More city tiles…
I was very busy with work the last two weeks, so Zombox work was put on the backburner, but I managed to finish texturing the latest city tiles, as well as create a giant new one that will serve a special purpose.
In the following weeks, I’ll be integrating these tiles into the map generator. The map generator itself is getting refurbished, since I’ve decided to try and make map layouts randomized after all (until now, buildings and props and things were randomized, but the overall map layout was not random, so things like roads and rivers were always in the same place). The new randomized layouts will mean each time you start a new game, you’ll have a whole new city to explore.
In the next couple of weeks I also want to render out a Youtube video showing a fly-through animation of the entire city, so you can see all of its different features and areas, as well as its size. So, keep a look out for that!
Looks great, I’m excited to try the game itself. Any word on what your idea of what model you will use to release the game Ex; beta pay (x) amount, full release pay (x)…?
It’ll be a full release pay.
game looks amazing cant wait to play it do you have a set release date??
Nope! Not yet.
😀
This is awesome great job! But will randomizing city gen each time make it impossible to keep an outpost or base where you can store items?
The map will only be randomized when you start a new game. If you load from a previous save file, it’ll generate the map from that save, thus retaining any changes you made to that world.
Awesome! I look forward to setting up a little safehouse and going around looting all day 😀
Damn tyson your work gotten even better 😀
Im so Excited to Play your Game. I always loved these type of Games
Your doing a Great Job.I could Never do anything like that you are awesome! Is there already a Release Date because i just Need to know or i will turn insane for sure because i’m just so pumped to Play it
Thanks! Still no release date set, too much left to do right now to predict when I’ll be done.
Amazing update Tyson 🙂
My guess for the giant hole in the ground is eather a Nuke or a Meteor 🙂
Anyway awesome update great job Tyson and thanks for keeping us updated. 🙂
That would be interesting if it was a nuke because then the nuclear power could possibly have changed some of the people into zombies.
It’s a meteor 🙂
Awesome work man. New tiles look fantastic. Ive been trying to get into game making but unity is above my head still. Very cool tiles, thanks man.
Tyson like in games like sky rim or oblivion, can you customize ur characters face?, like there will be classes like the hobo class or medic class which grants ur character abilities but u could still decide what they look like , for instance, eyes, scars, hair, ect
yea that’ll be a great idea
Right now there won’t be any special face customizations, no. Maybe that’s an idea for the future…we’ll see 🙂
hobo xD lol and there are classes just look at the old updates i remmber he added classes
I think they were more like different characters, not classes…
Great stuff. Found out about your project from Notch’s recent tweet. So glad I found it, really looking forward to release.
Me too lol
Thanks for the support!
I have play ALOT of zombie games. This one seems to have the coolest features and most to do. I like how you can build buildings, scavenge and explore. It just looks sooo replayable. Each new map will bring some new delight.
You are really good!
The cratter feels real (as well as the city tiles)
Great job 🙂
Good job Tyson, keep it up 😀
Fantastic work, as always. The texturing is top notch, too- does that crater use a single texture map?
Hope you don’t me asking a dev question, but since I’m trying to learn a little game dev skills myself… what method to you use to generate each tile? I’ve come up with ways to generate maps using solid tiles, but yours are obviously filled with interactive objects (those are randomized to some degree, too, aren’t they?). Is there a specific algorithm that determines this, or is it simply a matter of a random variable/seed?
I’m a newb at procedural generation, too, so yeah. 🙂 Great work so far!
Hey Jack,
Yep…the base of the crater is a special texture. The rest of the world (every item in the world except for zombies, NPCs and the player) uses only 1 giant texture atlas, but it couldn’t fit the crater so I had to make an exception.
The generator is a multi-level algorithm. First it goes through each tile of the map and creates a new set of geo for that particular tile…so maybe a house tile, a water tile, a grass tile, etc. Then based on what type of tile is chosen, a set of prop geo pieces are added. Some of those are randomized, some of those are not. So, for example, on a building tile, a garbage pail outside might be a randomly-added prop, but the walls of that particular building are not randomly added. This process is repeated for each tile on the map. Then, as the character walks around, tiles are loaded in and out based on the player location. This means that for a large city with hundreds of thousands of props and objects and decor, only a couple hundred objects are every “loaded” at once. This is what allows the game to run efficiently on iOS. 🙂
Tyson if you even realease this game for 10$ i will buy it and i’m 100% sure about that 🙂
me too 🙂
Where will you spawn at the beginning of The Game?
Right now you’ll spawn around the camp fire in the above ground NPC hideout.
Love your work!Thank you so much for that!
will there be a multiplayer type thing?
Any release date?
There is no release date at the moment. But I really hope its getting close. Game looks so cool.
Dont worry about face customization Tyson. You could do that in an update only if you really wanted too. This game looks to cool to be held back any longer.
Great Job! Cant wait to Play it!
Can you Commit Suicide yourself too?
Would be cool
Tyson! The game looks so awesome already! Can’t you release it and then continue to release updates? because I will not sit here infront of my computer waiting! I want to bash zombies! PS: face & hair customations!
The iOS store will reject unfinished apps. They don’t have a built in alpha/beta release system. For that reason, the game won’t be out until it’s done.
PLZ Release it soon it Tyson! Your work is awesome so please just Release it soon.I know its Hard work,but please Release it.it doesn’t matter how much it costs ill Pay every Price!!!!!
