Introduction

Hello, my name is Alexander and I'm a 35 year old guy from Sweden, have 4 kids and a fulltime job. But I will still try to fit in some time every day to get tasks done. Hopefully by the deadline I will at least have a playable game even if all my goals aren't finished.

My intention is also to write a devlog whenever I get a chance, to keep this post updated on the progress I make on this journey.

Zombirific Introduction

You are a stranded soldier in a place infested by zombies. Fight to stay alive and avoid getting diseased and end up with a painful death.

Show your Feat of Strength by ranking up, are you skilled enough to survive until you reach the rank of Sergeant Major of the Army. Or will you die a brave death as a Private? Should you achieve the rank of Sergeant Major of the Army, all zombies left alive will explode by the sheer sight of you and you’ll have won the game!

Design Documentation

For those interested I have a Trello board with tasks as well as a Design Document. Work on the game itself haven't started yet, will be doing my first session later tonight.

Table of Content

• Day 1
• Day 2

Day 1 Update

Started the development of the game, had a little spare time during the day. Got basic player movement as well as rotation of a muzzle around a pivot point (will be used for gun eventually, gun is just represented as a white dot in the clip, same goes for the bullets).

Added a HUD for Ammo & Clips

Now both auto-reload and manual reloading(pressing 'r') works to refill ammunition. I can also easily tweak some parameters relating to the player and the weapon:

Day 2 Update

So far today I have accomplished a few things, nothing fancy but it's still progress.

• Zombie (no state or movement)
• Zombie health
• Zombie healthbar above sprite (temporary)
• Antidote potion with the ability to pick up & consume it. (diseases isn't implemented yet, so consuming it does nothing right now)
• Antidote HUD sprite to show how many antidote potions you are carrying.

A little gif to showcase it:

Zombie Chase State

I have now added a chase state for the zombies, they will chase when you either attack or get to close to them. Using NavigationRegion2D along with NavigationAgent2D for pathfinding. No attack state is implemented yet however.

Added a few sound effects

First time trying to do some sound effects, so they wont be perfect. Added sound effects for:

• 3 Different sound effects for zombies
• Projectile sound effect
• Reload sound effect
• Quaff Antidote sound effect

More to come at a later date, a video just to showcase it:

Another Small Update

Zombies now have a chance to destroy Objects(antidotes & ammo crates).

Screenshot with debug label above zombies to show current state :)

Some more improvements

• Start scene
• Game Over scene
• Now the disease can and will kill you, however I still need to add a countdown to show how long you have left before you're dead.
• Added blood particle effect when zombie dies
• Zombies can now dash (it has a cooldown)
• Player sprite flashes red, the speed depends on the number of stacks of the disease.

Probably forgot some things I've added.

I do know that the sound is abit odd, noticed it after uploading to youtube, it is however not a problem with the game.

a game zombie ! yep herrr. good luck