[V1.1] Spear of Destiny: Return to Danger (Expansion Released!)

The first half of the expansion has been released! Grab it here!

The mod has been patched slightly.

Thanks for your support with this project!

I hope you enjoy playing this as much I did making it!

Hi! I'm new on this site and I thought you guys would be interested in my Spear of Destiny mod for ZDOOM.
The enemies and weapons have been replaced and at the moment there are 4 five level episodes to play through, 3 episodes making up each encounter.
This is loosely based on "Return to Danger" but goes on a bit of a tangent after the first 2 episodes. Anyway, here are a few screenshots of the first episode.

Spoiler:

Get it here!

Thank you for taking the time to look at my project. I intend to finish this project soon.
Don't worry, only the first episode is very blue. Most stages after the first 5 don't use blue much at all.  

EDIT: Thanks for letting me post the download link!  

EDIT: Updated with Episode 5!

EDIT: ALL EPISODES RELEASED!

EDIT: Download Fixed

Very interesting

I just hope these designs can breath some life into RtD...that game itself has such awful level design but that doesn't mean you can't make it right.

The last picture looks interesting...

BTW: I've changed the settings to allow new members to post links. After all, I don't think anybody on this forum is stupid enough to go enter their personal details from some spam bot.

You never know Wizzie.

WolferCooker wrote:You never know Wizzie.

Well then the person in question is a noob and needs to learn a lesson the hard way...

Wow, this looks very interesting....
Indeed that game plot/theme fits Doom engine much more than Wolf3D one...

Well, what a pleasant surprise!
Played the first blue and a bit of the first red level.

Love your interpretation, perfect balance of being loyal to the original source - and advancing it, into faster, more Doom-like gameplay with realistic designs.
Absolutely love the textures, simply perfect. Love the realistic desings (not overly-realistic though which is ok for a Wolf3D interpretation), food plates are finally ON the tables
It's sure more Doom-type designs, not too wolfie, less sophisticalted and mazy, but such cannot be expected from a Doom mod.
Love the first miniBoss, though cannot yet pass him with only a pistol....great enemy!
Can't wait to play more Again - those missions fit Doom engine much more than Wolf3D. ID should've just waited
Love the fast pistols, faster gameplay, which is much more fun.

Only nitpick so far - HUGE door, you feel like a midget. I can help you to make better art for the foors.

Red level - love the ideas of reusing old art into new ideas and dangers...isn't it too hard though? also I have "hall effect" on bottom part of parallaxed skies....
Great ideas, this is inspiring.

Note I've made MAC art for most ofthe Bosses, scenery and enemies in the past - you might consider using.

The huge door is normal, jedi. It's the Doom Engine.

Love the VERY killer dogs, nice Bosses usage...
I served in the Navi so it touches a nerve....love the theme....much potential.

doomjedi wrote:Well, what a pleasant surprise!
Played the first blue and a bit of the first red level.

Love your interpretation, perfect balance of being loyal to the original source - and advancing it, into faster, more Doom-like gameplay with realistic designs.
Absolutely love the textures, simply perfect. Love the realistic desings (not overly-realistic though which is ok for a Wolf3D interpretation), food plates are finally ON the tables
It's sure more Doom-type designs, not too wolfie, less sophisticalted and mazy, but such cannot be expected from a Doom mod.
Love the first miniBoss, though cannot yet pass him with only a pistol....great enemy!
Can't wait to play more Again - those missions fit Doom engine much more than Wolf3D. ID should've just waited
Love the fast pistols, faster gameplay, which is much more fun.

Only nitpick so far - HUGE door, you feel like a midget. I can help you to make better art for the foors.

Red level - love the ideas of reusing old art into new ideas and dangers...isn't it too hard though? also I have "hall effect" on bottom part of parallaxed skies....
Great ideas, this is inspiring.

Note I've made MAC art for most ofthe Bosses, scenery and enemies in the past - you might consider using.

Don't worry, the doors get smaller when you get deeper into the stronghold.

I didn't use mac art because the guards don't have rotations, and there are a few parts where you need to sneak up on guards.

Episode 5 is nearing completion but I need boss ideas. Episode 5 is set in castles and stuff so I was thinking some kind of medieval guy. Any ideas guys?

Seems like an OK idea.
What kind of attack can you plan for him? Bow? Throwing axe?
When you set a type of the attack - this can help to see what Wolf3D BOSS Base can fit.

Interesting. You could always use one of the axes from those suits of armor.

WolferCooker wrote:Interesting. You could always use one of the axes from those suits of armor.

Now that I think about it, it's kindda nifty to be able to take out an axe from the suit and chuck it at people when you're out of ammo!

