Me: I'm going to finish this game before the end of season 9!
Netherlands: *releases rest of the season*
Me: o.O
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.
Monday, August 26, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Normal Day
If the date of posting and the 4-1 didn't give it away, that posting was an April Fool's joke. Unlike any of the others, I can assure you there will be no Terry-esque monsters or other... decorations... in the actual game.
I have a goal to have it done before Season 9 ends, so fingers crossed!
I have a goal to have it done before Season 9 ends, so fingers crossed!
Monday, April 1, 2019
Special Day!
Decided to release Open Beta 4 today. Download link here. To play, click and drag raridoom.wad to zdoom.exe and you should be good to go.
Have fun!
Have fun!
Thursday, February 21, 2019
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.
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.
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Personal Update
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...
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Can It Run Doom?
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.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
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.
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.
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