At least it will be ranged, and what about reload time?

I vote making it a single-shot. No reload, just long fire times.

Ugh, these zombies... It's like you want to encourage hiding in a hole, chewing on a bone. I'm a rapper now.

But yeah, what is the gameplay against these uberzombies going to be? You can't melee one without taking atleast a hit, ammo is going to be limited, and all that. What is the player going to do in the final game?

Maybe run like a ♥♥♥♥♥ and try to collapse tunnels on them. That's what I do.

Tunnels need to be able to make more tunnel stuff underneath them so a cliff lowers and/or falls on top of you. I think you may have mentioned this already though.

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Comments on the new stuff welcome.

I need to find a good way of doing this, I'll look into it again but it's not a huge priority at the moment. It'll definitely be in the final game, I just aren't sure of how best to do it yet..

The medical side of the game is going to be very important. Think medkits, disinfectants, maybe splints and whatnot if I ever split actors into components. Essentially, keeping your medical supplies in order will be important if you decide to take the zombies in melee, but there'll be a lot of other tactical opportunities (pitfalls, spikes, guns, bombs, mines, running like a ♥♥♥♥♥ and trying to collapse the terrain on them) to prevent the "slash slash slash run heal slash slash" option from being the only one.The "vanilla" (read: not needing unlocks) .22 will be a single shot bolt action deal. There'll be mag and clip-fed stuff too though. I'm not sure about what I'll do for shotguns at the moment... They're awesome and all, but I don't think straight raycasts will cut it so I'll need to get some sort of decent particle physics system happening (the current system doesn't work at high speeds).


uh, yeah.
oh, screenshot, this is about as long as the grass gets for the most part.

I'll get onto having grass grow and a spore dispersal system and whatnot soon, going to fix some bugs and maybe get onto the .22, but I'm bloody tired from flying today, got up at 5am, got home at 5pm. ugh.

Hm, not working. Pressing start game simply resets it to the main menu again.

Wipe your save. I'll put something about that into the page, actually, considering how many issues leftover .sols are causing <_<

Bandaids heal everything!

Have you thought about having an attachement system for the guns?


The grass is a bit long, maybe make the highest ones we have now hay-ish instead?
Their color is clashing with the background, though.
The FoV system works quite nicely.

I have, but I figure it'll end up complicating things to no end. I'll likely have some guns which have secondary functions (grenade launcher and whatnot) though, just not a full blown "customise your gun down to the tape used to fasten the sheepskin to your stock!" deal.

The grass will grow each day, the grass being so long is intentional because it hides the zombies quite effectively at it's longest. I might do some colour fiddling, but not too much for now. I'm planning on having a large number of plant species anyway, so why not just add a yellow grass as well? I've got to get the spreading/growing shindig going first though.

Glad you like the FoV, took a bit of fiddling to get it not lagging <_<

Here's an idea for the collapse. When they hit the ground(after falling instead of crumbling) they could generate a cloud of dust. While the cloud of dust is up, you could take the amount of blocks in the collapse and place the same amount of blocks in a different position before the cloud goes down. Also, to prevent players from getting in the cloud and getting bugged, you could have it knock them down or something.

Geti, yo website:
Pre-visited links are nigh-on invisible against the background. Just sayin'.

Ladders :3

Hmmn, sounds like my moniter's contrast is out. I'll darken them a little.
Will come at the same time as spikes for your spike pit, I don't have custom overlap for anything yet, and both of them will require that.
That would be a nightmare to code, especially with the current physics engine.

I'm totally not working on the .22 now, nuh uh.

Actually combat isn't that hard now. You can hit and run fairly easily, provided you have some space to work with.