Zan the Bonebreaker

More Map11 Sketches

More sketches, laying down some areas and level flow.

More Fanart

Some awesome pencil work by golemrider!

Check him out here -  https://www.instagram.com/golemrider_/ 

Restoring OST

Ok I've finally decided to cross my heart and take in some extra megabytes but restore some of the tracks to their original/uncut versions. Here's Cold Rock in all of it's 11 minute glory. 

Raw Whisper is also significantly extended, and as a general rule I've removed the silence periods in between loops for some of the tracks, and for the shorter ones like Industro I did some improvisations to fill in more play time.

Gameplay Footage Update

Remade the crappy old gameplay video with something that features the latest updates. Just wait a bit for Youtube to finish the background processing and we should have a nice 4K vid to quickly present Hedon from now on.

Diving Into Episode 2

Well, here it is. Map11's first sketch. That bit of color is just there to get an idea, I won't color the whole thing because I find it too spoiler-ish in case you're wondering.

For this episode I aim to spend A LOT more time in the concept phase of the map. This is pretty much the work I've done today, and it's the starting part of the map. Once I have the entire sketch up, I want to do a sort of breakdown that explains why this took so long and points out some of the environmental gui...

I.D. Friendlies

I wrote the pages of the six Iron Division Castes, check it out to get a preview of the other 3 greenskin classes :^)

Hedon on GoG?

Ok, so one of the things I wanted to do after releasing1.4.0 is attempt to get Hedon on the GoG store. A lot of people have been asking for this, and now with this update I feel more confident that it will be accepted there.

Submitting it was a fairly simple process, but this isn't Steam, so rejection is a thing to potentially consider. Don't get your hopes up, yet, I'll keep you posted.

1.4.0 is Out!

Phew. Another milestone reached! Thanks again for the support, and enjoy the new stuff!
Next stop - commencing Episode 2. After I'll get feedback and fix whatever turns out to be broken with 1.4.0 of course, but still, moving onward!

Shield Bash

Some of the testers have told me that the Hatchet and Shield becomes a bit redundant when getting the stronger Bearzerk weapons, so I decided to further this weapon combo's personality by allowing the player to perform shield bashes while blocking with the alt fire.

This will cause a strong pushback as well as a reliable attack that can keep the player protected to anything coming from the front.

BTW, update will release this Sunday on Steam. Keep an eye out!

Enter hGZDoom

Okay okay, don't get overexcited, this isn't that big of a deal.

So I decided I wanted to stop depending on GZDoom so much, and I hired Rachael from the ZDoom community to make me a Hedon specific engine fork.

Due to the nature of the license of the engine, I also had to essentially come up with a new name and logo, and I went for something that would reflect that this is just a minor fork and it's still 99.9% GZDoom. So what does it do then?

1. It customizes the settings me...

Sleepy War Machine

Shh, don't wake her up.

Anyway, getting to catch up with the patreon rewards :^)

New Lancer Attacks

Gave the Lancer a force-pull like attack (same as the Force Pike's alt fire) and a Lightning Spark blast for close range.

New Wiki Entries

As I'm waiting for the 1.4.0. testing phase to yield feedback I've resumed working on the Wiki page. I updated some of the pages, added the pages for the new weapons, and filled in the "Enemies" section. Go check them out, lots of useful stuff to learn!

1.4.0 Trailer - Go Bearzerk

Here's an early peak at the trailer for the coming update!

Steam Vanity Stuff Update

Okay, so Steam achievements look like alien to me code wise. I have no idea if they would work with GZDoom or how the hell could I implement them if they did.

However, Hedon was finally greenlit by Steam to allow trading cards, badges, custom backgrounds and emoticons, which I worked on adding today. Nothing too new, I mostly used the artwork laying around, but still, it's a nice touch community-wise. They will be available once with 1.4.0!

Soon.

Only two more maps for me to adjust for the Bearzerk difficulty, meaning that soon enough (either this Saturday or Sunday) the testing session will begin!
I will also do the monthly reward draws either tomorrow or in two days, so stay tuned.

Mighty Foot Engaged

Yeah, had to do it >.<

That's the Great Axe btw, last of the Bearzerk weapons. We'll have a testing build up soon!

Mighty Foot Engaged

Yep, this is a thing now. Complete with a quick button quick kick that works surprisingly well!

Fanart by Jeshua Ruiz

 CLICK -> https://www.artstation.com/jessyruiz/profile

Wew, this is amazing, thought I'd share it here. Go check his other work out, this guy's awesome (and tacticool)! 

Force Pike Sprites

Busy week ahead but I've managed to flesh out the Force Pike's sprites and animation. Pretty happy with how it came out too!

Fire Hammer Sprites

The next weapon in the upcoming Bearzerk update! This is going to be a fun one :^)

1.4.0 Update Reveal - Bearzerk Difficulty

This is what I've been working on lately, and I think it's finally time to show you guys what's coming up! Aside from few bugfixes and the sprite updates for the weapons, I've been planning to add a 6th "fun" difficulty called "Bearzerk" where the player is limited to martial weapons only (i.e. no more guns).

So far, the difficulty aims to bring the spawn numbers of Brutalizing with the weaker enemy stats of HeadOn in a difficulty that significantly alters the way combat flow...

Sleepy-Mei's Reward

KaBoom!

Crushbow Animation Update

So yeah, a lot of people have been complaining about Zan keeping her hand on the charging handle, so I just decided to revamp the animation, and put her hand away when she's not loading in a bolt.

Anyway, this made the fire rate sliiiighly slower, so I decided to counter buff it by giving the Fire Bolts (primary fire) a bit more explosion radius and damage. I think the Crushbow is in a pretty good spot now balance wise.

Crylance & Sentry HUD Sprites Update

I really like how the Crylance update went, it definitely look more like a hi tech alien weapon than a wimpy wrench. Gave it more screen size, enlarged the front blades and improved the alt fire charge-up animation, definitely feels a lot better now.

Fragfire Gun Brush-up

Basically updated the new hand sprite on each of the gun's frames and smoothed out the jaggy edges for the holding frame.

New Axe Sprites!

Remade the Axe sprites, replacing the crappy jagged ones with some proper hi res graphics.

Top line - new axe sprites

2nd line - same sprites + motion blur effect

3rd line - old sprites

Bottom left - new thrown sprites

Bottom right - old thrown sprites + some fists for reference

Weapons Update P1 : New Fist Graphics

Phew, back in business at last!
A lot of people have remarked that the weapon sprites and fists look pretty iffy, so I decided to make an update to adjust and polish them all. First will be the fists, as you can see them here. They're bigger and the gloves are less black, so I can give them a bit more definition and make them work better in contrast with holding weapons.

Reward Adjustment

Hey guys, just letting you know that I swapped the beta access to the Initiate tier (from Warlock) and the game key reward to Warlock (from Initiate). The reason is that Steam doesn't allow the distribution of keys at a lower price than on their store, and I would rather reward keys than .zips.
This also means more people who support Hedon will have access to future beta builds before anyone else, and be able to contribute with feedback first hand.

This being said, if any of you guy...

The Man himself

...reviewed Hedon. I never ever imagined I'd have my game in his video list when I was browsing his channel like well over half a decade ago, when Hedon was a mere seed of imagination. Here we are, and once again I have to thank you all for the support and help!