glad you liked it! 👍 careful with the praise though - it's like alcohol it goes straight into my head 🥴

@@mutantleg Sometimes it's deserved, thanks for making it and helping me relive my childhood again. It brought back nostalgic feelings I havent felt in a long time and few other games have even touched.

thank you! - i'm still a bit doozy to be honest 🤧 there will be a shake.. but not for these little ones 🤫 (I could add quake fx for these but no doubt there will be a demand for an option to turn it off anyway 🤔)

that is nice of you ☺ everyone is so supportive - i'm still not used to it 😞

there seem to be some epidemic again.. but now it's just treated as a strong flu season 🤔

it's mostly due to tiredness.. I'm too tired to keep up a 'professional attitude' 😓 but it's probably for the better 🤔

it didn't change - maybe it's the maps light? 🤔

@@mutantleg yea probably or i could just be seeing things, one of two

I hope so too - alas it's not off to a good start 😓

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I wish it was intentional the first time 😓 (I was aiming for PC circa 1999 and ended up with 1996 n64 😓)

dunno.. that would be a better fit for a roguelike - like a diablo clone 🤔

that is the usual practice in games .. or you mean baldies? 🤔

happy new year to you too! (but I guess we are a tiny bit early 🤭) I guess a run in practice is just a lot of small jumps - it's just very tricky to animate these things to be convincing 😓 the numbers are actually the real damage numbers - and I already got requests to make this a seperate option and let you use it for the regular violent modes 🤔

thank you! I like to think i'm realistic about it - like I'm about on an 'amateur quake modder' level - guess that is about mid ground? 🤔 it's really tricky - in a way it's the most important part in the whole game - sometimes I think I should outsource it 😔 but this is the one area where I would drive people mad with the lists of wanted changes 🤭

@@mutantleg Have you tried working with anyone yet? I think I'd like to try my hand at level design.

@@Speedyfarsh I would probably need to get the editor up to speed first before I try to get more people on board😓 if you want to try it out it's included with Zortch in the editor folder (it's pretty much a dev tool - and hard to upgrade it to be easier to use and to be user friendly because it's experimental spaghetti code all the way down 😓)

that would be a doubly tragic scenario 🤭

I thought - but that would give people the idea that it would be completed very soon 😓 I was planning to finish it after Zortch 1 but I had to realise I just don't have enough ideas - not to mention when it comes to sector based levels I'm absolutely hopeless 😓

@@mutantleg You are being too hard on yourself, you don't need to push yourself like that. Especially since you don't need to meet anyone's expectations when you're not even asking for money for your work. There's nothing wrong with just posting your unfinished build to get feedback from those who are interested. Maybe it will even help with ideas. What's shown in this video already looks pretty cool.

@@Speedyfarsh it's the highlights of what was done so there is plenty of worse stuff - if you want I can send you over or upload them to some secret link but it's kind of underwhelming in action 🤔 thing is I made many test areas but had to realise that it's a skill issue - something about this sector based format that I cannot get my head around (I cannot make doom levels either) 🤔

I kind of like it myself (it's silly) - but I see what you mean🤔 in the end it's just a harmless bundle - and Zortch is not exactly AAA either 😓 I thought about it - but it costs 100usd to upload on steam .. even for a freeware game 😮 (but frankly I just hate their interface 🙁)

Oh mannnn, I have the worlds strongest hamster on my desktop, so much fun, so much charm. still play it from time to time 💌

@@SAYHI2JAMMY and here I had no idea anyone but me ever played it 😳

@@mutantleg It's probably our fault, because after playing a game we often don't bother to write a review.

@@Speedyfarsh thats ok I forget about that all the time too 😔

well it's really just a bundle 🤔 but we are on the same wavelength: we both like aliens.. and underpricing our games 🤭

I still don't have enough ideas for it 😔

it takes out all the fun if you know 🤭 "get zortch against the alien brainsuckers together with dosman space aliens in space for 10 percent off on steam part of the green and mean bundle" 🤫

@@mutantleg The gameplay does not nearly look intristing enough for that ... I'd hardly would touch it if it was free if I may be honest since it looks so un-intristing to me. Best of luck tho.

