MeenTC: I.M. Meen in GZDoom (v1.0!!)

[Rachael]

Thank you for the update!

[Arrowghost]

Captain J wrote:
> I certainly had a blast playing this special TC. It's very faithful and yet
> new to the original I.M. MEEN!

That's some beautiful game you had, if only I knew how to equip my 1st Fire Wand from Tower 1 and use it on those pesky spiders. Sorry, first time in playing that remake game, but I'm familiar with the regular Meen & Chill Manor on DosBox. I followed the installation steps, except in-game instructions are not provided including how to arm myself.

Too bad there's no Youtube video for me to watch from start to finish, the search engine I find got no results, there was one long ago, but I missed it or have disappeared.

Very cool game, but if only there's a way that could remaster the whole game onto Unreal Engine in the future.

[ChrysalisM]

I just tried this, and it's awesome! Especially when mixed with brutal doom...

[Arrowghost]

I just tried this, and it's awesome! Especially when mixed with brutal doom...

Wow, awesome to hear, but do you know how to equip weapons in the Meen head slot?
Sorry for being a noob but there's no Youtube gameplay video to show it. Care to help? Please and thank you.

[MundyC]

Hey, I updated MeenTC again, and just in time for Halloween too! It's a rather small update, but it knocks out two (simple-ish) things I wanted to implement into the remake.

Here are the changes:

• Battle music and its dynamic system have been properly implemented.
• Compass is now fully functional and shows the player's direction (NOTE: Doesn't work for second player on co-op mode).
• Improved quality for the in-game cutscenes.
• Added a menu where you can select an area.
• Added a new startup sequence.
• Halved the player headbobbing as it was a bit much.
• Greatly reduced the amount of those ugly "fake sky" tiles in the Hedgerow Maze.
• Various other visual improvements and filesize compression methods.

Link's in the OP.

[MundyC]

Double-posting to let you all know that v0.9.5 of MeenTC is out! You'll have to update to GZDoom 4.14.1 to play it, but for a very good reason...



We got video cutscenes. The thing that made I.M. Meen famous in the first place is finally in MeenTC - fully implemented and functional! There are a couple of minor additions, too, which you can read in the below changelog:

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Version 0.9.5 "THE Cutscene Update" - March 15th, 2025

• All cutscenes have been properly added to the game, as video files that play while in a level.
• The death event has been overhauled. After the Meen cutscene ends, the Gnorris post-death cutscene plays and the level is restarted (and the inventory is cleared).
• Restored the original trigger for MAP36's "Now you're going to pay!" cutscene.
• Meen's laugh will now be heard before a "taunt" cutscene plays.
• Tweaked the compass to update faster, and the battle timer to end quicker.
  (NOTE: Co-op mode might be busted at this point. Ah well.)

Link's in the OP.

[MundyC]

I don't like to triple-post, but I have a pretty good reason for doing so... v1.0 of MeenTC has finally been released, just in time for its (potential) 30th anniversary on May 21st, 2025!



Thanks to a shadowdrop of code by Melodic Spaceship over on Doomworld, MeenTC now has the scroll-editing mode that made I.M. Meen an edutainment game! All three difficulty levels have been implemented for this mode, and there's even an option to turn it off if you don't want to correct Meen's grammar! In addition, I have optimized the levels to reduce their linedef-and-sector bloat, as well as made several changes to improve parts of the game.

With this update, MeenTC is now feature-complete and plays (nearly) identically to the original game!

The full list of changes can be read below:

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Version 1.0 "The Feature-Complete Update" - May 20th, 2025

• Added the scroll-editing mode - the final feature needed to make MeenTC feature-complete! Special thanks go to Melodic Spaceship for coding this mode.
• Added a new options submenu, "MeenTC Options". It only has three options for now; enabling/disabling the scroll mode, changing the reading difficulty, and enabling/disabling the battle music.
• Simplified the level geometry by removing excess lines/sectors. It shrunk the size of the main WAD file by almost 25 MB, roughly halving its size!
• Tweaked the MAP40 enemies to be more "accurate".
• Made the lifts in MAP38 and MAP39 more obvious.
• Fixed the full-screen HUD being horribly cluttered.
• Added in an improved version of the compass' ACS code, also made by Melodic Spaceship.
• Removed the Giant Bat's roaming sound as it was really annoying.

The link is in the OP (or here). Updates from here on out should be relatively minor in scope.

[Rachael]

Posting so you don't feel guilty for quadruple posting.

Also very nice updates!

[Wiw]

Superb!