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The next day we took another chance to boot up some Hideous Destructor and run some chill Obsidian mapset attempts.

I gave the last VOD a listen to see if there was any interesting topics of discussion happening, and it did remind me that I have a few things I have yet to release, such as an updated alcohol module for Ugly as Sin, or the common modding framework now known as HDCoreLib. Listening to the VOD also makes me itching to play the game more often, so hopefully with the upcoming holidays we can find some time to hop into another quick and casual romp through hell.

https://youtu.be/3BLL0WoBtu0

#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #RetroGames #Doom #DoomII #BoomerShooters #HideousDestructor #HDest

Now that Spooktober 2024 has ended, I needed something to distract me from the election earlier that week, so we took a bit of time over this weekend to find time to stream where we otherwise would just be ruminating...

The first night up on this weekend was a short bit of Hideous Destructor playing in a randomly generated Obsidian Mapset, hanging out with folks in chat and generally trying to just decompress.

It's been a long two years, yet also insane that it's already been two whole years since these few streams, I legitimately feel like we just had them...

https://youtu.be/uMCvLxCISVg

#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #RetroGames #Doom #DoomII #BoomerShooters #HideousDestructor #HDest

We've got another time restriction today, and on top of that we're down a member for today's #Archipelago run. No matter, we'll just lighten the requirements and hope for the best!

Join ShokkZ and myself for a smaller 2-Player run today, with hopefully more success this time around!

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #RetroGames #Doom #DoomII #BoomerShooters

We fought back against the darkness, overcame the anomaly at the lake House, and solved the mystery plaguing this small town, with time to spare for some bonus boomy shoot action for today's VOD, all in a days work.

For our extra time, we spent it playing some Hideous Destructor with a small mapset that reimagines the vanilla maps as though they were made with the same design philosophies as Duke Nukem. It's a shame the project seems to have died out, it's such a well made set of maps!

https://youtu.be/NobLIDAEE38

#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #AlanWake #Control #RetroGames #BoomerShooters #Doom #HideousDestructor #HDest

Today we ended up finishing Little Hope earlier than expected, giving us quite a bit of time left in our Spooky Sunday Stream, so we decided to try a few quick horror-themed Doom mapsets, including The Thing You Can't Defeat, Atmosfear (running HDest), and finally ending with a few maps from Doom The Dark World (also with HDest)

The Thing You Can't Defeat was a neat walking simulator mapset through neat mapping tricks that resulted quite the spooky experience. It wasn't exactly MyHouse.wad, but it didn't need to be, it was a fun experience for what it provided.

Atmosfear was a single map set in a haunted house that lent itself quite well to Hideous Destructor's more slow paced vibe, and Doom The Dark World was a nice thematic remap of the vanilla Doom II game, set in hell rather than the usual tech base affair. I really should return to that set someday...

https://youtu.be/UIbIe8Yokvc

#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #TheDarkPicturesAnthologyLittleHope #RetroGames #BoomerShooters #Doom #HideousDestructor #HDest

What's this? A stream on a weeknight? Who would have ever expected such a thing?

Well, I figured since I've got some time to myself tonight, why not dip our toes back into something a bit more hideous?

There was recently quite a shakeup in the HDest modding scene with a rework of how backpacks are handled and thus quite a few addons were borked, so let's take some time tonight to not only reacquaint ourselves but also do some chill playtesting, shall we?

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

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Midway through the year also means it's time for our quasi-tradition of playing the patriotic boom shoot that is Duke Nukem 3D. Today, though, we don't return to Washington DC but instead we go on a Caribbean vacation! At least, that is, until those alien bastards invaded that, too...

I'm not sure how long we'll keep up this tradition, which is probably for the best, as Nuclear Winter isn't exactly the most "4th of July" summer hit. I'm sure we'll find something else to fill in our time off nonetheless.

https://youtu.be/A4C_8Zxy-5g

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As we cross the halfway point through 2023 (which by the way, can I just say it's crazy how were already midway through 2023 already?) we put a pause on the Hardcore Minecraft to return to our own personal hell that is #HDest + ZeroBrightness.

I really should return to this corner of my interests, and it's serendipitous that today's VOD brings us back, even if only for a little while. I've been unable to devote the resources needed to prioritize modding during 2026, which is a shame because I even intended on posting more devlogs...

On top of that there's a bit of a shakeup with the latest commits and how backpacks are handled internally, which will require a bit of reading and understanding before I can update every addon backpack to work with the new system, so it's going to be both challenging as well as rife with opportunities to post about, so hopefully I can muster up the motivation to return sooner rather than later...

