaking through into the planet's mantle eight miles below the surface.

To defend their prize, the UAC has set up a heavy presence of their military security division throughout each complex - but today, a helicopter ferrying recruits from the lower outposts into the base surrounding the new borehole is met with an eerie silence. One senior officer disembarks, signalling to the pilot to return while they investigate. As they venture down into the deepest reaches of the power station, they'll discover that the new borehole has hit a passageway to hell...

BDLite was written for Vulkan Inc! It was originally based on a cut-down version of Brutal Doom, but to solve inconsistencies between the standard and custom enemies and content, I chose to rewrite most of the mod so that it could be used as a base for this game.

Castle Matias was the first WAD ever released for BDLite, beating the "official" Vulkan Inc by several months! It's a single level WAD consisting of two halves, getting up to the castle and then clearing it of monsters.

See more at the WAD's ZDoom forum topic.