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Z-Swarm by TurboTartine

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made by TurboTartine for Ludum Dare 54 (EXTRA)

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Description

Find your way out of this zombie infested city. Keep in mind the infected are more numerous and aggressive by night. So when the sun goes down, avoid narrow streets and be sure to have enough space for the fight to come.

Gameplay

  • Day/Night Cycle
  • Enemy spawns endlessly but night waves are massive
  • Ammo is infinite
  • If (when) you are surrounded, you can dash through the horde (but dash consume stamina)
  • If you survive a fight, your life regen slowly after a while
  • You win the game when you find the extraction point (which is a helicopter of course !)

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Controls

Please note the experience is better with a Gamepad. The Keyboard/Mouse support is only here for people who don't have one. But Tween Stick Shooters are usually better with... two sticks ;)

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Background

I am usually a Unity developer but given the recent actuality, I thought the Ludum Dare would be a great opportunity to learn about Godot. Unfortunately, I could not finish the game soon enough, but Godot is more easy to learn than expected and by the end of the weekend, I was very close to something. So I put some extra work on it to be able to publish it to the Extra format. I hope you will enjoy it !

Known Issues

  • Sometimes keyboard inputs are messed up (you have to restart the game to solve it)
  • Sometimes, exit to the title screen from the pause menu crash the game
  • Zombies from previous game are not cleaned
Link https://jponzo.itch.io/z-swarm
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/z-swarm

Ratings

Given 23🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

Shaun Meechan
09. Oct 2023 · 12:25 UTC
I really enjoyed this! Props to you for trying Godot. I thought it was fun but maybe a little easy. I liked the controls and felt it played well. Nice audio and graphics as well.
Heuser
09. Oct 2023 · 13:29 UTC
Really Nice Game, i actually had fun playing it. Learning a new Engine might be better without that short of a Deadline :D so huge props to you.
Troy Korns
09. Oct 2023 · 13:56 UTC
Fun play through and good UI and clues for telling when things change, only wish was for a compass or something to know where to run for helicopter, but it was still fun just trying to find it
kulmajaba
09. Oct 2023 · 14:36 UTC
Solid shooter, proving that all you need for an enjoyable experience is good movement and shooting mechanics. The day/night cycle is very nice and the effects to go along with it work well.

I think I got lucky because I found the evac point after just one cycle, so the current gameplay might be a bit on the RNG side of things and giving some sort of clues to the player would be welcome (with the right balancing).
Griddolini
09. Oct 2023 · 15:14 UTC
This is a fun simple shooter. The day/night cycle is cool, i didnt see any bugs i don't think. I think the only big negative is that this game feels like the opposite of limited space, its big! haha
Hengen
09. Oct 2023 · 17:50 UTC
A surprisingly tense but fun game! Between the graphics, sound effects and controls (even controller support, which is always appreciated) the game feels really polished, especially considering the time constraints of a gamejam. Good job dude!
![win.png](///raw/66d/3/z/60152.png)
🎤 TurboTartine
10. Oct 2023 · 11:29 UTC
@shaun-meechan I'm glad you enjoyed it ! However audio, graphics and animations are from packs. I just tried to make a good integration of it. I hope I did not forget to opt-out from Audio and Graphics cathegories. Anyway thanks for playing.
🎤 TurboTartine
10. Oct 2023 · 11:36 UTC
@heuser Hehe thanks you ! Short deadline actually helped me not spending to much time on each feature. Without it I can easyly take 2 month juste on the camera and the character. But it depends on each person I suppose.
🎤 TurboTartine
10. Oct 2023 · 11:44 UTC
@troy-korns Actually I thought about that at start. But I never implemented it and as the developement progressed, I realized it would have been to easy to find the helicopter with a compass in such a small and simple level. But you're right if I keep working on the game, this is definitly a feature I need to implement. Thanks for the feedback
🎤 TurboTartine
10. Oct 2023 · 11:53 UTC
@kulmajaba Thanks you! That's true, the game is not well ajusted. Actually I expected the oposite. When I tested it I found it too hard to find the helicopter (so don't tell anyone, but I added a second helicopter on the other side of the map hehe). I'll have to work on that in the possible futur versions.
Mein-kun
10. Oct 2023 · 14:35 UTC
Good game! Liked it! High five! :)
p.s. Would nice to add info about rounds/process of the game.
🎤 TurboTartine
10. Oct 2023 · 16:16 UTC
@griddolini Yeah ! I wanted the player to feel trapped in the alleys surrounded by the zombies and the only way to escape was dashing through them. That was my original interpretation of "Limited Space". But it's never like in your head haha. I never found the right tune to make it happen. Maybe a more scripted approche and a more specific level design can achieve this. But I admit the theme doesn't really shine as it is. I hope you liked it anyway.
🎤 TurboTartine
10. Oct 2023 · 16:17 UTC
@hengen Thanks for taking the time to play until the end. And glad you liked it!
🎤 TurboTartine
10. Oct 2023 · 16:24 UTC
@mein-kun There is no actual rounds or scoring in fact. The only goal is to find the way out (which is an helicopter waiting for you somewhere in the map). But no way you guess it unless you read the full description page (and it's normal to not doing so hehe). The game should say it. That's true. Thanks for your feedback.
someone
11. Oct 2023 · 22:55 UTC
Looks nice, and felt good to play, at least with the mouse.
The camera changing orientation when going over the street lights was off putting.
Unfortunately the game would completely lock up for me whenever I killed a zombie.
```
ERROR: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'Godot.Timer' to type 'Godot.GpuParticles3D'.
at BloodEmiter._Ready() in D:\GodotProjects\rogue-z\Scripts\BloodEmiter.cs:line 12
```
I still managed to win just by running away though. The frame rate got pretty bad after a while though.
🎤 TurboTartine
12. Oct 2023 · 10:41 UTC
@someone Hi ! Thanks for playing. And sorry you experienced that. It's odd, I never saw this one. I have to take a look. Thanks for the report. For the framerate it's possible, I capped the maximum zombie number but I made the game on a very powerfull device and did not took the time to test it on a smaller config. So I chose the numbrer a bit blindly. I'm curious, what is your config ? (just to know how far I'am from a decent optimization level)
Hora-Timer
13. Oct 2023 · 14:26 UTC
Que legal! dar uma nostalgia parece gráficos de ps1 parabéns!
Bredera
15. Oct 2023 · 09:17 UTC
Great art style and simple but addictive gameplay loop. Would have loved to see a reticle to make it a bit easier to see where you are aiming. Music fit the game really well.

Awesome job!
🎤 TurboTartine
15. Oct 2023 · 09:56 UTC
@bredera Hi ! Thanks for playing and for the feedback ! Actually there is a laser pointer on the right click. While using a gamepad it shows up whenever you use the aim joystick. But for keyboard/mouse support it had no sens to use the mouseMoveEvent so I put it on the right click (which is less obvious).
Sozey
17. Oct 2023 · 17:01 UTC
Congratulations on achieving such a nice result on a new engine! The game is a ton of fun, and it looks good, sounds good and most importantly feels good to play. Good job!
T C
20. Oct 2023 · 21:24 UTC
Interesting one. Mowing down a ton of zombies was very fun. Eventually ended up winning, felt like I had a ton of space, though. But the zombie hoards at night certainly fixed that issue. Good work and good luck on getting 20 ratings!
LDJam user 376027
21. Oct 2023 · 18:02 UTC
nice game, please give us feedback, thanks