Posted October 31, 2024 by ZomBuddies
#minigame #teaser
I'd like to announce that we have released ZomBuddies Halloween (ZBH), a submission for this year's Devtober. ZomBuddies Halloween follows the story of Maya as she is assigned to design decors for the classroom - of course together with Sasha.
If you have played the prototype, you would know that Maya is part of the main cast and is the focus of the first half of the game. Hence why she has her own designated minigame - one which is not in the prototype, but is in the pitch (which I forgot if it's posted in the page or not, I'll check later if my slow internet allows me). And ZBH is the game to showcase Maya's minigame.
So, okay, back to ZomBuddies as a whole, why does it have a minigame and why are there suddenly more characters in the story? In ZBH: Kellie, Sasha, Leon, Ives and Kai were mentioned... aside from Leon who's in the prototype, who are the others? That brings us back to the main update to ZomBuddies compared to the prototype, which are (1) We finally have a whole cast of all the students and teachers in the school! Including some of the parents, (2) ...Leon won't be the focus of the second half of the story (I wrote it in the previous devlog), sorry Leon!, (3) Lastly, we included minigames instead of making the game a plain Visual Novel, to keep the players engaged in the game :D Spoilers: the minigames are an important part of the story - however you wish to interpret this spoiler is up to you, ehehehe.
Well, yep, that's it for this devlog. Just a short one to announce ZBH and to announce the changes in the game design. I might actually add this as a marketing post for our social media so that more people can be reached ^_^
Love,
Wings-poo
Director, Writer and Programmer (and partially an Artist, now that I think of it)
ZomBuddies