ZombieZurvivor by Mads

Power is valueable, do not run out...
ZombieZurvivor is close to a classic shoot and survive but with a twist. Only wielding a flashlight and a photon gun, both using power, you are stuck in a maze. Try to survive for as long as possible.
This is the very first contribution to the Ludum Dare game jams from my side. I finally managed to convince one of my friends to join me at LD39 and an actual playable game was the result. Despite only having one and a half day of development I am satisfied with the result. I will sure bring along a few more friends and book the entire period for pure development at LD40.
Coauthor: Tobias Friis
Update: No rating in humor. Spelling errors in this description.
| HTML5 (web) | http://mabl.dk/ZombieZurvivor/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/zombiezurvivor |
Ratings
| Overall | 543th | 3.167⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 503th | 3⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 779th | 2.333⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 343th | 3.611⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 636th | 2.944⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 167th | 3.611⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 477th | 3.118⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
Even if you don't want to implement a healthbar, I think some visual effect for lower zombie health (e.g. they lose an arm) would be a good idea, as it wouldn't give too too much away but it would make the game more fun.
One potential problem I see is that there is no indication if new batteries even spawn in, so I don't actually know if this game can be rightly qualified as a high-score game, because if new batteries don't spawn in than you necessarily will run out of power...
The main problem I had was that sometimes I would be wandering around forever without any zombies or batteries, and then suddenly there would be a bunch of zombies and I would find some batteries, and then it would become silent again - I don't know if this is intentional, but it is kind of boring because there's nothing to do while there aren't zombies on screen except to wander around, and the world is honestly too uninteresting for exploring it to be very fun.