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well buy bye have a nice Australian(?) life
recomend sfml to your loved ones and fellow developers, it is a good library
For single player mode only make the weapon, zombie, vehicle, survivor attributes in a txt file, so if you are bored you can make the flamethrower have infinite ammo and fire 360 degrees around you
Is there gonna be split screen?
Also... I'm pretty sure I promised you I would benchmark your game... Well I didn't sorry, but now I will... I'll make a few virtual machines with what I think will be your games system requirements and make them weaker until your game cannot run properly
Lastly, have you thought about things like zombie cows? Or zombie crows? Maybe even not zombie stampedes of animals to signal the coming of the zombie horde? Won't that be great, you suddenly find your building surrounded by stampeding cows before the zombies come
. I think Recruit0 put up something related to zombie crows that attack in swarms on the wiki. Having non-zombie characters is quite interesting actually, I never thought about that.
Zombies shouldn't just automatically go towards where the player is even though they can't see them. They shouldn't be this "smart". They should only chase after the player when they can either see/hear them (or other zombies are chasing them). This will require they have weak AI.
I'll continue writing more ideas into the wiki but I need to focus on cpGUI (in order to release it by the end of the month).
I didn't mean red flash in direction of attack, I meant the screen flashing red. The point of this is so that when a player is in Scope Mode (i.e. when they can't see their character) they can tell if they're being attacked.
What about just let players use different positions (Standing, Prone and Kneeling)? Holding a button down to aim doesn't really make sense. There are parts of the CoD series and other FPS games I don't agree with, and this is one of them. Example: In sniper mode you have to hold down a button to "steady" your aim. This is more of an obstacle rather than a feature (it's like a handy cap actually, i.e. you can't aim properly unless you hold down this button).
I see. Then have the ammo donut (that sounds funny for some reason) around the mouse cursor. Then the reload and ammo donut will be right there (where you're aiming at).
Also make the screen flash red around the corners (like in those other shooter games) so that the player knows they're being attacked even if they're sniping.
This doesn't provide enough of a difference to really matter. Having multiple weapons with the same main attribute (e.g. faster firing rate or accuracy) won't give players much options. As in, it won't *really* matter what they choose, since every weapon will be just variations of damage/sec, AOE, range, ROF, etc. There needs to be more attributes (e.g. pushing target back, piercing multiple targets, etc) to distinguish each weapon (option) from each other.
Also realistic weapons are harder to balance because they are (evidently) not balanced (e.g. a sniper rifle is more dangerous than a bow and arrow, this cannot be balanced, unless one just blatantly ignores the facts).
You can't dual wield sniper rifles anyway ( that's just silly Wink ).
I was thinking to make it make sense (when zombies kill people, they usually turn into zombies).
OR: Instead of Mercenary Mode, call it Ultimate Mode. Also add when player is attacked by a dark green zombie, they'll turn into zombie after so many minutes ( 30 ? ) unless they get a serum/cure (only the dark green zombies can turn players so they gotta pay extra attention to them, cuz cures are rare).
To better support extremely large maps, the sprites may need to be smaller (max 50%, probably shrink to at least 75% original size) to fit more details on the screen (this is 2D, we can squeeze *a lot* more stuff than 3D gfx) and make the screen size bigger.
and add turrets as an upgrade, maybe a home base surrounded with turrets and you have to go out and "home base-ify" other bases until you've conquered every base in the province.... then make them do it again in the next province, and the next province, and the next.
Maybe you could have a different zombie in each province?
Perhaps have cars or helicopters as a way of traveling provinces, and to make it realistic, you rescue an engineer who has a machine that makes fuel out og oxygen, it is a light and portable machine.... but takes a long time to fill up a car's gas tank. Also he lives in your current bases' basement and you must protect the door of the basement as well as yourself
Instead of a health bar, show a health donut (or circle) under the player's character.
Same with ammo bar (draw gray donut around the green health donut/circle) Then show pictures of clips rather rather than listing how much ammo they have.
)Move the reload bar near the mouse cursor. Perhaps change it also to a donut/circle.
Only the level number and number of points is left. Move these to the top center of the screen.
Also I saw on the wiki a list of redundant weapons. Each weapon should be as unique as possible, so that the player has more of a choice (rather than it not mattering, i.e. each weapon actually has a purpose). Basically, multiple shotgun/machineguns should mean that they do different things.
Sniper rifle that pierces through everything (including walls and windows) and another where if it hits the target in the head (passes near the middle of it) then it instantly kills. Sniper rifles have Scope Mode in which you can view any area by scrolling with mouse (camera lock turns off).
Using real gun models (e.g. AK47, M4, etc.) may not be practical.
Sticky grenade, ice grenade, regular grenade. Targets that were hit by an incendiary grenade will light other nearby targets (only the original target hit by the grenade can spread fire, other targets that caught on fire don't).
Bear traps. Land mine that instantly kills target and another that damages group of targets. Ice land mine. Barrels of oil to light areas on fire.
Pistol and SMG can be dual-wielded (but slows down reload time).
Player should be able to hold up to 2 weapons at the same time ( choose wisely )
Another interesting thing would be to have guns and supplies air dropped onto the map. Could be drawn with a circle that moves around until the box lands (with 4 lines connecting circle and box, i.e. you can see the box under the circle/parachute while it's swaying around until it drops). Once the box lands, the parachute automatically (magically) disappears.
Zombie dogs slow you down when they attack you (25%). Would be fun to have level 10 or something where there's a lot of dogs, in which case it'd be best to setup traps (surrounded by dogs = can't move = dead).
Arcade Mode: You don't set off your own traps (if you step on a land mine, it doesn't blow up). No friendly-fire (can't hurt team mates). Among other things which make the game easier (more fun for casual gamers).
Also would be good if the player could sprint too.
And when zombie kills a team mate, they turn into zombie.
Also need a replay system so people can show off their kills
I don't have permission to edit any of the pages.
Also with larger maps you can have multiple buildings. So, the player will have an incentive to move around more (besides avoiding zombies).
Another interesting mechanic would be if more zombies were spawned near a player that is near the edge of the map. Perhaps it could be used somehow to prevent players from getting to the edge of the map (so you can't walk off the map, or you have to use an "invisible wall", zombies preventing you from walking off the map is better IMO).
I don't think zombies should upgrade with each level, but if they do then the player needs to be able to upgrade as well. This will make balancing the game harder (but it might make it more fun). I think upgrades should be left out at least until the game is more complete.
Also, rather than having spawning points, zombies should be spawned at the edge of maps as if they were walking in from a random direction.
I should probably write up a document or something because there are a lot more details that I could go into besides the above.
Got to lvl 15 with a laptop touchpad.
You should have someone or a team go through and balance it more. Currently it's about 10% balanced.
Since you can only fit so many zombies on the screen, you could use a leaking spawning system
I'm interested in working on a zombie game in the future (after rewriting cpGUI). I'm primarily interested in game mechanics (guns, # of zombies, equipment, etc.). Mind if I join you sometime?
Also I read your blog about Mac OS. I have access to a Mac at my uni so can test there if needed.
