Z is for Zombie 2.0 - YouTube Video

jonmulcahy

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to come back and post the YouTube video for Z is for Zombie 2.0. This was the first game I ever made with GameSalad, and when redoing it for this release, I was shocked at what I had gotten away with I spent just as much time rewriting old code as I did adding new features. It was a HUGE update:

Progress Saving
High Scores
Statistics
Zombies have hit points
New Weapons! Pistol / Shotgun / PipeBomb
Massive performance improvements
New onscreen controls (joystick)
Smoother Accelerometer Controls
Unlockable Freeplay (go back and beat your score)
New Game Over Screens
Finally, a ton of bug fixes

You can view a youtube preview video of it over on my website here:
http://bit.ly/9uhmJR

nulo

so mulcahy, how was your experience re writing the game on the current version?!
im kind of worried, because after I finish working on the current game im developing, im hoping on going back to "human invasion" and making that my next serious project. the problem is the last time I worked on it was on GS v. 0.4.6 or something.
so im not sure if I just start from scratch or open the old project and work on top of that.
what would you say?

well, anyways, watched the video and Z seems pretty solid. like the pause/choose your weapon thing. and grenades. gotta love grenades.

jonmulcahy

It wasn't that bad getting it to work on 0.8.3, I just needed to add some timers to things that got destroyed so attributes got updated and such.

the hard part was redoing code that was inefficient because I didn't know what I was doing back then. For example, instead of having 1 actor that spawned all the bad guys, I had an individual spawner for each zombie type, adding 6 moving actors to every scene, and with early gen devices, every moving actor hurts.

NexusGameStudio

Great looking update, any estimated release time for it?

synthesis

Not sure if this game is good or not...but I couldn't stop laughing while watching the video. Good Show!

jonmulcahy

I'm hoping the update comes out on monday or tuesday.

StormyStudio

looks brilliant, the shotgun and then zombie dieing animations....very nice.. in a gory dead zombie attacking stickman kinda way..

jonmulcahy

well, the update went live! It was approved about 4 hours ago. I'll be back with a few promo codes later, for those of you who already own it, give it a whirl!

jonmulcahy

Promo codes

9E79XKNYMMEE
3KJAKJLKF6FJ
4YYJNM9MANKA
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