Anyways, for now, enjoy my suffering as we return to Hideous Destructor.

https://youtu.be/Vng3H-dGGbQ

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We have another quick break in our scheduled programming today, back to the pixelated horrors of hell's invasion. This time, though, we're not at some Hi-Tech moon base or the rust-n-blood landscapes of Hell. No, today we're taking a look at MyHouse.wad

That's right, this totally normal tour through someone's home took the retro gaming scene by storm a few years back, and was such a treat to explore through! Everything from the engine trickery, to the soundtrack, to the custom enemies, all employed to such finesse that the end result was so polished and well thought out that even with years of experience playing this game and knowing the mapping tricks, I still got caught off guard with portions of this playthrough.

No joke, I still to this day find myself thinking back on this map fondly, wishing I could forget I had played it so that I could experience it fresh for the first time again. If you haven't heard of this map and are interested in a boomer shooter adaptation of #HouseOfLeaves you should go play this map, then come back and enjoy the VOD.

https://youtu.be/4fH_NKjtzmw

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This whole week was quite a bit more time to myself since I literally was alone at home, so we had plenty of downtime to make use of. Today's VOD finds us back in the dark and chaotic corridors of ZeroBrightness with our tried and true HDest load order, getting in firefights with all sorts of denizens of the Tyrant's forces.

In the years since this playthrough, as you may have seen if you follow along any of my devlogs I've posted, I've been hard at work refactoring the hell out of several common systems the mod and it's addons use, so I haven't really had much opportunity to play since then, and even when I have the ability to return to this mapset, I have things set up so drastically different it's almost like I would need to start over again...

Once we do, though, whoo boy do I have high expectations for such a replay. My entire setup has been rebalanced so much it's hardly going to feel the same as it once did, and hopefully that's for the better!

https://youtu.be/ykO-aPFUyuE

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Bunch of kinda criticisms of Wolf 3D in this piece here, but also some interesting insights on playing one handed by using the mouse with sensitivity turned up fully (and of course using a map). I'm so used to keyboard, but thinking now, when I played it on a Mac in the 90s, I may have messed with using a mouse for it some.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/03/playing-wolfenstein-3d-with-one-hand-in-2026

#Wolfenstein #Wolfenstein3D #fps #BoomerShooters #90s #90sGames #DOSGames #DOSGaming #gaming

I really should find more time to play HDest with friends. Today's VOD was the first time I properly attempted this on stream, and things went fairly smoothly, all thing considered! There have been some refinements over the last few years for sure, and while we did attempt another session recently to much less success in the actual gameplay department, it was still a fun time considering everyone understands the hoops we have to jump through just to get this shit to work right, unfortunately.

Maybe someday I'll look into some sort of launcher or framework around reining in all of these load order issues, maybe then the sort of manual work trying to figure out those issues can get squashed.

Anyways, today's co-op session finds us joined by Tunasz, who has been a part of our little community since the Shared Hardcore days, as well as the co-op runs with Supercharge and Fragport. Today, though, we're simply running HDest with Kuchitsu to get ourselves acclimated. The mapset was nice, perfect for a 2-person romp.

https://youtu.be/zWOcRjJ7xtU

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Did that '9 games that made me' thing via https://my9games.com, and you can too.

#gaming #PCGames #arcade #ArcadeGames #arpg #sim #fps #BoomerShooters #80s #90s #80sGames #90sGames

Well, now that we've finally published the first releast of our first major framework for the community, let's take a step back and revisit some of our other addons. One of the things I've been tinkering away at is my own first weapon pack, one that I've posted about before (see here for the Black Hole Generator, here for the pipe bombs, and here for the claymores & land mines)

I noticed that between the Pipe Bombs and the Laser Trip-Bombs, I've started to basically re-implement and re-imagine what the Duke Nukem 3D arsenal would be like in the world of #HideousDestructor, so why not continue that trend and start working on some more?

I bring you, the first iteration of the Ripper Chaingun! This is currently not a lot more than a tripled-barrelled Vulcanette, but I'm hoping to give it a bit more personality as I continue to iterate upon it.

#Gaming #RetroGaming #BoomerShooters #Doom #Modding #ModDevelopment #DevLog #ZDoom

The day has finally come, I have pulled the proverbial trigger and released the first proper version of the core framework/library/abstraction-layer, uh, thing for #HideousDestructor and have begun the laborious process of submitting PRs to various git repos to begin integration! This has been a long time coming, but with more and more players seeking out the version of other addons that leverage the library, along with my multitude of forks that I used during development of said library, the pressure to release this beast can be contained nor put off any longer.

Thank you to everyone who has playtested with this thing over the last several months, and every bit of feedback received has helped push to make this a better toolkit for all of us!

https://github.com/HDest-Community/hdest-core-lib/releases/tag/v1.0.0

#Gaming #RetroGaming #BoomerShooters #Doom #Modding #ModDevelopment #DevLog #ZDoom

I really should give RAMP an honest try at some point, there are some really interesting maps in here! So much so that I made the silly decision to return with Hideous Destructor for a second stream.

