animating doom sprites using font characters

conceptual, exploring enviromental ideas.

I'm really digging the look here!

I don't know if this counts, but there's an EGA Doom pallete that makes everything look super retro. You could try it with a variety of wads and see if it helps?

www.doomworld.com/idgames/graphics/ega_pal

EGA Doom Video

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There's also 8-bit CTF, a seizure-inducing multiplayer map pack designed to replicate the pixelated low color threshold of Atari, Colecovision, and Commodore64 type stuff. You may have to look for a link (there's a webblocker here at work that's preventing me from finding stuff easily.)

8bit CTF Video

Couple of options for that in-game; for the slicing animation, if I could spawn a seperate translucent 1 frame sprite directly infront of the dwarf... think of it as a very limited range imp's fireball, and that's what does the damage.

The blood sprite would be replaced with the ZAP KERPOW, meaning it would only spawn when the player was actually hit.

Is this practice for a sort of interactive dwarf fortress doom mod?

This looks too good to not at least turn into something that can be played in some state, you've got a great visual style going here and the animation looks nice and smooth. The SHITs and FUCKs are definitely a nice touch and a separate translucent sprite being spawned might make it pop a bit more. Dithering and generally darker shades are probably going to be your best bet for making the textures easier on the sightballs. Occasional use of super bright neon colors will probably end up making them that much more effective - For example, in the screenshot above, maybe the 'grid' itself could be a dark shade of purple and the small crosses in the middle could go from white to the neon purple? Just throwing ideas around.

If anyone wants to take a bash at making a decent looking room that compliments this style then be my guest, because I am actually pretty stuck. I think it should be possible, but I'm pretty shit at mapping.

Looking at this again, got a few ideas for textures I'll slam out in the next few days.

Mind if I steal one of those gifs for random images at the bottom of the Doomshack front page? I think it would fit in well with the stuff that's there currently

I have no fucking idea what snapchap is or if I would be gay for them. And it's not like I'm giving myself custom titles here, I'm not a mod, I'm a crusty old fart who has yoked himself to a perpetual rage machine. That's all.

Also, go read some Hunter S for some truly exemplary uses of the word Savage. If someone thinks that I'm a fucking savage (read - primordial), then I'm inclined to agree with them.