KickStarter Hibernaculum - sci-fi survival horror dungeon crawler from Wormwood Studios' Victor Pflug

[Victor Pflug]

Wow, Infinitron didn't waste a single moment to delete my video this time - Mark got u on DM mate? :D

Fast!

 

[Jinn]

What are you even talking about?

 

[Victor Pflug]

What are you even talking about?

Infinitron censored a youtube video I posted here because it mentions my ex publisher WEG.

 

[Jinn]

If you're talking about the video you posted earlier today, it's still exactly where it was on the last page.

 

[Victor Pflug]

So are the people on the Codex claiming my game Hibernaculum is "just fake gifs & he has no actual game at all" eating their own words yet?

Yeah, it's almost as if I actually follow through on my words.

With actions.

 

[Hydro]

Pity I won’t be able to enjoy this game without knowing that its dev is a retard
Stop posting already

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hibernaculumgame/hibernaculum-survival-horror-rpg/posts/4340703

Hibernaculum Development Update - March 2025​

Greetings Hibernians!

Welcome once more, one and all, to the horrors of the depths...

Also - the horrors of sitting on these updates for WAY too long hehe! Anyway - pleasantries out of the way let's get into where were at because wow has it been a busy burly bombastic start to the year!

Our Hiber Engine is now complete.

Yeah - could pretty much just stop right there.

We have completed what I - deep down - worried at times may be impossible...

But it turns out it was just highly improbable, or something! So our engine is fully working as we build the levels out now. Quest lines are being constucted. Lore emplaced. Role playing firing on all cylinders and best of all the game manages to surprise and entertains it's creator(s) which I think is something pretty important to the whole project - after all I did start this game way back to satisfy first and foremost my desire for simply playing it myself. I kind of needed this to exist I just never figured you'd all be along with me for the ride. Kinda makes it a lot more fun TBH. Not to mention literally possible with your support and funding.

So. On with the show then perhaps?

What do we have here hmm;

• Character Generator complete with all adjusters etc & starting item systems
• Irradiation system fully implemented
• Multiple "sub modules" fully implemented - Geiger Counter, Tracking Device etc
• New weapon system type "Particle Beam Spears" implemented
  
  Now, I have forgotten some of what we updated last time so I'll just rack off what we've been working on alonf the way as well;'
• All medical items and energy (TECH skill) items and item creation implemented
• Most "dungeons" implemented - barring full testing and some balancing
• Multiple BODY & ROLE play throughs/testing currently successfully underway by our dedicated testing team
• More weapon FX, sound FX and music added
• New bosses/boss battle system implemented/tested (the Varitron notably)
• Guide Book & Encyclopaedia Hibernacula graphics underway
• "Town Hubs" implemented/testing underway
• New enemy types/behaviour systems implemented/testing
• Encumbrance system fully implemented
• Most CHAR GEN portrait generation element asset load complete (we actually want to add more based on feedback too) plus all CHAR GEN visual/UI animations (whooee that took a while!)
  
• A lot more stuff - really literally too much to mention if I'm going to get back into the build with our Coder tonight (we have some interesting Deep Deck Realm plans underway hehe) so again without further ado here's a medley of the work/testing in visual form for you to peruse!
  

Cyborgs Ahoy!

A hulking Beast appears from the shadows...Also, we are very clearly encumbered!

A loose assembly of merchants, brigands and thieves gathers by the entrance to the Great Reactor.

Some new UI elements/refinements.

The Rec Decks (and old crew quarters) undergoing a mild graphical makeover.

Chowing down on MREs while knee-deep in Aquaponics sludge.

A tracking module can help you detect enemy movements before they set upon you... But will you find the module itself? Answer; yes of course probably I mean it's pretty neat we're not going to hide it or anything... Maybe

Radiation damage is cumulative - and deadly if one ventures unprotected and unawares.

 

[actor]

So are the people on the Codex claiming my game Hibernaculum is "just fake gifs & he has no actual game at all" eating their own words yet?

Yeah, it's almost as if I actually follow through on my words.

With actions.

so, how did the crippled limbs effect you here? i watched half and skipped through the rest and didnt really get a sense of that mechanics relevance

 

[Victor Pflug]

So are the people on the Codex claiming my game Hibernaculum is "just fake gifs & he has no actual game at all" eating their own words yet?

Yeah, it's almost as if I actually follow through on my words.

With actions.

so, how did the crippled limbs effect you here? i watched half and skipped through the rest and didnt really get a sense of that mechanics relevance

Jump on YT I don't talk game dev details here anymore.

 

[Victor Pflug]

Pity I won’t be able to enjoy this game without knowing that its dev is a retard
Stop posting already

OH NOES...!

Well - guess we better shut down production boys - our biggest fan and supporter has sadly put themselves into the airlock and flipped the switch!

*waves bye bye*

 

[Harthwain]

Jump on YT I don't talk game dev details here anymore.

Since you openly admitted you're not here to talk about games, how is the trial going? Or did you discuss this with your wife/lawyer/accountant and decided to not go through with the lawsuit? Did you at least get your car back?

 

[Nightwish]

doubt he will see this but his art is great..hope the game will come soon..

 

[Infinitron]

Just some of my first personal thoughts on what appears to be a rather worrying development in the field of Mutoid Creation - which of course ties into the subject matter at hand when it comes to our RPG flagship title Hibernaculum.

