HalfDead


Publisher: Bioject & Epoch

Type: Horror RPG

Tile Set: Installation

Map Size: 256x256

Players: 4

Computers: 2

Release Date: October 31st

**The stuff you will read about, is all the stuff I have done and added to the map**


Story: Coming Soon...

**Announcement**




Game Settings: The game will take place in a giant mysterious mansion. The mansion is made up of rooms and doors, full of items and surprises. You will not be forced in the same direction as the other players, or be pushed in only one direction. Much like RE: One you will have the option to split a part from the other players and go far into your own direction. Only this building will be much larger. None of the rooms will look the same, to prevent the game from being repetitive. The halls of the mansion will be very thick, to prevent players from feeling crowded, or disabling their maneuvering skills, but also added objects such as pillars to blind you from seeing too far down the hall, so that enemies can still catch you by surprise.


Game Play: This game will feature a very unique style of shooting. You will be a Dark Archon, you will be using mind control to fire. Despite the fact it's a funny unit to be using during a horror game, it can maneuver quite well AND the mc is a great add to the fun factor. The shooting system will be used for almost everything. You will be able to shoot zombies, locks off doors, explosive canisters, switches, and even use this to solve a few puzzles! And you will also be able to switch weapons without having to switch units. The damage, radius, attack fire, reload speed, splash, and capacity will all be determined with what weapon you are using. And ammo will be scarce.

The Enemies: The enemies will have virtual HP, and their health points will be random. Every time you kill a zombie a hidden timer for that zombie will activate and that zombie will randomly spawn in a different location and re-randomize its HP. Zombies will spawn all across the mansion and start hunting you, the zombies will not feel so constant, but feel very random. Zombies will not spawn on top of you within a 40x40 location, or while you're in the location for various reasons, one being who wants to be killed by a zombie who spawned on them? And also to prevent the cheesyness of the game, how scary would the game be if you could see where they spawned? Once a zombie spawns he will instantly randomly hunt any near by player down, and will be able to pass through several doors till it gets to them. Just imagine seeing a door open in the distant and thinking "friend or foe?". I believe this will add to the tension of the game. Also because of the enemies A.I there will be no safe haven in this game, so you'll have to use your pause's wisely. The A.I and map layout work hand and hand, zombies can easily come out from around any corner or shadowy place such as pillars in the middle of hall ways, will no doubt catch players off guard. The game starts out with 6 zombies, and as you proceed through the game it will gradually get harder, eventually earning you up to 26 zombies at a time.




Weapons:

Handgun: One of the most common and efficient side arms used in combat. A man’s REAL best friend.

Damage: 4 UPG: +2
Capacity: 18 UPG: +4
Reload: 2.5 secs.


Shotgun: A devastatingly powerful weapon that fires off 2 rounds that explode into its target in a most satisfying manner.

Damage: 4.5x2 UPG: +2
Capacity: 12 UPG: +2
Reload: 0.4 secs per bullet.


Precision Rifle: A semi automatic weapon that fires off in bursts of 3, equivalently doing 3x its normal damage and tearing through its target with precise accuracy.

Damage: 2 UPG: +1
Capacity: 36 UPG: +6
Reload: 4.5 secs.


Machine Gun: This fully automatic weapon fires 12 9mm rounds in a second. Anyone who crosses a user with one of these.. would have separate burials.

Damage: 1 UPG: +0.5
Capacity: 100 UPG: +40
Reload: 3.5 secs.



Sniper Rifle: This rifle is attached with a scope to hit targets from afar with ease. Each bullet piercing through multiple enemies, doing a significant amount of damage.

Damage: 15 UPG: +4
Capacity: 4 UPG: +1
Reload: 4.8 secs.




Magnum: ***Coming Soon***


Body Armors:

Light Kevlar- Reduces damage by 20%
Medium Kevlar- Reduces damage by 30%
Heavy Kevlar- Reduces damage by 40%

Notice: Armors will only be activated if the player has the armor in his/her inventory. The armors will take up 2 slots. Since you're a dark archon, the body armor will increase your shield energy points, greatly reducing the damage done to you. Depending on the armor you have equipped, the shield will either increase or decrease. You can discard the armor if you would rather have the inventory space and the shield energy will go back to 0.





Items and inventory: The inventory will be a terran drop ship, capable of holding up to 8 items. However, the weapons will take up 2 spaces, to prevent you from having an arsenal of weapons in your inventory. But items such as health will take up 1 slot. Each gun will require its own type of ammo, and ammo will not take up inventory space. Instead it will all be in the games memory by adding/subtracting unit deaths. If you reload with 3 bullets (just an example) still in the barrel, those remaining bullets will be recycled and NOT be put to waste. The reloading is very simple, simply move the inventory (drop ship), and the reloading trigger will commence. Because the enemies continue to spawn, so will the items. This method takes 1 location, and this location centers on burrowed lings owned by player 9, randomizes, then gives to player 10. repeat. There are going to be a lot of items, so it will all be random, and to keep it scarce, there will be a 1 of 10 chance an item will even spawn. and about a good 3 minutes before the items respawn again. items will not spawn if you're in the room, or if there is already an item there. So you may have to search rooms over again, if you need equipment.


