I Hacked Gloomwood To Reveal Its Gloomiest Secrets

Gloomwood is the latest indie immersive sim that's been making waves everywhere. Even though it's in Early Access, there's still quite a lot hidden behind the scenes. I took on the job of finding those secrets.
Game Links
Gloomwood: store.steampowered.com/app/11...
Ad Infernum: store.steampowered.com/app/13...
Chapters
00:00 Immersive Sim Alert!
00:39 Setting The Scene
02:08 In-Game Secrets
07:46 Diving Into The Code
13:13 Wrapping Up
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[@EphiTV]

Bonus meme that didn't make it in to the video: twitter.com/entropy_phi/status/1569854261802016768

[@tomix7866]

I would love to see you do this with Ultrakill!

[@EphiTV]

I actually got a few requests for Ultrakill. I've played a bunch of their other games, not sure why I haven't tried it out yet. Looks neat though, might give it a spin sometime.

[@rand0m426]

@@EphiTV ultrakill already has cheats built in and you can activate noclip ingame

[@kiptheott5932]

The thing in the eye slot is probably a monocle, yeah. Seeing as you could find a monocle that lets you zoom in your vision in the demo. I wonder what else is going to be in that slot though, seeing as "thing you put on your eye to alter your vision" can be used in all sorts of fun ways. A monocle that lets you see invisible enemies and hidden messages, for example.

[@whirl3690]

The monocle can actually be gotten in the game through console commands Just type "give item_monocle" and it appears in your eye slot, although it appears sideways and doesn't actually let you zoom like it did in the demo (even though the input options have a button for zoom!)

[@green-needle]

@@whirl3690 more recently, the monocle was added into the emerald eye, a shop ran by the same person from the start of the game. its just kind of a zoom in for what i know at the moment.

[@whirl3690]

@@green-needle I know

[@gunschlinger]

the flushing code was used in the demo. You flush down bodies to them later see them again in the sewers

[@EphiTV]

Yeah, I remember being able to flush entire bodies but now it seems there's a size limit.

[@Myyraman]

Watching this after the market update is really fun just seeing the amount of things you got right!

[@KAEFARIK]

This is dope I love these old school games - I want more of these adventure / stealth action sort of games

[@abylaybissekenov1588]

Good luck with your game, looking forward to play it

[@Matt-md5yt]

glad you played this game my friend and did your stuff on it

[@mariosonicfan2010]

You probably could've confirmed the lighthouse skybox thing by dropping an item into it, assuming it has collision. Assuming it works like skyboxes in Source games (namely garry's mod), anything you put into it could be visible from the playable area, scaled up.

[@EphiTV]

Yeah, that could've worked. Although it could also be like the mirror where only certain types of objects are allowed to render.

[@iamtakingapiss7916]

3:53 It's 3D skybox. Half life 2 has something similar. Like a citadel you see way in the distance. It's when you need something big in the scene and you need to save resources, so you make a model of it 16 times smaller and then project it around the map on the skybox

[@Jasterfarian]

i accidentally put 451 in the first safe the other day before i saw this lmao i was so confused

[@SHDW-nf2ki]

I like that the magical scotsman has a mechanical eye. Just like Garret fromt hief.

[@jaredgunkle1562]

i was really hyped for ad infernum it looked like an awesome vhs horror movie

[@EphiTV]

Hoping to have it out later this year!

[@rat4289]

the thumbnail really killed it, i didn't notice this video for 6 days lmao

[@EphiTV]

I'm always experimenting with different thumbnails. Hard to tell what's down to the thumb vs the topic/content/etc. a lot of the time. Thanks for the feedback though. 👍

[@xXNickPXx]

Nice! Where are you getting the source for this, or did you decompile it? (and what do you recommend using for decompiling Unity/C# stuff, because the snippets you showed look totally readable)

[@EphiTV]

Yeah, it's just decompiled code. I use dnSpy. Mono Unity projects come out pretty clean. I haven't tried it on any il2cpp projects yet though.

[@VarenvelDarakus]

I played demo and recommended it to all friends , but I'll wait near finish to play it

[@brewedjuice494]

i know there was a spyglass in the demo. i was a tiny bit surprised it didnt appear in the EA, but maybe its just planned for later.

[@EphiTV]

Yeah, could be an unlockable item or something. I wouldn't be surprised if it came back.

[@charlessmith5465]

Would the "in shadows" mechanic break if you de-gloomed the map? Cranking up ambient light, etc, or converting it into a bright and sunny daytime map. 🤔 It seems like most of the game would still be fun without all the shadows and darkness, like a sunny desert island crawling with pirates.

[@EphiTV]

I think the stealth/visibility mechanics are based on light zones, but not necessarily their brightness. You could also just add your own lights to the whole map to brighten it up without affecting the stealth.

[@zonefangirl5315]

3:13 I put the new Forgi's on the G....

[@Rubbly]

nice vid

[@Vantaz]

Isn't the lighthouse just like a 3d skybox the way source does it?

[@EphiTV]

That's probably where the idea came from. There are a lot of little source-y touches here and there. Same with the mirror camera.

[@samwill7259]

Well, my thoughts, I need to buy this game

[@Z_Z.t]

by using command "get item", game gives you literally every single item in the game. And in those items there are a monocule that automatically goes in Eye slot, but its not working, and model is wrong positioned.

[@user-yd6it6bv8m]

How can I look at the code?

[@Vampire_EGirl]

I’m curious, which part terrified you the most? For me it was definitely the Tavern. I’d rather not go into detail about what’s in it (to avoid spoilers) but god damn it was terrifying

[@EphiTV]

I play a ton of horror games so I don't really get scared much. The tavern is cool. They've been doing a lot of great work as the early access continues. Looking forward to jumping back in to the game in a later update.

[@yeetman8669]

Gloomy

[@InterloperBob]

Can you hack The Long Dark? It is unity

[@omgcandy16Kimicari0]

morale system for the guards seems interesting given how linear the game is right now.

[@EphiTV]

I would guess it'd be similar to Dishonored's morale where guards seeing you kill others can scare them off. Little things here and there like that.

[@rand0m426]

How did you activate the console?

[@EphiTV]

I forget the exact key, probably tilde like most games.

[@rand0m426]

@@EphiTV thanks!

[@rand0m426]

@@EphiTV ive tried it, sadly it seems that it isnt the tilde... Is there some sort of requirements for having the permission to open the console?

[@EphiTV]

You might have to enable it in the settings menu first. Or they patched it out.

[@rand0m426]

@@EphiTV Thanks for actually responding and reaching out to fans, really nice to know you actually read these!

[@gabepvpz]

You remind me of SadlyItsBradley on KZbin for some reason

[@colourman2126]

Hell nah 💀

[@SLRModShop]

Dude, we can't see sh!t

[@sporeham1674]

Dude, the game looks like that

[@SLRModShop]

I clock in at 50h in this game, no, it doesn't look like that. Also, the game has option for gamma, contrast and brightness... Which are kind of handy when you want to show stuff to people...@@sporeham1674