I have so much respect for your work tyson. You have the skills i could only dream of having 🙁 They do have a point that you could release it and update when you want. I don’t know where you are with the game and if thats possible, but it looks amazingly fun. If you could do that though it would be super cool! (I will pay anything for the game.)
Thanks jrocks! The approval process on the iOS store rejects unfinished apps, so I won’t be able to release it until it’s done.
Guys relax about when this game is released, the past years in development hell has been worth it judging on how GREAT this game looks like already, I don’t care If this game is realeased in 2015 or up because every second, this game just gets better and better
But it could be getting better while we play it. I dont know where he is in development but it looks far past playable already. It is up to him, I just thought it was a good idea to release it and then update it routinly if he still works on it.
Yea that’s what I thought
Its totally playable.I agree You can release it Trust me,you are Doing a great great job you worked Hard enough on it.its already playable. You can still Release Updates After The Game is Out
Yes I know but after the game comes out, the people who want updates might be stupid enough to give his game a four star rating or lower based on what the updates they want it to be and the overall of the ratings would be a four and a half star rating while it should have been a full 5 stars, so what I mean is that give Tyson a few more years and the game would be completely FLAWLESS SO THAT IT WOULD BE THE MOST TOP RATED GAME IN THE APP STORE, A FULL FIVE STARS BABY!
I would rather play it sooner than later. It already looks amazingly cool. Besides who ever gives it less than five stars should die in a hole because they obviously don’t know how much goes into a game like this. I could get alot of people to buy the game and rate it 5 stars just to help tyson. Big name ios games like Clash of clans always update. Besides it won’t take years to perfect this game, it already looks far more than playable. It looks great and has more content in it already to keep people playing for months.
No, that’s kinda silly. Because you really don’t know if it’s done or not. I’m sure it IS great, but not there yet. Screenshots can be ever deceiving.
Too many games tend to follow what you’ve said, and don’t receive the promised updates, or just generally don’t work, generating a bad image which scars even a later finished work.
My advice to the developer, though I doubt he needs it- ignore the massed cries, instead take them as compliments. Take as much time as you need to get it how YOU want, not so much what everybody else does. You have a great vision and game, so don’t drag it down with release dates or unnecessary features. 🙂
I cant wait a „few years”longer im to excited!
Will there be a story that explains the hole Situation?
Who knows how far along he is. But i’m just saying if thats possible it would be amazing.
Tyson, did you fought of sewer systems? Maybe would be cool to explore them (Probably you fought of this idea yet).
Well, I just read your post about sewers, so it could be possible that you fought of sewers yet…Sorry
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SI TOTALMENTE 😀
The game will run on Windows XP ?? =D
minimum requirements?
This is the coolest game ever!!!!!!!!! How is developing going, like when do you think you’ll be done. If you like the idea of releasing it and updating it could you tell us sir. If you dont like it its up to you sir. I respect your work. Thank you
I love the look and im wondering if its gonna be on pc/mac and if so will it have multiplayer maybe 1-16 player on a server
Keep it up
Plus one more thing can you loot dead zombie bodies for weapons clothes ect.?
Tyson said you can loot them in future updates
Many months are left to be released?
I can’t wait to throw my money at you for this game, this looks so awesome and every time I check your blog it’s like you’re working on yet another awesome feature that makes me go “coooooool!!!” 🙂
IKR!!! This is an extremely awesome game! 😀
How is the development going Tyson sir?
How long till you think you might have a releasable version? Even just a big ranged estimate?
Technically if you could convert the app to an .ipa file then jailbroken iPods could install the ipa viva ifun box or ssh hosting just an idea for beta testing and letting others discover exploits in the game
No offense to Indie stone, but Zombox looks way more fun and interesting then Project Zomboid
That’s a tricky one. To be fair, nobody has actually played Zombox, and Zomboid is more of a sim rather than Zombox which appears to take a somewhat more lighthearted approach.
They will both be epic, but in different ways.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Hey, really impressed by your work so far. Just throwing a comment here to say that I, too, shall be keeping an eye on this project, and look forward to seeing how far this goes!
As far as development is concerned, I am curious what language you’re using, and whether you’re using any engines or libraries, or whether you’ve coded this entirely from nothing?
He is using Unity3d.
Ah, okay! Thanks for the answer 🙂
Sure bro! 😀
i cant wait for this game to come out but then again i can because every update that you put up tyson looks amazing keep up the great work!
Hmmm… Tyson didn’t replied a comment in a while… Something big is coming for sure! 😀
I really hope so! 😀
Esperemos que si 😀 jajaja
Yup
Absolutely amazing. This game looks like its gonna be stunning 😀
So all your work and coding is independent? If so, impressive! Is that a helicopter pad I see? I have a feeling that’s a hint toward helicopters… Or perhaps not haha. You know, it would be cool if sometimes you could find NPC soldiers at military bases and possibly pay them to follow you and help defend you. Tell me what you think if my suggestions 🙂
*Of my suggestions, sorry.
Nothing Happens!!!Whyyyyyy!!?!!
I DOON’T KNOOOOOOOW!!!*
*There is a tweet of Tyson saying “Updates coming soonish :)” soo yeah…
Will you add other vehicles, like helicopters, humvees, etc. Also, on the pc, will you implement some kind of multiplayer option, where we can roam the apocalypse with online friends? That would make this perfect.
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Iv realized the longer the updates come the better the updates are
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GAH I CANNOT WAIT ANYMORE!
What generation of ipod,iphone and ipad will it be playable in.
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