#zombie-game

[iamded-dev]

First game idea - yeah, it’s zombies

First thing’s first, and that’s familiarising myself with the very basics of Unity. I’ll be using Unity solely because I’ve dabbled in it before, and feel it better suits 2d pixel style games than Unreal. Because of this, I want to start reeeeaaal simple - as simple as possible. The most basic of basic. And that’s zombies.

Basic features to start!

Directional movement with the sprite matching direction

Melee attack

Shoot attack

Zombies that spawn in, home toward player, deal damage on touch

Life bar + health packs

After that, there’s a lot more stuff I’d like to add. Some of this includes:

Multiple guns with different shooting styles and effects

Multiple melee weapons with their own special attacks

Hot-bar/inventory bar bound to number keys

Inventory system

Grid based tetris style RPG inventory system (I’m ambitious)

Sprint/run/walk with unique animations each

Stamina system

Hunger bar + food (scavenging)

Random generation in 3 tiers:

Town layout

Building interiors

Loot distribution

Limb based damage with visuals

Player upgrades

Eventual sequel that’s now a fully 3D game instead of a  2D side-scroller

But again, let’s just start with moving around!

I have plenty of other ideas for games (sci-fi salvage game, cyberpunk farming game, necromancer game) but let’s start simple.

I should mention, Death Road to Canada and Lakeview Valley are big inspirations to this current zombie game, so shout out to those guys and those games.