Very quake-like looking indie game in development -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcJ5Ni92QI8 

Monsters/graphics look great, but the big empty infinite void (ie lack of level design) is a big turn off for me. 

Maybe there is something a bit Quakey about the visuals, but gameplay-wise I'm not really seeing it - looks more like a first-person bullet hell or something.

I would love that soundtrack in a Quake level though. 

Yeah it does look like a first person bullet hell. You never know what might happen with the development. Also, I thought I would despise Ziggurat but I put a lot of hours into the game and had a ton of fun. We'll see how it turns out. 

Looks like it'll get super frustrating pretty quickly. 

has more of a doom feel than a quake feel. But i agree, i would like to see that gameplay put into actual levels (even though they would probably need to be very open in style to support the horde style of gameplay. 

about music also. sounds kind of Arca-esque. 

it sucks. 

I just tried to run my old Escape From Butcher's Bay on Windows 7 64 bits. It crashed after the initial credits screen. Tried to patch it to 1.1, it says "old file not found". I was hoping to mod it using Ogier. This game is very close to what I wanted for a project.

czg

Does your workmates know how to solve it? 

 

I'm really pushing my memory here but I had the original Butcher Bay on my Vista machine and had to do something special to get it to work. I had a legit copy on disk but I think I ended up getting a no-CD crack executable because of SecoROM compatibility issues.

I later bought the Riddick combo on disk which has both Butcher Bay and Escape from Athena. I put it on a Win 7 X64 machine and it ran. It claimed a graphics update but I thought the older version looked better. 

 

Yes, my copy is an original 5 CD from ~2005, that's why it doesn't work. Nobody seem to be selling it anymore. The Athena game is US$14 and dollar is too expensive right now for me. 

I had turds like that before. Literally, it looks like diarrhoea, set in the void. 

You must be descended from Shakespeare. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZx_u0AtV9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jThpCoxwOhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuyxEVLGXkE 

Just out of curiosity, whats the gain in building mods for games that no one on the planet has installed anymore? It's just a lot of work for no one to play. 

Wasn't gonna say anything myself, but I thought it looked terrible. Minimalist is something, but completely empty void is just lazy. 

The gain is make my game a total conversion of an already tried and true starting point. Also, what about other planets? 

A standalone version would work. But the requirement of having whatever pre 2005 game you pick that doesn't have any community behind it, means you could spends 100s of hours creating something that maybe 10 people will play. 

So ... like Quake mapping then? :P 

Lol, almost exactly what I thought when I read that. Though for me and Quake mapping it's probably more like 1000s of hours and 100 people. 

>10 people 

If anyone wonders why you map/mod for [old game] really your answer should be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaqxAEx46Zk

Otherwise, lol. 

Riddick EFBB was very close to what I planned for my game. Amran's topic about Ogier editor made me take another look at that game and consider modding it. But it does look abandoned, unfortunately. That's a shame.