I Made A Quake Clone In 10 Days

[Nash]

EDIT 18 SEPTEMBER 2022:

ElderJam is dead. Enter DISDAIN!

Requesting lock.

EDIT 18 November 2021:



ElderJam is now known as "Disdain" and here's an early first look at the state of the game today. :)

Original post:

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Despite it being a 10-day game jam and me putting it out here, saying "there are no immediate plans to develop this more fully at this time", this does NOT mean that ElderJam's resources and code are free for the taking.

Please, don't just take ElderJam, reskin it and re-release it as your own project, or use it as a base for your own project or whatever. Feel free to learn from it, but I have NOT granted permission for people to just start taking it apart. I have already stated that there is a possibility that I will expand on this project, turning it into a more proper project in future, after my current project (Darkadia) is complete, and I wouldn't appreciate it if someone else just ran off with the files to make their own game from.

tl;dr you may not use ElderJam to base your own games off of. Please respect my wishes.

When all is said and done, I will be granting more permissive usage - I have a history of releasing all kinds of stuff for the community to use, so you know I have intentions to give back to the community, when the time is right.

Meanwhile, if anyone sees ElderJam being used by other projects, I'd appreciate it if those were reported, either to me, or any of the admins. Thank you!

> DOWNLOAD ON ITCH.IO <
> SOUNDTRACK ON BANDCAMP <

INTRO

I've always enjoyed watching those "I Made [Insert Game] Clone in [Insert Some Absurdly Short Time]" videos that are all over Youtube. Feeling inspired, I decided, "hey, I wanna make a Quake clone in 10 days!".

ELDERJAM

"ElderJam" is a working title I gave to the project (I needed to name it something, after all). It's a nod to HP Lovecraft. This game was mostly built solo, in 10 days. It was a fun challenge. Some resources and assets were borrowed during the creation process; see CREDITS.txt for full details.

FUTURE?

Will ElderJam become a full game? I don't know. I'm currently busy working on another actual game (Darkadia, a first person survival horror game running on the GZDoom engine). After Darkadia ships - and if there's enough demand for it - I'd definitely be open to the idea of making ElderJam an actual, complete game.

SUPPORT ME!

If you enjoy ElderJam, and want to further support my game development activities, consider subscribing to my Patreon!

Also consider pay-what-you-want on the ElderJam OST Bandcamp, or just help spread the word about my creations! Thanks! <3

LINKS

Itch.io (DOWNLOAD!): https://nashmuhandes.itch.io/elderjam
Patreon: https://patreon.com/NashMuhandes
Paypal: https://paypal.me/NashMuhandes
ElderJam OST BandCamp: https://nashmuhandes.bandcamp.com/album/elderjam
E-mail: nashmuhandes.gamedev@gmail.com..
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[Carrotear]

Digging the Civvie vibe from the video.

[Redneckerz]

You can put that on Steam and it would be a good entry, i feel. Great job, Nash. What a talent.

[Captain Ventris]

This is awesome! I’ll have to try it out ASAP. Great job, Nash.

[JohnnyTheWolf]

Neat! By far, my favourite aspect of the project is the soundtrack. Did you compose all of them in the 10-day period? And this is your first album ever?

I might use them for a personal soundtrack replacement for Xim's GZDoom 3. Or heck, maybe for the new episodes made for Quake: Enhanced? It does bother me how MachineGames could not even be bothered to give the latters an original soundtrack.

Anyway, in addition to your game projects, you should definitely consider composing more tracks in the future!

[Nash]

Neat! By far, my favourite aspect of the project is the soundtrack. Did you compose all of them in the 10-day period? And this is your first album ever?

All 5 songs were composed and produced in 12 hours (less than a day), in fact. :D I remember starting at around 6PM and finishing off the last song by 6 the next morning. Well, yes and no, it's not really my first album - I was playing in several local bands and also was a music producer between 2005 - 2020, but as far as "game soundtrack" albums, I guess you could say yeah, this is my first album. Glad you like it. :)

Feel free to use the music in your mods or personal projects, as long as you aren't making money off them.

You can put that on Steam and it would be a good entry, i feel. Great job, Nash. What a talent.

Appreciate the kind gesture but this is WAY too rough to be on Steam. :P Maybe if it had another 6 months of development and I hired a professional mapper, PERHAPS it could pass off as a rushed Early Access?! LOL.

At any rate, I don't have any immediate plans to make ElderJam into a serious project. It was a 10-day challenge, I nailed it, but now I need to move on to other projects...

[cubebert]

I've played though the demo and I'm genuinely impressed by what I've saw. You did all that in ten days?

