The WIP Thread

[kodi]

It would be neat if just for this mod, someone took the whole of episode 1, made it into a big hub with lots of new rooms and side areas, plus some story content delivered through terminals or audio logs. Knee Deep in the Dead: Immersive Sim Edition.

I'd offer the full extent of my support if someone was interested in doing this. Much of the code for my on-hiatus adventure game framework could be of use, like doors that open when you click on them and a custom conversation system.

Edit: and if anyone wanting to make shooting gallery game with the cursor code would of course be just as welcome to do so

[DoomRater]

That's the funny thing about the game cited- both systems are needed to replicate the gameplay!

[60dollartechdemo]

Oh wait, you wanted the gameplay to be *exactly* like the flash game. I guess that would be more Doom: A Telltale Adventure Game Series.

Hmm. I know people have made Visual Novel style dialog boxes in ZDoom, but has anyone managed to do the Telltale timed-response dialogue system (which they completely ripped off of Alpha Protocol, btw).

[Kinsie]

Oh wait, you wanted the gameplay to be *exactly* like the flash game. I guess that would be more Doom: A Telltale Adventure Game Series.

You can't randomly delete the user's savegames in ACS, though.

[zrrion the insect]

yet

[Kinsie]

yet

Trust me, I went through this song and dance during The Reelism Times. Savegames are sacred, holy, blameless creatures. Like cows in India, or trams in Melbourne.

[kodi]

Oh wait, you wanted the gameplay to be *exactly* like the flash game. I guess that would be more Doom: A Telltale Adventure Game Series.

Hmm. I know people have made Visual Novel style dialog boxes in ZDoom, but has anyone managed to do the Telltale timed-response dialogue system (which they completely ripped off of Alpha Protocol, btw).

I personally don't see the appeal of a locked camera when free roaming is more fun and immersive (not to mention easier to do in zdoom), but that's just me.
A telltale type dialogue system wouldn't be hard, but personally I much prefer being able to take my time with dialogue choices - which is why my system works like in the Baldurs Gate and Fallout series.

[InsanityBringer]

You can't randomly delete the user's savegames in ACS, though.

I now vaguely wish we had people in this community obsessed with finding security exploits. imagine an acs script that uses a vulnerability in the ACS VM to do something like that

[Marisa the Magician]

Imagine if terrywad authors exploited that... It'd be hell.

[Nash]

I now vaguely wish we had people in this community obsessed with finding security exploits. imagine an acs script that uses a vulnerability in the ACS VM to do something like that

And the devs would plug that stuff in like 5 seconds as soon as it is found... XD

[Rachael]

Truth be told, the ZDoom code base never really has been "security tested" - it hasn't really needed it per se because it's not an attractive enough platform to attract the kind of black hats who specialize in that kind of stuff.

But honestly, I would not be surprised if both ZScript and ACS had some pretty hairy vulnerabilities... but the same might possibly be true of other ports, too, that are sufficiently advanced - like Legacy, Edge, Eternity, or even bare Hexen, itself.

[kodi]

I could imagine the database feature in zandronum having the capability to cause trouble.

[NeuralStunner]

I know somebody once made a wad "compression bomb" - A tiny wad file that loads into GB of memory. I don't recall whether anything was done about that.

[Rachael]

That can already be done with ZIP archivers, too, though. 4 GB's of \0's compresses pretty well...

[Captain J]

I know somebody once made a wad "compression bomb" - A tiny wad file that loads into GB of memory. I don't recall whether anything was done about that.

Now mod for doom can literally become weaponized, huh? That sounds it might become worse than fattening our computer.