/vr/ - Retro Games

Now that I'm back on my feet financially, I decided to spend my free time working on a TC for Doom. Might release it as standalone since GZDoom is GPL now. My favorite retro FPS has always been Blood because I fucking love the 1920's-era horror atmosphere, so my game would more or less emulate that sort of vibe, but be different in its own way...

I was thinking of having it take place around industrial-era Australian outback instead, with the protagonist some hardass, batshit insane Ned Kelly welder with an arsenal that combines old west with ramshackle improvised weapons.

The weapons would be firearms like giant horse pistols, revolver carbines, and muskets, but the melee weapon could be a welding torch, and more powerful weapons would be experimental stuff like railroad spike launchers and handheld dynamite catapults. There could be a tome of power-esque powerup that gives horse pistols akimbo, double-barrel muskets, and converts the torch into a short-range flamethrower.

The cannon fodder enemies could be things like aborigine zombies, corrupt policemen, and dingoes, then dive into more obscure Aussie folklore like bunyips, goannas, and Yowies.

Could be fun. Anybody think this'd be a cool setting?