Hello everyone!
I know that most of you are getting a little board of the same old zombie shooter! Just wondered what would be your dream zombie game?
Something like
Dayz or more of a left 4 dead person?
or do you love a game like war z?
Thanks for looking!
Them to go extinct?
I’d like the zombies in zombie games to stop being metaphors for the amount of zombie games on the market.
Zombies.
Everyone wants to make a Zombie based FPS, but honestly - I think the Zombie based roguelike is a very undertapped market. Seems kind of perfect for a roguelike actually.
I would like a Slender zombie game. That would be like double scary, and really original. And maybe you could capture zombies in little balls, and then pull them out and have them fight for you.
This is certainly an interesting thing. There seems to be several people doing their own zombie game and all of them seem to have different skill sets to bring to the table. I have to wonder why people aren’t doing some real collaboration. I too am one of these people and my focus is solely on game mechanics. You want to know what I’d like in a zombie game? I’ll do you one better, I’ll tell you what I’m currently working on:
I’m looking to make a “dice-less” rpg engine that has mechanics similar to the Fallout 3 engine with sims-esq character interactions.
The characters will have eight core stats and a series of perks that they can purchase with XP. The game will draw on different factors to get their attack damage such as balance, movement direction, distance, location of hit, and so on. At no point will the game randomly generate a number.
NPC’s will be both pre-made and randomly generated and all of them may join you and your party. The party will demand you maintain their happiness, sleep, food, water, and fear. When you neglect them the party will become weaker in combat, bicker, and ultimately start tearing one another apart. Personalities will be modeled after the Myer-Briggs model.
There will be various factions and settlements that touch on all of life’s major issues. Religion, politics, morality, and so on.
And the overall theme of the game will be that you can choose to do good or bad, but bad is the easy way out of a situation. Because that is the way life is and the good/evil decision in most games are broken and dumb (see every Bioware game ever).
I’d share more, but I don’t want to tip my hand until I get this all hammered out and start looking for some people interested in working with me.
monster trucks
lol
Comedy… makes some funny zombies… zombie cats and dogs, zombie grannies, zombies on motorbikes etc… .hm … maybe I’m thinking plants vs zombies here.
I think this banter is a little much. Yes, zombie media has certainly gone over the top with the trending in pop culture, to the point where someone who loves zombies for near 30 years like me is even getting a little sick of it. But that has not stripped me of my love of the genre and even as the trend burns itself out there are still going to be people who love zombies. Always. And maybe those people just want to do what they love, even if it is done to death.
What made zombies so popular anyways? Is it the TV shows like The Walking Dead?
Yeah something where it doesnt it take itself too seriously think evil dead with cheesy one liners, over the top nonsense like saints row. You take it to 11, 50 foot zombie creatures constructed out of dead corpses.
zombie children.
/taboo
They had them in Dead Space 2. And Dead Space 1.
Zombie games have been coming out alot longer than the shows been around.
If I had to put it to one thing, its that you can mass slaughter innocent people. Carmageddon was one of the earliest games to put innocent squashable humans in, which was subsequently changed to zombies to make it less immoral.
never played either game.
This:
Hence why I’m making it.
I’d like to see a zombie game like Mirrors Edge + a puzzler, gotta get out of a city or something, but you don’t have much weapons so you use your hardcore parkour and fast reacting brain to get out of sticky situations, would be awesome.
Call me mad, but I think the whole “Thriller” revival after Michael Jackson died started a sort of “burst of attention” for the zombie topic, that was already incubating… Maybe it’s a cyclical thing, but every X years, zombies get trendy!