Game
DeadBase
13 years ago

Basic zombie AI, Path-finding and moaning!


Blargh. Today’s been all zombie AI, path-finding, collisions and instance deactivation madness hell crazy brain hurt.
I’ve finally implemented the sounds Brenton and I mashed up the other day (week?) for the zombies, they seem to moan randomly and die pretty efficiently now, and they also absorb bullets, so that’s good news.
Right now I’m making blood decals and stuff, conceptualising how bullet casings might fly around.

5d0c6057c98fc.png

The zombies now try to attack you (or move towards you, so far), next up it will probably be how the player takes damage, and giving the zombies shadows/legs etc.
After all that I’ll probably work on throwing the zombies into how the maps randomly generate, placing chunks of zombies or singles or whatever.

Damage will probably be in bites, like waiting for a timer to go off when you’re standing next to an infected.
I also set up some basic parenting so I might be able to make various types of zombies with different abilities (later!).

I can’t thank the guys on GameJolt’s chat, The GMC IRC, Twitter and the GMC enough for their incredible help with my AI and instance deactivation mess today.

Special thanks to FatalSleep, Derme302 and YellowAfterlife.
Which reminds me, I also made the credits today, just an RTF, but I’ll actually have to redesign it all and make some pretty images as well for a literal credits form, as a room sooner or later. (scrolling credits, and thumbnails with links?)

if peace == true
{ BlogPost(end) }



0 comments

Loading...

Next up

Sometimes the suction cup get sticky. Small animation I made in Blender after doing my tutorial on picking up/dropping objects in animations. Crate model by jQueary (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/game-ready-sci-fi-crate-d98deca6…).

Very ambitious construction going on in Planet Zoo on Plays today. We're tryin'. LIVE: www.twitch.tv/dreamhackplays

Made my first ever animation.

Here's a Fredbear sprite i made in Aseprite! I'm pretty proud of this!

(Btw, sorry for the double post! I'll try to post less)

The Authority decided to investigate the Basement and leads to recovering classified documents Fun fact: The building has 928 doors and not 1000 doors. #horror

Double Rainbow!!!

I made a small jungle house.

Annie of the stars

Sonic The Hedgehog style Super Smash Bros 4 Pixel art Gif.