Darryl Steffen (dobu gabu maru)

Darryl Steffen, known by his alias dobu gabu maru, is an American level designer, and host of The DWmegawad Club since its inception. He was named as the Mapper of the Year at the 2017 Cacowards, in addition to receiving a Cacoward for Saturnine Chapel and a Machaward for his monsterless puzzle map The Given.

Steffen is known for his highly idiosyncratic style, with common tropes being difficult, cruel combat setups, extravagant, richly detailed environments, ambitious concept levels, and meticulous worldbuilding. He also has a fascination with puzzle maps; besides The Given, his other levels in a similar style include Moonlight and his Exuviae levels such as.

Steffen is also noted for his community project management efforts. He co-led NOVA: The Birth, and was the project lead for its sequel. In 2017, he playtested and did major mapping work for TNT: Revilution. One of the levels he retouched, his collaboration Transduction with Stupidbunny, Kyka, and Megamur, placed 90th in Doomworld's Top 100 Most Memorable Maps.

2012

 * Slaughterfest 2012
 * (with General Rainbow Bacon and j4rio)

2013

 * Pesha
 * 100 Lines
 * (100lineN.wad)
 * (100lineN.wad)
 * WOOO
 * MAP02: Bullies
 * MAYhem 2013
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2013
 * (DMP2013L.wad)
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2013
 * (DMP2013L.wad)

2014

 * NOVA: The Birth
 * Project co-lead
 * (with mouldy and Death Egg)
 * (with kildeth, cannonball, mouldy, and Collin Pierce (Arjak))
 * WOOO 2
 * MAP23: Ceci n'est pas une lift
 * Sweet Dreams, Suitepee
 * MAYhem 2048
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2014
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2014
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2014

2015

 * Murderbox
 * Sacrosanct Shithole
 * Joe-Ilya's Birthday Night
 * MAP09: A Sisyphean Task
 * The Dime Birthday Level Collection
 * MAP06: Bare Your Fangs
 * 50 Shades of Graytall
 * NOVA II: New Dawn
 * Project lead
 * (with cannonball)
 * License to Ilya
 * MAP16: Cyberdemon's Playground
 * Hunter II
 * MAYhem 1500
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2015
 * (DMP2015A.wad)
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2015
 * (DMP2015A.wad)

2016

 * Carnivorous Appetite (with Suitepee)
 * THT: Threnody
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2016
 * Doomworld Mega Project 2016

2017

 * Saturnine Chapel
 * TNT: Revilution
 * (with XenoNemesis, Kyka, and Jaws in Space)
 * (with sincity2100)
 * ''(with Stupidbunny, Kyka, and Megamur)
 * (with Olympus and Kyka)
 * (with Obsidian)
 * Confinement 256
 * CONF43: Cruel Precision
 * The Given
 * Super MAYhem 17
 * The Joy of Mapping 5: Winter Weekend
 * E4SECRET: Supay's Gardens
 * The Joy of Mapping 5: Winter Weekend
 * E4SECRET: Supay's Gardens

2018

 * Team Rocket: Blasting Off at the Speed of Mapping
 * MAP31: Sleep Forever
 * MAYhem 2018
 * The Joy of Mapping 6: Joy Eternal
 * E3M1: Chaotic Keep
 * Frozen Exuviae (Wad Archive)
 * Frozen Exuviae (Wad Archive)

2019

 * Moonlight
 * MAYhem 2019
 * Texture Extravaganza
 * MAP25: Alchemist's Tower
 * MAP25: Alchemist's Tower

2020

 * Team Rocket 2 - Looks like we're blasting off again!
 * MAP29: Self-Destruct
 * Dark Scythe
 * Project leader
 * MAP01: The Dark Shadow
 * MAP24: Distant Suckers
 * MAP29: Designing a Sculpture
 * MAP30: The Diorama Symposium
 * MAP34: Door Savvy
 * MAP37: Disseminator of Sin
 * MAP39: Dork Smasher
 * MAP43: Delivering Shakespeare
 * Pious Simplicity ''(with 40oz)