Welcome to Union City

Looks sweet!

Very cool man!!! Very straight forward and easy to navigate. I can’t wait to use it.

my god is huge

Holy crap man, nice map.

If you can’t be screwed doing something like this get an artist, if you need cash just whore out your website to advertising. But man is this good you must be really determined to make this great.

That freaking looks damn nice.

Wow. Too cool. Are we really going to be able to navigate through all of that? I mean, with the blurred edges as the borders, I presume.

Like I said, it’s broken up into 15 or so different areas.
- Con

Is each area relatively big? And will they be level scaled? As in will going to the area with an army base or police station be noticeably harder to get through than, say a random urban neighborhood?

looks epic Con, I’ve played thru LS1 and 2 about 10 times each. But is there going to be an, idk, subway system or something? Or is it going to be like Dead Frontier where it takes hours and piles of ammo to get from one point to another? although, the alphas are already better than DF, i don’t think it’ll be NEARLY as boring. Thanks for spending the time to make LS-UC great, no ways is this gonna disappoint

I’m still sorting out the travel system. It’ll most likely require you to move through a street scene to unlock a different area. Once unlocked, you’ll then be able to fast travel to the locations.
- Con

Haha is that football stadium gonna have a crapload of runners? or like a reference to the Zombieland intro where its fulla fat zeds? xD epic man, take ur time, no rush brah.

wow. Too cool for school I say.
Too awesome for the awesomest of awesomness. AWESOME!! will there be any secret areas, AKA ones that require a survivor’s quest done, or maybe you have to go on a certain site?

u should probs go right ahed and splatter a bit of blood on that map………. or alot

Looks great, I just wanted to know, will there be any events on the shoreline or anything? I think it would be pretty funny if you could go “play” on the beach for a while…

Very cool Con.
Is the whole thing going to be traversable? ie: the suburbs, inner city, waterfront, little island thing.

Will we be able to clearly tell the difference between one spot and another? Or will it all look roughly the same, just a different location.

Good work anyway.
(That Organised Crime type game sounded pretty interesting ;P)

that is incredible detail well done

By the way, how did you make this kind of map? I have been looking do to something similar. If it isn’t very easy, I could pay you to do it for me?

Sorry I didn’t post this before.

Photoshop, house by house. It’s not easy at all, took 3 weeks full time at least. I don’t do contract art, sorry.
- Con

Is it gonna be MMORPG if it’s so huge?

HELLO POLAND!

No sir.
- Con

omg i was playing alpha .94 one hour and the next this! nice map though.

WHY DO U have to make so many awsome things con:/+i tried to draw a 3d zombie yesterday even that was hard and ur making that huge map!”#¤&/awsome great job con!

this game is gonna be better than xbox360/playstion3slim games, do u know that!
isnt that amazing!that means <—he cant believe hes own Eyes cOn.anyway keep up the great awsome 10xawsomness work

lol wow nice map but where’s the apartment you sat at in the alphas? where is it in the map lol.

this is awesome, love the map. i can’t wait to play it.

there is an area at the bottom of the map to the right of the river that looks odd, and doesn’t line up, just thought i’d mention it

omfg, really awesome!
But why is some of the left part blurred?

It has been redacted by the UCPD.
- Con

I just can’t keep thinking about how HUUUGE Union City is.
I wanna have a party in the lighthouse

It’s not a lighthouse. It’s a statue.
- Con

wow it looks so great u realy id a good job on it details are also nice i realy like the stadium cant wait to tackle those zombies hahahahah

is this city based on a real 1 like liberty city is based on newyork?

oh jeah and can u enter the statue that would be awsome or you could put a little easter egg in it

i love the fact that this city is going to be in chaos with all cars and stuff

excuses for my bad grammar but i live in holland

This is epic! I cant wait to go to the football stadium, i hope we get to see zombie jockeys.

I know this isn’t a suggestion box, but I didn’t know where else to put this. If you think it would be worth it and could find a way, you should contact Microsoft and make them a deal with putting this as an arcade game for Xbox 360.

