Zandronum

Hello there.

This is a little bullet hell mod I made in the spirit of (community's favourite) game. It's still not finished, though I've made some key elements already.

Requires: OpenGL (don't worry, even shitty computers can run this one)

Current Completed:

• Monster variations
• Scripted moving enemies
• Upgrading weapon system

To be done

• A working Hud
• Monster death effects
• Better score system
• Arena clearing/ease of use
• A complete level
• Fancier bullet effects

Please don't mind the enclosing walls, I've since removed them.

Spoiler: Screenshots (Open)

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Oh christ.

Don't forget the missiles that have those ridiculous zigzag patterns!

Needs a smartbomb :P

Looks good!

Competition, eh? The way I see it, I could certainly learn a thing or two from this mod, but potentially it's a different beast from mine. You're planning on doing levels and mine's purely a gameplay mod (Although when Maku improves and if people like it enough I do plan on making a map pack for it with Single player and Invasion maps).

EDIT: On second look this looks like it'll be a top down shooter, everything's on the same Y plane in the shots, with the billboard turned on, and it seems like it's meant to replicate Touhou gameplay. Mine is more like Action Doom on steroids because of my choice to preserve essentials of Doom's gameplay (first person camera, not being on rails). I can see competition going but in the end they're both vastly different WADs. This mod is looking good regardless.

scalliano wrote: Needs a smartbomb :P

Looks good!

Thanks, though I can swear the experienced coders will cringe and potentially gouge their own eyes out at the sight of my code.

Aqua Kitty wrote:EDIT: On second look this looks like it'll be a top down shooter, everything's on the same Y plane in the shots, with the billboard turned on, and it seems like it's meant to replicate Touhou gameplay. Mine is more like Action Doom on steroids because of my choice to preserve essentials of Doom's gameplay (first person camera, not being on rails). I can see competition going but in the end they're both vastly different WADs. This mod is looking good regardless.

edit: haha, I realized that early on. I only posted it as an excuse for me to finally get this topic started. Really the only Open GL feature I use is billboard, and even in my screens I see that I missed some. Best of luck to your mod as well! More projectiles are always better :>

O: looks cool, and i'll surely be more cool if you can add touhou girls and make it multiplayer :D

Lord_of_D: wrote: O: looks cool, and i'll surely be more cool if you can add touhou girls and make it multiplayer :D

That is one consideration for a DoomMaku addon.

Is OpenGL absolutely required to run this mod? I'd like to try it when it comes out, but alas, the Mac version doesn't even have the choice of OpenGL rendering.

President People wrote: Is OpenGL absolutely required to run this mod? I'd like to try it when it comes out, but alas, the Mac version doesn't even have the choice of OpenGL rendering.

The only feature I use is 90 pitch camera with sprite billboarding... since I've never dealt with Macs before, I'm completely unaware of such changes. I'm sorry, but I don't think this can work.

A past software version that I was working on utilized a wonky field and awkward camera angle with weird xy velocities. I ended up scrapping that.

Looking forward to play this. Basing myself on the screenshots and where this is going, I'm pretty sure that i'll be addicted to it in no-time!

Holy poop.

How well does this function online?

Idk, I haven't tried this online yet. Probably very smoothly, since there aren't that many things.

how much of those cacoballs are actually aimed at you? ...more than 1% ?

Is this going to use the Touhou hitbox system? Also, please please make it like pofv so it works online, I know a few people who would play it (myself included) if it's good.

BloodyAcid wrote: Idk, I haven't tried this online yet. Probably very smoothly, since there aren't that many things.

Every non-clientsided projectile will use server memory. Exactly how much, I don't really know. But if you're spawning a Touhou amount of projectiles (especially like what is seen in the harder levels), then playing this mod smoothly online will probably require the host to have an above-average processor and bandwidth.

I'm still limited by the 35 consecutive projectiles per second ceiling. Spirals of projectiles become incredibly slow, and cool fast patterns are immediately diminished into sluggish amounts that can't fill the screen the way I prefer it to. Of course, I can get past this with more monsters, but it somewhat complicates things for bosses.