ZDoom project ideas you have

[TheLightBad96]

what i had in mind is a record gameplay feature installed into the program and the ability to watch it a demo after you finished recording or place to the harddrive

[wildweasel]

what i had in mind is a record gameplay feature installed into the program and the ability to watch it a demo after you finished recording or place to the harddrive

[wiki=Demo]Uhhhhh...[/wiki]

[hideousdestructor]

Yeah, and they break every new version! :S

[LilWhiteMouse]

Doomed Quarries

The player is a merc, hired by UAC to clear out it's over-run facilities of hell spawn. Each facility continually spawns new enemies until the player finds and eliminates the respective demon boss. Each boss has certain traits that must be met in order to find/reveal it. Perhaps it will only appear in dark areas, forcing you to kill the lights and use goggles. Maybe it's adverse to cold, and you have to repair the air conditioning units. It may only appear in certain locations (sludge pool). And so on. The clues to reveal the boss are scattered about on data pads used by the now deceased UAC staff. The base would have more options then are needed to reveal the boss. This is to keep the player from guessing how to get the boss without finding the clues (just because you can flood that room with gas, doesn't mean you should). It would all be randomized for replayability.

[Blue Shadow]

Hey, I like the sound of that and I'd like to see as an actual project in the future and not just as an idea. Also...

Maybe it's adverse to cold, and you have to repair the air conditioning units.

That made me laugh.

[scalliano]

Here's an idea I've been kicking about for a while. I would like to do this one someday when I have nothing else on the go.

A short-ish episode called Witness where you play as a scientist caught up in one of the demon invasions. Your primary goal is to get to the evac ship, but you've never fired a gun in your life. It would be somewhere between Doom, Half-Life and Doom Resurrection, but mainly Doom. Possible scenarios include watching your colleagues get zombified when the invasion begins, helping out other survivors and perhaps even meeting the Doomguy himself as an NPC later on.

Ambitious, but definitely possible.

[hideousdestructor]

So how would the combat play out? Doom-like or more survival horror with major aiming issues and very limited resources?


EDIT: Also I can't get this out of my head: a variant on the spectre called the phantom. It's rendered as fuzz, except for this white half-mask it's wearing which is rendered normally. Shoot of the mask and it appears as a normal demon.

[kasrkin seath]

Im a pretty big fan of Doom, and a pretty big fan of the Touhou Project. This obviously leads to...

TOUHOU DOOM

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The wad would consist of two different game modes(ignoring competetive multiplayer modes): Single Player and a Cooperative Campaign

Single Player - Would consist of several episodes all about some 'incident', each from the viewpoint of a different Touhou Character. Each episode would not be particularly long as I envision it, only a few levels in length. Each episode would have it's own sort of (fairly short in length) 'slide show' which would tell the story of the character, both at the begining and end of the episode. Levels would all exhibit large amounts of weak enemies, likely plenty of bullet spamming, be fairly linear, and each end with a boss battle. Each episode would end with a final boss level. (For anyone who is familiar with TH 10.5 and 12.3, I am drawing from those for the single player idea.)

Coop - Likely one to four players. Would be able to choose from different characters/classes to fulfill team roles (Ex. Eirin = Medic, Nitori = Technician, so on). Limit would be set so only one of each class could play at a time. I am not entirely sure how things work, but if possible the Coop mode would be in campaign format with several levels. If that isn't possible, Coop would take place on fairly large maps which would be themed around a 'mini' incident. As with single player, an intro and ending sequence would be included, but would be shorter.

Gameplay

The vast majority of Touhou's can move quickly and fly. They also fight using Danmaku and special Spell Cards (for those unfamiliar, basically Danmaku = small spammable low damage spells, Spell Cards = Large, special, big damage -or special effect like time stop- spells.)

*Much of what follows once more draws heavily from 10.5 aand 12.3

To facilitate flying, Danmaku, and a system for damage reduction, each player would have a slowly regenerating mana pool. Flying would use mana, using Danmaku attacks would use mana, and 'blocking'(the damage reduction) would use mana. Depletion of this pool would render blocking ineffective, remove the ability to use danmaku, cause players to fall out of the sky, and other fun things.

I imagine that spell cards could work as inventory items.

Enemies

Fairies, Yokai, Humans... whatever fits with the level, really. As stated above, most would be hordes of weak bullet spamming monsters. Bosses, however, would be tough and likely be other characters, capable of using spell cards and generally being tough @$#^!$%@



So, as you can see, there is a lot that would need to be done to bring such a wad to completion, and I can guarantee you that I am incapable of finishing such an endeavour (my skills are limited to mapping, basic scripting, and making bad sprites). If anyone else wants to try such I thing I would be willing to help, but I am in no way going to attempt it on my own.

[RV-007]

I guess the map would be just like the arcade game with helicopters.
Anyways, here is something to demoralize you. Witness the fall of your heroines and villianesses! They shall never have a photo shoot again! >:D
http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=30774
I just had to do it, lol.

[XutaWoo]

TOUHOU DOOM

I'd actually give this a toss, except it seems like we wouldn't have an artist in our 'actually caring' circle.

[Blox]

Well I currently don't have anything to do, but there's a big bad chance that I'd be unable to make myself work on it; and I generally suck. So yeah..

[kasrkin seath]

I guess the map would be just like the arcade game with helicopters.

maybe... I think that map design could be somewhat complicated, maybe a combination of large rooms/open spaces and corridor sections to help emphasize different possible roles would work?

Anyways, here is something to demoralize you. Witness the fall of your heroines and villianesses! They shall never have a photo shoot again! >:D
http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=30774
I just had to do it, lol.

pfff, I didn't like them anyway xP

TOUHOU DOOM

I'd actually give this a toss, except it seems like we wouldn't have an artist in our 'actually caring' circle.

That poses a significant problem (not being able to find someone who can handle the graphical side of things) considering the amount of new sprites and other graphics that would be needed. Eh, eventually maybe someone will show up who wants to do it... but that would mean I would have to commit to this and help too

[hideousdestructor]

First-person bullet hell at 90-degree FOV doesn't sound like such a great idea anyway, really.
(and all those pretty projectile patterns won't show up without a top-down view)

That said: for one-player-one-class I suggest randomizing it at the start of each map.

[scalliano]

So how would the combat play out? Doom-like or more survival horror with major aiming issues and very limited resources?

It wouldn't be your average Doom, put it that way. Combat would most likely be more up close and personal rather than the slaughterfests we're used to these days, with the map design geared more towards puzzle-solving and tight, tense encounters. Most likely a rebalanced arsenal, too. All in all, probably leaning towards survival horror, but not as much as Doom 3, for example.

[hideousdestructor]

From what I've played D3 was a slow-paced shooter with some bits of survival horror tacked on... that's not a lot of survival horror at all. :V

All day I've had this idea in my head of an expanded Hideous Destructor mod/game, with fleshed-out and unique classes rather than mere starting loadouts.

Rifleman - Native guy with long hair and moustache and thick hoser accent. Tuque and plaid shirt. Melee weapon is chainsaw.
Grenadier - niqab-clad woman dressed entirely in black with steel-toed boots yelling alternately revolutionary, alternately metalhead, alternately both slogans. Melee weapon is scimitar, or possibly a board with a nail in it stolen police baton.
Support MG - heavyset bearded Rasta who regularly quotes Buddhist and ancient Chinese philosophers. Melee weapon is the vulcanette itself.
Experimental - tiny Asian woman in a suit. Thick Cantonese accent. Nearly identical politics to TF2's Soldier. Melee weapon is a briefcase.

...those were the concepts politically correct enough for me to post on the Internet.