Looks absolutely awesome, can’t wait until release. You’re my favorite flash developer (Valve of flash developing I’d say), keep up the good job.

P.S. I’m blind or there is no Donate button on your website?

wow nice map of union city this is much larger than what i expected CON surely this game will be a hit.. im just wondering whats that oval building??? is that a track and field? just asking…
-Mark

Just fantastic.

I’m sorry that you had to do it, i think you feel sick now. But it won’t be the same feeling next time, i’m sure.

Get well clear and have a nice week. (& work for sure) .

~d3wd

hey con, i see a river, will one of the sections be called the “___ river?” and will ther be any zombies in the river?

Holeee crap. The whole thing is gonna be accessible? JEEZ. It’s hard to grasp the amount of work you must be putting into this. I salute you, Con. Take as much time as you need.

Thanks for the huge play area, Con. I get so tired of beating games really fast. They just don’t make games long enough. You’re doing an excellent job and I can’t wait to see the finished product.

Wow, things like this make me wish I could draw. Con, awesome work. Awesome work. AWESOME WORK.

I can’t wait for this to come out.

Organised Crime? Dammit Con you just reminded me of Mafiya 2. Sick of waiting for it.

Really good work

Yo con, this looks incredibly awesome
I saw a previous comment about the travel system..
I do think it would be extremely uber-cool, if the trave system did have something to do with like the subway system, using trains to get to one area to another..I doubt im the only person that thinks this
It could also be cool, if you may have to fight off zombies, in the while travelling, such as them coming from the roof, or smashing through the windows……

THIS IS NOT A SUGGESTION BOX or a Q&A SESSION – KEEP IT RELEVANT

Yeah i know, sorry, i just thought it was a pretty amazing idea….

Wow, such a large area for exploration! Awesome! You said 15 areas right? Will each area have some theme or art style to it? Also how will movement between areas be handled? Will each house individually be open to searching? Thanks for the update Con, eagerly awaiting the release of the game, even if it’s not this year. Game will still be EPIC. Btw have you read World War Z by Max Brooks?

That is freaking nice

Awesome, awesome map. Even if it isn’t similar to it, it reminds me of San Fierro… times…

When you check the map… Will it display your exact position or just indicate in which “area” you are? Or will it display no information as to your whereabouts and you’ll have to figure it out yourself?

Will we find (in-game) a random graffitti saying “It took me three weeks full time to draw the f***ing map”?

hey out or all these buildings how many can i navigate though

Wow the stadium is really small from zooming out but looks enormous on zooming in! Anyway Con do we need to select of which block or houses to begin? or is it just randomly selected

Speaking of the transportation system, will it have an underground/railway system at all?

Thanks for using my name in your alpha, woot! This looks pretty sexy too.

Ok so the statue should be a city, stadium should be a trade center, and quests involve moving goods from Stadium to Statue. High five

*looks at map*

*dies of awesomeness*

Ohhhh I cant wait for this…
My first goal will be go to the Stadium

Cheers from Brooklyn! This is going to be so awesome! Maybe cats as well as dogs? They’d be way more fun to hit with the M24

Looks incredible! Hold onto your Butts, Time for some Zombie killing madness.

Hey Con nice map you made keep it up but there’s a question I need answered probably you won’t and I bet you answered this already. So how are we going to get to place to place like you said there are about 15 areas how are we gonna get to let’s say that little island when we’re all the way in the corner of the map? I just wanna know if we can get there fast enough I don’t wanna have to walk all the way there you know.

Damn and i thought it would be somewhat the mapsize of 2 combined but this is pretty damn big. Is fast travel the same as Fallout 3 or are there indicated things like a car or bus?

I like the way this is going. I have played most of your games, one that i really enjoyed was that mafia type one, cant remeber the name, but it was a large map and lots of game time.

on a side note, i was wondering if your character in the game would have a house, or a hide out? some sorta main base or outpost where you could do all your trading?