Hey you're right! NOBODY thought of that! That should be implemented if the conditions are right.

WolferCooker wrote:Interesting. You could always use one of the axes from those suits of armor.

Heretic and Hexen has throwing axes too, right?

Never played them, so I don't know, but this idea hasn't been implemented in a Wolf3d mod before if my memory serves me right.

It can be done. In fact, I KNOW it can be done.

We've finally thought of a new feature!

Well it should be simple for a coder (NOT ME). Use the "pick up something from a static object" code and just make it like a separate weapon that you only use once.

EPISODE 5 IS FINISHED!

I'll be updating the first post in a few seconds. I ended up making the boss a mashup between Hans and Mordekai the Summoner of Serious Sam.

I hope you guys will enjoy fighting through these stages!

I'm stuck on one of the levels

Stuck in terms that you trapped yourself in or are you lost?

I'm ok

Damn this is fun....keep playing it and i's just pure fun
Not the best mapping I've ever seen - but tons of fun

The only downside - pain state for Bosses makes them a fresh meat

LOL

Episode 6 is almost done, and I want to do something cool for the second to last stage. Here is a bunch of level concepts that I want you guys to choose from

-Some kind of level based on Areyep's Afterlife level from spear resurrection.

-A level based on The Cave of the Past" from earthbound

-A rematch with each of the enemies in the game

Which of these do you think would fit?

I prefer AReyeP's hell level from End of Destiny rather than the afterlife level.

WolferCooker wrote:I prefer AReyeP's hell level from End of Destiny rather than the afterlife level.

Actually, I was planning on doing something along the lines of that for the final battle against the Incarnate.

I kinda want to make the second to last stage a bit of a "Breather" level so the player can get ready to fight the final boss.

"Breather" level idea that has been used already is pretty much having few enemies in the level and a lot of dead corpses.

A guy on the zdoom forums said to do a mix of the cave of the past stage and the enemy rematches, so I did that.

All I'm waiting on now is for him to finish doing some code for the final boss. He's been helping with the mod so far so I let him make the final boss.

I'll still do the level, but he's making the boss.

Wow, that's a hard Boss I'm fighting....tons of health....finally a proper Boss challenge....fail to beat him meantime.

The mod is pretty much done now, all that's left is a run through the game to look for anything that needs fixing.

Can't wait to play more if this.

interesting

I haven't seen anything good in relation to putting Wolf3D in Doom since the WolfenDooM series by Laz Rojas, so I will have to give this a try sometime tonight.

Seems like it, Zin

Seems like what? To what are you referring? The part about Wolf3D-in-Doom mods? I owe that largely in part to the fact that the way Doom looks and then trying to port the Wolf3D actor images into it - everything looks like it was just imported from Munchkin Land. IIRC, since Doom allowed sprites to be of an arbitrary image size, most Doom sprites are usually larger than 64x64, lending to the illusion that you're roughly a meter tall. This is enormously visible in Rojas' Totenhaus, but evens out by AstroStein. Despite the Sci-Fi roots, AstroStein is both his most visually appealing and overall best work.

Mod updated with slight level edits and a few fixes.

The mod has been completed! It's taken a while to make but I think it came out good.

Where can this latest edition be downloaded?

doomjedi wrote:Where can this latest edition be downloaded?

There's a link in the first post.

I don't get what are episodes VS. Encounters...I still see only 2 encounters....how I select/play episodes?
I've orifinally finished Encounter 1...encounter 2 I can't play as it's just too hard...or I don't get something there....

doomjedi wrote:I don't get what are episodes VS. Encounters...I still see only 2 encounters....how I select/play episodes?
I've orifinally finished Encounter 1...encounter 2 I can't play as it's just too hard...or I don't get something there....

Encounters are collections of 3 episodes. They are split into 2 encounters because the setting of the game changes in the second encounter.
Did you try using the spear's alt-fire?

Alt fire? It has alt fire?
I wondered what those orbs are for....I was just running for ghosts till they dissapear by themselves....sometimes they don't.

So, if I finished first encounter before - I need to replay it? You added more episodes to it? I remember beating that Boss with tons of health....

doomjedi wrote:Alt fire? It has alt fire?
I wondered what those orbs are for....I was just running for ghosts till they dissapear by themselves....sometimes they don't.

So, if I finished first encounter before - I need to replay it? You added more episodes to it? I remember beating that Boss with tons of health....

There are 15 levels in each encounter. The best way to deal with the ghosts is to let them resurrect a weak enemy so they die and you only have to worry about the weak enemy.

Oh, now I get it....

A few fixes have been added to the mod.

Spoiler:

Part 2 of this mod is Coming soon.

Looks good

The download link isn't working for me.