Ten1Z1 by Lumous
Ten1Z1
LD41 Game Jam Entry - Combine 2 incompatible genres
Ten1Z1 is a combination of Tennis and Zombie Shooter. The mechanics of the game follow the rules of tennis. Winning a set has a special reward.
Story so far
Our start begins as single zombie infects the crowd at a tennis match. As the match goes on for days, zombies start pouring in at night. You must choose between scoring and protecting the crowd from the zombies! Which will you choose?
Controls
- WSAD / Arrows - Move around the court.
- Space Bar - Jump
- Left Click - Hit the ball normally.
- Right click - Hit the ball with gusto.
Art
3D Art by Lumous 2D Art by Hobbes & Jen Mei
Programming & Sound
Lumous (Zombie Sound is from FreeSoundEffects.com)
Tools used
Houdini, Photoshop, 3dsMax, Substance Designer, Unity3d, Adobe Audition, FL Studio
Known Bugs
- Sound does not seem to work in the CHROME WebGL Version - Recommend running it on PC or Firefox.
- Sometimes the ball will double bounce right away causing you to lose the ball
- Sometimes the ball will bounce outside the world, causing you to get stuck waiting for the ball to be called "OUT".
- The game never ends (its goes on and on my friends)
Mac version is untested.




Ratings
| Overall | 585th | 3.45⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 548th | 3.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 769th | 3.136⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 400th | 3.833⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 188th | 4.136⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 677th | 2.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 303th | 3.425⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 606th | 3.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 4🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
[Edit]
Wow. Graphics are nice. Would be funny, if the crowd was attacked. :laughing:
=D
Had quite fun playing though, and the "surprise" for winning a set is also quite nice. :D Good job overall!
During my play, I felt like the strong shot was pretty much useless, maybe a lob would have been better?
The Zombie spawning patterns reward winning a game at certain times of day. Since the day/night cycle is real-time instead of turn based, you can strategically hold your serve to win the game when the zombie population is at its peak.
Serving is one of the weaker features of the game really, since the AI seems pretty much incapable of returning a well placed shot. If you want, you can play it like a shooter of sorts by continually re-tying the game on the serve while alternately taking down zombies.
The Art is very cohesive and I really like the style it has going for it. The sound effects that I noticed are good, but there isn't any music, and I feel like the audience and zombies could be more vocal. I found the tennis itself quite challenging, at least on the return game. It would have felt more complete if there was some form of victory / defeat, whether that be at 100 zombies 6 games, or whatever. I really liked the way this tackled the theme though, you have zombies being zombies, tennis players being tennis players, and a game win mechanic which helps unify them.
I didn't find much use for the strong shot, especially given that the AI didn't seem to cope very well with soft shots nearer the net anyway. It was also quite difficult to deal with balls being left in play after a point is scored, as the AI had a tendency to fire them at me.
love the idea, good graphic, nice gameplay. Good work!