Great map but I got one question though.. I mean in last stand 1 you had to survive 20 days (or something) and for last stand 2, you had to go to union city before a certain amount of days. but in last stand: union city, how do you sort of survive the game? how do you escape? by boat? by some sort of helicopter or plane? or is it a secret?

Wow thats HUGE!!! that alot of detail,nice

Man this shit looks really cool
I have been waiting for a new last stand, and now its coming.

Just wondering,
Is that little island the statue of liberty or something?
and lets say, when i go deeper in the city will zombies get harder? or will there just be alot more?
sorry about the long comment, i just really want to play

This is gonna be epic. Imagine the size of the city is gonna be. I’m just wondering how you’ll move from one side of the street to another, or go “north”.

Very nice. Can’t wait for this.
It’d be great to draw on it, in-game, to pinpoint locations and such. :3

3 things. #1, the map looks AWESOME!
#2, are we going to be able to go into all of those buildings? #3, with all of your great work, have u thought about maybee geting a contract with microsoft of sony to make xbox live arcade games or somthing?

I cant wait Con I check back on your website everyday and every week or so you amaze me with your fine art ..

damn i feel sorry who lived there so many people so many zombies i bet there are people making the statue a fortress

Nice map now we can look where we are at in union city now its starting to get intresting

There sure are alot of bridges. Personally i think the places where most survivors would be headed according to the would be
1. Statue Island (probably the easiest to defend… just blow the bridge)
2. The Stadium
3. The Docks

Good work Con! I think it’s brilliant a very well thought, but I also think you should reconsider 2 things. 1. Is The Stadium right size? I would say that it should be slightly bigger. 2. Add second bridge to the little island on the east or at least some docks, cause there is always another way to reach island than the only bridge. Cheers!

its a statue i thought it was a asylum you know zombie/crazies

Con its huge, now is every building accessible? If they all are then holy crap your job is hard.

epic how many survivors will there be and how many can you take with you and will there be survivor gangs?

Is this going to be a bit like that new game, “zombies took my daughter”? the map looks huge!

Game looks like its going to be awsome. The map is massive, i’ll probly never get to search it all before the game ends.
I guess this also means no army base that was in Last Stand 2.

So were you that kid in school who was always drawing constantly? Either way, this is raw. And this is going to be a flash game right? I think you have already surpassed some of the console games.

so the travel system will be like fallout 3

Quite the map Con, interesting layout. NYC give you inspiration?

could we get to the island? PWEASE?!?!?

hi con nice map must have taken forever to draw that. this is way better than your other games bye!

I cannot wait aque for complete this one

Is it possible to go to all sides as the statue or the stadium?

Con it’s my birth-day in aug.17

I’ve got some bad news, you missed your birthday.
- Con

Wow. 2 posts while I was away. Very cool. Please put the arena into the game for variety and zombie football players, cheerleaders, and mascots.

Also maybe make a downloads page or another blog post with my background and that one you gave me a while back:
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5079/tlsbg.jpg
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2567/tlsucbgv2.png

So every building and house will be on the map, that would be impressive.

What, no.
- Con

How would you do the moving through corners in the streets since its a platformer.

Hey Con! I have an issue with the hole opening the flash settings menu before starting the game. Are you going to fix this, or will it be in the final game?

After all, you made it clear that one person isn’t that big of a deal in the forums

Email me with specifics.
- Con

amazing map con, you really did it this time. great job, just one question though and yes i know its not a q&a seesion but, did the ucpd really redact the map? cause of like security stuff? just curious.

Hey con, I was just wondering since you made such a in depth map how will the surviver locations work. Will there be like small camps, larger barracaded areas, or like just a bunch of small 1-3 man groups.

when i first looked at this, i thought it was Seahaven from the Truman Show. i still do think it reminds me of it.

I KNOW that I am slow, but I just realised that it seems to be based off New York City!