 

[Grauken]

Pity I won’t be able to enjoy this game without knowing that its dev is a retard
Stop posting already

Never meet your heroes game devs

 

[Victor Pflug]

Jump on YT I don't talk game dev details here anymore.

Since you openly admitted you're not here to talk about games, how is the trial going? Or did you discuss this with your wife/lawyer/accountant and decided to not go through with the lawsuit? Did you at least get your car back?

Never was about a "lawsuit" nor did I threaten one - I just wanted some transparency/accountability for the Primordia Publishing Contract signed solely by Gilbert & myself.

You yanks only used that word "lawsuit" here. You guys always think in terms of money, and sueing. I find it a bit silly - I was told by Mark many many times Dave was stealing.

Dave never sent details and always paid me late/early or not at all in one case early on it now seems.

I just asked for sales data and dev tags - I was maybe expecting some skimming?

What I got was utter mania. Masses upon masses of vitriol (from Mark) and all Dave's refusals based - I must assume - solely on MRY's pernicious manipulation and vast swathes of lies and "ego stroking" & "exploiting" people - as Mark puts it.

Not my words, again. Like that lawsuit word you all kept using. I might have mentioned that as an option when asked on social media after they all defamed me at length - but I certainly did not threaten that in any way and I'm gonna stop repeating myself now re this minor, erroneous (and dilatory) point. It's tiring.

Lol.

Nice try tho!

doubt he will see this but his art is great..hope the game will come soon..

I wish we could have just talked about our new games here - not old game drama started by WEG and posted here by Infinaughtron but cheers for the hello mate - and catch me on YT, yo!


Never meet your heroes game devs

Most. Definitely. Agree.

 

[Victor Pflug]

Pity I won’t be able to enjoy this game without knowing that its dev is a retard
Stop posting already

Never meet your heroes game devs

Totally agree - I go out of my way to avoid most devs to be honest.

Some are cool.

We are "homeslices" as you Americans say.

 

[Grauken]

We are "homeslices" as you Americans say.

No need to insult me

 

[sosmoflux]

Infinitron what's the situation here

 

[Grauken]

This is the "procrastinating dev, the thread" thread

 

[Harthwain]

Never was about a "lawsuit" nor did I threaten one - I just wanted some transparency/accountability for the Primordia Publishing Contract signed solely by Gilbert & myself. You yanks only used that word "lawsuit" here. You guys always think in terms of money, and sueing. I find it a bit silly - I was told by Mark many many times Dave was stealing.

First of all, I am not a "yank". You also wrote this:

I said this like 10 times - sold my car to help pay for lawyer - you are just a wilfully ignorant WEG fan lol"

The quote and source for posterity.

So excuse me that I assumed you "sold your car to help pay for lawyer", because you were thinking about going to court (people usually don't sell their cars in order to get themselves a lawyer), after all this talk about contracts and courts. Well, I guess you aren't getting that car back then.

Not my words, again. Like that lawsuit word you all kept using.

For the record, you used the word "court" 9 times, and this doesn't count the posts that you've "cleaned".

 

[Victor Pflug]

Harthwain

Yeah look, mate;

Could I try to sue them?

Sure.

Dave Gilbert might then spend tens of thousands of dollars MORE on his team of crooked lawyers to fight me..

To prevent me from just knowing some data?



...Mate - you gotta ask yourself. - why on earth would it be worth it to spend that - if there was nothing REALLY bad to hide?

 

[Victor Pflug]

For the record, you used the word "court" 9 times, and this doesn't count the posts that you've "cleaned"

Wow - dude you seem a bit overly obsessed with just words?

It's ACTIONS that matter, mate!

 

[Alienman]

Making effigies of hate is the way.

 

[Jvegi]

So, did Victor do Primordia? I loved Primordia.

I'm not even joking, I actually forgot the details of the drama. Is Victor some sort of dim witted sidekick of MRY?

Ok, googled everything.

 

[Victor Pflug]

So, did Victor do Primordia? I loved Primordia.

I'm not even joking, I actually forgot the details of the drama. Is Victor some sort of dim witted sidekick of MRY?

Ok, googled everything.

Yes.

I am a dimwit and barely even a contractor for Primordia.

Mark is the "all-builder" as he likes people to call him in public.

In private - during actual development of the game (the process itself of actually designing and making Primordia that actually mattered) we had a quite a different lingo for our roles on the project, for instance;

I used to be the "artist/coder/boss" for Primordia and WWS.

Or Mark would often call me the visionary too.

Never in public though. I mean - I did design everything Mark used to write his quips & ideas from ie the world and characters before I brought him on board so THESE titles make sense. But dimwit?

Actually - yeah. That too. I was a dimwit for not seeing all that was going on around me after release - the subtle, pernicious yet entirely hostile takeover by MRY of everything I had built from the ground up; the first Wormwood Studios company creed I wrote outlining my vision for the studio I was about to lay the foundations of, & all my original Primordia designs & ideas set out on paper. Not to mention the original prototype build in AGS of Primordia.

I fought Mark HARD to keep my "no arm" design of Crispin - we developed his personality from my design. That I had to FIGHT Mark on...

But noone knows that do they?

Even Mark seems to have conveniently forgotten the entirety of production after it hit shelves - when it comes to my role.

I WROTE a lot of the early dialogue too - before Mark began excising it.

But those original designs and ideas for my games and the future of my work was all made before Mark contacted me to join my game project.

So yeah I was a dimwit - but Mark's sidekick? Well not really.

That's Dualnames current role.