It is News

Well, if you haven't heard, it's been confirmed that this upcoming season is the last season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

It's kinda funny, really. I've been seeing tributes and nostalgia, people saying things like, "Oh, I'll miss the show", "I'm so sad it's over", "what a great run it was", "I don't know what I'll do now" and I'm imagining the show shouting from off-camera "stop telling people I'm dead, I still have one more season!" and the fandom responding wistfully, "sometimes I can still hear their voice".

I have to say, when I first started this project, I didn't expect it to take this long to finish. Season 2 had just ended, and we were looking at a hiatus. I hadn't modded DooM since I played around with sprite replacement with MS Paint in XWE back in 2005 (did you know the original doom.exe will crash if the grimace/EVL sprite isn't exactly lined up? I learned that. There was much confusion), but I figured it'd be fun, a quick little thing.

I was half-right.

I remember editing text strings first. I had a quit message referencing the premiere of season 3, and another referencing Littlest Pet Shop (which, for context if you're new to the fandom, ran from 2012-2016 and had some staff/VAs that were shared. RIP Twilight Barkle). Needless to say, those have had to be updated.

Then it was just the sprites. Then I figured maps might be fun. I figured I'd just do the three levels of five maps each, like Chex Quest. I now have four episodes with eight maps each, and a secret level for each episode.

So yeah. It's grown a lot. It got a lot more attention than I ever expected. I keep coming back to old maps and changing things, redoing things. Maps I was like "yes, this is perfect!" I play again and say things like, "Yes, this is a mess!" or "this is a box" or "wait, what was I thinking here?", "where's that secret again?" or "is this too easy for how late in the episode it is?"

But my own self-doubt aside, it's been a ton of fun. And I can't wait for you all to play it.

Soon.

Personal Update

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I'm moving! I'll be in a bigger place, with a better job, with more hours, and my computer in a place where the cords won't get yanked.

Which means I may actually be able to work on the game...

Can It Run Doom?

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If given the chance, you should always see if it runs doom.

And, by extension, raridoom. ^^

Development hasn't stopped. But it sure has slowed to a crawl. Again, it's the spriting and the other stuff... but hopefully soon! All your support makes me happy and I promise I won't abandon this project.

Misclick

If you got a notification from this blog, I misclicked the button. I meant to hit 'save', not 'publish'. I'm sorry about that!

Well, as long as you're here... I did go through the entire wad, doing some basic clean-up, getting rid of the default startan texture, adding more decoration, that sort of thing.

I've given up on setting dates for myself, but in about ten days, my free time will drop dramatically, so I'm hoping by then, but I'm not holding my breath. 

As long as I'm complaining, though, I'd also accept ideas for the door edges, the ones that show what key color you need. The current ones look good and work but don't look very... changeling-y.

Mini-update

Moving is a pain and I do not recommend it.

Played custom edition again and it got me inspired (and partially annoyed at Past!me's mapping work). I went through all the levels of Episode 1, cleaning them up a bit, adding some more ammo, darkening a couple rooms, darkening doors, narrowing doors, and getting rid of that awful startan texture *shudder*.

And while I was doing that, I realized something somewhat important: I don't like the door texture very much. For reference:

Basic door; locked doors change the color of the star.

The gradient didn't translate well to the tiny size, it's really black and undetailed, and I'm not sure I even liked the logo that much in the first place (though the updated version here is pretty cool).

I want to change it, but I have no idea what to replace it with. So if you have any ideas, please drop me a comment.

Good news

Found my flash drive. All is once again right with the world. ^^

Good news and bad news

Good news is I'm moving in the next couple weeks, so it'll be really nice to be somewhere I don't need three layers of clothing just to feel warm.

Bad news is I can't find my flash drive. The flash drive with all the raridoom stuff on it. The flash drive with my work files and iwads and wads and a resource wad on it. That flash drive.

I'm 98% certain that it'll turn up. But there's still that 2% chance that it's gone, vanished into that ether where missing socks and such go.

I did make good backups of the rarity.wad file in a separate location (always do this!), so not too much has been lost. I think. i hope But I really, really hope that it turns up. Most of what's left is spriting, anyway.