Year back or so, I discovered the glorious world of Doom modding - having somehow managed to never play Doom before, it blew my mind. Ashes 2063 especially, incredible stuff.
Now I'm here!
The real blow to my sanity was Trench Foot. To the best of my superficial knowledge, it's 40k with the serial numbers filed off - I was already fanspriting for Rosigma at the time, so it felt like a funny little bit to... uh... file the numbers back on? Make it 100% copyright infringement. For fun!
I had a lot of fun making the modification evil for no reason
Turns out Doom modding has an utterly deceptive learning curve - it seems super simple and intuitive and before you know it, the sunk cost fallacy has set in - and that's when the HORRORS begin.
There is an incredibly supportive and kind Discord community around GZDoom, and since I can't take pride in a finished project, I take some in the headaches I've caused
Another deceptive thing about Doom modding is that you can work out bypasses around problems without ever actually figuring out what you did wrong and learning from it. On the bright side-
It sorta works, now!
Hundreds of sprites in, no idea how many hours, frankly terrified at the amount of time I've thrown down this hole instead of drawing anything remotely useful. I don't even know anything about Warhammer, I just like it when the nice OpenXCom people pat me on the head for sprites!
So now I have two problems, delegating my time according to whoever will make me feel even a wee bit valued AND figuring out how on EARTH do you make a Doom map from scratch.
I'm not sure how to convey the magnitude of the rabbit holes involved and explored, but at some point it led to making tiddy goblin sprites for what turned out to be a bunch of rabid nazis (hence why they remain regrettably unfinished, least I can do is not provide nazis with glorious goblin boobs)
If anyone made it this far - sorry to flash you with pixeltits.
Thing is, a YEAR has gone by and I have nothing but these to show for it ;-; fingers crossed this post gives me a sense of closure and I can return to having a life and doing a drawing every now and then
if you are still reading this I love you and wish you all the best, xoxo