Zan the Bonebreaker

June is here!

It's been a busy month, and I'm glad we've grown with some new patrons! The rewards will come along as well, just note that I am extremely busy for the next two weeks so I might be slow. The 5$ draw is on the 6th of this month instead of 5th as well, for the same reason (I'll be totally swamped on Wednesday).

Thanks for supporting as always, I will update our soundtrack money goal as soon as all the payments get processed.

Stealth & Melee Improvements

Been working a bit on melee and stealth.

Regarding stealth, I've customized monsters with more realistic fields of view and viewing distances. Nothing too stringent, but still, it's notable in some places (for example Crawlers have a narrower field of view, while Cerberi can see way over 180 degrees due to their side heads. In similar fashion, Initiates have a slightly more restrained FOV because they are hooded, while Cultists and Conscripts retain a normal human's 180 degree FOV; Iron Maiden...

Mod Appreciation Week

https://www.moddb.com/news/mod-appreciation-week-2018

Hey, guys, thought I'd let you know ModDB's hosting this year's Mod Appreciation Week event.

It's your chance to spread some love, and even win something in return!

Time to rev up those twitter accounts :D    #modlove2018

New 0.6.a link

Refreshed in case the new patrons are curious to try out the new stuff!

Small new Spike Gun feature

So I've been tinkering with the Spike Gun a bit, and for once I've brushed up and updated its' sounds a bit. Nothing too critical, just some slight improvements of the fire and spike-hit sounds.

Apart from that, however, I also introduced a new visual feature to the gun - shooting it now creates puffs of steam in the world (not just on the HUD graphic) which gives it a hotter feel to go along the gleaming spikes. Also, if shot for a sustained period of time, the barrel heats up and ...

Hedoom?

So now that Hedon is standalone, I thought I'd make a video to show I haven't forgotten about my old intention of keeping a "mod" version of Hedon to be played with Doom or other peoples' maps.

Here's a quick test run I've made, clearly I'll have to put some extra work in gameplay compatibility but that's another story for another time, far far away from the present. :^)

Enjoy~

Wew, new supporters!

Welcome, guys, hope you enjoy the stay and up we keep going, thanks for pitching in!

Replacing Assets

So, as I've mentioned earlier as well as in this recent article, Hedon is going full standalone, it's no longer a Doom mod but a fledged game that runs on the GZDoom engine. It's been long due to make the change, but it's not even that much of a change since Hedon has always been an entirely original game. It's just that from now on, the game won't be bundled along with ...

Check this out

Someone's made a lil' Hedon playrun vid, pretty cool~

Another 0.6.a + polish

Fixed even more stuff, another good opportunity to refresh the link (btw this is the last one, if it expires just message or comment for a new one)

Top 0.1% boiii

Nice to be back at it again, wonder if we can beat the record this time (13th place) :^)

0.6.a + tester updates

Here's a slightly improved version, assuming you haven't played the previous one already. Fairly slight changes, but a good opportunity to refresh that transfer link :D 

Alas.... 0.6.a!

Here it is, grab it while its' hot and let me know how it plays. I've tested it more than I want to think about but I'm still looking for potential bugs and all sorts of feedback is greatly appreciated!

We're over halfway complete, guys, omg 

P.S. Let me know if link is expired so I can reupload

Aaaand it's finished!

Here it is. Errant Signal. Only complete test plays left to be done, then I'll drop you the download for it.

I'm pretty happy with how it came out, and judging from my lack of screenshots and other spoilers, there's a lot of stuff going down here.

Also, this is a relatively linear map, which is not a very retro thing to do, but still, it's perfectly justified by how the level will play out.

Thanks for the support as always, we're totally getting there, step by...

Showdown Arena

There it is. The final area of Errant Signal. This is going to be a hard one :^)

Really close to finishing up, will probably need days to test it from start to bottom though ._.

Nithriel Progress

I've finished spriting Nithriel (a lot faster than I was expecting), and I've finally gotten to coding her out. Phew, quite a task so far, making boss fights sure ain't easy. But I'm getting there, and I think we can talk about a new level release next week or so :o

Time for the boss~

So I've finally gotten around to drawing the main villain, the warlock going by the name of Nithriel. Think I've done a decent work at drawing her to look evil, I'm quite pleased with how I started it off. Will keep you guys up to date on her progress.

Kiyu69's Reward!

Here's this month's reward pic, a big ol' ice troll for Kiyu69!

Vodyanoi's Reward

Here's Gelara, Vodyanoi's goo girl. Guess I was lucky I had made the corruption tileset, works fairly well as background with few tweaks.

Map06 Progress (~80% done)

On top of that, I think this map will hold a record for number of script lines I've used (at least so far). Already over 1.2k in almost 80 different scripts :^)

Anyway, been working hard on it the last weeks, but not too many updates because I don't want spoilers for it... it's going to be somewhat different than what you've seen until now.

The final part is actually [spoiler] Hedon's first boss fight [/spoiler]. I have to flesh out the villain (she'll be based on t...

Map06 Progress

Finally got around to posting some WIP. Here's an editor shot of a more... cinematic segment of this level.

Void

First open peek at the level I'm working on. Neat, huh?

May is here

Toime flies, doesn't it? Reward draw on 5th as usual (Robopatreon hasn't claimed his April reward yet).

Also will give an update on the new map later on, stay tuned~

New Band, New Track - Exit The Void

I'm glad to announce that Methadone Skies, a kick ass (mainly) instrumental band have agreed to lend out some of their work to Hedon's aspirations. :^)

This is some top tier music with a stoner metal edge, and will fit perfectly with the level I'm currently working on. Go check out the rest of their stuff, you won't be disappointed:  https://methadoneskies.bandcamp.com/

Hedon on Linux?

Apparently someone's made a guide on how to run Hedon on Linux. Bretty nice, check it out-

The Future of Hedon + Recent Updates

Hey, guys, I've been working on a lot of misc stuff in the last few weeks, especially based on the player feedback that I'm receiving.

I did mention I wanted to tell you something a while ago. It's related to the future of Hedon, namely the possible commercial future.

Not sure how much you're following Doom mods, but they have developed so much thanks to the modding community to the point where they have become almost a mainstream thing. On top of this, GZDoom has r...

Dumping Some Ass

Here's the Warlock sprite sheet. At last. A relatively simple to animate monster, but quite damn detailed, and pretty much took me my entire Easter Holiday and beyond to put together. 

I've just finished working on her sound effects, and can say that she is pretty much fully fledged and good to go. Of course, she's prone to future testing and balance tweaks as pretty much everything else.

Hmmmmm

thanks satan

Reward Tier Update

Now that the Warlock is in the works, I've finally gotten around updating the tier images. Enjoy!

Warlock vid is up!

Finally, at an uber shit MP4 quality because Youtube won't take Camtasia's .avi format. I really need a better video editing software ._.