Rend

Rend is a love-letter to old-school arena shooters like Doom II, Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament. It brings back the time where shooters were just fun, pure skill combined with map knowledge, no experience, no battle pass, no BS.

The game evolves on the engine of Wolfenstein 3D with Pico-8 aesthetics and a very approachable level editor, so you can unleash your inner level designer!

Controls:

• WASD - movement
• QE - cycle weapons
• Space / LMB - shoot
• Tab / RMB - combo weapon swap
• Xbox gamepads (and Xinput-compatible gamepads) should work

Level editor tutorial:

Soundtrack:

Music for this game was made by much more competent people than me, here are links to all tracks used by the game. Links open in new tab:

• Ted Kerr - actiontheme-v3
• Ted Kerr - Let's Go
• Ted Kerr - OnTheOffensiveV2
• shiru8bit - Intruder Alert
• shiru8bit - Encounter
• shiru8bit - Car Chase
• CleytonKauffman - Continue? Theme
• celestialghost8 - Inevitable Doom
• celestialghost8 - Track 01

Roadmap:

The game is currently under development. Right now it supports offline skirmish with bots and creation of custom maps with the editor. Below is the roadmap for the upcoming changes:

• Gamepad support in menus
• Fixing graphical glitches related to flat clipping
• Let peers download custom maps from the server
• Allow having bots in a networked game
• CTF mode
• Expanded soundtrack
• More maps

If you encounter bugs, please report them on the game's Github page. In such case, attach stderr.txt and stdout.txt files that can be found in the bin folder. Even better, if you can launch the game with --debug parameter and send me all .txt files you'll find in the bin folder.

Known issues

• If you allow adding Start Menu app shortcut during installation, launching the game through this shortcut won't work as it uses bad working folder. Please launch the game directly from the bin folder (you can right click the .exe and send the shortcut to the Desktop, that will work).
• Playing both with people and bots will cause your game to desync. Please always set bot count to 0 when playing with other people.
• Bots can get stuck on the pillars in the environment