@@JanoschNr1 it's not my game so you know .. I cannot say much about this critique to be honest 🤔 but I'm glad you checked it out 👍

believe it or not it's an exact copy 🤫 and yet you are the first who noticed 🤭

it's a combination of an ancient 3ds max and blender - alas many of them end up as hardcoded - as I cannot seem to master this customizable game idea thing 😓

making characters became really easy 😉 - only making the maps is giving me trouble now 😵‍💫

glad you liked it 👍 i'm in a bit of a stress because of it of course - I need to make sure 2 lives up to the expectations 😓

​@@mutantleg Just give me more Zortch and I'll be so happy. The first one was such an amazing trip I wasn't expecting but fully love.

oh I didn't heard of that one (yet a quick glance of it's steam page tells me it's really popular 🤔) from what I heard HROT and Calcium Contract also have their own engines 🤔 believe it or not the engine is actually the easy part 🤭 it's the content that needs the real effort (hundreds of textures, 3D models, and the levels and environment takes ages) 😓

yes but a lot harder to use it's closer to Build in that regard you only have hotkeys 😓 I couldn't find a decent GUI to use so just went with it (and used my own custom buttons now and there) which resulted in quite a mess in the end so now I have trouble upgrading the thing 😓

i'm afraid there will be disappointment in that regard - as I don't plan to add akimbo pistols (it's a personal thing) 😓 for gore it kind of went the other way - and added the non violent option (even less gore 😞) I just feel that extra gore would fit a straight horror game better (like a Blood clone) and I just don't enjoy it as much as when I was a teen (i'm getting old 😓 ) anyway so the gore and guns suck not for technical but personal reasons 🤔

@@mutantleg that's fine, still looks like a great game

thank you, hope it won't disappoint 🙂 mapping is a closely guarded secret 🤫 it's one of those important things that in practice nobody has a clue about 😓 here is a little old video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHyum2eiqdxphsk (the editor is also was included in Zortch1 but alas it's a dev tool - like it's all hotkeys and was not user friendly enough to get a mapping scene going 😓)

@@mutantleg yeah I've tried messing around with zortches dev tools bc I love the engine you made to death 💌 but I couldn't figure out what I was doing and eventually interest fizzled out Maybe this will rekindle my motivation to tinker with it some more

@@mutantleg I had no idea it came with any tools. I gotta check it out.

@@SAYHI2JAMMY it's not an easy thing by any means - not for anything 3D 😓

@@maskedhobo you can find it in the editor directory of the game (if you only have the steam version it's a bit of a hunting to find it but it's there) 👍

well it's hard to describe it.. the good news is that I thought better this time and hired top talent to make actual tracks - and in fact most of the soundtrack is already finished but as far as style go it's pretty varied: Luigi made the tunes for the desert areas - these are a mix of egyptianish, some have westernish and it's bit of classical music Meal has the tech tracks that I intend to use for the more darkish places and DarkTwin made a boss music and it's really something else - a bit too good for a small production like this one of course this is just a tease - I'm careful not to spoil the soundtrack too early but I can promise you that this time even the soundtrack will be good 🤔

also here are the links of the composers: linktr.ee/luigi_composer linktr.ee/MealTheProducer www.dark-twin.com/

well they are just particles too - I mean the numbers themselves - so it looks nothing special zoomed in .. just bigger numbers.. bigger in size I mean 🤔

same to you, happy holidays 🙂

this one got through at least🤔 it seems to happen to everyone randomly 😓

@mutantleg i commented twice "I wanna zortch some cowboys" and they both got deleted.

​@@mutantleg It won't let me comment the comment I want to comment even though it has no no-no words in it. Wtf

@@yepthateggguy8886 all I can tell you is that it happened to me before too 🤔 and I turned off moderation for all comments on my videos long ago but it doesn't help 😞

it's a good idea - I just kind of forgot to add a shadow🤔 (the wheels were an afterthought and it wouldn't have been visible)