I have restarted my hobby making mods for Quake.
A twitch channel have restarted my love for making games or mods (thanks Rafa!).
I don’t have really a plan, except add things I think make sense next. But I think I am on the good path.
Tom has give me permission to show it here in QT3. So heres a video:
Things I have done so far:
Make the player many times faster than the original
Add many more enemies
Give the player a weapon with infinite ammo
Have the enemies drop health and power-ups
Make the hud more like what modern players expect (feedback & usability)
My plans is to give the player a super like destiny and have two or more heroes. So far I have made graphics for Ranger and Nyx, taken from Quake Champions. I am modifing both the engine and the gamelogic. Starting from quakeworld engine ezQuake and exCoop, a Coop mode mod for QuakeWorld.
Unfortunally, I am not and artist, I can only change somebody else works.
So it took this picture from Salvador Trakal, and added a black guy face to ti.
Now I have a base that I can use to make the faceplates
I like that your impulse is to take a notoriously fast game and make it faster. I’ve never considered it before, but I think the slowness of modern FPS games might be why I haven’t played one in ages.
I use to be really bad at making videogames. Like a negative quantity, -800. I think in the past year I have learned a bit about game design. To start with something fun, build on top of it so it flourish in a better experience. Hopefully I can do that.
Heres a new video
I am breaking the rules with the mod. Quake is chess, every enemy class a different piece and maps are the board where the mapper designed an encounter has some sort of puzzle for the player. With these changes I am throwing all that trough the window, but hopefully I can replace them with something has cool.
Is starting to feel like to survive you must collect the powerups that the enemies drop. I need a t-shirt with “Game design is my passion” with something ugly draw on it.
Adding armor shards had many side effects benefics I did not expected.
Is easier to tell when you are about to die or stronger (stacks of armor are easy to spot) . It gives the player more a reason to vacuum the room for upgrades.
The changes own how the armor work for enemies make them slighly more tough but still monsters from a horde. The current version is really fun :D
I chose the Quake Ranger as my avatar here before I saw word of this mod. I am elated! All your modifications are a checklist of things that please me, down to the character portraits (I do like Quake Champions, but it became much too hard for me to find players). Rock on with the representation too!
I love to move fast and SHOOT DUDES! Forego humanity and become a lawnmower on rollerblades! With a gun on it! Can’t wait to play.
Thanks for the kind feedback. I have become used to the Wrack face. Is so familiar to me now that It would be hard to go back to Ranger. Wrack is serius, but sometimes goofy and always great.
I need to tone down sound. At the moment the game is very loud, with sound saturated all the time, like a bad metal rock band.
Heres the last version, where I was testing stuff with hitmarkers:
hahah… since them I have added markers like “pow” for when you hit a monster but has shield, and another to show when mob is alerted (metal gear solid style).
I think is a bad idea, since is a lot of extra network traffic that is not needed, but is really fun for me, while doing the mod. I do want to have some usability where the player know that his bullets are bouncing on armor, or stuff like that, but maybe this is the worst way to do it.
I don’t fear advancing some time in the wrong direction, because this idea (Cartoon looking hitmarkers, and so) gives a lot of feedback whats going on, and function somewhat like debugging. Visual debugging. I may learn stuff that otherwise would be invisible. I may find later how to toned them down, or lower traffic in some way.
I have a hub for missions, and I am having a lot of fun filling it with random things.
Like a functioning vending machine with a silly song! And orange stormtroppers.
Just wanted to chime in and continue my enthusiastic support for everything that’s been going on in your updates. I love the chaos. I’m going to play endlessly!
I have continue adding polish. And then a mapper wanted to help me and contributed with a map, the map was basically a large arena, so I did a boss fight.
This made me realize how underserved are the genre of boss battles. You can do a lot of stuff with boss battles, but most games do very littel. Maybe because many people hate boss battles. Or perhaps are hard to balance? Maybe because they require a lot of work for a relativelly small time for the player?
