Easterland: Plague of Zombies

Game Engine Works in Progress and Game Demos
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Now that it is my summer vacation, I was hoping to work on my robot game. Unfortunately I have a problem with it, it freezes when I work with it on my new laptop. So now I have to start over.

Even though it was really depressing, I think this one is going to be better. The hero you play is a cyborg bunny, and he is better animated than my other dood. The game will use basic mats and some textures (mainly for environment objects).

I have been posting a video progress of my game in another forum, so I’ll show all the videos all at once.

Story:
Easterland was at peace because the habitants knew the great eggs of Easterland were safe and sound. However, a sudden attack of zombies have destroyed Easterland’s peace. They have stolen every eggs in the land! Even the so called, Great Eggs of Easterland! Now you must take the eggs back from the scourge of zombies and rid Easterland of these monsterous beings!

Gameplay:
You play as a cyborg bunny and collect as many eggs as you can. I had hoped to make it so that you collect a number of eggs to unlock another stage but I do not know how to make variable not change when scene changes, so basically all stages will be available to play. Each level, you will have to collect a certain number of eggs from zombies to unlock the stage’s boss. Here I had hoped you collect a medium egg to unlock the next stage. Then if you unlocked all stages of the level, you go to the next level and etc. Instead now, like I mentioned earlier, all stages will be unlocked, and to unlock the boss of the stage you have to collect a number of eggs. Each stage will have a larger number off eggs to collect than a previous one. For example, one stage has only 10 eggs for you to collect in order to fight the stage’s boss. The net will be 20 and etc.

Anyways, enough talk, here are the game videos:

First Video:
just shows the robo bunny run thru a maze.

shows an unfinished stage selector, and new walking back and shooting animations. Shooting animation is meh.

shows the first stage you can play in, Eggdrop Forest

Easterland Dance Video 1!!!

Here are some screenies, sorry for the copy thing >.<

Here is the main menu, still working on it XD

Here is my cyborg bunny in the level selector striking a pose

Here is him running through the eggdrop forest in isometricesque camera mode

I am currently gonna be working on zombies so I can release a demo. I can release one now, but all you can do is play with the camera modes and walk around like in the videos :-\

But if you still want me to release a blend file then just say so.

Game is being made with blender 2.49. I am not good with texturing and doing all that fancy material stuff, epecially in the game engine :stuck_out_tongue:

u[date - 8/28/2009
Gameplay footage of finished Eggdrop Forest Stage with boss fight

update - 8/27/2009
First stage (Eggdrop Forest) finished! You can fight zombies and the stage’s first boss!

http://www.filefront.com/14413667/EasterlandPOZ.blend

There is background music for the stage selector and eggdrop forest stage, sound effects (made by my own voice edited with Audacity). However I still need a sound for the boss, UnDead Trent. Will post a game play video soon showing me play the stage and defeating the boss if you do not feel like downloading the game.

update - 8/22/2009
video showing boss animations

Update - 8/21/2009
Modelled the first stage boss. Has ‘appear’ animation and idle animation.
Click Here to see picture

Update - 8/16/2009
Added walking animations for zombies and they now chase you when you are near, in their sights, or shot at.
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMBVSBmNTQ

Update - 8/14/2009
Added download
http://www.filefront.com/14286583/EasterlandPOZ.blend

WASD is movement
1,2,3,4 is camera modes
Arrows control camera in free cam mode

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i like the bunny :smiley:

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Thank you mj.

Not much of an update, but here is one version of a zombie. It’s late, will add it to the scene and add some logic bricks to it. Tommorrow. Its summer vaca for me and I am getting excited to work on my new game :smiley:

http://i25.tinypic.com/wmh4ic.jpg

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Nice. Colors are vibrant and cheery. Is the lag just your screen recorder or is it the game

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recorder, and thanks.

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Can’t you make this Zombie be a live? For example walking or laughing? :eyebrowlift:

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Well, I have a youtube video to show my progress and ist still uplaoding, but I decided to uplaod blend so you can play it yourself XD

http://www.filefront.com/14286583/EasterlandPOZ.blend

WASD is movement
1,2,3,4 is camera modes
Arrows control camera in free cam mode

Zombies spawns at graveyards.

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Haha. When I read the title to this thread, I thought it was a connection between zombies and the resurrection of jesus on easter. lol Zombie jesus!
Cool work so far though.

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If you climb ontop of an egg and walk off of it, you hover in the air. Other than that it looks really good.

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man belnd is screwed up :frowning:

Well, im using servo controls And i didnt want the bunny to slide when he stops moving so i set the movement damping to .97 so the bunny wouldnt slide. BUT I made movement damp to like .1 and he slides and he STILL hovers/falls slowly. I haven’t mastered the game engine yet. This is only my second game I am trying to make since the first can’t be worked on anymore :frowning:

and thans for feedbak

Anyways, not update, its just for fun XD

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Now this is EXACTLY the kind of weirdness I expect from a GIR fanatic.
:smiley:

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And i didnt want the bunny to slide when he stops moving

i think that this thread should help…

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@What Name? lol im not that much of a fanatic XD but i do luv him :3

@Cray thanks alot i totally forgot about force limits, just have to know how to use it now XD thanks.

A video showing chasing zombies with their walking animation :smiley:

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sweet i like how you swich to first or 3d person view

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Video progress:

Zombies can now attack and you can die. The next update will be the bunny killing them, and the stage’s boss! Then I can finally post a playable demo where you can kill something yeaa!!! So it’ll be a while.

I’m still having problems with the hovering, haven’t fixed that yet. I tried Cray’s solution but didn’t work. Worked with my zombies though, but i still had to raise the movement damp coz if you shove them they move like a puck on ice :stuck_out_tongue: I’ll fix that at the end XD

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Aww… I can’t edit anything. I wanted to see if I could learn something from this :<
Phil, can you give me an editable blend file? I need to experiment with the laws of plagiari-- er, loading screens.
^^ Hehe
I just wanted to add a bit of content and maybe improve a few things.
FYI I am a trustworthy member of this forum. O-o

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blend file can be edited even with auto run, just open up blender first, then load the game ;o I am uploading a copy now though, so if u still can’t open up the one i posted, then i’ll post it in here.

EDIT: http://www.filefront.com/14327941/EasterlandPOZ.blend

update - 8/22/2009
video showing boss animations

update - 8/21/2009
modelled the boss! Have is ‘appear’ animation and idle. Right now the screenie is just his idle.
http://i26.tinypic.com/34xiz69.jpg

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u[date - 8/28/2009
Gameplay footage of finished Eggdrop Forest Stage with boss fight

update - 8/27/2009
First stage (Eggdrop Forest) finished! You can fight zombies and the stage’s first boss!

http://www.filefront.com/14413667/EasterlandPOZ.blend

There is background music for the stage selector and eggdrop forest stage, sound effects (made by my own voice edited with Audacity). However I still need a sound for the boss, UnDead Trent. Will post a game play video soon showing me play the stage and defeating the boss if you do not feel like downloading the game.
I know they still have that hover effect. The Cray’s soultion worked on the zombies and helped me limit their speed, but didnt work on the bunny. I will try and find a fix when I get this game close to finish.