Selaco - A Doom engine FPS inspired by FEAR and the classics - now available on Early Access

[Curratum]

Are those... voxel pickups?

Yep. I love a good voxel.

Should work well with the neo-retro look. It did work absolutely fine with Ion Fury in terms of blending sprites and occasional voxels.

 

[Wilian]

Please return to your safespace and calm down a bit before you try to post here again.

Someone here clearly needs a safe space but I don't think its him.

 

[Pound Meat]

Guys, stop being such cucks. Everyone knows the game is going to be mediocre. No need to please the banalshitboring indie dev.

Don't worry, you have no idea how confident I am about this game. I would have left this place if that weren't the case.

Wow. I can´t help but hope that your vydia dev skills are better that your ability to make arguments.

It wasn't an argument. I am legitimately sorry for you.

You should seriously consider showing the gameplay soon and releasing the demo soon afterwards, otherwise the postings will continue until morale improves.

Yeah, and I really care about what RPGCodex has to say about Selaco... Like I said in an earlier post, I am mostly here to send screenshots to the team for a quick laugh. The ones that had something worthwhile to say, whether its proper criticism or praise, you guys are awesome! The demo happens when the team and I think its ready!

"I don't care about you dumb chuds but I'm an indie dev desperate for exposure so I'm going to relentlessly shill my game on this alt-right site anyway". At least have some self-respect and go back to doomworld. 95% of the people giving you reddit upboats in this thread are going to pirate your game, so there's really no benefit to keeping up this charade.

The codex is alt-right? Oh shit!

 

[Parsimonious cook]

Please return to your safespace and calm down a bit before you try to post here again.

Someone here clearly needs a safe space but I don't think its him.

Yeah? I guess that thinking is not your forte then.

 

[geno]

 

[Morenatsu.]

Honestly, if you play hardware-accelerated games without texture filtering, you're a retarded hipster.

 

[Nexxtic]

I hope you're joking.

inb4 somebody making a 'Trash' joke.

 

[Morenatsu.]

I hope you're joking.

inb4 somebody making a 'Trash' joke.

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Obviously if the textures were made to be pixelated, then that's how they should be. But people even like to disable it in games that were made for it, too. Imagine doing that in a game like Unreal or Sin. It's just dumb. On the other hand, your example is more like playing Duke Nukem 3D in a source-port, which is also dumb.

Next you're going to tell me gl_modulate is totally the correct way to change Quake 2's brightness, aren't you.

 

[Nexxtic]

Honestly, if you play hardware-accelerated games without texture filtering, you're a retarded hipster.

Obviously if the textures were made to be pixelated, then that's how they should be.

 

[Morenatsu.]

Honestly, if you play hardware-accelerated games without texture filtering, you're a retarded hipster.

Obviously if the textures were made to be pixelated, then that's how they should be.

What kind of hardware-accelerated game are you playing that's not meant to be filtered? GLQuake?

 

[Morenatsu.]

Really, you guys are retards if you're running around playing OpenGL games without filtering. Nexxtit is a cuckhead so obviously he'll read my glorious poasts as ‘herpderp wat a contradactshun!’, but there's no such error. Games made for software renderers (this includes some that also have hardware renderers, such as the aforementioned GLQuake) aren't intended to have filtering, and games made for hardware renderers are. Where Selaco fits into this is that it doesn't, as it's a retro indie game made without filtering despite being hardware rendered. That's not something that existed back then. Of course Doom/Duke 3D-style textures will look like shit when filtered, and since that's what Selaco's emulating, it'll look like shit too. I never disagreed with that. But all of that has nothing to do with hipsters turning off filtering in newer games because of some meme-opinion that ‘filtering bad omg’. Apparently you guys subscribe to this belief too, which is why you even made your game have pickle grafix in the first place.

 

[Melcar]

It need raytracing support.

 

[Nexxtic]

Really, you guys are retards if you're running around playing OpenGL games without filtering. Nexxtit is a cuckhead so obviously he'll read my glorious poasts as ‘herpderp wat a contradactshun!’, but there's no such error. Games made for software renderers (this includes some that also have hardware renderers, such as the aforementioned GLQuake) aren't intended to have filtering, and games made for hardware renderers are. Where Selaco fits into this is that it doesn't, as it's a retro indie game made without filtering despite being hardware rendered. That's not something that existed back then. Of course Doom/Duke 3D-style textures will look like shit when filtered, and since that's what Selaco's emulating, it'll look like shit too. I never disagreed with that. But all of that has nothing to do with hipsters turning off filtering in newer games because of some meme-opinion that ‘filtering bad omg’. Apparently you guys subscribe to this belief too, which is why you even made your game have pickle grafix in the first place.

Someone posts about a tweet I made for Selaco (a game where a pixelated look is important) where I was joking about texture filtering looking ugly in Selaco. You decided to globally insult everyone who plays without texture filtering in your first post. You did not mention anything specific and since you are replying to a tweet that I made, it is very easy to assume that you meant people are retarted for playing without filtering in Selaco.

Suddenly after I called you out on it, you are like ''HURR DURR I DID NOT MEAN SELACO''. Yes, then perhaps you should be more clear about that from the start you dingus.

Texture filtering is okay in most games, I think most people will agree with you on that.

 

[Bad Sector]

FWIW i play GLQuake with texture filtering since i always played it with texture filtering and never had any nostalgia for the unfiltered look - to me it looks "wrong" without it. In general i like how texture filtering looks even with low resolution textures, with the only exception being games with a crispy cartoonish style and single-pixel wide details. Which is why i also like N64 graphics even though i never had a N64 nor grew up with it (also i like N64 graphics when running in high resolution via an emulator, not the original smudgy resolution of N64 :-P).