Neat

Great work. Can’t wait to play the final game.
Best of luck with it

Amazing map. But it’s missing one thing. A graveyard! : ) That would be the best area ever! LOL!
Just amazing on the detail. Again, you blow me away with your arsenal of skills. Looking forward to this game.

In regards to the city being likened to New York, i thought i would mention this, there is a Union city in New Jersey and 5 blocks south east from downtown Union City is 10 Jefferson St, Weehawken, NJ. which works out fine cuz thats someplace i wouldn’t mind having destroyed by zombies. also in the comedy central show “Ugly Americans” New Jersey is mostly inhabited by zombies.
Coincidence?… yeah, probably.

Coincidence?… 100%
- Con

When you said big you weren’t kidding!!
looks easy to get lost in union city, I bet since most of the ppl turned into zombies that you can findyour way a little bit faster. Also when will you be adding grenades? (like molotolvs and maybe a frag)

reminds me of pacific city for some reason

Oh man that original game sounded awesome!!!! you have to make it after TLS

@spectre: yeah i remember that movie, it was pretty good……… yeah, it does look like that island….weird…

actually i agree with slim on the graveyard thing, could picture some gothic girl giving u a quest relating to it, and as you walk by graves have zombies start to rise up from them

I hope the football field will be one of the fifteen stages in the game. I mean hey, nothing makes you run faster in a forty yard dash with zombies. hahaha, okay bad joke

I cannot wait for this game to be finished, it is going to be EPIC!!

So, are there only 15 areas in the entire game? Or are you just going to start with 15 areas, then add on?

You will make some challenges, like, there’re some survivors in a police station and they dont want you to enter, they say you got to be a cop to enter, find the clothes, wear it and they let you enter, i think it makes it interesting but the games looks awesome anyways

Can you highlight areas and give more depth? Like settlements?

The map was epic .. I jizzed in my pants =D

looks like Chicago much? or even manhatten, anyways good JOB!!!

Thanks 4 all the hard work on this dude.

Wow. I can pretty much guarantee I would’ve lost my mind after drawing the first couple buildings. Is the image of the map engraved into your mind, because I’m pretty sure that’s all I would be able to see after working that long on it.

Anyways, looks like it’s going to be a fun place to explore, dividing it up is a good idea, so it doesn’t get too overwhelming.

Around what area of this map is the street from the Alphas located on, or is that just a platform for testing?

The area that’s in the game now won’t be in the final game.
- Con

Con, please dont overwork urself, this game looks way to beast to let ur death ruin it lol. The organized crime game does sound sweet, but im taking it that all thoose white squares on the roofs are the AC units? Also that island…has only one road, is that our destination of survival?

CON this is freaking awesome!!!!!!! wow i could never go through with all of this i would of quit a month ago! nice job! my name is THE_LAST_STAND_RULEZ i made that account just so i could rate 10/10 and comment how awesome it is every day MAN YOU ARE AWESOME!

[It’s not a lighthouse. It’s a statue. ]
[- Con ]

Still wanna have a party in it.

ACtually, everybody told that it is a very good and HUGE game map! Ilove this game. and i wish it will have HUGE scenario

Holy shiat.

that is impressive.

sweet my man keep up the good work

I wounder if I’ll find football armour in that football stadium.

When this game comes out, I might just try to find it on the PS3′s Web Browser just to see if it could work on a PS3 controller. That would be epic.

Great job Con! I like how you put detail into it. Like drawing “roof top air conditioning units!”

Please don’t cause mental and emotional injury to me. That was just for funnnn.

To the mall I go to re-enact a scene from a movie

Have you thought about the map and they Day/Night cycle?

Have you thought about it?
- Con

resident enders hmmmmmmmmm

You’ve probably been asked a thousand times mate, but I’m just curious to know if you have any ideas as to when you’ll be finished?

Or, a better question would be:
How far in are you, and how much is there left to go?

