Personal projects

[Technopeasant]

Wanted somewhere to post about my cartoons and such like, but didn’t want to come off like a total preening prat, so… what non-Red Dwarf related projects are y’all involved in?

And yes, here be aforementioned cartoons:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZTGGQ9fRq9Jyl_U51mDaPkEBBFRAGty7

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[Flap Jack]

Cool stuff!

My thing is that I’ve made a bunch of mods for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Not to brag, but I’ve only been going for 7 years and I’ve already amassed 9 followers.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/thepwnultimate/myworkshopfiles/

On that subject,

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Flap Jack]

Oh, don’t worry, I refuse to admit that I’m part of the problem.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I’m annoyed at my misspelling on descent 

[Technopeasant]

I mean Descent is a whole other game.

As for my cartoons (yeah, so self absorbed), I use a customized version of my own game engine to do them as 2D machinma, which my brother than edits down in a video editor.

[Rudolph]

Last year, I started a Doctor Who podcast with a couple of friends. We’ve attracted an audience in the high single figures. We’re the Powell Estate Neighbourhood Watch and are going through the revival era of the show from the start.

[Dave]

[Technopeasant]

I mean, he clearly means Super Nintendo, that’s fine.

[International Debris]

I do this sometimes.

[Moonlight]

Is this a bad time to mention I spent the 2010s doing abridged series of Sonic cartoons where the production value got out of control and I burned myself out?

[Flap Jack]

[Warbodog]

[sleepey]

I made a randomiser for Final Fantasy 8 – Maelstrom

It mixes up boss fights, enemy spells, item shops, etc. with loads of options (but hopefully not an intimidating amount of options!) to make it more or less of a challenge. There are some purely silly things in there too, like randomly deforming the monster models & playing inappropriate music in cutscenes.

I was working on a mode that cuts out the 40-hour story & makes it more of an open-world treasure hunt thing, but 2024 was kind of a nightmare for me so it hasn’t been updated in a while. Hopefully getting back to it in the near future!

[Jenuall]

I made a randomiser for Final Fantasy 8 – Maelstrom
It mixes up boss fights, enemy spells, item shops, etc. with loads of options (but hopefully not an intimidating amount of options!) to make it more or less of a challenge. There are some purely silly things in there too, like randomly deforming the monster models & playing inappropriate music in cutscenes.
I was working on a mode that cuts out the 40-hour story & makes it more of an open-world treasure hunt thing, but 2024 was kind of a nightmare for me so it hasn’t been updated in a while. Hopefully getting back to it in the near future!

Ooh I might check this out. VIII is something of a guilty pleasure for me, I know there are issues with it as a game but I still can’t help but look at it fondly. If nothing else I just love how much you can break the game by abusing the Junction system to make yourself god-like really quickly! A new way to remix the game might be fun to try out.

As for me my main creative outlet at the moment is creating levels for classic Doom (well Doom II to be precise). I dabbled a bit with early level editors back in the 90s but got back into it in a big way last year. I released my first “complete” map on to the Doomworld forums here if anyone wants to check it out: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/145418-wip-my-first-full-doom-ii-map/

I’m currently working on creating an 8 map episode which is probably about 50% complete at the moment, hoping to get it done and released at some point in the first half of this year if I can find enough time!

[Technopeasant]

I will try and give your map a go Jenuall.

[Technopeasant]

 Ooh I might check this out. VIII is something of a guilty pleasure for me, I know there are issues with it… but I still can’t help but look at it fondly. 

[Flap Jack]

If the Final Fantasy guys were in charge of Red Dwarf, Beat the Geek would have been explicitly labelled as Series IX, and Back to Earth would have been Series X.

Series XI, Series XII, and The Promised Land would have been Series XII, Series XII-2, and The Promised Land: Series XII respectively.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

If the Final Fantasy guys were in charge of Red Dwarf would they have remade series VII about 16 times?

[Nick R]

It’s best not to imagine what the titles, production order, in-universe chronology, and recommended viewing order would be like with the Kingdom Hearts guys in charge.

[Technopeasant]

I mean, under most game publishers of the era Red Dwarf X would have just become known as Red Dwarf (2012).

[Moonlight]

Years back I had to submit a bunch of corrections to Amazon for how they listed the different Red Dwarf DVDs because they were completely inconsistent and sometimes didn’t seem to understand what Roman numerals are.

We should let them be in charge.

[Jenuall]

I will try and give your map a go Jenuall.

Aw thanks! Let me know what you think.

As noted in the Doomworld thread this first one was only built and tested on GZDoom as that was easier/quicker to iterate with as a starting point so it does have issues with other source ports (nothing game breaking I don’t think but texturing issues and the like) 

The stuff I’ve done since has definitely evolved from where this level was at so hopefully the eventual episode I get out should be a step up in quality!

[Technopeasant]

I can can run through GZDoom, even if I usually prefer Crispy.

For some reason I still don’t understand I could not get SIGIL 2 to work outside of it.

[Technopeasant]

[Technopeasant]

The Knee-Deep in the Dead vibes almost makes it surprising when you come across the super shotgun. I appreciated restricting your weapon loadout so even the lower tier enemies pose a challenge, rather than just going nuts throwing in mancubi, revenants, and the other higher tier Doom II baddies.

[Jenuall]

Ah nice, thanks for giving it a play 😄

And yes, it was deliberately designed to try and channel some Romero style episode 1 goodness. It was initially going to be a smaller level as the opening for my episode, hence why I generally tried to keep it focused more on the lower tier enemies and avoided trying to throw too much heavy arsenal at the player – it obviously outgrew the “Map 01” scale over time but I still tried not to go too OTT with the enemies!

Currently planning to include a revamped version of this level somewhere near the mid-late period of my eventual full episode

[Jason aka Smeg4Brains]

I do a podcast with my younger brother where we talk about mainly superhero stuff. We’ve just put out our Captain America:Brave New World episode. 
It’s called News of the Nerd and you can find it on just about any platform apart from YouTube music. 

[Technopeasant]

Why doesn’t it surprise me that “nerd” only appears in Krytie TV?

[Technopeasant]

[Technopeasant]

[Technopeasant]

My latest cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGrlJHpQ_Y

[Jenuall]

Very good, although I refuse to believe anyone has a cat that runs around their bedroom at night and doesn’t jump on their face/scratch their eyeballs out/try to eat their hair/generally invade any sense of personal space that they might have!

Not a personal project as such but over the next week I’m taking part in a set of charity streaming events hosted by the online gaming forum that I frequent. We sadly lost two of our valued members in the last few months so we’re streaming some of their favourite games over the week to raise money in aid of Special Effect and Child’s Play. I’ll be online tomorrow from 9AM streaming some classic Deus Ex and Doom, if anyone wants to follow along then you should be able to either via our community channel https://www.twitch.tv/grcadeuk or my own channel https://www.twitch.tv/jenuall. More details here if anyone is interested.

Apologies if sharing/plugging this is overstepping the mark!

[Technopeasant]

My wife did say the cat should run on top of the bed and over the guy, yeah.

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