TCs, Full Games, and Other Projects • Re: MeenTC: I.M. Meen in GZDoom (v1.0!!)

I don't like to triple-post, but I have a pretty good reason for doing so... v1.0 of MeenTC has finally been released, just in time for its (potential) 30th anniversary on May 21st, 2025!



Thanks to a shadowdrop of code by Melodic Spaceship over on Doomworld, MeenTC now has the scroll-editing mode that made I.M. Meen an edutainment game! All three difficulty levels have been implemented for this mode, and there's even an option to turn it off if you don't want to correct Meen's grammar! In addition, I have optimized the levels to reduce their linedef-and-sector bloat, as well as made several changes to improve parts of the game.

With this update, MeenTC is now feature-complete and plays (nearly) identically to the original game!

The full list of changes can be read below:

Spoiler:

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Version 1.0 "The Feature-Complete Update" - May 20th, 2025

• Added the scroll-editing mode - the final feature needed to make MeenTC feature-complete! Special thanks go to Melodic Spaceship for coding this mode.
• Added a new options submenu, "MeenTC Options". It only has three options for now; enabling/disabling the scroll mode, changing the reading difficulty, and enabling/disabling the battle music.
• Simplified the level geometry by removing excess lines/sectors. It shrunk the size of the main WAD file by almost 25 MB, roughly halving its size!
• Tweaked the MAP40 enemies to be more "accurate".
• Made the lifts in MAP38 and MAP39 more obvious.
• Fixed the full-screen HUD being horribly cluttered.
• Added in an improved version of the compass' ACS code, also made by Melodic Spaceship.
• Removed the Giant Bat's roaming sound as it was really annoying.

The link is in the OP (or here). Updates from here on out should be relatively minor in scope.

Statistics: Posted by MundyC — Tue May 20, 2025 12:09 am

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