What would Donkey Kong Country look like if made with the Doom engine?

Retr0gamer · 16-09-2014 07:37AM #1

Pretty great it turns out

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/15/6153417/donkey-kong-country-doom-mod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypeTDtm0cZI

Generic Dreadhead · 16-09-2014 10:18AM

Asking the hard hitting questions that need answers all day every day

Zillah · 16-09-2014 10:30AM

It looks different?

16-09-2014 11:10AM

What's the point of this?

BeerWolf · 16-09-2014 11:11AM

I see blood sometimes, in a Donkey Kong game?!

jaykhunter · 16-09-2014 11:20AM

Jeez lads, it's just a bit of fun. Thanks for sharing Retr0.

Retr0gamer · 16-09-2014 11:25AM

Just thought it was interesting that someone put the hard work into recreating Donkey Kong in the Doom engine which is a massive undertaking.

o1s1n · 16-09-2014 12:05PM

Zillah wrote: »

It looks different?

Very different - it's a different engine. I take it you haven't played Donkey Kong Country in a long time? Or else were playing a version with 3D backgrounds? :pac:

Canis Lupus · 16-09-2014 01:28PM

I thought it looked worse :P

16-09-2014 04:36PM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I thought it looked worse :P

240p is doing it no favours.

The only difference I can clearly see is the 3D platforms.

johnny_ultimate · 16-09-2014 04:56PM

While I can certainly admire the technical ingenuity in these types of projects, it seems to me time that could be spent creating something more, well, creative. These sorts of people are obviously immensely talented coders and game designers, but to put that towards simply recreating someone else's creation? Seems like a lot of man hours for what goal? Again, can't begrudge the talent on display, and obviously there's enough of a passion and interest in these sorts of projects. But personally I find it a bit futile.

I do find it interesting when someone manages to port Doom to a printer, though :pac:

Retr0gamer · 16-09-2014 05:05PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

While I can certainly admire the technical ingenuity in these types of projects, it seems to me time that could be spent creating something more, well, creative. These sorts of people are obviously immensely talented coders and game designers, but to put that towards simply recreating someone else's creation? Seems like a lot of man hours for what goal? Again, can't begrudge the talent on display, and obviously there's enough of a passion and interest in these sorts of projects. But personally I find it a bit futile.

I do find it interesting when someone manages to port Doom to a printer, though :pac:

Porting Doom is simple since the source code is freely available. As for how pointless these projects are, something like this would look extremely good on a CV. A lot of people do small projects as a coding portfolio, sure what do you think all those game jams are mainly used for?

I myself am coding my games collision engine from scratch. I could just use Box 2D but won't because it's a great coding exercise and would look good if I ever need to get back into coding again.

16-09-2014 05:10PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Porting Doom is simple since the source code is freely available. As for how pointless these projects are, something like this would look extremely good on a CV. A lot of people do small projects as a coding portfolio, sure what do you think all those game jams are mainly used for?

I myself am coding my games collision engine from scratch. I could just use Box 2D but won't because it's a great coding exercise and would look good if I ever need to get back into coding again.

I'd love to hear about this. Possibly would derail the thread though

Retr0gamer · 16-09-2014 07:11PM

The tutorials by the guys that made N+ that are available online are probably the best source of that, it's what I based mine one. There's other tutorials on how to make it vector based, meaning you build up a table of the times all axes overlap then the shortest one is your first collision.

Mines a bit more complex since I have rotating tiles meaning its pretty much a 2D polygon engine now. I had to work out all the geometry and maths myself since the only advice you will find online about it is dont make your tiles rotate to make things simple.

http://www.metanetsoftware.com/technique/tutorialA.html

the_syco · 16-09-2014 11:29PM

glasso wrote: »

What's the point of this?

He's showing off his coding skills. Here's another from the same author;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgXQpWrT84

Seems he coded a game within a game, so that people could join a multiplayer Doom, and then play MK within it.

He uses DoomBuilder to make the levels for Donkey Kong.

Saying you got X grade for X degree 3 years ago means your talent may be stale. Saying since then you made Y project with Z engine since then shows that your talent goes beyond what you did in college.

TomCo · 17-09-2014 01:38AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The tutorials by the guys that made N+ that are available online are probably the best source of that, it's what I based mine one. There's other tutorials on how to make it vector based, meaning you build up a table of the times all axes overlap then the shortest one is your first collision.

Mines a bit more complex since I have rotating tiles meaning its pretty much a 2D polygon engine now. I had to work out all the geometry and maths myself since the only advice you will find online about it is dont make your tiles rotate to make things simple.

http://www.metanetsoftware.com/technique/tutorialA.html

You should check out some of Pixars old SIGGRAPH papers on physically based modeling. The paper on rigid body dynamics is especially good, but it does go off into the deep end on the math. Code samples are nice though.

http://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/research/pbm2001/

What would Donkey Kong Country look like if made with the Doom engine?

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