Wednesday, April 1, 2026

April: Foals Now Included!

In the original Raridoom, you set out to rescue Sweetie Belle from the changeling hive. That got me thinking, and now, she can come with you as you tear your way through the hive again!

Coding companions is hard, but I think I have it down. Being a foal, her only weapon is the pistol, and that can't be exchanged. She moves slower than your run but faster than your walk, and can't teleport to you so you might need to backtrack a bit to retrieve her, but don't get too far from her! At a random time in the level, she'll get tired and sit down for a while, which is a problem because I haven't figured out how to heal her (even the helper dogs don't get healed, they just start out with 500 health points) and friendly fire is on. Random (squeaky!) sound bites for her active sounds, playing... not quite constantly but close! And if she falls down off a ledge, she doesn't really have a jump to get back out, so "map *" (no quotes) in your console will be your best friend!

 

 

 

mfw when i was writing this

no i'm not doing this

but i did almost have Sweetie Belle be the protagonist of the sequel

but Raridoom 2 sounded better than SweetieDoom / BelleDoom / anything else I could think of

anyway

someday i'll get those spells sprited and get a beta test out there

but today is not that day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either

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