rub software together and make fire

something in Joppa makes a loud quack sometimes and I have no idea what's doing it

Yrame knew what she was signing up for (200 subjective simulated years of damage model and weaponswing testing) I think once I get aggro and enemy firearms working the next step is a full What's Eating the Watervine demo run.........

sharing my projects is fun, but being on social media is a torment. the funniest joke you've ever read right next to the worst news you've ever seen.

getting looting going and manifested a strange yellow lump I'm not sure I've ever seen before.......

coming to accept that Fallout 1/2 don't hold up great to adult scrutiny. game stories should use fewer words. or weaponize words like Qud does. or wax rhapsodic like Dark Souls. Hyperlight Drifter was brave enough to use no dialogue, and it made no less sense than any Souls game.

makin sure the UI looks very, very close to core is a fiddly process--not as fun and striking as horizon design, but essential to the look and feel

I bet I could build whole Doom wads into Qud as random world map encounters. that would probably be easy. could maybe procedurally populate them with Qud gear in some clumsy way so you even get loot to take back to your Qud game. or they could just be hand-authored Qud Doom maps, that'd be sweet.

I give up on the mystery of the walls and spires of Yd! it looks silly no matter how I try to represent it in the zone, so I just won't imagine anything extra here--plus, does Yd feel like a place with walls? they would be in disrepair--but even so. seems ideologically wrong, perhaps.

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

the palladium-coral spires and basalt walls of Yd Freehold, visible for the first time

this is Yd Freehold on the world map. but why? what could those yellow towers be? no such thing obviously exists in 2D Qud. I think I might know. I think that the palladium-coral might be much, much taller than we've heretofore realized.

up to something at the Yd Freehold

Yd! I decided the palladium-with-coral should stand upright but the just-coral should crouch reeeally low to the ground--took some doing but I got the palladium lining up at right angles like it's supposed to. the pipes are currently giving "mostly buried, just exposed" - it's acceptable

Caves of Qud

I tried to make Yd Freehold in-tile look more like Yd Freehold on the world map, with the spired ring of black and gold, but the limits of my cunning are being exposed--maybe if I commissioned some custom tiles! it did get satisfyingly tall tho

this sounds exactly right but the problem is the Yd tile itself has no structure that can actually serve as the spire when you're in it, unless you decide it's the fish tank heheheh what do I do? do I...invent something? authorship? in Qud?

@aniceberg.bsky.social · 3d ago

i feel like yd does have a forgotten transmitter-spire sticking up and that chavvah would definitely be looming and glittering

showcasing tall trees, the Moon Stair and most ranged weapons www.youtube.com/watch?v=elIh...

Qud-in-Doom: Arsenal demo and the Moon Stair, and looming trees

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I have two important questions: is Chavvah visible on the horizon? I think it is. is Yd? it looks like it has towers. one tower.

to-scale trees instantly look amazing. I was a fool to be carelessly committed to 1:1 Qud! Qud implies so much more vastness than that. the important parts of the game can remain 1:1 tile-identical while letting big things get big and dramatic. clutter in Qud becomes room in Doom.

talking to @garbae5000.bsky.social and they made me realize something ultra, ultra critical for QiD...trees...should be *big.* a starapple tree should tower over the player. this would make the jungles look MUCH better, I think. but how--without multiplying the entire playspace by 5x, how?

first walkthrough of Qud-in-Doom! Joppa, the Stilt, the wilds near the Spindle, and a cave! @unormal.bsky.social @jfg.land www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSYW...

Caves of Qud in Doom Pre-Alpha Sneak Peak 1

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I got no-audio-distortion time acceleration working on an SNES emulator for what I think might be the first time anyone's done that anywhere in the world I offered it to the emulation project and they said it was cheating and didn't want it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja20...

Emulation Technology - Keep normal audio pitch and tempo at 2.5x turbo/time acceleration! (Lufia 2)

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New Vegas VR also coming along real well! the left-hand wand currently flings grenades on the trigger and mini-nukes on the grip, with a proper throwing arc--it feels great. chaotic having your explosives close to hand. what's left: right-hand gun, pipboy, UI, tying explosives to inventory.

caves have varied floors and ceilings--always walkable, though. you should never need to jump or fly in QiD. earlier I teleported to a random cave and it was full of spiderwebs, all rendering as expected--it's so rewarding finding things just working, without having ever been considered directly.

impassable mountains now draw on the horizon, which means the Spindle is partly obscured until you get closer unique parasangs like Red Rock now loom monolithic in the distance from up to 2 parasangs away the green and blue stuff is all marsh parasang preview--I'm not entirely happy with it yet

hoist your guns and head east across the salt

now that Qud-in-Doom uses natural ground tiles, the skybox false horizon always colorizes to match the "stretching away past walkable space" floor the effect is the strongest sense of a horizon stretching away QiD's achieved yet I think!!! total illusion, just a projection!

items that lay on the floor were standing up and consuming a full tile, which really didn't look right; now they're foreshortened, to give the appearance of being stretched out on the floor. Eskehind is also now drawing on top of their cushions and is much more comfortable.