mr_daemon

I've been dicking with OBSIDIAN, a modern, fork of OBLIGE, a procedural doom map generator. Mostly because I love things like LiTDoom and other tactical/survival mods but none of the megawads are particularily well tuned for it and it often stops being fun by like, map 6.

It's been pretty good, and feels like a roguelite a bit. What's amazing though is that Obsidian can and will generate this pattern sometimes where it makes a House of Mirrors hallway, and it's terrifying.

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May 25, 2024 at 7:47pmWeb
Show threadDartov HarknessMay 29, 2024

@mr_daemon One of my favorite things to do with certain gameplay mods is create Obsidian mapsets and try to play through them in one sitting each; if I die, I delete the mapset.

Certainly keeps DRLA in the spirit of DRL proper, and makes those rare few mods that can port a character to a new mapset all the more noteworthy for it. Assuming said characters manage to live that long, anyway...

Show threadmr_daemonMay 29, 2024
@DartovHarkness Man yeah genuinely, it's been ideal to turn the more tactical mods into rogue lites, super fun. The generated maps are also high quality enough that they don't seem like variations on the same six hallways much, which is kind of amazing. You can pick patterns out, but never enough that it feels predictable