Keep in mind this is still back when I first started my adventures with HDest. Still quite green and unrefined with my gameplay, I have come quite a long way in the last few years, crazy how much in fact. Not only that, but my entire setup here is still before I actively contributed to the community, so I was still finding the aesthetic I wanted out of the mod. Both aspects will evolve as we return to this underrated aspect of the Doom Community.

https://youtu.be/wX00FirlFXk

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Oh here's a fun one, I had just heard of RAMP, the Rabbit's Allcomers Mapping Project by DavidXNewton, and had the bright idea of trying them out with Hideous Destructor! Honestly the fact that every map is a pistol start gave me flashbacks to when we tried Spooktober with Dusted's Pandemonia, but otherwise the maps were small and short enough to work!

https://youtu.be/rSSKPhpalR8

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More adventures in #DoomModding today, this time we're shining some light on an old addon that has been revived, stripped down to just the parts that are needed, and brought back up with some new life via the new helper functions I've been tinkering away with over in HDCoreLib.

Given that I've mentioned this flashlight item previously (see above a few posts in this very chain) I won't belabor the refactored particle function, although what is new here is the use of a newly Planck's Law calculation for the color temperatures of the incandescent flashlight and the cool white LED flood light.

Also you may notice the physicality of the light beam itself, that's due to a Damped Spring function easing the position and direction of the light beam, which is different depending on the place that it's mounted, with your shoulders slightly lagging behind your camera without overcorrection, and the helmet being instant since it's attached to your head and thus the camera.

The flood light is still WIP, but is a decoration that can be used to light up an area in front of it, dragged around, or salvaged for its battery if it has one.

#Gaming #RetroGaming #BoomerShooters #Doom #Modding #ModDevelopment #DevLog #ZDoom

So I spent the better half of the last week or two working on fleshing out a common base class for various melee weapons across different #HideousDestructor addons, and at least initially, I think it turned out ok! Things are quite extensive already, and hopefully will grow as more new instruments are created.

The challenge was figuring out the intention behind various disparate parts of code across each individual weapon, in order to rewire everything up to a more modular, hopefully cleaner abstraction layer. From here, though, not only should a new weapon be simpler to create and receive boilerplate feature enhancements, bugfixes, etc automatically, but also allow for more interesting mechanics going forward.

https://github.com/HDest-Community/hdest-core-lib/blob/main/zscript%2FHDCore%2Fbase%2Fweapons%2FBaseMeleeWeapon.zsc

#Gaming #RetroGaming #Doom #BoomerShooters #Modding #DoomModding #ModDevelopment #DevLog #ZDoom

Do not adjust your Mastodon Feed, today we have a quick diversion from our regularly scheduled VOD programming. Today's VOD comes from July 4th, which means we have a special holiday stream where we spent playing Duke it out in DC!

You may notice that a previous playthrough is mentioned at various points, which may confuse you. Don't worry, there was a previous stream the year before, but sadly that VOD has been lost, so I guess it's good we played it again here!

Not much to say on this one, we tested out Raze and generally had some casual alien-shootin' fun. We'll be back with our regularly scheduled Musou programming next time!

https://youtu.be/zTiHwWvfBJ0

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The other side of the UaS Laser/Light Module code that I refactored into a reusable helper function was the ability to spawn particles to look like the atmospheric haze from the beam of a flashlight.

The first thing I wanted to wire this up to was an old "DarkDoomZ Bootleg" whose developer had long since abandoned, but their additions being Hideous enough made me want to try and revive it, so I ported it over to GitHub and started working on removing the bootleg portions of the code, making it a standalone flashlight mod in the process.

What we now have is DDZ without any DDZ code left in it (hopefully), and what remains (as well as a starting point for new additions) is a much nicer piece of equipment.

As you can see by the sample screenshots, the original developer added the ability to change where the flashlight was mounted, as well as what type of beam you wanted. What I tweaked beyond that, is that going forward the beam will be intrinsic to the flashlight itself, and for handheld versions like the one in the screenshots, you can cycle between the mount points with a few key combinations. This allows for much more dynamic gameplay, plus it just feels all the more tangible when picking one up "mounts" it using the handheld position.

#Gaming #RetroGaming #BoomerShooters #Doom #HideousDestructor #DoomModding

One of the other refactors I worked on was hoisting a very well-made set of VFX functions that create very believable looking laser beams. If you're unaware, these are the same laser beams that Ugly as Sin uses for its LLM device, with additional parameters and checks for added flexibility/extensibility.