E.g. in the Selaco screenshot above i prefer the filtered texture version for most textures and the main part where i find the nonfiltered version to look better is the letters in the "trash".

But having said that, when it comes to lower resolutions (like e.g. the classic VGA or PS1 resolutions) i prefer unfiltered textures. In fact even back in 1999-2000 when i first played Unreal (which had some form of filtering even in the software renderer) i used the console to disable the filtering because i played it on a 320x240 mode and i didn't like how the filtering looked there.

Though none of the above are a strong preference, either way works fine for me.

 

[Morenatsu.]

Really, you guys are retards if you're running around playing OpenGL games without filtering. Nexxtit is a cuckhead so obviously he'll read my glorious poasts as ‘herpderp wat a contradactshun!’, but there's no such error. Games made for software renderers (this includes some that also have hardware renderers, such as the aforementioned GLQuake) aren't intended to have filtering, and games made for hardware renderers are. Where Selaco fits into this is that it doesn't, as it's a retro indie game made without filtering despite being hardware rendered. That's not something that existed back then. Of course Doom/Duke 3D-style textures will look like shit when filtered, and since that's what Selaco's emulating, it'll look like shit too. I never disagreed with that. But all of that has nothing to do with hipsters turning off filtering in newer games because of some meme-opinion that ‘filtering bad omg’. Apparently you guys subscribe to this belief too, which is why you even made your game have pickle grafix in the first place.

Someone posts about a tweet I made for Selaco (a game where a pixelated look is important) where I was joking about texture filtering looking ugly in Selaco. You decided to globally insult everyone who plays without texture filtering in your first post. You did not mention anything specific and since you are replying to a tweet that I made, it is very easy to assume that you meant people are retarted for playing without filtering in Selaco.

Suddenly after I called you out on it, you are like ''HURR DURR I DID NOT MEAN SELACO''. Yes, then perhaps you should be more clear about that from the start you dingus.

Texture filtering is okay in most games, I think most people will agree with you on that.

I'm sorry that my posts are too elliptical for retards to understand, but the Codex doesn't scale to your level and neither do I. Interestingly, every single person who fails to understand me has fallacious reasoning. Makes you think.

Anyway pickle grafix sux lmao

 

[Lyric Suite]

Honestly, if you play hardware-accelerated games without texture filtering, you're a retarded hipster.

Yeah, imagine not wanting to play using the cataracts filter.

 

[Morenatsu.]

Honestly, if you play hardware-accelerated games without texture filtering, you're a retarded hipster.

Yeah, imagine not wanting to play using the cataracts filter.

Moar liek imagine not wanting to play using the hipster filter. You can't even handle playing a game at 720p30 because you'll lose your sense of reality without 8K 1000 FPS, why should I care what some cripple who shouldn't even be playing games thinks.

 

[Lyric Suite]

It has nothing to do with being retro (lord if i'm not one of the biggest enemies of that shit here. I still have a problem with Dusk for being ugly as shit compared to Quake). I play Quake at 1440p (would also play at 144hz but alas it seems like the engine caps at 71hz) but i don't use texture filtering. Why? Because it looks better without it.

I also play Unreal with all the accelerated effects and filters, while i'm ambivalent about stuff like Half Life 1. I don't think there's any hard rule here but some games just look terrible with that filter and Doom happens to be one of them,.

 

[Morenatsu.]

It has nothing to do with being retro. I play Quake at 1440p (would also play at 144hz but alas it seems like the engine caps at 71hz) but i don't use texture filtering. Why? Because it looks better without it.

I also play Unreal with all the accelerated effects and filters, while i'm ambivalent about stuff like Half Life 1.

I'm not talking about games that have filtering slapped on later as an afterthought, as was the case with GLQuake. I mean weirdos who disable it in games made for it because they want to LARP software rendering.

Selaco is a different case as the textures are obviously made to be pixelated, but then at the same they add all these other effects that don't fit with that, so it ends up being its own kind of anachronistic retro LARP. Of course it's just because low-res is easier, but is it really? At this point it seems like these people genuinely believe turning off filtering is all it takes to make a game ‘retro’. And nevermind shit like level design or aesthetics or whatever, we actually just wanna make a FEAR clone but that's too hard so we're going to pretend is actually meant to be retro trolololololo

EDIT: On the topic of Half-Life, though it would seem like the hardware mode would ideal for a game like that, the software renderer is actually more functional. So obviously what people do is turn the filtering off in hardware mode and leave all its problems entirely intact because I don't even know.

btw cool edits bro, you're rating my posts retadred and then arguing a position that is actually in agreement if not the same as my own. I know it's because I consistently fail all speech checks, but come on guise

 

[Bad Sector]

I play Quake at 1440p (would also play at 144hz but alas it seems like the engine caps at 71hz)

Try Quakespasm-Spiked, it decouples the physics from the framerate allowing you to play Quake at higher framerates.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Ayy thanks.

 

[A horse of course]

Everyone in this thread is fat (not me)

 

[Morenatsu.]

Your mom is fat.

 

[Atlantico]

Yeah, and I really care about what RPGCodex has to say about Selaco

Looks like a really interesting and promising game.

Don't pander to the Codex, banter with the Codex.

There is no hive-mind here, just a whole lot of incel-faggots on the spectrum.

 

[Nexxtic]

Yeah, and I really care about what RPGCodex has to say about Selaco

Looks like a really interesting and promising game.

Don't pander to the Codex, banter with the Codex.

There is no hive-mind here, just a whole lot of incel-faggots on the spectrum.

Thank you!

And that's what makes it fun to be here.

With that said, here is something new for you guys to talk shit about. HURR DURR PURPLE BLOOD!