HELLO! I'm Carlos, also known as Cardboard Marty online. I've been holding on to this page for a bit now, but I think it's finally time to be more open about the development behind The Space Pirate and all of that fun stuff! For those of you who haven't heard of this project before, The Space Pirate began as a gameplay mod for GZDoom back in 2013! A lot of this stuff began with the idea of doing cool melee combat in Doom, which hadn't really been touched on before. The development would be off and on before I decided to put it on a semi-permanent hiatus while shifting focus to other projects.

In late 2019, I asked my good friend DrPyspy (Doom Delta, Tomb Fetus) to be my co-developer on a brand new version of The Space Pirate. We decided to start from the ground up, re-imagining Mel's arsenal and gameplay mechanics. I got back in touch with Krystal LaPorte, who provided Mel's voice in earlier versions and has gone on to voice a ton of characters in other things, and also collaborated with my good friends Yuri and Ana Grol on character design and artwork! What we've got now is incredibly fun to play, and we can't wait to share more with you as progress moves forward!

Currently, we're working towards a public playable demo that will feature a portion of Mel's arsenal and a playable map from our new mode, Bounty Hunters. We're working on TSP between our other projects, but this year I'll be trying to provide more updates and such along the way. Until next time!

- Carlos/Cardboard Marty