Items:

*Hand gun bullets
*Machine gun bullets
*Shotgun rounds
*Sniper rounds
*Precision rifle bullets
*Magnum bullets
*Med-kit
*Body armor
*more coming soon*






First picture is a very dark and eerie room with a table.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=123xhnb&s=4

Second picture is a brighter room that leads into the basement. ...with a toilet in the middle. (joke)
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=sxi3rk&s=4

Third picture is a unique looking bridge with lots of lights.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=14lsj79&s=4

fourth picture is a fan room, with a sign on the door. (sign says.. "GTFO")
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2qj9a9t&s=4

fifth picture is of me blowing a zombie half to hell with the shotgun. (beautiful effect)
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2qxc7dz&s=4

Weird tile set i'm working on, it just needs patching up before release.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=34hevqs&s=4

Smile cane, you're on camera!
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=24ltxk1&s=4

A cobble stone hallway
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2z7o1s7&s=4


These numbers... I wonder what they could mean?
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mjpbfp&s=4


Something you don't see every day...
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=122d89t&s=4


give me your feed back and I'm always up to hear peoples ideas and opinions on something.

Curently working on...

I am currently working on doors. There are lots of doors and each one will have to use a location, which could take up all my locations. So I am working on a system that will allow 1 location per player to open any door. As well as the zombies. This will take up a total of 27 locations, and believe me.. theres over 100 doors. This system is pretty much done, and works great. there are still "special doors" that you cannot open without access or keycards.. or even have to solve puzzles for.


Sign up for beta testing marathons! October 15th.

We'll continously host the game to search for bugs, feed me thoughts and opinions on the game, and hopefully have a blast doing it!

Please, don't spread my map around once you recieve it, thank you.

The Dead Walk.. October 31st.


Beta Testers:

*FooFighters[WP]
*lil-Inferno





Post has been edited 38 time(s), last time on Oct 28 2008, 11:53 pm by Neptune.

Wow that IS a pretty cool way to fire.

Why not use vvHP instead? vvHP is where, in your map, when you MC an enemy a Cloaked Wraith is created atop of him that deals 10 damage or whatever (one hit) and gets one hit off (this is for pistol, same idea for the different weapons). This way you won't have to have zerglings for every single guy.

Seems more feasible. I know it is hard to change your concept after you have already been thinking with it for a long time tho.

So is this an arena type thing or an RPG?

Edit how do I open your pictures?

OK well, I use a dif VHP, unit deaths. SO no lings have to follow the zombies and slow them down.

This will be a horror RPG.

open my pictures with irfanview, I tried to save it as JPEG but paint still won't open them.

Darn I don't have irfanview I don't think. You could try saving them as JPEGs and then uploading via Tinypics or Imageshack etc.

Oh so you have 26 death counts in effect, one for each possible zombie? Or just one? Or do you store multiple zombies in one death count somehow? (I only know how to store 4-5 variables in one death count for each player like the first digit is for 1 zombie the 2nd digit is for another zombie etc., I'm not sure how you would do this)

And also what units are you using for zombies?

26 different death counts in effect at once.


As for the pictures... I'm not familier with photobucket. I believe that's how people upload the ""already in display" pictures. I'm going to mess with the pictures and see if I can fix them.

Ah Ok. Sounds good (albeit time consuming)

In order to make your map cooler, I would advise you to read through all the posts in this topic.

that's a hell of a lot of ideas.. some in which I can't use because it's more mid evil/fantasy based rpg stuff, However I notticed a few of the ideas in my map are mentioend, like exploding canisters. thanks for sharing that.

my pleasure

I had a pleasure to test the beta and i have to say it looks to me like it has potential to be one of the best zombie maps ever made and a very playable map, gl again bio.

So, how does the vHP work? You still need to be able to identify each enemy unit to know how much health it has.

The map sounds fun, though.

Wow, sounds very exciting and interesting. You know how much I love to play zombie maps my favorite. Screen shots look sick. Oct 31st, nice release date . Keep us posted and keep up the good work!

Installation too XD Adds to the horror effect.

0x0 locations. works perfectly and glitch free.

Explain this to me. 0x0 location sounds like no location to me. Or do you mean 1x1pixel location? Even so, how would that work?

Infested Kerrigans can outrun pixel locations. Unless there's another system you have in place that stops this?

They don't outrun the location, the location followed another zombie, possibly because of the scourges.

but if this happends (which will be very rare) it acts as a headshot. No glitch.

Sigh, they follow the zombie at that specific location and when you mc that unit it gives back to it's rightful owner and it loses HP depending on what wep you have equiped.

Wow, this look promising! Very nice vhp method. Hope you finish it soon!

The last picture looks great

You have an idea about using pillars to obstruct vision. How about destructible pillars? You can destroy them to increase your vision. But because of something wierd about the mansion, they reappear soon after.
I like the shotgun.