HROT News

My new game Shrot has a demo! Sand, hops and techno music in classic action RTS formula will certainly brighten up your evening.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/2630920/

Yesterday I tried to do just an experimental HROT modification, which is played like bomberman for up to 6 players local PvP. It is available in the section Dank stuff -> Mods.

Controls:
Player 1 - Keyboard (WSAD + F)
Player 2 - Keyboard (Arrows + RCtrl)
Players 3-7 - Controller

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

No other changes have been made, so the version number is still 1.1

Patch 1.1 fixes several minor issues reported during the first month after release.

• fixed: e2m1 glitch
  
• fixed: burning puppies
  
• fixed: Orloj repairing through the wall
  
• fixed: boss extra hp bug
  
• fixed: horse skull in the way (e1m8)
  
• Smaskou/Skapuci corpses no longer hold weapons
  
• fixed: pause menu during the intermission
  
• added missing subtitles
  

The star of the show in Sovietcore boomer shooter Hrot is solo developer Spytihněv's levels, all of which are inspired by or directly correspond to real-life locations in and around Prague. The tenement blocks, metro stations, churches, and castles of this twisted version of the city all feel like cheeky de-makes of real world locations, a MyHouse.wad blown up to massive proportions...
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"Does that pommel horse have a grenade launcher?" is one of many bizarre questions I found myself asking while playing HROT. This Slavic shooter revels in the strange, straddling the line between hyper-bleak Soviet satire and goofy memetic joke factory. This isn't the best thing about HROT, we'll get to that in a couple of paragraphs. But the balancing of these two personality strands is what defines HROT's quality. At the outset, they exist in perfect symbiosis, but the relationship becomes less stable as the game goes on.

The year is 1986, and something is seriously wrong in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. What that might be isn't explicitly stated, but given the year, the ambient chatter of Geiger counters, and the soldiers vomiting through their gasmasks as they prowl the abandoned streets, a nuclear disaster at an infamous Ukrainian power plant isn't a vast stretch of the imagination. In any case, anyone who wasn't killed by the fallout is now being hunted by an army of (presumably Russian, but again, it isn't explicated) soldiers. Emerging from a bomb shelter beneath Prague's Kosmonautů Metro Station (now named Háje), you take it upon yourself to defend your glorious homeland from these invaders.

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