WIP: The Ghoul's Forest 3 - SRB2 Edition (Looking for coders)

[MarioNumberOne]

Slowly chipping away progress at porting the main map. I was inspired to make this considering my first horror game experience was that old port of Ghoul 2 by Nev3r back for 1.09. I'm not exactly the best coder, and I had to compromise making new object entities for the decorations and just reskinning existing ones from the vanilla game. (not that it matters much) I imagine with the power of LUA, porting the Ghouls should be easier than before. Heck, I was heavily impressed by that one extensive Purple Heart boss fight in SUGOI for 2.1.

The only real hassle I'm having with porting the map over is the fact that I have to reassign every once-sloped linedef for the GZDoom format to SRB2's through SLADE. It's time consuming, but I've made a fair bit of progress fixing most of the trees.

 

[MarioNumberOne]

Thanks to someone in the community Discord, who ported him to 2.1 to begin with: We now have our first Ghoul being brought to the game. The all-too-familiar Sjas. Originally made for SRB2 1.09 by Nev3r, who unfortunately never returned my calls asking if he'd be interested in lending me a hand.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1448534537294602240

 

[MarioNumberOne]

Thanks to Nev3r for posting ports of his old ghouls from an unreleased 2.1 wad in the SRB2 official discord. They're still a bit buggy and I want to touch them up to accommodate combat platforming more but both are beatable. Made the map a bit brighter too as well, just for those who had trouble seeing anything before, especially in software.

I also met a potential coder through discord who can hopefully help me actually finish this.

 

[MarioNumberOne]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1734487358534508725

I'm proud to say this project isn't dead, I polished up Sjas and Jitterskull a bit more and began work on the Creeper. Sadly, He's not turning out nearly the way I want him to despite a smooth start, otherwise.

 

[MarioNumberOne]

Proud to say the Creeper is finally complete. Just going to polish things up a bit more before release, let alone confirm with Nev3r for permission since a lot of this is his work to begin with. I don't think I would have even started this project if it weren't for his original GH2.wad in the first place.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1735096332828967421