Game a Fortnight: ZOMG Zombies! v1.0.0.1
I work for an American company. I work for a large American company. With that now known, it may not shock you to hear that the large American company has reacted numerous times to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).
Some good friends have lost their jobs. I wish them the best of luck.
One side-affect of these reactions is that I now work a nine-day fortnight (90%). I’ve decided to do something constructive with my 10% days; I’ve decided to make one game a fortnight.
The rules are simple:
- 100% of the code written must be my own
- I must work on three new concepts before ‘revisiting’ an old one
- I may re-use code from previous projects
- I must post the game (buggy or not) on the Tuesday following my 10% day.
This week’s effort is something I like to call ZOMG Zombies!. It’s a silly space-invadery game where you fight off a horde of zombies who are intent on eating your face. I chose to make this game because I wanted to play around with path-finding. Bloody hell it is tricky!
Download the game & installer.
Get the game here. Please not that the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Installer is VERY SLOW and can take up to 20 minutes (downloads a 200mb file). Be patient, you only ever need to install it once! If you’re having issues, download & install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installer separately.
If you succeed in killing all of the zombies, the next level will contain even more face-eating undead.
My original vision of the game was to have a top-down view of a city and a horde of zombies closing in on all sides toward the middle. You would be able to build barricades and traps to stymie the advance of the horde while your AI-controlled military in the middle would shoot down as many zombies as they can. The goal:survive until the helicopter lands.
Instead, I made a really simplistic space-invader shooter, controlled with the mouse. I only managed to spend ~5 hours on this, but I think version 2 will be much, much closer to my original vision.
I’m pretty sure that I will work on a ‘version 2′ of this one; there are some really cool gameplay elements I’d like to include.
Let me know what you think by leaving a comment!
ZOMG ZOMBIES!
by Joshua Robert Anderson
(joshua.anderson@gmail.com)Zombie sprites sourced (without permission) from:
http://www.videogamesprites.net/Earthbound/NPCs/Nonhuman/Zombies/
House, Trees and Rocks sourced (without permission) from:
http://www.gamebeep.com/sprites/RPG-Building-Blocks
All other graphics were made by me (Joshua Robert Anderson).
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