I did notice two small bugs, mainly that you are given double ammo for weapons and blood drops on floors don't move with lifts and elevators, but otherwise, it's very polished. If I could make a small request, could there be a Doom builder configuration for Elderjam, or at least some documentation on how to make maps for it? It's small size and simplicity could be a great introduction for a beginner to create maps with the GZDoom engine.

[Gez]

Yum!

Appreciate the kind gesture but this is WAY too rough to be on Steam. Maybe if it had another 6 months of development and I hired a professional mapper, PERHAPS it could pass off as a rushed Early Access?! LOL.

Wouldn't the fact that the monster models are based off Quake models (even if simplified and then remodeled differently) be a potential liability for commercial use?

[Nash]

I've played though the demo and I'm genuinely impressed by what I've saw. You did all that in ten days? :shock:

I did notice two small bugs, mainly that you are given double ammo for weapons and blood drops on floors don't move with lifts and elevators, but otherwise, it's very polished. If I could make a small request, could there be a Doom builder configuration for Elderjam, or at least some documentation on how to make maps for it? It's small size and simplicity could be a great introduction for a beginner to create maps with the GZDoom engine.

Thanks! I've added those to "fix whenever you feel like it", for whenever I actually return to this...

Sure, I can put up a mapper SDK or something soon.

Yum!

Appreciate the kind gesture but this is WAY too rough to be on Steam. :P Maybe if it had another 6 months of development and I hired a professional mapper, PERHAPS it could pass off as a rushed Early Access?! LOL.

Wouldn't the fact that the monster models are based off Quake models (even if simplified and then remodeled differently) be a potential liability for commercial use?

LOL @ the elderberry jam. :P

And yes, you are correct. If this were to be an actual game, the monster and player models would have to be redone completely. I can't promise they'll end up looking TOO different, unless I do major redesigns to them, because after all, a few pointy low poly models can only look so different...

[JohnnyTheWolf]

All 5 songs were composed and produced in 12 hours (less than a day), in fact. I remember starting at around 6PM and finishing off the last song by 6 the next morning. Well, yes and no, it's not really my first album - I was playing in several local bands and also was a music producer between 2005 - 2020, but as far as "game soundtrack" albums, I guess you could say yeah, this is my first album. Glad you like it.

Yes, that is what I meant. I had the sneaking suspicion that you must have had some musical background, but since you had no other listed album on Bandcamp, I correctly assumed that it was your first foray into the video game music genre. I also hope it will not be the last!

[Void Warrior]

A cool Quake clone, but it's a pity that it's short. And I just started to immerse myself in the gameplay! It would be a good competitor to Dusk, as for me.

[NightFright]

I can imagine funding this. Get a few experienced mappers on board, and with a few enhancements and polishing this thing could actually fly. Might rather take 10 months instead of days, though.

[m8f]

Having problems with running ElderJam on Linux. The package from itch.io for Linux doesn't contain libzmusic.so.1.

Second, ElderJam executable is linked to newer versions of libraries that Debian 10 has. This may be my own problem, I just have to upgrade.
If I provide library path to where I have libzmusic.so.1, other libraries cannot be found:

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.-(~/Games/doom/iwads/elderjam)
`--> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/gzdoom ./ElderJam
./ElderJam: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./ElderJam)
./ElderJam: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by ./ElderJam)

Third, the most important issue, is that cvars disablecrashlog, gl_control_tear, in_mouse, joy_dinput, joy_ps2raw, joy_xinput, k_allowfullscreentoggle, k_mergekeys, m_swapbuttons, queryiwad_key, vid_gpuswitch, vr_enable_quadbuffered are Windows-only. Having them in ElderJam.ipk3/defcvars.txt causes errors on Linux. This is also a GZDoom problem. Created a feature suggestion.

Finally, ElderJam launched fine on system GZDoom 4.6.1 after I removed those cvars from defcvars.

[Nash]

Sorry for the problems, m8f. I am not a Linux user, and the Linux package was provided to me as a favor from someone else - there was no way for me to test it...

In the mean time, you can just run the ElderJam.ipk3 with your regular GZDoom installation. :)

I really should look into fixing those and building proper Linux packages for people outside the community, though... so thanks for reporting!

EDIT: at least for the missing packages, this might help:



So there's just the issue with the platform-specific CVars defined inside DEFCVARS to tackle...

[Chris]

Second, ElderJam executable is linked to newer versions of libraries that Debian 10 has. This may be my own problem, I just have to upgrade.

Debian 11 was released a few weeks ago, which will have newer versions of various libraries: https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814