New Firebringer concept art!

[jute]

Springy here at DW is current head of Blasphemer, which is still going and would, I'm sure, greatly benefit from contributions.

[raymoohawk]

well i would like to contribute, but i can do so only starting december

[TheMightyHeracross]

I'd say ask for a Blasphemer forum in Special Interests. That would get it some attention and a designated area for discussion and submissions.

[Hambourgeois]

Honestly it's probably enough of a niche interest thing that even just a stickied thread in here would suffice.

[Blastfrog]

To clarify about Blasphemer: I was briefly a maintainer, but I quickly lost interest and immediately passed it on to Springy. The reason I took it on in the first place was to ensure that at least somebody had custody of it, though come to think of it it's not like the Google code page was going to become suddenly inaccessible or anything so perhaps my original reasoning was flawed.

I could go back to maintaining it, but I'm already busy with more rewarding game development efforts.

[Hambourgeois]

Sodaholic said:

I could go back to maintaining it, but I'm already busy with more rewarding game development efforts.

No sweat, even with my desire to contribute I know this project has stalled out a few times and I am not super confident it will ever be finished.

[jute]

Projects like Blasphemer and FreeDoom develop on long timescales, but I don't see why they can't be finished eventually. The most crucial assets for Blasphemer right now are the player sprites and few remaining HUD weapon sprites - once those are in place you have a functional multiplayer game.

If the Blasphemer team was interesting in pillaging FreeDoom and FreeDoom's attic they could acquire several enemy sprites quickly, at the cost of aesthetic quality/consistency. I think the demon worm would fit quite well in Blasphemer, maybe after a recoloring.

[raymoohawk]

ive actually contacted fredrick about his previous sprites he says he still has them, but will take a while and getting them, so hopefully we can get stuff from there to blasphemer, if theyre unfinished i could complete them

[Catoptromancy]

The Archvile skeleton was just a recolor I dug out of the attic. There is also another fairly complete sprite in the attic by same author for same project, so it would match nice.

[Pencil of Doom]

TheMightyHeracross said:

I'd say ask for a Blasphemer forum in Special Interests. That would get it some attention and a designated area for discussion and submissions.

Now that's a great idea.

[Cacowad]

Linked this tread on the blasphemer forum, if doomad/springy/bloax/etc still roam that they will notice the discussion.

I'm working on something for Blasphemer, but since my spriting abilities are near zero i am making some maps instead.

[DooMAD]

Cacowad said:

Linked this tread on the blasphemer forum, if doomad/springy/bloax/etc still roam that they will notice the discussion.

I'm working on something for Blasphemer, but since my spriting abilities are near zero i am making some maps instead.

Cheers for the heads up. Sadly I'm not really working on anything at the moment. The IRC channel has been pretty quiet too, so I had assumed the project may be on temporary hiatus until some progress gets made and people start to take an interest again.

[Blastfrog]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If Blasphemer is ever going to have even a remote chance of public interest in its contribution, it needs to have its own official subforum, or at least pinned thread on either DWF and/or ZDF. The current Blasphemer forum is far too isolated from the bulk of the community

And yes, Jute, it wouldn't be a bad idea to pull from the Freedoom attic. I consider myself pretty decent at 2D stuff so palette clashes and ugly aesthetic bits are not much of a problem if doing something along those lines.

As for this monster concept wherever it ends up, does anyone have any interest in me making some sprites? I'd probably wear padding inside of the hood to buff up the head size since realistic proportions don't look so well in Doom's low resolution.

[jute]

I agree that a Blasphemer subforum here at Doomworld would be a very good thing.

Sodaholic, if you wanted to create digitized sprites for Blasphemer I think that would be great.

[raymoohawk]

go for it soda :-) blasphemer needs some love

[Pencil of Doom]

Sodaholic said:

If Blasphemer is ever going to have even a remote chance of public interest in its contribution, it needs to have its own official subforum, or at least pinned thread on either DWF and/or ZDF. The current Blasphemer forum is far too isolated from the bulk of the community.

As for this monster concept wherever it ends up, does anyone have any interest in me making some sprites? I'd probably wear padding inside of the hood to buff up the head size since realistic proportions don't look so well in Doom's low resolution.

Id think it would be best for it to have its own official subforum on DW, because not only we could give support to Blasphemer but also we could give feedback and suggestions to help improve it, besides we some talented artists who can help.

And as for the monster concept, id say go for it, it would be nice to see some sprites.

[Springy]

Jute directed me to this page so thanks for bringing this up. I had a look at the sprites, I am in particular interested in that Shredder by Eriance, (I think it was discussed before but needed a major palette change or something along those lines). I know the Frost Fang and the Blood Staff are currently in Blasphemer's resources at this moment of time. As for the Soul Leech, it looks familiar but I will have to check if it is in Blasphemer and get them all sorted into the correct palette. Although I will probably have to leave graphics to someone else considering graphics are not my forte.

Jute, about the Blasphemer sub forum, the thought has occurred to me before but I never asked. Shot a PM over to Fraggle and may create a thread asking about one and thank you for peaking a little more interest. I have to apologise for the inactivity and lack of going onto IRC at the moment due to quite a hectic past few months.

[fraggle]

J.B.R said:

Id think it would be best for it to have its own official subforum on DW, because not only we could give support to Blasphemer but also we could give feedback and suggestions to help improve it, besides we some talented artists who can help.

It's an interesting idea, though the level of interest in Blasphemer seems so low at present that it would be a pretty empty forum. As a compromise: how about creating a long-running thread here in the Freedoom forum for Blasphemer discussion, kind of like the ones in the source ports forum? I can sticky it so that it will always be at the top of the thread list.

[Springy]

fraggle said:

As a compromise: how about creating a long-running thread here in the Freedoom forum for Blasphemer discussion, kind of like the ones in the source ports forum?

That's quite a good idea. I can definitely understand the reason why a sub forum would be a bit of wasted space but at least there will be something to post in. I'll get a thread done.