So, the Steam Next Fest is currently underway. It’s this week-long digital celebration of upcoming PC games where you can check out tons of demos from FPS role-playing games to casual atmospheric adventures. Developer Altered Orbit Studios’ Doom-like Selaco is one of the available demos and has jokingly received a mod from fellow Doom-like FPS makers Metacorp to change the color of the blood effects from the default pinks and purples to the sticky white of cum, all because of fan complaints.
Selaco is a retro-styled first-person shooter built on a 3D-accelerated Doom source port SDK called GZDoom. Drawing inspiration from Monolith Productions’ psychological horror FPS F.E.A.R. and id Software shooters such as Quake, the game features highly destructible environments and some extremely gory gameplay. A demo is available right now, with a full release expected by 2255. That sussy launch window speaks to the studio’s humor, potentially poking fun at impossible-to-hit schedules.
While Altered Orbit may be pretty funny, developer Metacorp’s humor has now taken center stage. Metacorp, the studio behind GZDoom-based cyberpunk FPS Beyond Sunset, cheekily mocked those who griped about the color of Selaco’s in-game blood, which changes depending on the enemy you encounter. Sometimes it’s pink. Other times, it’s purple.
There will be red blood in the game, Altered Orbit stated back in February, but that’s not what the studio has shown in most clips. This lack of normal red blood has led to a flurry of complaints from Gamers™ all over the studio’s social media accounts. There are complaints in YouTube comments and Twitter DMs. There are posts about blood on the Steam general discussions page. There are even complaints on forum pages dating back to April 2021, with the studio defending the colors because “Xenomorphs, predators, and Halo covenant aliens don’t bleed red either.”
Still, folks didn’t want to see pink or purple blood despite lore reasons for the color that Altered Orbit briefly laid out in February. It looks like “pepto bizmall” or “someone spilled jelly on my screen,” according to two separate comments in an April 9 Selaco YouTube video.
These complaints seemingly inspired Metacorp to drop a joke about releasing a mod for Selaco’s blood effects. While it doesn’t appear to be available for public download right now, it’s dubbed “Selacoom” and it swaps the blood color from the default pink and purple to cum white. I guess guns get horny, too.
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When contacted over Discord DMs, the Metacorp developer who created the “Selacoom” mod told Kotaku that Selaco’s author and lead developer noticed some “recurring comments” across various YouTube videos on the game in May. As such, while it was “a bit of an accident,” he said the inspiration for the cum mod came from a random Twitch chatter.
“I originally intended to make a red blood mod, so I created a photoshop action to bulk-process Selaco’s sprites and convert the neon-pink color to a blood-red color,” the developer explained. “But there were some inconsistencies with the color indices for Selaco’s sprites, so it ended up putting them out as greyscale instead of red. I was doing this at roughly the same time my friend [and Twitch streamer] DumpstermanTTV was livestreaming Selaco, and he mentioned on-stream the blood color, and one of the people in chat humorously suggested it looked like cum. Obviously, the collision of me having a bunch of white blood sprites and the inspiration from a Twitch stream made me think this would be really funny.”
Kotaku has reached out to Altered Orbit for comment.
It’s unclear when Selaco will fully release and if it’ll hit consoles. For now, you can check it out during the Steam Next Fest, which runs until June 20.
As for the Metacorp developer, he said he wouldn’t mind if someone created a similarly horny mod for Beyond Sunset.
“I’m happy my video got a laugh,” the developer said. “If someone wants to make a ‘Beyond Cumset,’ we won’t complain.” Yeah, neither would I.
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