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Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 4:05 am
by TheUltimateDoomer666
This looks very good! I played the shareware Hocus Pocus a lot and got the full version too. I hope this great mod will continue to be worked on and eventually finished.

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 4:16 am
by Tormentor667
I loved the original game and I already love the screenshots as the perfectly transfer the classic 2D feeling into a 3D environment... awesome work ravage!

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 5:47 am
by neoworm
I remember seeing this long ago at rf' blog/homepage. Looked sweet back than, looks sweet now.

Yet, I wonder how would it look with enemy sprites done in Heretic/Hexen style... I have a day off tomorrow.

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:03 am
by Tormentor667
Just played the first beta and I have to admit this is the greatest thing since ever! :D Awesome retro-feeling, well transferred into the world of Doom with all the features that the original game had. Every single detail has been converted... I am absolutely impressed!

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 12:09 pm
by Zero X. Diamond
neoworm wrote:I remember seeing this long ago at rf' blog/homepage. Looked sweet back than, looks sweet now.

Yet, I wonder how would it look with enemy sprites done in Heretic/Hexen style... I have a day off tomorrow.
At the very least, take a crack at making those hands look less like a wrinkled, veiny old man's.

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 1:56 pm
by Xeotroid
I must say that only thing that I didn't like was that collecting treasure wasn't as satisfying as in original game or in Doom (etc.), it feels like I have to get exactly in to the center of the treasure to collect it, maybe resizing the radius might help? ;)

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 2:13 pm
by Hetdegon
Xeotroid wrote:I must say that only thing that I didn't like was that collecting treasure wasn't as satisfying as in original game or in Doom (etc.), it feels like I have to get exactly in to the center of the treasure to collect it, maybe resizing the radius might help? ;)
I agree, it's really easy to run over gems without collecting them. Leads to losing a bit of time doing nothing as you make sure you collect them all.



Anyway after playing for a while, I loved it. Everything looks so pretty and I missed a bit of button-mashing in my shooting. (Although it's of my understanding that not everyone likes mashing the fire button, but I am personally fine with it). Enemy placement is pretty fun as well.

The eyecandy is just spectacular, special effects feel right, architecture is colorful and pretty. I am specially fond of how smooth the tall mushroom models look, far cry from some really low-poly models out there.

No other complaints aside from the item pickup radius. Although, as a suggestion, I'd make the frames where enemies flash red when hit, to be given the BRIGHT flag, it looks a bit off when they go around dark sectors.

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 8:58 pm
by SamVision
What is this and why is it so beautiful?

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:46 pm
by Nash
3 complaints so far:

- gem radius too tiny
- you can see enemy info in your HUD even if the monster is behind breakable cubes
- the pixel density of the mushroom model's texture (and possibly others too; I'd have to double check) isn't the same as the other stuff around it (level textures, monster sprites)... they are too smooth. :P Decreasing the textures so that they will appear blockier/more low res would make them blend better with everything else... this is just an opinion

Otherwise... AWESOME

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:27 am
by Tux
plays very well! :>

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 1:39 am
by ravage
Nash wrote: - gem radius too tiny
A lot of people seemed to have this issue. Fixed. Had to rearrange some treasure in levels that suddenly got stuck on a higher ledge than where they were placed. Probably a good thing given that its not really the best of ideas to have treasure so close to a wall that's going to slow you down.
This also has the interesting side effect that you can collect gems hidden by breakable blocks without actually destroying them.
Nash wrote:- you can see enemy info in your HUD even if the monster is behind breakable cubes
Unavoidable given that the breakable blocks are actually models and not level geometry.
Nash wrote:- the pixel density of the mushroom model's texture (and possibly others too; I'd have to double check) isn't the same as the other stuff around it (level textures, monster sprites)... they are too smooth. :P Decreasing the textures so that they will appear blockier/more low res would make them blend better with everything else... this is just an opinion
I'm not really sure this is a major issue. I think the texture resolution is fine.

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 7:58 am
by everamzah
Spoiler: Video preview

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:42 pm
by Captain J
book marking bump, go amiga, this wad looks amazing as good-miga!

EDIT: apologies, it game almost looked like a amiga game. the graphic was almost like it.

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:47 pm
by Zero X. Diamond
Except Hocus Pocus wasn't released for the Amiga?

Re: Hocus Doom

Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 1:29 am
by Batandy
This is awesome! Great job! I love colorful TCs