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[dustin]

So I decided to do an entry half in order to help me learn flash more and partially because it sounded like a fun idea.  Instead of one particular game I decided to demake the entire genre of survival horror .  Here is my game...



http://www.kongregate.com/games/nitsud/survival

All the code is done by me and so are the graphics (unfortunately...) the music was done by my friend mr. bear...

http://www.myspace.com/bendtheblocks
http://www.myspace.com/djmisterbear

Anyway this is one of my first flash games so I'd like to know what everyone thinks.  Also thanks to everyone on this board who helped me learn flash a bit more

[increpare]

Heh.  A fun enough diversion for a minute or two.  No sound here atm though.

[muku]

Yeah, this is actually quite fun. Some issues I noticed:

• Being able to move diagonally would be very nice.
• Sometimes bullets pass right through zombies. Since bullets are quite fast (it's good that way, I like it), your collision detection should take the line between two successive bullet positions into account, not only the current position. Alternatively, advance bullets in two or three smaller steps.
• The HUD overlays the playing field, and while playing it's often hard to tell whether the bullet/syringe is lying on the field or is just in the HUD. That's confusing.
• No sound here, either.

But overall, good job for one of your first Flash games

[dustin]

I think I fixed the sound thing, I just forgot to upload the mp3 when I reuploaded a little bug fix.  Thanks for the warning.

[increpare]

I think I fixed the sound thing, I just forgot to upload the mp3 when I reuploaded a little bug fix.  Thanks for the warning.

Well I meant that I was in my office and didn't have speakers ... 

[dustin]

   ok so maybe it was working, I still don't really understand all this uploading stuff

[Valter]

I like this. It's got nice and sleazy music, too 

You'll want corpses to despawn over time, though. After a while the green and black shards blot out the vaccines and bullets.

Also, could you make the scoreboard less intrusive? If you give it a little bar at the bottom, it'll probably get in the way less. As it is, It's in the way and I can hardly see the numbers. Keep up the good work, though!

[MekanikDestructiwKommando]

Sweet game 

[ExciteMike]

This was neato!  Two things would help a lot, though.  An intro screen to describe how to play, and making the HUD more separate from the game, so you aren't trying to pick up that syringe.

Also, apparently there is a way to shoot?  I somehow missed that and I thought the game of collect-syringes-faster-than-you-bump-into-zombies was fantastic and clever!

[Michael Yamada]

Also, apparently there is a way to shoot?  I somehow missed that and I thought the game of collect-syringes-faster-than-you-bump-into-zombies was fantastic and clever!

There are instructions  if you scroll down.

You use wasd to shoot.

This game is magnificent!

[dustin]

   
* Being able to move diagonally would be very nice.
* Sometimes bullets pass right through zombies. Since bullets are quite fast (it's good that way, I like it), your collision detection should take the line between two successive bullet positions into account, not only the current position. Alternatively, advance bullets in two or three smaller steps.
* The HUD overlays the playing field, and while playing it's often hard to tell whether the bullet/syringe is lying on the field or is just in the HUD. That's confusing.
* No sound here, either.

yeah I'll update it for diagonally.  I fixed the HUD too so that it's less obtrusive I just have to reupload it in time for the competition.

Also, could you make the scoreboard less intrusive? If you give it a little bar at the bottom, it'll probably get in the way less. As it is, It's in the way and I can hardly see the numbers. Keep up the good work, though!

Yeah thanks for the comments on this aspect it works much better now I think.

Thanks for all the comments guys I'm glad it got some plays.

[dustin]

ok made the updates

changed the hud
allowed diagonal movement
allowed diagonal firing
changed the firing a bit

[jeb]

Got 104 kills, is that good? 

[dustin]

it's enough to get on the highscore board on kongregate.