#Prodeus game kickstarter series

As a mapper, some of the features are an absolute god-send. The editor is ever-evolving during development, and is becoming more feature complete with each iteration. While to some that might sound odd, it’s very intuitive, and you know that what you see is what you get. One notable aspect is that you build the game in a 3D view only, no top / side views.

#Prodeus game kickstarter series

From each face you can then do many things, be it grab one of the sides and start a new face from it, add vertices to distort the shape of the surface, extrude a series of faces outwards or inwards from it, etc. You control the size and shape of every individual face, or if you prefer, surface. This face-based technique is almost somewhere in the middle.

People who have mapped for a few other games may have had ‘sector based / grid based’ mapping tools (akin to how you map for Doom or Wolfenstein), and others may think of ‘brush based ‘ mapping which is what many 3D game engines use, where you make the map out of a series of cuboids. Let me tell you, this editor is nice! The editor we are using will be the same one distributed within the game itself, so when you get your hands on a copy of the game, you too can have some fun making maps for the game! This is a question I’ve been asked a few times since the news has spread that I’m on the Prodeus development team. “So Dragonfly, What Is The Level Editor Like?” Needless to say, I quickly fell in love with it! The game has a very good ‘feeling’ to it, providing the same kind of action I enjoy most in first person shooters, but with it’s own unique identity and style.Īfter the testing session, I accepted the opportunity, but with the caveat that I will not start until I was done with the development of Eviternity, slated for release on December 10th. Jason pinged me a private test build of Prodeus, which featured one level to play – We called each other and I shared my screen and narrated my experience of playing it, almost as if it was a 1 to 1 twitch stream. I was already aware of Prodeus, having been following it’s development on Twitter, so having them reach out to me directly was a huge confidence boost! At the time I was fully committed to finishing Eviternity, so I responded warmly saying I’d love to do so, as long as I can finish up my project first. The realm of flesh stretch goal has been made! And here's new longer gameplay footage.In the later months of 2018, Jason Mojica reached out to me after having seen some of my Twitch streams and the maps I’d made, asking if I would consider mapping for a commercial project called Prodeus. I really think ID took what was happening in the community and added it to Doom 2016, but that was after the dev began working elsewhere (I think).Īlso in Prodeus news. ID didn't seem to make a turnaround on Doom 2016 until the Doom modding community starting to get a lot of hype around it with projects like Brutal Doom. And around that time Rage came out to mediocre reviews. And it began approaching a decade in development hell. But back then the prospects of 'Call of Doom' wasn't looking good. It made sense that ID hired him since he had experience developing some of the Call of Duty games and he was working at ID as a VFX artist. Back when it was being called 'Call of Doom' by gaming media and was looking like a Call of Duty game but in the Doom universe. Specifically the dev who was there, was there during the time where they were just beginning to work on Doom 2016 (I think). Perhaps they wanted to work on something smaller. The textures and general atmosphere feel a lot like Doom 2016 and even Doom 3.