It probably does, I'll have a look at the code later on and see if it checks for focus.

Started drafting time-of-day. The clouds currently look atrocious but that'll get nipped in the bud quick-smart, just not tonight. There've also been some HUD updates (see the top of the shot) before I get something proper happening (there are big plans for changes graphically, same as there are for the embark screen, but they'll eat time as they require lots of pretty content), an added tile and a few smaller fixes. The update will come once the time does a few things in-game related to zombie energy levels and probably once I've got a medkit added, though that'll be an incredibly simple addition (the two longest parts of its production are expected to be coding the menu block for it and spriting it). That might happen this week, or might not, depending on how hectic school is.

(FINALS IN TWO WEEKS HOLY ♥♥♥♥)

Comments are welcome, keep in mind that the background fades in and out with the night sky replacing it, the clouds change colour to match it, blah blah.

Highscore tables will happen soon after the update containing time of day.

The game is looking good geti I especially like the backgound tiles inside the base.

Update Update - Read all about it!.

God what is it with developers and lame jokes relating to updates?
Whatever, v0.17 has gone stable and been released (at revision 25 ffs) and you should play it. It's got pretty clouds by Lizard and a million settings for you to turn on and off and an extra tile for the background of your houses and goodness knows what else. Read about it on the blog.

I can't view images from Deviantart, apparently...

Also, I'm unreachable, due to the way Zombies won't climb up my shaft!

Oh yeah, as a quick note at some point the zombie's AI fell behind the level system updates, and I'm aware of where this is happening and how to fix it, but it'll take time.

The AI, highscore tables, and the medkit are going to be the focus of the next update, though if Lizard is as awesome as usual you might also be getting legless zeds (maybe. probably not, but you might).

Basically it's gotten to the point where I'm sick of the zombies being morons and I'll get around to coding them some semi-okay AI at some point over the next couple of weeks, but until then stick to more open construction if you want a challenge.

Later on, that kind of strategy won't be viable anyway due to starvation. Sure, you might be able to hole up for a very, very boring week or so until your food runs out but you'll be wasting a half-hour anyway because contrary to popular belief, the points you get for surviving a day are nowhere near as significant as the points you get for killing zombies all day with your bare hands.

I just made a RTD on the Prelude forums, to boost activity. No real rules, so should end up quite fun.

...I laughed waaaay too hard at this.

On-topic: This is pretty cool, but the zombies are really hard to kill without getting maimed, for me.

I joined. It looks fun (as most RTDs are). Prelude is as awesome as ever. Especially with points.

Really? Are you using mostly melee to combat them? I got some people to playtest IRL while I watched them and they pretty much exclusively used guns, to keep a safe distance. Needless to say, they ended up unlocking the .303 pretty quickly.

Allstone I'm fairly sure I fixed the .303-in-tunnel issue as well.
Also, taking only 5 .22 rifles I managed to rack up ~2400 points, my best yet. I could've scummed a few days points more but kind of preferred diving in with my bare hands and punching a few to death before getting torn apart to cowering in a hovel and waiting for them to find me, you know?
I unlocked the .303 in that one game. I need to do an after-game stats page, with how many kills you got using ranged and melee, your starting points, shots fired (and possibly accuracy %), days survived, total score and whatever else I can think to put there (maybe a short screenshot of your last moment?) as well as a "SUBMIT YOUR SCORE" button..
I want to get high-score charts up now <_< Have to study though, sorry guys..

What scores have you been getting, out of interest?

I wouldn't make it your very last moment, probably a hadful of seconds before. Good job though, this is looking great!

Problem with it not being your very last moment is I can't be sure a player is going to die without writing a disgusting "check every possible outcome of this situation for the next 3 seconds" system which I'm not going to do, so if there is a screenshot it'll probably be of you in the process of being mauled..

Yeah. What If it took one of him when you lose X amount of remaining health then checked the timestamps to see if you were about to die?

It's feasible, though it could end up causing stutters in framerate in those final moments which would be catastrophic. I'll play around with it either way though.

Playing this with a PS3 controller and having loads of fun :3 (go here for how-to)

Would be cool if a system where you just carry extra ammo of a certain caliber instead of more rifles was implemented, could be useful once we get more guns aswell.
Maybe even a set number of stripper clips/magazines that you reload when you're safe? (to have x number of quicker reloads on the guns that can use stripper clips that is)

edit: DARING ESCAPE