Hocusdoom RELEASED (/idgames pending)

[TheUltimateDoomer666]

This looks very good! I played the shareware Hocus Pocus a lot and got the full version too. I hope this great mod will continue to be worked on and eventually finished.

[Tormentor667]

I loved the original game and I already love the screenshots as the perfectly transfer the classic 2D feeling into a 3D environment... awesome work ravage!

[neoworm]

I remember seeing this long ago at rf' blog/homepage. Looked sweet back than, looks sweet now.

Yet, I wonder how would it look with enemy sprites done in Heretic/Hexen style... I have a day off tomorrow.

[Tormentor667]

Just played the first beta and I have to admit this is the greatest thing since ever! Awesome retro-feeling, well transferred into the world of Doom with all the features that the original game had. Every single detail has been converted... I am absolutely impressed!

[Zero X. Diamond]

I remember seeing this long ago at rf' blog/homepage. Looked sweet back than, looks sweet now.

Yet, I wonder how would it look with enemy sprites done in Heretic/Hexen style... I have a day off tomorrow.

At the very least, take a crack at making those hands look less like a wrinkled, veiny old man's.

[Xeotroid]

I must say that only thing that I didn't like was that collecting treasure wasn't as satisfying as in original game or in Doom (etc.), it feels like I have to get exactly in to the center of the treasure to collect it, maybe resizing the radius might help?

[Hetdegon]

I must say that only thing that I didn't like was that collecting treasure wasn't as satisfying as in original game or in Doom (etc.), it feels like I have to get exactly in to the center of the treasure to collect it, maybe resizing the radius might help? ;)

I agree, it's really easy to run over gems without collecting them. Leads to losing a bit of time doing nothing as you make sure you collect them all.



Anyway after playing for a while, I loved it. Everything looks so pretty and I missed a bit of button-mashing in my shooting. (Although it's of my understanding that not everyone likes mashing the fire button, but I am personally fine with it). Enemy placement is pretty fun as well.

The eyecandy is just spectacular, special effects feel right, architecture is colorful and pretty. I am specially fond of how smooth the tall mushroom models look, far cry from some really low-poly models out there.

No other complaints aside from the item pickup radius. Although, as a suggestion, I'd make the frames where enemies flash red when hit, to be given the BRIGHT flag, it looks a bit off when they go around dark sectors.

[SamVision]

What is this and why is it so beautiful?

[Nash]

3 complaints so far:

- gem radius too tiny
- you can see enemy info in your HUD even if the monster is behind breakable cubes
- the pixel density of the mushroom model's texture (and possibly others too; I'd have to double check) isn't the same as the other stuff around it (level textures, monster sprites)... they are too smooth. :P Decreasing the textures so that they will appear blockier/more low res would make them blend better with everything else... this is just an opinion

Otherwise... AWESOME

[Tux]

plays very well! :>

[ravage]

- gem radius too tiny

A lot of people seemed to have this issue. Fixed. Had to rearrange some treasure in levels that suddenly got stuck on a higher ledge than where they were placed. Probably a good thing given that its not really the best of ideas to have treasure so close to a wall that's going to slow you down.
This also has the interesting side effect that you can collect gems hidden by breakable blocks without actually destroying them.

- you can see enemy info in your HUD even if the monster is behind breakable cubes

Unavoidable given that the breakable blocks are actually models and not level geometry.

- the pixel density of the mushroom model's texture (and possibly others too; I'd have to double check) isn't the same as the other stuff around it (level textures, monster sprites)... they are too smooth. :P Decreasing the textures so that they will appear blockier/more low res would make them blend better with everything else... this is just an opinion

I'm not really sure this is a major issue. I think the texture resolution is fine.

[everamzah]

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[Captain J]

book marking bump, go amiga, this wad looks amazing as good-miga!

EDIT: apologies, it game almost looked like a amiga game. the graphic was almost like it.

[Zero X. Diamond]

Except Hocus Pocus wasn't released for the Amiga?

[Batandy]

This is awesome! Great job! I love colorful TCs