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27
Aug

The Last Stand: Union City - Alpha 0.95

   Posted by: Con in Game Design, Last Stand

Yes, we’re still in Alpha guys.

There’s still features to go in and until the game is feature complete, the game world building and such won’t start. A lot of the problems with the game are still hanging around, festering up the place but I’m working through them.

The big new feature is the “Weapon Variation” model I’ve added. Each of the current 27 base weapons now has at least 2 variants, in some cases there are up to 5. Overall there’s now 163 different variants in the game and that’ll expand as I add more base weapons into the game.

The weapon variations include:


Damaged - Affects accuracy and damage.
Scoped - Adds scope for higher accuracy. Available for most firearms.
Suppressed - Adds suppressor for lower noise. Available for most firearms.
Military - Higher damage and increased mag size.
Spec Ops - Adds a scope and a suppressor.
Extended Mag - For most firearms, increased mag size.
Dull - For bladed weapons, reduces damage.
Sharpened - For bladed weapons, increases damage.
Heavy - For blunt weapons, increases damage.
Custom Stock - For firearms, increases accuracy.
Lightened - For firearms, reduces the base weight of the item.

New Features:
- Zombie director remembers zombies between close rooms.
- Zombie director remembers how long it has been since you were in a room.
- Early early version of the Zombie Dogs, old graphics, they get stuck on boxes.
- M249 (incomplete, needs sound / animation)
- UMP 45 (incomplete, needs sound)
- Chainsaw
- Katana
- Fire Axe
- UZI (incomplete, needs sound / animation).
- Lots of new interface sound effects.
- Damage HUD elements.
- Early demo of one of the music tracks.

Notes:
* Survivors are turned OFF for this version, trying to get an idea of the balance without them at the moment.
* Added command fullAmmo()

PLAY THE LAST STAND: UNION CITY - ALPHA 0.95

If you have a BUG, then you can report it here: Report a Bug. I do read through these when I’m going about bug fixing.

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17
Aug

Welcome to Union City

   Posted by: Con in Game Design, Last Stand


Above is the area map for Union City. The map itself was originally 90% done for another game (organised crime, run the city type thing) quite a while back, but the game’s concept wasn’t strong so I ditched it. This thing took close to 3 weeks to complete as it’s all drawn from scratch in Photoshop. I never want to draw another roof top air conditioning unit again.

Check out the full size version for more details. This is about how far in you’ll be able to zoom in game.

Just to be clear, you won’t be able to enter every building, this is NOT a 1 to 1 representation of the locations you’ll explore. This’ll be broken up into 15 or so different areas and each area will consist of a few screens. Of course, each screen will consist of a number of buildings to enter. So it’ll be plenty big enough.

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12
Aug

The Last Stand: Union City - Alpha 0.94

   Posted by: Con in Game Design, Last Stand

Progress has been a bit slow the last few weeks as I work my way through some tax stuff and other bits and pieces, but some progress has happened. I’m almost at the point where I can start actually building the world, getting the story sorted out and actually structuring the game.

New Features:
- Start of the quest system / NPCs.
- Explosives, only one weapon at the moment but the code for all types is there now.
- Changed the weight system to stop you dead when “Overloaded”.
- Changed the light system to have 28 different states rather than 11.
- Revolver weapon type added.
- Grenade Launcher weapon type added.
- New ‘exploded’ death animations.
- Added screen shake to weapon firing / explosions. Can turn off in the options.

To test all the weapons use the console (~ or F1) and type in “battleReady()” without the quotes and hit enter. This’ll give all the weapons, which will most likely overload your character meaning you’ll need to trash a bunch of them before you can move.

*Added F1 as an alternative console key.

*The console is for testing only, it won’t be available in the final game.

PLAY THE LAST STAND: UNION CITY - ALPHA 0.94

If you have a BUG, then you can report it here: Report a Bug. I do read through these when I’m going about bug fixing.

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22
Jul

The Last Stand: Union City - Alpha 0.92

   Posted by: Con in Game Design, Last Stand

It turns out not all survivors have managed to live up to their namesake. Zombies throughout Union City can be found carrying backpacks loaded up with the supplies you need to get by.  I’ve also added some survivor AI code to allow them to use melee weapons and the early stages of the “Time” functions to wait and sleep in areas.

New Features:
- Zombies drop loot items now.
- Survivors have melee ability now (still needs work).
- Time menu available for waiting and sleeping (still needs work).
- Raised level cap to 40.

Known Issues:
- Loot drops sometimes land behind objects and in the area of doors, making them impossible to pick up.

This’ll be the last Alpha for a while, I haven’t got too many more big features that need loads of testing, so the next time you see the game it’ll be heading towards it’s Beta stages.

PLAY THE LAST STAND: UNION CITY - ALPHA 0.92


Once again, DO NOT post comments with questions about stuff that’s NOT actually in the Alpha already or about release dates. I don’t have time to answer a bunch of little questions individually, sorry.


If you have a BUG, then you can report it here: Report a Bug. I do read through these when I’m going about bug fixing.

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