About Us:
I’m glad to announce that Sector7Games has started development of a new zombie survival game “Walking Dead”. We are currently two months into the development and we are hoping to release the alpha in three to five months. I’ve decided to announce our game this early so we can receive feedback on our current progress and also to find out what the public want in the game. Our website will be up shortly where we will be putting up multiple servers to attract attention to our company and to build a fan base for our game so please stay tuned on updates!
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MainMenu:
I will be posting other images of models and the main menu in the near future!
Story Line:
The game is a zombie survival game based in a city in America(City undecided), you are put in a coma months before the virus breaks out and wake up in a hospital ward a couple of months later. You leave your room and walk outside to smell an awful stench and walk around the corner to hundreds of dead bodies piled up! you quickly exit and walk out onto the street where you see someone in the distance and you walk up to them but as you get closer you smell the same smell as you had earlier and the gradually see the rotten torn off flesh on his face…you notice he’s not a human but a…zombie! Now you must survive.
Game Modes:
Survival Mode
Multiplayer(Online)
Story Mode
Thankyou and please post some ideas that we can follow, also if you want to criticize please use constructive criticism.
I’m not using “The Walking Dead” because that’s copyrighted to AMC so instead we used “Walking Dead” so really they can’t sue us because many games have done what I have done and got away with it.
You might think using that name (and story even…) could get you some attention but in reality it’s going to put a lot of people off your game. At least me for example.
I am considering changing my name but I am also going to contact my patent solicitor to see what he can do and if there is something I can do to keep the name I will but for now any suggestions on new names guys?
Actually… they can in the same way nintendo could sue me for using “mari bros” providing it was also a platform game inspired or designed to be similar.
Just change your whole name.
And how is a patent solicitor going to help regarding trademark and copyright? Unless he specialises in those fields as well. Patents aren’t at stake here.
100% agreed. I’d move on with a “working title” and focus on the things you need to focus on such as: innovative gameplay, unique concepts, compelling story. There are so many zombie games out right now, that your biggest hurdle (at least on the concept end of things) is going to be setting yourself apart from the rest.
As for the name, I would stay away from the word “Dead” in the title. Lately it seems like any game focusing on the survival horror genre (and especially zombie-centric) tend to use the word “Dead” a lot. It’s become something of a cliche. There are so many other horrifying words you could use to encompass your concept.
English is not my birth language, you should search for the meaning of those words. But I’m sure there is many ways to find an other name for your game.
Thankyou for all your input and I am currently thinking of a new name, also In reply McMayhem our game is very unique as we have put alot of thought in to how we will make this zombie game different and you will see in the teaser trailer later on in the months!
Alright. Apart from the name, I have a few questions just to gain up my interest in this project. Which I will be following. :3
1). How will the game play out? Like the game ‘The Walking Dead’ where you choose your choices? Or will it be more…DayZish? Where you run away, kill, survive?
2). How do you plan on creating the game environment? You mentioned it’s a city, so I’m guessing there will be a bunch of buildings, destruction, cars, highways, alleys, etc. To be perfectly honest, I’d stick with a town. xD
3). How will this game be different? This is a huge question for a developer like you. There are tons of zombie games to date. How will this particular game be different from all that? I have never played a zombie game in which you can create a shelter. Hunt for food. Find other survival groups and ally with them. Trade for food. Or maybe go to war with them to get their stuff. While you protect your group from zombies and such. Take towns and make barricades?
If you ever need help with this project, I’m glad to be of assistance. I want to see a game that’s different for once. Not a clone.
To start the city is attached to a town which is located on the outskirts of the island but the main thing about the game is how unique it is! Basically you must survive but in order to do that you must find food and water and a safe place to stay at night as you progress you will need to get weapons and vehicles but always stock up on fuel as your car may run out! We have also added medication to the game to aid certain illnesses in the game but the unique part is the npc system! To get started on the npc there will be camps where you can trade food for weapons or even take the camp over and take all supplies also these camps might fight you and try to steal your contents from your camp so you must find survivors and add them to your group to fight off the zombies and other camps! Im not going into detail because there is lots more but wait for the alpha and I would love your assistance as we are short on people as when I post a new thread on collaborations it never comes up so I cant recruit via collaborations. So please message me back ASAP and I hope you like the sound of the game
