Mini-update time because I can and because I hate working on organic chemistry.
Do you ever look at yourself and think, man, I am a freaking genius? I felt that way building E2M2 (I build the maps in order, so that should give you a quick insight into how far along I am). There's a door that opens only by switch, which leads to another room with another switch that activates an elevator (turns out the flag "perpetual raise" doesn't mean it raises forever; it just means that it goes up and down repeatedly), a section where you can "see out" of the hive, much more darkness and slime, flying enemies coming from nowhere... I'm excited. I really am.
Of course, this week I have two organic chemistry tests (yes, plural), where I will be forcefully and painfully shown that I am not a genius; but am, in fact, possibly too stupid to live.
Also fixed some texture bugs in E1M1 and figured out how to add the sky background to the beginning part (in case you're wondering, it's not SKY1, which is the texture itself, but F_SKY1, which tells the engine to treat that sky texture like a simple parallax background. Took me long enough...)
So... yeah. Good times.
A blog for the updates, changes, excitements, and frustrations that come from modding the zdoom engine for ponies. Also, some modding tutorials that may or may not be helpful.
I wasnt sure where else to ask so i picked this one to ask a question (maybe you could add a question section to this site :D), buuut i was wondering if there are any new new downloads for the game, i believe i download the one from EQ Gaming which is the Open Beta 1 i think.... is that still the newest one out, cause if there are any new downloads id like to download it! (As well maybe you could add a download link to your site :D, but it did take me a while to find this site, by luck too). This is Vandanator, again hahaha!
ReplyDeleteHello again!
DeleteNope, no new downloads yet, sorry. I've gotten a lot further in the game, though, if that helps. I've decided to put eight levels in each episode, so I'll release Open Beta 2 when I finish those. But I've been working on the other two episodes (I'm trying to tell a story with this game, after all) and secret levels, too, so I don't know when I'll finish.
(I've also been waiting for more feedback... no one has reported any game-breaking things so I guess I'm doing ok.)
I havent noticed anything game breaking, i have beaten it on the hardest difficulty, well the one before Nightmare, and it seemed pretty easy to me, that or im just that good hahaha. Maybe make the different difficulties harder based on the higher you go(or lower based on how its set up). I like the music in the game alot, goes good with it :D. Theres nothing i really can tell that you havent already heard or are working on like make the enviroments look better, the title, the rarity face at the bottom, you already mention trying to find a voice actor, cant help you there im a dude hahaha, etc. Nothing game breaking just lil tweaks. I have heard from others the difficulty to find some hidden areas due to all the walls looking the same and such. But keep up the awesome work, alot better than i can do :D, looking forward to the new Beta!
ReplyDeleteYou're just that good. ;-)
DeleteLevel difficulty is something I didn't really focus on in Open Beta 1 (I was mostly seeing if it would work and if people would even want to play), so that's definitely something I have been working on. My level editor lets me spawn different things depending on difficulty level, so harder difficulties will have more monsters and more ambushes (I think the new one in E1M2 is particularly devious) and the easy difficulties will have better powerups earlier.
From others? *le gasp* More people are playing my game? That's pretty cool. I can't tell how many people downloaded it, so that's good to hear. I hid a few rooms behind posters, and if you get really, really stuck, you can always cheat by typing iddt in map mode (but you didn't hear that from me). Happy hunting!
Sneaky but i will refrain from using iddt, i gave up cheat codes for games when i was a kid, takes out the fun for me nowadays hahaha! But thanks for thought ha, so i will really have good hunting :D
ReplyDeleteDevious huh, you've peaked my interest, cant wait!
(From now on ill put my name at the bottom, tis easier)
~Vandanator