Stickfigurate was supposed to be a silly hand-drawn & simple FPS.

I started work on the game around the end of 2021 using GZDoom as part of a game jam some publication was doing. Aside from being inspired by my own stickfigure doodles, a main inspiration for this game was the game Pencil Whipped, which was also a simple Doom-esque FPS with pencil-drawn graphics.

I worked on the GZDoom version of Stickfigurate for a few weeks, then backed out of the game jam because I wasn't happy with how it was turning out, alongside my inexperience with DECORATE and Doom scripting in general. But I did create a lot of art and even some music for it as well, so not all was lost.

After that, I went about with my life until around March 2022 or so, when someone released an "easy peasy" FPS creation engine, and I was told by a lot of people that I could restart development of the game as a simple FPS. At the time, I was in some financial tomfoolery, and if I could make something short and silly for say $3, then I'd be satisfied in some way. So I restarted development of Stickfigurate using this new engine (which is what you'd see in the screenshot above and video below), and for the first couple of weeks, all seemed fine.

However, things slowed to a crawl, with said engine being extremely buggy and being hard to work with. I even had to work on the game using a virtual machine running Windows 7, because the engine had unresolvable issues on Windows 11 (which is what I was running at the time), alongside some issues the developer had, leading to less updates to the engine. Eventually, I lost all motivation and just scrapped the entire thing, and wanted to focus on my actual passion project than anything else.

Will this game ever come back? Maybe, but probably not as a "simple boomer shooter". The game could be rebooted into anything in the future, but for now it's shelved indefinitely until I can figure out a better gameplay concept for something involving scribbles & stickfigures.