Talk:Zombie Apocalypse

First round, user ideas

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SharQueDo

Idea: 2D top-down zombie survival game (or maybe 2.5D like GTA1/2). One large world where people are marines or survivors working together, and all zombies are NPCs. Players start in a secure area (hotel?) with lesser zombies around it. If players decide to move away the zombies get stronger (and maybe more exotic zombies/creatures appear, harder to kill). Realistic weapons (machineguns, rifles, pistols, even a grenade launchers or bazookas ). Level-up system, you get XP per zombie kill, which you can improve yourself with a stat-based system (max health, max ammo, and special passive skills that increase your ammo generation very slowly for example). For those who know it: GTA meets Crimsonland meets UT2004RPG Invasion.
Motivation: filling in soon

Role in Project: Tester, Musician, Level Designer
Experience with said role: I've made quite a few music tracks in the past, mostly dance/trance, but I'm currently busy with more ambient stuff. Tools of the trade: FL Studio.

Hiroe

After much deliberating, I decided I'm for PlopperZ's idea, I think if we can't make it an mmo it shouldn't have full rpg features, maybe put a level cap at level 6 or have you gain ability through having awesome weapons that cost alot, as this is unbalancing. in all honesty, I think zombie master made a great game and we should follow there example.

PlopperZ

FPS using the Quake engine or similar. Be basically an ongoing Team Deathmatch on a giant map with Zombies(Players & Bots) vs. Humans(Players). Except with a bit of a story and goals/quests to complete, the player can decide what to do, such as join a gang of other players, be a merchant and sell valuble goods to other players and/or do many other things. There would be lots of buildings and things to hide behind, as well as vehicles. It would have little or no confusing RPG stats.

javaJake

Ideas: I like PlopperZ's ideas, except I lean more towards strategy: I think there should be more to the game than just shooting zombies and making money. Zombie shooting would be the staple "meal" of the game, but there should be lots of other activities to exceed in as well.

I also suggest resources needed (weapons, ammo, food/medical supplies, vehicles, etc.) be the specialty or specialties of two or more distinct human races. They'd have to maintain secure routes or something like that to guard against zombies, so that people and supplies can travel across the map.

People could also create their own informal teams and try to create monopolies on supplies or other such malicious tasks. I'm not sure how this would work, and if the world would remain balanced like this, but it's an idea.

Roles in Project: Primarily programming, but I would like to be a game designer as well. I also enjoy writing documentation.

Why me: Programming has been my primary activity for years. Despite this, I have still yet to learn C/C++. However, I'm eager to learn, and I see this as my opportunity to do just that. With a little time and patience, I should be very helpful. I also love to work in teams, and keep everything very organized for my neighbor. Included in that is a hard-earned habit of documenting my code as I go. I enjoy writing documentation in general.

Experience: Well, I've got 3+ years of combined experience in Java, PHP, MySQL, and XHTML+CSS. I need a project so I can learn C/C++, and this would be it for me! I have a good amount of experience with SVN, have dabbled in CVS when SourceForge was using it, and have a continually-expanding knowledge of Bazaar.

Dutch_cap

Ideas: I'd like to see a top-down RPG shooter, either isometric or 3D. I want to use the left stick for movement and the right stick for aiming/shooting. Clicking the left stick should bring up a radial menu for various actions. It should have classes. While the warrior classes should be very straightforward to play, the other classes should require a little more thought to survive. I want to have lots of RPG elements, like special skills that are best mastered by a particular class. I want big worlds where I can do lots of different things. Vehicles, especially cars and motorcycles, would be really cool.

Experience: I think my brother taught me the basics of C loops when I was 11 or 12. In highschool I spent more time programming on my TI83 graphical calculator than doing math problems. My most advanced creation for the TI83 was probably minesweeper. I only became reasonably good programmer in University, though.

I've had formal education concerning Prolog, Haskell and Java. I also learned about computational complexity and I know some basic learning and searching algorithms. I have work experience coding websites in PHP and MySQL. On my own I've picked up a little Python, Lisp, C and C++. However, I definetely need to brush up on my C(++) skills before I undertake any major projects.

Desired roles

While all contributions will be welcomed, please only fill in your name if you're willing and able to spend at least a couple of hours on "Zombie Apocalypse" every week. Note that signing up here does not guarantee involvement in that particular role or in any way. If you think we're missing a category, feel free to add your own.

Game Designers

• PlopperZ
• Dutch_Cap
• Hiroe
• javaJake

Programmers

• Dutch_Cap
• javaJake
• God (Is this actually somebody?)

2D Artists

• PlopperZ

Level Dsigners

• PlopperZ
• SharQueDo
• Hiroe

Musicians

• SharQueDo

Game Testers

• SharQueDo
• Hiroe
• PlopperZ

Marketing and Management

• Hiroe
• PlopperZ

Documentation

• javaJake

The game choices

the first thing we want to decide is what kind of control scheme to use:

Top Down Shooter- this is in the style of the first gta game. we could probably adapt the empty clip or FIFE engine for this.

First person Shooter- any quake game will do for this.

The next thing should be how do we control zombies?

npc control

player controlled using an rts like interface

player controlled

multyplayer is next

mmo

this is probably the hardest to code. I do not suggest it ~Hiroe

server and client

RPG elements

none

full rpg, with leveling and stats

passive progression-your stats and skills progress over time by using them ie: you use a pistol to kill 100 zombies and you get better with a pistol.

Balanced attributes-you have a number of points you can assign to stats and skills. you do not get more points.