Mr. Friendly
A downloadable mod
A mod that radically repurposes any Doom level into an Animal Crossing-like nonviolent social space where each monster has a name and something to say. You play Mr. Friendly, a Guardian Demon tasked with helping improve the lives of Hell's minions as they recover from the latest space marine rampage. Level exits work normally; the point is to chill out, do quests, interact with stuff, and explore.
Requires GZDoom 3.3 or later. Works with any Doom IWAD (Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom) and a majority of user-created vanilla Doom levels.
This mod is mostly finished but there's still a few odd things to do before calling it done, such as proper title screen art, hence why this is labeled a beta build.
Controls:
- Spacebar: Talk to monsters + interact with normal Doom stuff like switches and doors
- 1: Equip the grabber, allowing you to pick up and hold objects from the world. Also comes with a "zapper" that can trigger the rare shootable switch.
- 2: Equip the texture sampler, which can grab the texture from any surface you point it at.
- 3: Equip the fishing rod, which you can use to fish in any pool of liquid.
- 4: Equip Guardian Vision, aka "golden eyes", which allows you to see certain otherwise undetectable objects.
- 5: Equip the Warp Gem, which teleports you back to your starting point in a level.
- 6: Equip the Whispering Tome, which helps you locate secret areas.
- Left mouse button: Use the currently selected tool. With the grabber equipped, clicking or holding it again drops or throws the currently held item.
- Right mouse button: When the grabber is equipped, stash the currently held item. (Note: in the alpha build you may have to bind this, as "alt-fire")
- Q: Bring up the quest screen, showing all quests you've discovered on this level.
- E: Bring up the inventory/crafting screen, showing all the objects you've stashed, and allowing you to craft special items out of ordinary ones.
- F: Toggle flight off and on, in case you'd rather walk. Might help motion sickness-sensitive players.
- Tab: Bring up the map screen.
Press:
- Kotaku: A Doom Mod Where You Make Friends With Demons
- PC Gamer: Help demons come to terms with their crappy jobs in the Doom mod 'Mr. Friendly'
- GameStar: Doom - Mod Mr. Friendly setzt auf Liebe und Freundschaft statt auf Monstermetzelei
- Game*Spark: 『Doom』の世界でのんびり過ごす『どう森』ライクなMod「Mr. Friendly」新バージョンが配信
- Cheese Talks: Cheese talks to JP LeBreton (about Doom, FPS games and NPCs)
Status | In development |
Category | Game mod |
Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (16 total ratings) |
Author | JP LeBreton |
Tags | Doom, friendly, mod, nonviolent, tourism |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Download
Install instructions
Open the file "friendly.zip" or its enclosed "friendly.pk3" with GZDoom, either from the command line or by dragging the mod onto GZDoom's icon.
Development log
- Build 74: a fix for the major text box breakage introduced by GZDoom 4.11Nov 07, 2023
- Build 73: Small fixes and tiny additionsJan 21, 2021
- Build 72: new tool, new writing, tuning changesMar 14, 2020
- Build 71: rare crash fix and a few new bits of writingJun 11, 2019
- Build 70: new font for Wandering Demon pagesApr 12, 2019
- Build 69: player sprites, new toolsApr 11, 2019
- Build 68: fixes, small HUD enhancementsApr 07, 2019
- Build 67: added brief notes for moddersApr 06, 2019