[puzzle/horror]Hunt the Doom Wumpus[WIP]

[Sir Robin]

Doom Slayer, your help is needed! A Doom Wumpus has appeared in our facility and is running amuck. We need a brave hunter to track it down and eliminate it. A Doom Wumpus can only be slain with a Wumpus Gun and it just so happens that we have a Wumpus gun here on premises for just such an occasion.
However there are a few hazards you may encounter on your hunt:

1. The Wumpus itself: A Doom Wumpus is fearsome beast. Just standing in the same room with one would cause you to instantly shit your pants in fear and then die of embarrassment. Your main task is to determine which room the Wumpus is in, and then locate the Wumpus Gun and it's ammo, then fire it through the door leading to the Wumpus. Although, take care in selecting your target! Firing a Wumpus Gun into the correct room will defeat the Doom Wumpus, but firing into an incorrect room will alert the Doom Wumpus to your position. The Doom Wumpus would become enraged and hunt you down, and just the thought of this would cause you to shit your pants and die of embarrassment.
2. Slime pits: You see, someone goofed and didn't conduct a proper geological survey before constructing this facility. Parts of the facility are built over a caustic slime river, and it has been eating away at the foundations of our buildings. If you step into a room that has been affected, you will likely fall through the weakened floor and into a slime pit. The nature of this slime will certainly cause you to shit your pants and die of embarrassment.
3. Malfunctioning teleporters: We have been working here on teleporter technology, and unfortunately a few of them have been behaving badly. If you enter a room with a malfunctioning teleporter, it will teleport you to another random room. This may take you to another safer room where you will not be shitting your pants. However you may just as well be sent to another teleporter, into a slime pit, or directly into the path of the Wumpus itself. So the shitting of pants is not a certainty but it is a real possibility.

Each room has several doors leading to other rooms. If you pay attention you will find hints about hazards that will be in the next room, but not exactly which room. To know which hazards are in which rooms, you'll have to take note of which rooms you find clues in and use some deductive reasoning.

If you are ready to take on this challenge then you can start here.
This is technically a TC but for now it's using resources from DOOM2 and will need that iWad for game resources. The game can be played with Freedoom Phase 2, but some of the graphics are off because of a difference in sizes and offsets that I couldn't automatically compensate for.



If you like figuring out a puzzle without any help, then don't read this:

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If you want some more hints about gameplay, read this:

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The Map
A classic Wumpus hunt map has a series of 20 connected rooms, each room having 3 exits to other rooms. The arrangement of these rooms is the points of a dodecahedron (eg a d12 di) where the passages between rooms would be the edges. In classic Wumpus all passages are two-way, but some advanced maps have one-way passages or passages that cave-in after use.
If playing on a difficulty with auto-mapping, then room entered will be marked on the map along with passages and the rooms they lead to. A traversed passage will be marked a different color so you can keep track of where you have been.
Hazard Hints
Upon entering a room you will be given hints about what is in the adjoining rooms. In classic Wumpus these are given immediately upon entering a room. In this version you may have to wait a few seconds for them to present themselves. Don't go running into unknown rooms without pausing for hints. If you are playing on a difficultly with map hints, these hints will be marked on your auto-map. If not you'll have to remember them (or write them down) yourself.
Difficulty levels
The "real" games are difficulty 3 (Standard Hunt) and 5 (Nightmare Hunt). Difficulty 2 (Practice Hunt) and 4 (Challenging Hunt) are considered the training modes for 3 and 5. Be warned that level 5 games can often be unwinnable through no fault of the player.
Difficulty 1 (Way Too Easy) is just for anyone still struggling with the structure / concept of the game. It's as easy as I could make it. Player starts with the gun, ammo, full map, and only 3 hazards.
Difficulty 4 and 5 have a loud Wumpus. If you hear a Wumpus lurking, it might be in the next room, or it might be 2 rooms away.
Winning
To successfully complete a level you must have a Wumpus Gun and some Wumpus Ammo. You must point the gun at the door leading to the room the Wumpus is in and press fire. Trying to fire at a non-door will just show a message telling the player not to waste ammo. Firing at a door that does not lead to the room with the Wumpus in it will be a game over.

