I'm literally nobody, no experience in game design, modding, or visual design. I barely know what I'm doing. But I know what I like in games, and have a clear vision of what I want to achieve.

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Call for help, project endangered

Call for help, project endangered

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I'm looking for help with a problem that can endanger the entire game.

Hand-drawn cutscenes, sound, enemy test & plenty of updates

Hand-drawn cutscenes, sound, enemy test & plenty of updates

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Daily life doesn't allow me to concentrate on writing about the project too much. So, using a bit of free time, here's 6 months' worth of news.

How I made rain using pencil and GZDoom

How I made rain using pencil and GZDoom

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Here's an anatomy of a scene showing how a rainy level got made.

Videos + screenshots: Jumping into a book and more art things that changed the gameplay

Videos + screenshots: Jumping into a book and more art things that changed the gameplay

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Nothing is copied and pasted, rooms, hallways, so it doesn't get confusing. But this came at a price of gameplay tweaks.

Pencil-drawn Doom total conversion progress, new music & more

Pencil-drawn Doom total conversion progress, new music & more

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After a long time with no updates it's only fair to say a word of two about the progress. Which is going pretty great!

Animating post-its via trial and error

Animating post-its via trial and error

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The pencil-drawn style comes at a price. It makes characters incredibly difficult to animate. Especially since I don't have experience in animation.

Fake low-tech "dynamic" cel shading in Doom vs. another modder's method

Fake low-tech "dynamic" cel shading in Doom vs. another modder's method

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Cel shading wars! A fellow modder showed me his method of faking the effect, and it's mind-blowing. Also, it won't work for me.

We're organized now! (New pencil-made screenshots included!)

We're organized now! (New pencil-made screenshots included!)

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Recently, inspired by our sound designer, I started a Discord server for the people inovolved in the project. This was a more important step than I initially...

3D sketched forest in Doom [making of + video]

3D sketched forest in Doom [making of + video]

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Here's how I've done a 'living sketch' of a forest in GZDoom. My goal was to hide the blockiness of the Doom graphics, and make it look like a hand-made...

Hand-drawn first-person in motion [VIDEO]

Hand-drawn first-person in motion [VIDEO]

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Let's take a stroll down the street and look how the game looks in motion! My goal is to make every frame look like a drawing. And while I'll never get...

'Hand-made' cel shading in GZDoom

'Hand-made' cel shading in GZDoom

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Trying to create a pencil-drawn look, I had to find a way to pronounce the edges of geometry, which isn't easy in GZDoom.

Getting the Menu Right

Getting the Menu Right

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I knew that it would be a drag through hell to make it the way I wanted.

Community-made nightmares

Community-made nightmares

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I wanted to thank the followers on Facebook by somehow including them in the game, so I asked them to send their drawings. Now these are the paintings...

Riding into Beyond

Riding into Beyond

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Let's take a peek into another world. Just for a moment.

Big update on the progress

Big update on the progress

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I'm figuring this out as I go, and in the last week I took some huge steps forward.

Enjoy this track from the OST

Enjoy this track from the OST

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Listen to The Longing Beyond, a beautiful piano piece by Trystan Jongejan, composed for He Came From Beyond.

Making the outdoors feel BIG

Making the outdoors feel BIG

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The skybox itself didn't have much depth, so here's what I did to make the area feel more "3D".

Hey, hello, I'm new here, here's my game-in-progress

Hey, hello, I'm new here, here's my game-in-progress

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If you're wondering what this thing is, who is doing it, and when is the release, here's everything you need to know.