The first thing I wanted to try reimplementing with these new methods was my Laser Tripbombs which, like their Duke Nukem 3D counterpart, emit a laser beam that detonates upon being crossed. In Doom, rendering such a laser beam isn't exactly straightforward, however, the LLM has been doing this sort of thing already so why not make it reusable for other addons? This would also come with the benefit of having other addons that use it increase the consistency across the community content.

I can already think of a few other things that could want something like this, including the SOCOM .45 pistol from Bangers & Mash that already has an attached laser that you can toggle.

#Gaming #RetroGaming #Doom #BoomerShooters #HideousDestructor #DoomModding

One of the bigger implementations of these commands has been with Merchant, where you can now:

• Define custom store types, each with their own set of entries, allowing players to have full control over what stores sell what things, for how much, and how often they are sold
• Define custom merchant skins and associate them with whichever store types they want, instead of every merchant store using every skin defined.
• Store types leverage the Weighted Random Tables, so when selecting one of the stores, they can be defined with different relative weights if so desired.

There's still plenty more we'd like to implement, like being able to sell stuff back to merchants, turning the current coins/gems into things you need to sell to get actual cash for, adding more treasure/valuables, etc.

#Gaming #RetroGaming #Doom #BoomerShooters #HideousDestructor #Modding #DoomModding

Been a while since I've posted anything #HideousDestructor #Modding related here, apologies! Been busy with a few different things lately. I should probably make "posting more devlogs" one of my 2026 themes/goals/resolutions. I can at least give some highlights over the last few months though!

A big focus this past year was working on HDCoreLib, extracting and refactoring things I find helpful to reuse elsewhere into a shared library of classes, functions, event handlers, and a suite of custom-defined commands. Really hoping to formally publish the first release of the library, along with merging in all of the branches that I've been using to implement it across the community organization repos.

#Gaming #RetroGaming #BoomerShooters #Doom #DoomModding

We've got some family stuff to do tomorrow, so you know what that means? #Secret #Saturday #Stream #Shwnanigans is here, and since we're still in the middle of DOSember, let's do something a bit different and work on some more HDest modding development, shall we?

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

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Well, seems those first few days of break had more things to do in them than I expected, so we kinda missed them... Let's just pick ourselves back up and jump back into our Eviternity II playthrough for more DOSember 2025, then, shall we?

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

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We're back again for another #DOSember stream today, jumping back into Eviternity II for some more classic Doom action today!

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

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Happy #DOSember everyone! We're kicking off the holidays this year by participating in a month-long celebration of all things #DOSGaming starting with the classic, Doom II with the sequel to the lovely mapset we played a year or two ago, Eviternity II! Come stop by for some chill demon slaying with us!

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

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Going live with Cultic tonight.

www.twitch.tv/afrielofruin

#furry #streamer #femboy #cultic #boomershooters

Now that we have prepared for The New War, we take a break from Warframe to try out a new-to-me-at-the-time mod, Hideous Destructor. Who knew that this would become one of my favorite ways to play Doom, possibly any FPS game of recent memory?

Not only have I been swallowed up by its depth of complexity, enthralled by its ability to immerse me in its world, and enrapture me in the way it overhauls the vanilla game's systems, it opened me to a community of players and other modders who I would soon find myself among, clowning on the tyrant and it's masses.

https://youtu.be/xm0ykH9pS0E

#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #Doom #BoomerShooters #RetroGaming #HideousDestructor #HDest

I'm here to kiss boys and kiss girls and I'm all out of nothing

-Dick Kickem, BIPANcon

I played Baroque for #SegaSaturn for the first time and it it the most unsettling nightmare fuel imaginable. Everything about it is anxiety inducing, the sounds, the colors, the characters, the control scheme. #BoomerShooters where you can't look up or down always make me feel claustrophobic, but this one is *trying* to give you a panic attack.

#videoGames #retroGaming #survivalHorror #sega #saturn #translation #japanese

This is it, the final showdown in our #IonFury playthrough. This was a fun romp, it's crazy now to see the explosion of GZDoom games that have come out in recent years, and to know that even the company #3DRealms themselves were able to make something fun and nostalgic as this.

Which reminds me, I really should get around to playing #Selaco, #Hrot, #Dusk, #AmidEvil, #Prodeus, and all the other modern Boomer Shooters...

https://youtu.be/EgTTv9X3bU4

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We're back in the dystopian future of #IonFury for today's VOD, and as frustrating as this game got I still remember it positively. We are, however, approaching the end of this playthrough which means we're also approaching the point where I ran into a bevy of A/V issues during the livestreams. Luckily outside of a few rare occasions this should be one of the last series with such issues, especially given the low bitrate I was locked into before I became affiliated.

https://youtu.be/7CKdRKLhzDw

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