[v0.5] A Boy And His Barrel - It's slime time

[delroku]

Say, i tried QZdoom with this mod and it worked, but now everytime i try to use either GZdoom or QZdoom they stop working, i did change some of the settings but i don't know why that causes GZdoom to crash as well, any idea what happened?

[wildweasel]

What specifically doesn't work? Do you get error messages? We need more details.

[grouchbag]

Violet doesn't like me.She keeps blowing me up.This IS a very fun wad tho.I won't give up.

[Jimmy]

Download "A Boy And His Barrel" v0.5 (4.65MB)

ONLY TESTED IN GZDOOM 4.0.0! Please use that.

Have some shots from the new map by Dragonfly who's been waiting for me to release this version of the mod for over a year now. Wow, I'm awful!

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Hefty freaking changelog in the spoiler.

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- Entire project moved to Git.
- ZScript version changed to 2.5.
- New TEST01 map! The first of five tutorial maps.
- Added MAP04 - "Thy Juice Consumed", by Dragonfly! Thanks, man!
- Added a new intermission screen, created by Gutawer! You can return to the traditional Kills/Items/Secrets screen by changing an option in the "ABAHB
Options" menu. This new screen tallies up several conditions tracked throughout the map like damage taken, secrets found, etc. and gives you a performance rank ranging from S (highest) and then A through to F (lowest).
- Added powerup timers! They're off by default, but now you can track the time left for the effect of all the powerup-based spheres (berserk, battle, ghost and bio spheres.)
- Changed the fist into a gentle shove. Slightly less problematic.
- Pistol starts are now in! Another option under "ABAHB Options". Code courtesy of m8f!
- Added a projected distance meter! Looks super snazzy. Thanks Gutawer!
- Added a par time to SEC01 and made the easter egg in it a little less obvious to find.
- Added a logic fix to Violet that makes her triggering of sector actions more reliable. Thanks Gutawer!
- Added another fix for the springboards' air control change, again provided by Gutawer.
- Added the "Mirror Sphere", which serves as a protection/reflection powerup (the latter is only applied to Violet). Not used in any maps yet.
- When your powerup runs out, you now get a warning message and sound effect.
- Removed "carrying" weapon sprite.
- Bumped up air control from the dismal 0.00390625 default to 0.8. This mod is officially fun to play now.
- Some degradation logic fixed - thanks, Gutawer!
- Violet's health readout now shows in pink if she is currently degrading.
- Your number of warnings no longer gets reset to 0 by simply walking closer to Violet - you now must touch her so she plays her "hearts" animation.
- Violet's "annoyed" bubbling effect is now customizable. You can turn it off, intensify it, and make it permanent, or intermittent. She will also no longer bubble if she has the HARD MODE costume on (or a few other costumes that look silly with it on).
- Overhauled the effect icons system. Should have no oddities now.
- Distance meter is now separate from the status bar and shows on the automap.
- Bumped battle sphere effect time down to 45 seconds.
- Nag messages from Violet are back to happening every 40 seconds instead of 30, as it was a bit of a problem on SEC01.
- Violet will no longer replenish in healing liquid while she's degrading.
- Flipped some music around. Now fits the respective opening room of each map.
- A bunch of new major-key music is included now. Thanks to Zorilla for those!
- Changed duration of the fade to white on mission completion to 1 second.
- Fixed Boom Spheres being usable before Violet has reappeared from a previous detonation.
- Fixed Heal Spheres breaking the game if used on a detonated Violet.
- Specified the names of powerups in the nag messages for when Violet picks them up.
- Added +NOCLIP to the TouchBox (arrow) so it can be spawned anywhere.
- Fixed a few bugs that occurred if Violet wasn't yet spawned.
- "Violet status/armor" on the HUD changed to "Violet's status/armor".
- Repalettized STKEYS6.
- Removed the "Unf." on the INTERPIC and washed out the color a little bit. Sorry Slax/Kura! Felt it necessary to reduce the possibility of visual clutter on the new intermission screen.
- Violet's costume now updates while you're in the menu!
- Fixed up the custom fonts a little.
- Changed sky used on the TITLEMAP.
- Fixed an unreachable secret in MAP01.
- Addressed a number of MAJOR possible sequence breaks in MAP02. Thanks thegwall and Baratus.
- Changed MAP03's name.
- Items' Tags now have short descriptions explaining their use.
- All in-game strings can now be changed in the LANGUAGE lump.
- "Violet found" string is now always displayed.
- "ABAHB Options" menu rearranged to look nicer.
- The health bonus bug from 0.3 came back, so fixed it again. Probably.

[Captain J]

And I congratulate you for releasing a Boy and his Barrel. Violet chan would be pleased, and i would like to see more tribute stuff from others who loves Barrels o' Fun!

[Trusty McLegit]

Yes!!! I thought this project was dead! Can't wait to try this new version after work

[Amuscaria]

Played the first version some time ago. Loved it. Will have to try this new version when I have the time. Dragonfly's maps are always a blast. Still got to finish Square Ep2 and a huge backlog of doom mods.