I think you meant this right?

Very thorough as normal, thanks for looking at it again. And yes, it’s been nearly a decade now.

ZQSD

It’s so someone with an AZERTY keyboard can play without rebinding. The keys aren’t doing anything else so I figured “why not”?

Who doesn’t like auto-reloading.

Me.

VSync

I dev on Linux and have VSync off on the desktop itself. On Linux there is no such thing as “Exclusive” fullscreen, it’s always a borderless window so I’ve set up Windows to match. If exclusive allows you to have a different VSync setting then I may as well add the option at some point. Does Windows (or your GPU driver) not allow you to just turn off VSync on the desktop? Because that would annoy the shit out of me just trying to use Blender and Krita let alone play an FPS.

Damage Mitigation

Every hit adds a tiny amount of stun and if you continuously full-auto the SMG into one enemy you stun-lock them. For multiple enemies in enclosed areas there’s a bunch of AoE options including the alt-fire on the Shotgun which adds a bunch of stun and some knockback. I’m also making enemies intentionally bad at dealing with circle-strafing so that you can use it in more open areas later.

Exploring

I’m starting to add a bunch more pickups which will be good candidates for goodies. There will also be a proper secret system for places like the Rocket Launcher but I need to pick a good way to convert the processed BSP meshes placed in Trenchbroom back into convex volumes to use for collision checks.

What’s with the Cactus?

lol. I do want it to damage you if you run into it but that’s a low-priority thing.

The Plasmagun

It needs some more effects on its alt-fire. It’s meant to be an EMP blast that adds a lot of stun but only to synthetic enemies. I totally forgot you could use it to jump higher. I’ll add some secrets that require that.

Weak points

There’s no weak points on the enemies. At least not for now, though I’ll be adding some bigger mecha enemies that will definitely have something. And I want to add a railgun as well that can instakill with headshots like in UT.

Crouch height

That’s good point about the tables, I didn’t even realize the one up in the apartments would allow you to fit

Rocket Launcher alt-fire

Enemies will have explosives eventually too so I’ll add some flashing lights or something to it.

Shotgun

That pickup spot is cursed, even I walk past it constantly. This level is going to be closer to the middle later so it probably won’t be so bad.

Fade out debris

I disagree with the disappearing casings, it shows you where you’ve been which is a navigational aid. That said they do actually disappear, but it’s because there’s a pool for them and they only fade out to make room for new ones.

Collision near triple-plane intersections

Bullet Collision is responsible for me having grey hairs and I’m putting off looking at it again. Steps were much more buggy before and I’m glad I finally fixed that at least.

Need more stuff

I’ve been wallowing in engine-dev-hell for years but now there’s very few things left to do and I’m focusing much more on new content. The intention this year is to have one new level, a new enemy or weapon, and some more pickups in every Demo Day. Preferably more obviously but you know how it goes

Thanks for streaming it, you made a good point with the cover art. I'm going to actually make the model of the main character at some point and it might look a bit better to have her available for composition.

I have a plan for adding both. This year is hopefully when I finally make a big dent in the content instead of the engine and tooling.

Thanks again for playing!

No sound at all? I use miniaudio.h for output which explicitly supports everything except pipewire, which should have an ALSA fallback anyway. I don't actually have any handling for if the audio fails to start though, maybe I should add some. What distro are you using? And if you try running in the terminal does it say anything about the audio in the output?

Heh, I don't know what's with the shotgun, even when I playtest I used to run past it a lot before the new lighting. I think it doesn't contrast enough with the garbage can.

In the case of the RL tunnel that's intentional, it's supposed to be a secret. There's a lot of dark parts in areas you don't have to go to, but my monitor isn't very fancy so darks come up very bright for me making it hard to tell.

I'm not really bothered by people getting a bit lost, I'd rather have people have that feeling of "ooooh, that's where it is" instead of whipping out the yellow paint, so as long as you found it without quitting I'll call that a win.

Thanks for playing, glad you liked it!

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

There's a shotgun right in front of the store. It was in deep shadow last demo but it should be easier to spot now. There's also a rocket launcher but that's hiding in a secret ;)

There is no locational damage so headshots make no difference. I do want to add a railgun that will allow one-shot kill headshots though, like in Unreal Tournament. The SMG's scope is more to have some kind of zoom available, and the gun looks cooler with it on.

That's good to hear, I've only just made most of the textures this year and I stick to a particular palette and workflow in the hope that that will be enough. Trenchbroom having a fixed default texel density also helps a lot. I do still know of some collision glitches you might run into near low walls and running alongside tables or stairwell walls, but I don't think players will run into those as much as the AI will so I'm not fussing over it for now.

On top of the RL I do want some throwable explosives, I just want some fancier decals first. The SMG is meant to be a last resort mostly used for building up stun so its damage is pretty low. It won't be a very long game, I'm aiming for about 7-10 levels roughly the same size or a little bigger. Now that I'm using the Quake tools for level design though, the iteration time is really fast so I'll see how I go over the coming year.