Z-War - IT ARE PHOENIX!!!1!

Z-War - IT ARE PHOENIX!!!1!

Updated several times since that previous shit was posted

Anyway, click the logo above to try it

 

Re: Z-War - IT ARE AWESOME!!!1!

Yeah there's a bug somewhere that makes restarting / loading a new map without refreshing do weird things

 

Re: Z-War - IT ARE AWESOME!!!1!

Yeah the AI isn't totally done so the zombies have trouble navigating when you're to the left or below them

Anyway I'm glad you all like it and the past 2-3 weeks wasn't a waste of time

At the moment I'm working on quake announcer sounds, cheats (such as bike-mode - check out the bottom line of the standing.png sprite sheet), pickups (extra damage, invincibility), more scenery, better collision detection and AI and a way to make bullets more efficient

Sounds awesome, can't wait to see it

BTW, as you may have noticed, cliffs are really hard to get right - it takes a bit of practice even with the snapping system

If you look closely at Zombie Mountain you'll see loads of places where the cliffs (and the rocky ground on top of them) aren't perfectly lined up

 

Re: Z-War - IT ARE PHOENIX!!!1!

Update released - added quake announcer sounds (pretty much unintelligent for now - it's either firstblood or a random selection of other sounds) , made some minor changes to Zombie Mountain and added "Fightbox" (which is probably going to end up impossible once I fix the AI, although it does demonstrate a cool new way to use cliffs, albeit with messy corners (covered up by trees )).

Right now, I'm working on the second part of the wonderful tileset I found, which will allow you to build towns, buildings and fences (it takes hours of photoshopping and programmatic image manipulation with PHP before "normal" game compatible tilesets are in Javascript format (individual alpha-transparent 24bit pngs) ) I will also be adding more scenery (ruins, more trees, autumn-style trees, blood splatters etc.)

I'm also considering redesigning the gameplay to use health for the player (eg. around 5 hits from a zombie = death. One "hit" can be made roughly between one and two times per zombie, per zombie tick) and adding the necessary attack animation to the zombies. To balance things out, I'd have to make zombies much faster and green zombies maybe even as fast as the player.

Also, I'm considering a powerup meter which fills once you have survived for a minute, and allows the user to use bike-mode for 10 seconds, once I manage to code that in

 

Re: Z-War - IT ARE PHOENIX!!!1!

Night mode = no shooting

It has a random chance of going on/off every 20 seconds


Also, the game isn't really about gameplay yet - all that can be changed pretty easily. It's about developing a flexible Javascript-powered game engine without using the canvas tag (people have even made fully-3d javascript FPS's with it, but that's cheating. )

 

Re: Z-War - IT ARE PHOENIX!!!1!

For the game itself or for the map editor?

The game is pretty much just space=shoot, arrowkeys=move

I might make a tutorial for the map editor sometime...

 

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Yeah the gameplay is a bit shit atm

Zombie Mountain and The Forest are the easier (and more developed, especially in the case of Zombie Mountain) maps, while Awesome and Fightbox require knowledge of the flaws in my AI to complete them

 

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haha nice one

 

Re: Z-War - IT ARE PHOENIX!!!1!

Pretty big update released - added all kinds of stuff, such as:

• Quake announcer sounds (including the female Holy Shit! one )[/*:m:qkdy78wb]
• TF2 announcer for victory/failure (just for the fun of it )[/*:m:qkdy78wb]
• Heaps of improvements to the internal rendering engine[/*:m:qkdy78wb]
• Revamped the gameplay style and added new customisation options to the editor - the player can now have a specific amount of health defined by the map. You can also change how fast zombies move (check out The Forest now ), how much damage bullets do and you have the option of disabling nightmode completely for that particular map.[/*:m:qkdy78wb]

Next I'm hoping to finally rewrite the AI, add more scenery, add a console, add different characters and maybe make the interface a little bit nicer to look at

 

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Resurrected for the lulz

(And it's been updated several times )

 

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:lol:

 

Re: Z-War - IT ARE PHOENIX!!!1!

New map (Castle of the Dead) released

And if you get bored, there's always the console (hit `) with buddha, noclip, hurtme etc. :lol: