Zan the Bonebreaker

November Draw Delay

I was hoping to get my laptop back from repairs by now, but it seems like it's going to take a whole more week potentially. I'll delay the November reward draw for the weekend UNLESS any of you wants to stream the draw for me. If you want I can give you the list of patrons and you can stream the draw for us. If not, then just wait few more days, I don't think it's a huge deal. Let me know!

More Lancer spriting progress

Made a hard push and finished the movement, pain and fire animations. Only death left, and the Lancer's sprited!

I.D. Lancer Base Sprites

Phew. Done. Now for the animations...

Lancer Spriting Begins

Did the side-front base sprites, working on the side at the moment.

November is here!

The monthly rewards will be announced on the 5th on Discord. If you don't have Discord, I'll make sure to pm you here.

Also, tomorrow I'm planning to start working on the rotation frames for the Lancer as I'm waiting to receive the voice acting files.

Another VA update

Alright, the voice acting part is coming to shape, and considering how many replies have I got regarding the Bear Warrior, I figured I might take advantage and add in two more friendly NPCs for this release: the Reaver and the Lancer. It's a whole new bunch of work to do, but it will have to be done eventually so why not go for it in Chapter I?

Anyway, the existence of these 2 new friendlies depend on whether I can get them voiced and the VAs accept my proposition so no promises. Will kee...

Some update

Alright, I'm talking to someone about voice acting Zan, still haven't gotten any reply for the other VA bits that I needed.

What sucks is that my PC's GPU turned out to have a faulty fan so I had to send it to be serviced, which means I won't have it around anytime soon. I went back to my old laptop, which is significantly weaker and I might dedicate the next week(s) to working on some sprites and other graphics needed for the final level.

November is around the corner, so get re...

Possible Open Beta & Voice Acting

Alright, so with the new friendly AI additions, Hedon needs a ton of new testing. I was thinking about heading for a somewhat open 0.9 beta release in which I post it on the ZDoom forums as well (to expand the tester and feedback base a bit). It's not exactly a full open beta, but something to help me further adjust the game. Patrons would still have first-hand access to the 1.0 release and new content to come, so no worries there. If anyone thinks it's a bad idea, though, feel free to object :^...

Friendly AI Implementation Progress

Alright, most of the job is done. And here comes a really awesome feature.

Much like in Brutal Doom, friendlies will be transported with you through (some) levels. Now, normally you won't encounter any because I feel like it breaks the solitary immersion and their limitations might look silly to someone playing Hedon for the first time BUT, you CAN meet a Bear Warrior in the Barracks level (3rd map) on the Brutalizing difficulty (it's in a secluded/secret area too) and take her alon...

Brutal AI

Alright, so there's few more things I need to do before I jump into Map10.

The first thing is something that I've long waited to do. Adapt Brutal Doom's friendly AI into Hedon. I actually started doing it yesterday for the Bear Warrior and it went surprisingly smooth considering when I looked at that code for the first time I couldn't understand jack. Anyway, Sgt_Mark_IV gave me some helpful info and it all worked in the end. I was giddy as hell to see the first mobile friendly monster com...

Mini Bears

I don't think I've posted this here before, but with the Bear Warrior added in I figured I'd go for a lil' throwback.

Back when I was testing the waters and Hedon wasn't certain to exist, I decided to sprite a monster from scratch to see if I'm capable of doing this.

However, back then I had no idea that you could scale hi-res graphics so I went on to draw actual pixel art, and not only that but draw EACH frame from scratch. An incredibly tedious process which gave us this ren...

The Bear Warrior

Well, here it is. The first friendly monster in Hedon.

this is my swamp

So here's another reason why I bothered to get Zan's sprites fully implemented - it's going to act as base for one of the Orcs, namely the Bear Warrior (well Zan is a Bear Warrior herself, so the outfit and main weapon is the same). I'm basically just redrawing the head and chest's back (to adjust it to the hood being on here), but it's still going to save me a lot of dead neurons. I still have custom adjustments to make for each of Zan's sprite, but this will take considerably less time.

Once...

Zan's Crouch & Swim Animations

Phew. Never thought I'd get to see them done.

So due to GZDoom's nature of handling crouching, I had to make some compromises and reduce the crouch-movement animation to a single set of sprites showing Zan unarmed. Same goes for the stationary ones, and if the player shoots a ranged weapon, the sprite will change to Zan and the Crushbow, but for Fist and Axe attack, the standing attack version will play instead (which kinda makes sense considering who the hell attacks in melee while...

Zan's Crouch

The dreaded moment has arrived, I have to start doing Zan's crouch sprites. Crouching in GZDoom is a mess, and I'll have to improvise in a lot of places if I don't want to draw a crouch sprite set for each of Zan's normal/axe/fist animations.

Anyway, this is going to be an incredibly tedious process, so stay tuned for more crouch-related updates.

Wrote a bit about the new map here

Check it out!

0.9.a is here!

Grab it while it's hot! I'll be waiting your feedback as usual.

Heavy

Here it is, at last, a track I've long waited to hear in Hedon. Courtesy to Alexander Brandon!

(I'll pretty much write the same thing as on the Youtube description).

Initially meant for Unreal, Heavy ended up in Deus Ex as  "Conspiravision" but never made it in any of the levels. 

" It definitely came from the same compositional place as Organic and  Nightvision. Around the mid 90s, "techno" was being homogenized /  congealed by groups like Crystal Method, a...

Map03 finally has its' own soundtrack: Consumed

After a bunch of drafts and tries, here it is at last. Many thanks to Akhzul as always!

Still waiting on the last track for Map09, I've been told I'd receive it until Saturday, so yeah, keep an eye out for the 0.9.a release soon.

Daniel Jewells' Reward

Zan in a Shrine Maiden outfit chasing away the evil spirits :^)

Map09 is done!

Have to do the test runs, as well as start working on the October rewards, but a 0.9.a build should be up for playing in the course of the week. Will keep you posted.

Map09 is nearing completion

Geometry is done, will need to tackle the monsters, few more scripts, few new sounds and sprites and buy a new soundtrack from Alexander Brandon (I'll update the money goal once I'm done with this).

This map was meant to be longer initially but I decided to stop because it felt like it was needlessly dragging on for too long. We'll see how long it takes to complete it once it's done. Stay tuned!

New Track - Longing

Actually it's an old track, I think it was among the first few recorded and as I said on the Youtube vid description, it is a case in which the music has inspired a fair bit of the mood and atmosphere of the level design.

Courtesy to Akhzul, enjoy!

October is here

Rewards will come as usual on the 5th, and will be announced on Discord. If you don't have/want/like Discord, feel free to inquire via PM here (you'll be announced one way or another anyway).

Map09 will also be released this month, not sure when exactly but it's steadily headed towards completion. Stay tuned!

Lab

First screenshot from Map09 so far~

Map09 Progress

Here's a thumbnail/zoomed out shot of Map09.

50% spoiler free for a 50% done level.

Another Map09 sketch

Here's the bulk of the level. I've already done a chunk of it (it's not exactly like I had sketched it out, but follows the guideline nonetheless). 

Brrr

Cold.

Lab Gear

I've expanded the lab equipment sprites with several new additions. Here's a high-res shot.

Trying new looks

I've been cooking up a fresh aesthetic/palette but I'm honestly a bit unsure whether it looks fine or kitchy as hell/distasteful. Any opinions? Also, sorry for not posting too much these days, I'm trying to avoid spoilers while working on the new map as much as possible.