Z is for Zombie 2.0 - YouTube Video

jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
edited November -1 in Announce Your Game!
Hi Everyone,

I wanted to come back and post the YouTube video for Z is for Zombie 2.0. This was the first game I ever made with GameSalad, and when redoing it for this release, I was shocked at what I had gotten away with :) I spent just as much time rewriting old code as I did adding new features. It was a HUGE update:

Progress Saving
High Scores
Statistics
Zombies have hit points
New Weapons! Pistol / Shotgun / PipeBomb
Massive performance improvements
New onscreen controls (joystick)
Smoother Accelerometer Controls
Unlockable Freeplay (go back and beat your score)
New Game Over Screens
Finally, a ton of bug fixes

You can view a youtube preview video of it over on my website here:
http://bit.ly/9uhmJR

Comments

  • nulonulo Member Posts: 315
    so mulcahy, how was your experience re writing the game on the current version?!
    im kind of worried, because after I finish working on the current game im developing, im hoping on going back to "human invasion" and making that my next serious project. the problem is the last time I worked on it was on GS v. 0.4.6 or something.
    so im not sure if I just start from scratch or open the old project and work on top of that.
    what would you say?

    well, anyways, watched the video and Z seems pretty solid. like the pause/choose your weapon thing. and grenades. gotta love grenades.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    It wasn't that bad getting it to work on 0.8.3, I just needed to add some timers to things that got destroyed so attributes got updated and such.

    the hard part was redoing code that was inefficient because I didn't know what I was doing back then. For example, instead of having 1 actor that spawned all the bad guys, I had an individual spawner for each zombie type, adding 6 moving actors to every scene, and with early gen devices, every moving actor hurts.
  • NexusGameStudioNexusGameStudio Member Posts: 265
    Great looking update, any estimated release time for it?
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    Not sure if this game is good or not...but I couldn't stop laughing while watching the video. Good Show!
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    I'm hoping the update comes out on monday or tuesday.
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    looks brilliant, the shotgun and then zombie dieing animations....very nice.. in a gory dead zombie attacking stickman kinda way..
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    well, the update went live! It was approved about 4 hours ago. I'll be back with a few promo codes later, for those of you who already own it, give it a whirl!
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    Promo codes

    9E79XKNYMMEE
    3KJAKJLKF6FJ
    4YYJNM9MANKA
    EE7JRPE7JAM4
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