If you've played a Wumpus Hunt before and want to know the particulars of this implementation:

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The differences between this and other implementations of Hunt The Wumpus:
Cosmetic

• Slime pits instead of bottomless pits
• Malfunctioning teleporters instead of super bat colonies
• Doom tekbase instead of cave
• Wumpus gun and ammo instead of bow and arrows

Maps

• Pentagon and Ring are the same as the classic map, just arranged differently in the 2d map
• Dream Catcher has the same logical layout as the classic map but different numbering
• Mobius Strip is the same as Wumpus2 Cave1
• String of Beads is the same as Wumpus2 cave2. Very real possibility of impossible games on this map. Especially without 5-room shots.
• Hex Network (Wumpus2 Cave3) is not currently implemented but is in the works
• Dendrite with Degeneracies (Wumpus2 Cave4) is not currently possible. The engine I wrote for this game does not allow paths to loop back on themselves. And I don't really like that level anyway so I have no plans to get it to work.
• One Way Lattice (Wumpus2 Cave5) is not currently implemented but is in the works

Gameplay

• No crooked 5-room arrows - shots go only into the next room. I'm considering a 5-room controllable shot like classic Wumpus but haven't implemented it yet.
• The Wumpus does not move. If encountered or shot at and missed, it is always a game-over event.
• Hazard hints are all auditory (where classic was hear, smell, feel) and do not present themselves immediately. One of 3 hints is provided every second, so always wait 4 seconds before going into an unknown room.
• Some difficulty levels have a loud Wumpus. This Wumpus can be heard from 2 rooms away instead of just 1.

Placement
I've added some placement rules to try to get better games (less chance of generating an impossible game) but it's not fool-proof

• Hazards are each in their own room, no sharing / overlap
• Since the player can't shoot through a hazard room, the Wumpus is always in a room with at least 1 non-hazard connection
• items (gun, ammo, map) are always in a room with at least 1 non-deadly hazard connection. So could still be in a room next to 2 slime pits and a teleporter. The only way to get that item is to teleport randomly and hope.
• No start hazards: Player start room and all immediately connected rooms are guaranteed safe.

For hints on how to read the map:

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As you explore the map you should be taking note of which rooms connect to which other rooms, and where you find hints about hazards. Use these hints to predict the locations of the hazards and avoid them. When you die, the entire map is revealed along with the locations of all the hazards. Use this to check your logic - did you guess the right locations for the hazards, or do you need to adjust your strategy?

The auto-map will keep information on it depending on your difficulty level.
The basic auto-map will do as expected - when the player enters a room and sees walls, they will be recorded on the auto-map.
The Wumpus auto-map will also record the room number of the room you're in and of the connected rooms. It will also indicate these connections between rooms.
The Wumpus map hints will record the hazard hints you find in the room that you find them in.
Finding the auto-map artifact on any difficulty will give you the whole map with room numbers, but does not enable the auto-map or map hint features if your difficultly level doesn't already enable them.

Example screenshot of a map:

On this map are rooms 2 and 3 which have been visited by the player.
Room 2 has exits to rooms 1, 3, and 10
Room 3 has exits to rooms 2, 4, and 12
The passage between rooms 2 and 3 is dark, because the player has traversed it.
The passage between rooms 1 and 2 is light because the player has not traversed it.
Room 2 has an image of a slime barrel under the room number. This is a reminder that the player found a hint that there is a slime pit in an adjoining room. The slime pit could be room 1, 3, or 10. However the player has already been in room 3, and it was safe, so the slime pit can only be in room 1 or 10. It is also possible that there are 2 slimes pits, one in room 1 and one in room 10. It would be wise not to enter either room until further hints can be found and further deductions can be made.

For hints on how to use clues to predict hazards:

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Consider this map:

The player has visited rooms 1, 2, and 5.
In room 5 a clue was found that a slime pit was near. It could be in rooms 1, 4, or 6.
But since the player has already been to room 1 and didn't find a slime pit, so that's not it
There could be a slime pit in room 4, or one in room 6, or one in each of those rooms.
Better not to enter either of those rooms, just to be safe.

The player leaves room 5 for room 1, then goes to room 8, then room 7

Room 7 connects to rooms 6, 8, and 17
The player does not find a clue of a nearby slime pit in room 7, so there mustn't be one in room 6.
Therefore the clue found in room 5 must mean that there is a slime pit in room 4.
The player should avoid going into room 4 at all costs.

Project Status Summary: Core gameplay is more or less complete and game is playable and winnable.

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I have some additional features in mind that are not yet implemented.
Scripted events could use some flair / polish.
Maps could use some human touch - I wrote a script to generate the maps for me so they can seem kind of drab and repetitive.
I also have ideas and plans for additional maps.
To make it "real" TC I need to get my own art, sounds, music, etc. Not sure if I'm willing to put in that effort.

2022/07/19 Update

• Fixed wumpus gun not having a slot number
• Added hub with scoring

2022/07/19 Update

• fixed issues with loading a saved game
• fixed issue with player firing Wumpus gun while in transition
• fixed some graphical issues when using Freedoom2 iWad. Some are still there and cannot be fixed AFAIK
• Added Spanish language translation file
• other small fixes and code clean-ups

[Ozymandias81]

Ah a new project! Curious to see how it is, I will try it this weekend mostly... Luke will be happy to retrieve his saber again, yeah because Wampa sounds much as Wumpus, there should be an easteregg in this TC

[Sir Robin]

Ah a new project! Curious to see how it is, I will try it this weekend mostly... Luke will be happy to retrieve his saber again, yeah because Wampa sounds much as Wumpus, there should be an easteregg in this TC

Have a look, tell me what you think. The Wumpus hunt engine is more or less done. I'd like to expand the maps to add more Doom elements - increase the sizes of the rooms so I can put small battles and reward pickups in them. My inspiration was two things:
First, Wumpus Hunt is a classic game that's been ported or rewritten on tons of different computers, and Doom is a classic game that's been ported or rewritten on tons of different computers, so why not write Wumpus to run in Doom?
Second, I played this Android game call Lovecraft Quest. It's a Wumpus Hunt with some extra puzzles thrown in and an HP Lovecraft theme all in a comic book / graphic novel art style. I like the way they blended all those things together so I'll try to do a similar blending with Wumpus and Doom. I want to add secrets, but they'll be in different locations every time you play, making them even more secret.

Speaking of secrets and Easter eggs, Wumpus does sound like Wampa, but what about Wacca? Did you find the Zanium mines in the UW maps yet? if not,

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check level 5, west end

[Captain J]

I'm learning about the OG game this mod's based on so far and it's quite interesting! Albeit you have to trust RNG after you open one of the mystery doors, it makes you think and face an unknown challenge that's way ahead of every survival horror game out there. So far i'm playing the practice mode and i can't get a single Wumpus. Got my gun and the ammo but nope. Can't fire it in front of a Womp and the message says it is not the right time to use it.

And it appears that i can save and load the game? But if i load the game it displays error messages and then it crashes back to the title screen.

[Sir Robin]

Sorry, I never tested the load/save feature while designing it, I'll look into why that's not working.

You can't fight the Wumpus directly. If you are in the same room with the Wumpus, it is already too late. You can only defeat the Wumpus by shooting the Wumpus gun at the door leading to the room with the Wumpus in it.
It's true that each instance of the game is designed by the RNG, but the point isn't to hope for it randomly, but to use clues to either deduce the location, or find your highest probability for success and then try that.

Hint:

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Each room has 3 exits. If you are in a room and find a clue that a Wumpus is near, there is a 1/3 chance of it being behind each door. But if the room you just came from doesn't count, then there is a 1/2 chance. So if you can walk around the map until you find a clue to eliminate one of those possibilities, and then the other one is where the Wumpus is.

[Sir Robin]

I updated the first post.
Fixed the issue with save games. Also fixed some graphical issues with using freedoom2 instead of doom2.

Also added a spoiler to the first post showing how to read the map.

[Ozymandias81]

Just played rapidly the thing, it is really an interesting project, though I must go deep through it to get it fully... I like how there are messages describing your surroundings about what's going on, guess the look feature used for your UW1 mod has prod some technical help here. I'll replay it soon and come with a better feedback in case, and regarding Zanium mines, ahah oh yes noticed it, there are even dots to chomp! Will be cute when the whole thing will be fully functional, have to say also for this mod too. Thanks again for the PM, very appreciate it.

[wisezombiekiller]

hey man, i don't know what's going on, but i can't seem to use the wumpus gun, it just seems to disappear when i pick it up. if I could get some help that'd be great

[wisezombiekiller]

okay, so i figured out if i run out of ammo, i can equip the wumpus gun, but that seems like the only way i can use it

[Sir Robin]

A preview of what I'm working on for the next release:

Instead of playing the levels in order you start in a hub and can play any level in any order at any time.
Each level also has it's own scoreboard and scores are kept for each difficulty level.
The game keeps track of how many times you've tried a level and how many times you've won a level.
Each time you start the level counts as a try, but loading a saved game also counts as a try. If you want to get/keep a 100% win ratio, you have to beat the level without dying and without loading.

[Sir Robin]

hey man, i don't know what's going on, but i can't seem to use the wumpus gun, it just seems to disappear when i pick it up. if I could get some help that'd be great

I might have forgot to give it a slot number, I'll check into that. Meanwhile turn on weapon auto-swapping

[Sir Robin]

Update:
download

Fixed the gun - gave it a slot number
The hub is working. The map's not pretty, but it's just something I threw together for testing.