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After having finished some other stuff for Unreal Tournament, I am now back to work on my zDooM projects. I promise I'll have the IAGB bonus map finished soon. Also, if you check the first post, there's a new project. Yep, that's what I'm going to make after IAGB is finished. Hellbound will be, in two words, 'overambitiously creepy'. But even if it gets hard at some point, I will not leave it unfinished! I'm not like other people who abandon their best creations in the middle of the process. You know, 'even if the road's hard and filled with obstacles, one cannot simply give up, you must face all your problems and fight your way through them to reach success'.
Well, anyway. Here I am again. So if anyone has anything to say, just speak... well, I mean, write.
UBX Master wrote:Strange... No one is even asking what Hellbound is all about?
What's Hellbound all about?
FRIGGIN' FINALLY!! A MILLION THANKS MAN!!! <- not gay
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Whoa, I was going to answer yesterday but there was a power outage (the very first time I use these two words in my entire life) and couldn't do. That's strange, because at the exact moment the lights went off, I heard something in my head: 'don't tell them'. I guess it was Anthon, that didn't want me to tell you about Hellbound, but anyway, I'm gonna do it now.
Because there are very few horror WADs out there (mainly Ghoul's Forest series and the upcoming Spooky House one), it just didn't feel right for me, so I decided to join in to the scarefest. So here I am, with a new project to develop just after I finish the bonus level for IAGB. Now I'll tell you about the WAD itself...
Hellbound is not the typical horror FPS, like FEAR. There's rather more 'surviving' than 'killing'. It's mainly focused on scaring the players staring into their screens, along with enveloping them with the mysterious atmosphere of the game (done with my personal ambiences). Unlike most games, here the main character is just a simple nobody, well to be more precise, the janitor. There are no guns nor anything similar, just your own hands or any simple object you can find that actually has any defensive use.
The story is as follows:
Spoiler:
Something wakes you up early, a phone call. You slowly get your hand on it and answer: "Yes? Who is it?". Just silence, total silence. "Hello?"... and then those strange words: "Beware, Anthon is watching...". And the call ends. ("Well, that was strange"), you think. Anyway, back to sleep.
6AM, you wake up. Do the usual as every single day of your monotone life and go to work. ("Yeah, being a janitor is surely an exciting job..."), you think. There you are, Ishtara Labs, a top secret scientific installation, ("Well, maybe it's not that bad...").
While you are waxing the floor tiles as usual, you hear some guys talking inside the room at your side:
Scientist 1: "... and that's the whole thing. Theirs was a complete failure, you know, so why not show them how it's properly done?"
Scientist 2: "I guess so. If what you've been saying is correct, there isn't any chance we'll fail at it. We no longer use that outdated software, also, do you even think we have any 'satanic madmen' in here?"
You: ("Hmmm... that sounds familiar")
S1: "Nope."
S2: "Then that's it. We'll be done checking all the equipment in a moment, and I guess the Portal will be tested this afternoon."
("Portal? Oh crap, no. I better say something or we'll end up with another nightmarish invasion!")
So you quickly drop the waxing machine and run through the door and shut:
Y: "Wait! You don't know what you're doing?"
S2: "Whoa man! What's wrong with you?"
Y: "The -portal- is what is wrong! Don't you know the dangers?"
S1: "Listen, buddy. You're just a janitor, you don't know anything at all, so you're not the right person to give us advice."
S2: "Yeah, you're right, pal. He didn't even got to high school. But well, let's just hear what this guy has to tell, maybe it's interesting."
S1: "Are you seri...?"
S2: "Shhhh!!"
Y: "Listen up, I may not know at all about science, but at least I have common sense! Don't you know you're just about to open a friggin' door to those demons again?"
S1: "Hah! You bet. That was all UAC's fault, totally. There's not a single chance 'that' will happen in here. No experiment has ever failed in these labs! And we have revised EVERYTHING thoroughly so there isn't anything wrong. Oh! And just letting you know, we have made teleportations before, short range though, and they all worked fine!"
S2: "Yeah, the worst thing that could happen is that someone ended up one milimeter away from the designated area or something like that. So man, there's nothing to worry about, now just get back to waxing the floor..."
Y: "OK, OK. But I still have a feeling there's something wrong, I don't know what, but there IS something..."
You say this while you walk away from them.
Well, 5PM already. Almost everyone is at the test chamber of the portal, except for you. Yep, locking yourself inside the janitor room is not the best idea to survive an invasion, but you'll think of some way to stay alive later:
("This... This surely has something to do with that phone call. I think it was a warning. I think someone is going to mess into that portal thing and let it happen all over again. I just know it...")
Looks like they're now turning it on, the lights are starting to flicker. There's now a warm-up sound getting louder and louder. That's it, now they're opening it and... Yep, there it is... Pretty much what you expected. A loud rumble, alarms buzzing, people screaming... and later, all silent. They are here now. How to get out is now up to you, my dear player...
Yeah, I know. You may think: 'Not another Hell invasion'. But the point is that it's not from Hell, but from a worse place... Well, you'll actually figure it out yourself...
Any opinions, ideas, flames, oatmeal, etc., are welcome.
^Please tell me that a mop will be the standard melee weapon, and that you will make use of various other janitorial equipment during the initial stages of the game. (DETERGENT IN THE EYE! *run away*)
Then again, that might be too humorous, disrupting the atmosphere.
Not a mop, but a broom, as in the first Penumbra game. You also get to use: a plank, a paper cutter, matches, a lighter...
(Well, the matches and the lighter just only give illumination)
Oh, and the weapons break after 3 or so hits (And you drop them when getting hit or after falling down). You hold 20 matches at start of the game (and never find more), that last for about 15 or so seconds, and the lighter lasts for a total of 50 minutes (no fuel for it anywhere, sorry). Yeah, if we make games somewhat realistic, it's pretty much hard to survive, you know.
Aaand... There's no secret impse this time, sorry.
That sounds like it'd be pretty fun to play actually.
But it might be cool to at least have there be a gun, like a fully loaded revolver. But that's it, no extra ammo, you just got the shots in the gun. However it'll be realistic(ish) and nearly kill anything in one hit. Also the weapon should be hard to find.
Obviously that's just a suggestion, which you may take or leave.
Ummm... Do you think someone would actually bring firearms to a lab?
Well... Actually on second thought, maybe the security guards use guns, but not a goddamn revolver! Maybe I'll give you the opportunity to pick a glock or something from the dead hand of a guard at some part of the game with, let's say, one full clip. The problem is that the gun may be effective on humans, but on the 'things' you are going to face... I guess not.
UBX Master wrote:Ummm... Do you think someone would actually bring firearms to a lab?
Uh... I work in a lab, and I'm told to keep a standard self defense weapon (Not necessarily a pistol) in my locker in case of some sort of hostage situation and/or whatever kind of strike (Like last week's shoot out by a guy, actually comming in to rob the freakin' messhall. Yes I am bloody serious. He had a gun too.), plus most of the security staff have unbreakable batons, tazers and the head of staff has a .357 laying around in his desk somewhere... which he is... so incredibly proud about he keeps asking me if I wanna look out for more revolvers and stuff that used to belong to that type of firearm. (Yes really.)
.... Plus, I only logged in to say:
Gawddangit, no Impse?!
And that I'm not going to be back for a long time either, sooooo I might not be able to test this thing or whatever.
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