Oh god Endermen.

I usually release a testing build every Sunday but this weekend I'm going off somewhere special so I'll be putting out a new devlog, video and public build, tomorrow.


I'm so going to make them the scariest thing in the game. Slow but tough and deadly.

EDIT: Also, I just changed their name to Notenderman and I did voice acting for both them and zombies, turned out awesome!

Slow and tough just means you can run around them easily. If you're going to use the same AI, give them the same speed or slightly faster. If you want them to be really scary though, make them fast and attempt to get behind the player, optimally after the player stops paying attention to them.

Hmm, I was actually thinking about "Defend X Place" gamemode. To make the player extremely nervous when he sees a giant black figure on the horizon, because he can't run away from it (has to defend X) and if it gets there alive then the player will be ****ed, and that's what I thought would make them scary but now I see that in other gamemodes (I've got planned "Go from A to B" and "Kill everyone!" for now) they would be less of a threat and more like a roadblock.
I'll have to think about it.

EDIT: I think that making it randomly teleport around you (but not closer or farther away from you, just somewhere else) would be a good idea. Let's say it's 100m infront of you, and them bam, it suddenly teleports somewhere
(still 100m from you) but you don't know where. You start frantically looking for it because it's dangerous and you don't want it to sneak up on you.

I'm planning of fully destructible, procedurally generated (small) city. Very simple though.

Newest weekly build is available on my website: http://blog.xiphias.org/downloads/
Development Log coming up soon.

Supplementary Video - Week 4


I ****ing love you guys, you've already contributed more to the game than anyone else, so feel free to give me suggestions.

Dear lord this is looking fantastic.

Thank you. I hope you all appreciate my voice acting for the zombie moans

I was surprised at how good they sound, great work. I've loved watching this game progress, can't wait till you add structures, and ammo and such.

I made a TON of recordings and post-processing, I'm happy to know that I've succeeded.
Can't wait to start on the structures myself, it's going to be so much fun.

muzzle flash can always be a good thing. as well as ammo and a HUD

Looking good so far, apologise for my lack of thoughts on this topic, Been a tad too busy recently.

You already contributed a lot, thanks
I'd like to know if you still have lightning (shininess) and headbobbing errors though. It works well on my machine but yours is very "special", though.

let me download the new update and play it again, i've been cleaning my computer up oddly my main drives love to fill itself with ♥♥♥♥.

i doubt it be a issue somewhat in a few months time since i'm aiming to upgrade my computer to play skyrim later. That or buy a full on gaming computer.

EDIT: nope, no shineyness. Although i was playing it fullscreen.

Great! I practically rewritten the whole game during previous week and managed to fix lots of strange bugs that way.
If anything else goes wrong, please, let me know.

HEY GUYS LOOK! MY REVOLVER IS ON THE GAME!

I'M FAMOUS =D!