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[IGorGe]

MUTATION!!!!

and ... DESTRUCTION !!!

[ndke]

That animation 
Awesome!

[IGorGe]

Talking about mutations

Mutations are central to the gameplay, here are some examples we are working on.

They are separated into 2 different categories:

Mutations that affect the behavior and appearance of the zombie:

• The Climber lets you climb walls and walk in small corridors. They are more dangerous and faster.
• The Blocker can lead the horde in a specific direction.
• The Tank is a devastating, hungry and violent monster. A weapon of destruction ideal to confront heavily armed forces, armored vehicles or to open paths.

Actions that are more temporary:

• The Screamer can paralyze humans with his beautiful voice.
• The Runner can overcome a too powerful defenses and avoid some traps, they are also harder to target.
• The Boomer can break doors, some walls, and devastate a human group.

Combo! The idea is simple, all actions can be applied on any zombies, whether it is a normal one or mutated one. Each having different results depending on the current mutation. For instance applying a Runner on a Tank will make him do a powerful dash destroying everything on its path.

Note that this is not final, more mutations will come, some will change and other may be scrapped.

[LichiMan]

I need more! Your pixel art is incredible.

Which application do you use to animate them?
So, you are using Unity... are you going to do pixel perfect movement? Or they are going to move in screen pixels?

Hope we can see more soon
Keep up the great work!

[IGorGe]

So, you are using Unity... are you going to do pixel perfect movement? Or they are going to move in screen pixels?

It's going to move in screen pixels.
Actually the game is not totally old school pixel art. It is using advanced features such as dynamic lighting, shadows, Special FXs as well as physics.
We think it helps strengthen the atmosphere.

Of course we are trying to find the right balance so that the mix doesn't feel awkward.
We will try to show more of this soon

[LichiMan]

Nice!
I can't wait to watch all together in action.

[IGorGe]

Hi everyone, we have just added a news on our website. If you want to know more about the gameplay, just follow the link:

http://www.zombienightterror.com/gameplay-mutations

[IGorGe]

Hi,
If you want to see a WIP video , just follow the link.




This one is about the close range fighter behavior.

[JosephElliott]

Hot DAMN this looks good. I haven't been excited about a zombie game in a long time, but those animations are unreal.

[IGorGe]

Hi everyone

I wanted to show that atlas zombie texture. It is generated in Unity with TK2D tool. I love the result. it's like some kind of abstract painting.

However there are a lot of sprites, the texture is not so big cause we use pixel perfect.

The second texture is used for the zombie rim light.
Each color chanel of the picture contains a rim light for each direction ( left, top, bottom, right) and it reacted according to the light source.

[LichiMan]

Wow! It looks great! Thanks a lot for sharing this

How do you use the rim light texture? Do you use it as a bump/normal map in a "Bumped Diffuse" Unity shader? a custom shader?
Btw... which application do you use to make the pixel animations?

Thanks!

[Low_Chance]

This is a great premise for a game - lemmings meets left 4 dead. Your art style is awesome, I can't believe how intense that "sprite sheet" you posted is.

Also:

...this is why you make sure to work out both sides of your body equally. Tell this guy to switch to a barbell for a while instead of just lifting with his left.

[BarelyHuman]

This looks great! It reminds me of this flash game I played awhile back where you create a zombie and it infects other people. You could infect someone with a special virus to create a mutant zombie with unique abilities. The difference is that it was top down view and didn't have half the style this game has.

[IGorGe]

thanks mate.

So It's a custom shader. No normal map involved here. The rim lights for each direction (up, down, right, left) is stored in the four channels of the rim texture (RGBA) and then we use the light direction to know which channel has to be activated so that the rim is on the right side of the sprite.

And for animation I use "Pro-motion" a soft dedicated only for pixel.
with a limited 256 colors palet and some tools very usefull (anim brush, automatic tiling etc..)
In fact i know only pro-motion for pixel animation. there must be other more recent and practical, i don't know.

Wow! It looks great! Thanks a lot for sharing this

How do you use the rim light texture? Do you use it as a bump/normal map in a "Bumped Diffuse" Unity shader? a custom shader?
Btw... which application do you use to make the pixel animations?

Thanks!

[IGorGe]

Yes I remember a game like that. The aim was to infect as many humans a possible .

This looks great! It reminds me of this flash game I played awhile back where you create a zombie and it infects other people. You could infect someone with a special virus to create a mutant zombie with unique abilities. The difference is that it was top down view and didn't have half the style this game has.

[jcstranger]

Things I like: lemmings, zombies, dark settings with a lot of dark humour, playing the bad guys.

if it wasn't for that I would play that game just to watch that hilarious animations over and over again.

definitely following...

[IGorGe]

Hi Everyone

here is a city landscape concept art.
When it's full black and white, the difficulty is to find the good balance with grey levels. (difficulty increased by the fact that it is pixel-art).
As you can noticed, on the fist plan, the pixel are doubled to increase the sense of depth.

[Zorg]

As you can noticed, on the fist plan, the pixel are doubled to increase the sense of depth.

Noticed it immediately (looked at the picture before reading), but in a negative way: the background looked very sharp in contrast to the big pixels in the foreground and it did not increase the sense of depths but felt wrong.

[Jad]

  Take my money!

I only take cash

I WANT AN EXTRA FRAME BEFORE THE EXPLODING WHERE ALL THE BULGES INCREASE BEYOND THE POINT OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY

[IGorGe]

Thanks for the reply.
Well i'm quite confident with that. Logically , when you look at something distant, it will appear maller. So i made the pixels smaller, but also to clearly identify the gameplay level and the background.
Of course it works better with paralaxe scrolling . We have 4 levels of paralaxe in the background.

As you can noticed, on the fist plan, the pixel are doubled to increase the sense of depth.

Noticed it immediately (looked at the picture before reading), but in a negative way: the background looked very sharp in contrast to the big pixels in the foreground and it did not increase the sense of depths but felt wrong.