Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD25 → Yeah, more like ZomBYE!
By chrismingay
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Beautiful Music. Sounds in the actual game were so awfully loud though, it made it hard to hear. Graphics are really nice! Gameplay wise, did I do it right to call my zombie mates and just run at the enemies and die? A more detailed how-to would have helped. The random generation is a plus for replay-value. All in all a positive experience!
little bit difficult to get the zombies eating the soldiers but the idea itself is fun
dek: The sound issue, are all sounds too loud? Or was it the when you shout to nearby zombies that was too loud? If the latter, this is because I made all of the other zombies respond with the same scream (so it could potentially play the same sound effect 20 times at once!). This was a poor decision on my part and one that's been changed since (but not included as the LD48 entry).
Gameplay wise, yes you are right, and it does need more of a guide. My plan was to include other abilities as well (like spitting at heroes and stuff like that) but I ran out of time. I am working on updating this for fun so I hope to include the howto and the additional stuff as well! Thanks for trying :)
Joyboxed: You're right, the game has got some balancing and AI issues which I hope to tweak over the next few weeks. Thanks for trying :D
Doesn't work for me.
Sometimes stops with the message "Sound click doesn't exist."
Sometimes it just hangs in the game.
When I can move around, it seems like it could be fun, but it's unclear what I'm supposed to do. Perform an "action" with space? What?
Unfortunately it locks up for me after just a couple seconds. I got the same error about Sound click.
*Sigh* I read the instructions afterwards, so I barely ate one human before getting shot - spent 7 minutes after that watching my fellow zombies successfully finish the job : P
Even though patience makes this game unlosable because of this, I really enjoyed it! Holding space causes the error "Monkey Runtime Error : Sound click doesn't appear to exist" to appear at the top (and the game freezing), but the game is fun already with just the alert function.
Also, does the greenzone serve some purpose? Awesome that you generate random maps btw, did you write the code for that during the jam?
Hey thanks for trying :) Sorry about the "click" bug. That's a stupid thing I missed before submission. I didn't want to alter my LD48 submission but I have fixed it in an alternative version ( http://chrismingay.co.uk/ymlz/ )
The only action is to shout at fellow zombies at the moment. In the alternative version I will be adding other things (like spitting).
The level generation code was made during the jam and it is actually very very simple.
1) Place a hero safe zone somewhere
2) Randomly decide how many heros there will be and spawn them in the safezone (the green area heros use to get health and ammo)
2) Randomly place X amount of blocks throughout the level
3) For each block work out if there are neighbouring blocks and change the tile accordingly
4) Randomly place X zombies where X is between 10 and 12 times the number of heroes.
I wanted to add more detailed randomly generated levels, but well... ran out of time ;)
Thanks again to all who tried it.