What would you like to see in a zombie game?

[EvansGreen]

@The Ghost

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.

Hey, wait a moment… that actually sounds original

[Infinuim]

@Jaimi

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.

That’s a really nice idea the slender bit! something that has a bit more interaction! But is more scary but more playable could work:) Zombies in balls ;D Like it!

[Infinuim]

@Not_Sure

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.

I totally agree with you! there is some amazing work out there! But for some reason all the games are still lacking in some perspective! If you take war z

Has everything to be an amazing game but the rushed it! they didn’t think it out and take there time with development!

Wow keep me posted on your project! I would love to see something like this:) It sounds just what the game market needs.

Yeah the only reasonable good/bad system i have seen is in red dead! and even that could be improved!

Well thank you for your awesome post!

[Infinuim]

@Meltdown

What made zombies so popular anyways? Is it the TV shows like The Walking Dead?

I think recently with all the end of the world rubbish! And games like dayz, dead island. nazi zombies. It is hard for them not to get popular!
The problem is that one person makes a good concept and it gets then made by 20 people and sold so it makes the quality not there instead it is more quantity! Which is not always good! If you take minecraft you get exactly that!

It isn’t a bad thing because it makes people up there game + add-on to an already great game

[Infinuim]

@Aiursrage2k

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.

Hahahaha. I like the idea! Something where it is just all mixed up and just fun! Something a lot of games are missing these days!

Thanks for your post:)

[MarigoldFleur]

I’d say the popularity is less complex than you would think. It was just that Call of Duty: World at War and Left 4 Dead came out within a couple weeks of each other and both brought zombie game popularity to highly mainstream audiences. That’s it, really.

[Alex_Cruba]

Do a zombiegame that works like a Tarantino movie. They could do 100 Walking Dead but it’s just silly. Tarantino is the only one these days who knows how to show violence right as Hitchcock was able to show… BUT: As long as characters in games look like shit (and they all do look like shit 2012), zombies will look more like shit because they have much more details.

[Blacklight]

The problem is that one person makes a good concept and it gets then made by 20 people and sold so it makes the quality not there instead it is more quantity!

Slender.

[Aiursrage2k]

@Blacklight

Slender.

Or before that it was braid, there is always a gold rush to try and clone it and it works if you are first to market with a clone but then quickly becomes over-saturated where every other indie game is a puzzle platformer.

[KRGraphics]

Zombie Hookers…

[The_Ghost]

@EvansGreen

Hey, wait a moment… that actually sounds original

I’d do it myself but I’m so busy and my skills aren’t on that level yet, maybe someday.

[chrisall76]

You as a zombie with guns and laser eyes.