I’ve finally got enough done that I thought an Alpha release was warranted. I’ve been doing a video dev journal on YouTube which is also linked below and it shows what the game is like and there is another video that explains the goals for the game. I’ll give a brief overview here though.
Essentially you start in a small town in a post zombie apocalypse. Your goal is to retake the town and recruit all the survivors. The town is basically a 5x5 grid (larger grids planned for later versions). Each grid space contains a building type such as houses, farms, police station, grocery stores, etc… Each area can also be captured or “fortified” which will grant you the ability to do certain things. For example houses provide shelter so you can recruit more survivors, getting the power plant will activate the power grid, and so on. There is a smooth day/night system that adds a touch of realism. I have a lot of plans for this game and I need as much support as possible so if you like it give me a like and subscribe on YouTube and tell your friends.
Well there might be a reason he doesn’t want to use a webplayer, but I feel as long as he provides a virus scan for the zip he should be fine.
Plus he has a video, so not much need for screenshots (especially at this stage of development XD)
I’ve come up with a new render for the police station layout, any thoughts? I think this one is a lot less complicated than the previous one. And the back side has a workout yard which will actually be chain link fence.
Looks like a nice place to explore when it’s all done :3
Maybe a basement level as well? Like a damp filty basement where bad things happened or something A place that tells a story.
Also from the lobby? part I’d add one or two more floors.
I appreciate the feedback. I actually intend to keep it as a single floor. The original model I made was based off of an actual police floor plan and it was too complicated. Also the game isn’t really trying to tell a story. It’s the type of game where you create the story based on what you do. For example when you clear out the police station you might be saying to yourself “Today we cleared out the police station and found some weapons in the armory, found a lot of zombies too.”
I also want to keep the layout simple to keep render times low.
So I put up a small website attached to one of my other websites to use as an information center for updates and news about the game. I’ll still be posting here though as well.
I actually have no idea what that is or why you’d assume I’m using it. You actually came off pretty rude as well. I actually use blender for modelling and gimp or photoshop for my textures.
I wasn’t being rude. I am fairly certain you are using Sketchup because of the way the models look. They are blocky and appear to have bad topology. Secondly, I believe those textures are from Sketchup.
If you’re using Blender, please, post a screenshot of your model in Blender. The reason you shouldn’t use Sketchup is because Sketchup models contain extremely bad topology, and are not exported in the way that regular industry models are.
Here it is from the front with a bit more detail added in. The roof has an overhang now and doors have frames. Was going for a stucco look with the texture. I also scaled up the brick texture so that the parallax shading would show a bit better.
Here is the current style of map I’m using, just comes up when you have the map key held down and it will also display your RTS stats (e.g. Housing, Food, etc…)
I’m thinking about maybe zooming it in so that you don’t see the entire area and maybe blacking out the rest of the screen.
A place that tells a story.
