bongwater

I am bongwater, I use this site for devlogs about my mods

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ULTRAKILL INDULGENCE Development Log (17/05/25)

Hello again, I've been making steady progress for the last month or so on revamping I-1 and continuing I-2. It's been slow at some points but I feel like progress is finally picking up again, especially now that we're approaching summer

Up to this point I've been taking the old rooms and giving them a lick of paint, but I've recently ran into problems with the pacing of I-1 making it feel like a drag to play through. I'm definitely not proud of how the level currently stands (as in the previous release) so beyond a certain point the level is basically entirely new.

I also basically entirely redid the facility doors, they're a lot more recognisable as doors now and don't have the really cheesy black hole symbol that has no actual reason to be on a door in a place like this.

FruitCircuit also got Neutralizers (the enemy introduced in I-2) functional on the new update, so I gave them a little makeover to their visual feel to better demonstrate their power visually.

For those who don't remember what they were like initially, they now leave particles whenever they stomp, shake the screen, and suck in particles around them when charging the explosion. They also have a blue flash to better indicate that they can't be parried, and to help with understanding the timing of the explosion. That's about it for now, I'm sure I can get at least the I-1 port out soon. I-2 will likely be out sometime in the summer (I hope I can finish it before it turns a year old)

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ULTRAKILL INDULGENCE Development Log (16/04/25)

HELLO!! Sorry it's been a while, I took a break from this project before the update came out and when I came back to work on it I totally forgot I was supposed to be updating stuff here but I'm back now!!! I'll get to the point I've been continuing as I usually have been after I ported everything, steady progress spread across multiple levels but it's been going good. Instead of porting some stuff that broke I've opted to entirely remake a lot of stuff (which hasn't been much of an issue due to me already knowing what I want to do with it) so I-2's city section has been basically rebuilt from the ground up, I've also been giving I-1 another passover to make sure it's up to par with the new visuals in the update which means it got a load of changes since the old level was largely based on the quality of Prelude and Lust at the time.

I've also been continuing on revamping I-2's intro as mentioned in the previous post. I've made a lot of changes to it's style that better matches my original vision (mostly the switch from futuristic feeling to brutalism and I'm super proud of what I've made (my two biggest haters said it was the coolest thing I've ever made so I think I hit the mark somewhere)

Okay that's all I wanna talk about I think, just making sure it isn't radio silence for people outside of the discord (transparency is important!!) I also helped entirely remake the terminals for Purgatorio levels, you can watch the showcase here. They'll be used in Rubicon, Envy, Indulgence and any future released Purgatorio levels when they're ported to the new update.

No release estimate yet but I hope I can have I-1's update, I-2 and maybe I-S out sometime in the summer, still got a lot to do but we're getting there. Lots of plans for future stuff coming together, loads of concept art and stuff,,,,, Maybe you'll see something interesting regarding that next time :3 there are some things I wanna talk about SO badly but I need to wait until the time is right

Image by lilaclav_ on the Purgatorio Discord

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ULTRAKILL INDULGENCE Development Log (31/01/25)

Hello again! It's been a bit, I had intended to do an update every couple of days but you can probably tell how well that went for me, a lot of things happened like the storm across my country and a lot of work on this, I almost lost the project file too funilly enough.

Over the last week I've went back to working on the main city portion of the level, mostly optimisations and bringing some old geometry up to par with the new stuff. I had to port a ton of prefabs such as streetlamps and benches from probuilder meshes into regular meshes which was absolutely not fun, probuilder prefabs cause lag and extend export times but luckily with this change I've shaved down export times from about 15 minutes to 6. There was a very weird issue with the transition process that caused every instance of the prefab in the level to generate its own probuilder mesh, and I still haven't fixed all of them yet, I actually did it to every single window on every single building so that'll be fun to replace, that's a problem for future me though.

Now that we finally got the heads up from Dave that the ultrakill update is releasing next month (probably) that means I-2 development will probably slow down before then and pick up once it's out, I've been holding off until then to start on the super cool technical shit. I've been concepting a rework to the Blood Siphon mechanic I teased a few months ago too (https://youtu.be/SUBHZg4Tqpo warning, its bad) due to the scope of the level, mainly the use of infighting, changing a lot and not really requiring these to be used as much as I had intended. If I end up doing it, it'll reinvent a super cool enemy concept I had for Indulgence at one point, It was initially going to be in I-2, got scrapped for the Neutralizers and I had briefly intended to introduce it in I-3 before realising that's a nightmare for pacing with all the other shit I have planned. It's a bit of a shame because the design was super cool, but I'll probably have the reworked blood siphon retain some of its elements.

Hopefully this is a sufficent way to work it into the campaign without having to write a bunch of lore and introduce it well (although it probably will have some still, just not an entry) So no new enemy in I-3 probably, which is good or bad depending on how you look at things, but I think it's better this way. I'll hopefully power through the remaining main city geometry before the rewrite update releases, then I can move onto the fun stuff I have planned (or maybe just keep working on I-S until then), but that's a topic for another devlog. See you next time!

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ULTRAKILL INDULGENCE Development Log (18/01/25)

Hello! In order to prevent me cluttering my youtube page and Purgatorio socials with small updates and teasers, I have decided to set up a small development log about my project here on Tumblr!

For those who aren't in the know, Indulgence is a custom ULTRAKILL layer I've been working on since May of 2024 (oh my god has it really been that long jesus christ) and there is currently 1 level avaliable to play, I-1: THE DEATH OF PARADIGM, which you can download on Angry Level Loader, an Ultrakill Custom Level loader mod. I've been making strides on I-2: IF THERE WERE NO THUNDER (pictured below) for several months now but I've been slowing down on teasers recently due to not having much major content avaliable to show that wouldn't spoil the first-time experience.

Anyway enough with the introductions, because most people reading this probably came from the discord, today I'll be providing some small updates on what I've been working on in regards to I-2 and beyond.

- Is that fucking Five Pebbles -

(Everything is WIP and subject to change on full release.)

Some of you may know that I've been working on remastering the intro of I-2 due to it feeling pretty lackluster and rushed in comparison to the main section of the level (mostly because it was)

I've been leaning a lot more into tighter spaces instead of large, open rooms. And the pipes transporting blood are a lot less present, instead opting for a lot of smaller moving parts and environmental sounds to make the whole place feel more alive and active. I think I did a good job.

I spent most of yesterday working on the large outside vista again, most of it is untextured since I'm waiting on some stuff from Lea to texture it with but I have hope it'll look good, holding off on a lot of the detailing as I prefer to do that alongside textures to make sure they blend together nicely and don't look awkward, especially since visuals take focus over gameplay especially in the case of the intro because there's a single enemy encounter here.

- Closing Thoughts -

With that said, I'll try to have a blog out every couple days if I have any updates to give. I'm mostly working on visual stuff right now but as I approach work on the more technical side of the level expect to have to read a lot of nerd shit here that you don't understand.

If you find my project cool it'd be even cooler if you let other people know about it! You can find me at scavgender.bsky.social, and more in depth project info can be found on the Project Purgatorio Wiki.

And who knows, maybe an old friend from I-1 will be getting some updates too...

(Hermes model by Lavender, WIP and subject to change.)

make sure to follow this blog for updates or whatever idk I've never used tumblr bye nerds