Early this morning I mucked in on my own megawad! It was lovely, but it seems I've still got some bugs to squash with co-op softlocks. No matter - I need to get back into the swing of Doom and a little house cleaning is a nice start.

Here's something I was preparing earlier... #DoomMapping

To summarise what just happened to GZDoom today:

Revisiting the test room of the other big project I had on the backburner and remembered building this big blue demon firing blasts of plasma-lasers, plasers! DecoHack is as powerful as those explosions! I wonder what sort of encounters he'll grace? #DoomMapping (Sprites recoloured by Doomkid)

The parry has something to do: Reflect projectiles back at enemies, and follow up with big strikes! The input HUD is in action too, player knockback on hit, (health updates pending), afterimage changes, and a max FPS switch for experiments - the physics holds up at 30 FPS. #Godot #GameDevelopment

Parallax scrolling! Timer and animation/animation change/cancelling improvements! Less Afterimages! Charged shoot attacks! A new noise for deflected hooks! I think this character is complete now, messing around with him is too much fun. #Godot #GameDevelopment

Ah, I can finally repost this the way it was meant to be, with a little extra. Still dunno why this app fumbles GIFs so badly, they're practically the love-language of the pre-enshittified internet.

Starting to implement a tileset and get used to it, while tightening up the hook, making things you can't grapple (with visual feedback, audio pending), adding slope angle to the ragdoll throwing, and a lot of weird edge-case control bugfixes. Busy busy! #Godot #GameDevelopment

Extending the grab and drag functionality with throwing! I'll refine this to have some new sprites and a means of aiming your throw soon, just giddy I got it working so quickly. #Godot #GameDevelopment

Making the grabbed object jump with you allows for an approximation of throwing something I wanna refine more. It's addictive to tinker with this and get it feeling right. #Godot #GameDevelopment

Finally, the hook can be used to drag things by holding the button down, and if you're quick you can capture things mid-flight and drag them back to your level! #Godot #GameDevelopment

A few additions to the character's movement and bug fixes, and making the most out of the new knockback system. It's fun figuring out how to juggle the practice dummies with the expanding toolkit. #Godot #GameDevelopment

As part of looking back at the platformer, I decided to add something I've been meaning to: An uppercut. Then I fell into adding knockback, then facilitating the change, and now we have a simple combo string! #Godot #GameDevelopment