I’ve been asked so many times I have forgotten what those words mean.
- Con

How navigate?

con you are like the bioware of flash games… (no homo) if you get what i mean

Lol this looks quite amazing Con, you added alot of detail and i see quite a few areas that could be a military base, a holdout point, or something. Also i saw you posted something about not sure how the traveling was gonna work, were you thinking of making cars that you can drive around?

Jesus Con, it’s simply awesome. Just can’t wait for the full game. It’s gonna be TOTALLY awesome!

Hmmm, it looks good, and I mean really good. I have to admit Im a bit impressed. But I have a question, how are we gonna unlock these areas, is it by us leveling up, killing zombies, or something else?

It took only three weeks to do that? You must have to slow your mouse down sooooooooooo much.

yo, con!
Sweet, looks awesome. can’t believe so much detail went into this, will there be like secret hidden spots in the game that have like beast guns that p0wnz0rs z3dz0rs like rpgs and yo-yos and stuff? just wondering.

Sorry Con, I’m on my school days… I can’t report some bugs but… I’ll just do somethin’ big to make it up to you… BTW Nice..

This is to much…

Yo….with the map….I’m guessing the beta or a very good alpha will be out sooner or later…. Thank you for your time ~Shaggin2dopeyDopeDope~

P.S. With you presenting this map…. in-game, will it be the way of traveling to different areas?

Con, really? Sarcasm? Has 10 years of flash game design turned you into such an asshole? It is kind of funny, but I have decided to take offense. Shame on you, Con. Shame.

@ comment 111

Oh come on Shifty, it was a legitimate question friend. Have you thought about the logistics of making an effective day and night cycle on that level?

- Con

I think that if you have such a big map wouldn’t this game take at least 10 minutes to load on slow computers? The size of the file would have all of the places, random zombies, supplies, survivors, and all of the other details that would take up a lot of space and time to load on my computer or would it?

nice. you even put a monument on that island. let me guess. that will be the city hall location or something like that.

Hey this map looks EPIC!!! i just wanted to know is there going to be some travel system like a subway, or is it going to be like Fallout 3 where once you visit a place you can fast travel to it instantly.

wow, very nice cannot wait!!!!!!!

I don’t like that little island, i think that area is going to be a pain in the ass

so what’s the story gonna be? Is it going to be like fallout 3 and you go to a person for a mission or is it one big mission or is it going to be just a survival?
Either way, the map looks awesome!

cool map, I’m going to got to he island and either blow-up the bride or block it =D if only we could really do that =) sometimes i want a zombie-apocalypses to happen so i uber-survive =D can’t wait for the full game/next update, also i can’t wait for Halo: Reach , I pre-ordered it =D

Zomgs, i LOVE ur games, i LOVE zombie games, and i LOVE this style of zombie game. I mean, it’s gonna like RIVAL chuck norris dude! talk abouht epic!

This might be a stupid question, and if so, excuse me for my ignorance, but will there be a MAIN story line, or just quests from different people in different areas (thats not exactly linked)?

Holy balls batman! Dude why does everyone need AC? >.> Be real humans and take the heat! oh btw Love the games!

Thanks for spending your time to make this game :O

looks like 3 amazing places for boss fights. the lower west side park, the football stadium and the island.

@the-dog, i roundhouse kick you upside the head and feed you to the upcoming zombie dogs…

Wow, can’t wait for this game to be released! I’m so pumped for the beta, its going to be an open beta like the alpha right?
whatever you decide i love your work, keep it up!

Hey!!!Nice work with the map and the game.Watching the map more closely i noticed that it would have been great and fit great as a top down shotter game…maybe a new game in future?Nice work again.

SO MANY FALLOUT REFRENCES

wow so mach comments and the game is look real awsome! i just cant wait…

OMG this is so much more fun than Dead Frontier! I hope your still enjoying yourself with your family to. Also BTW you should make kid zombies.

Travelling from one part of the city to another will affect time? There will be random encounters with enemies or survivors?

@chuck norris I said it RIVALS you wich means it doesnt quite overcome chuck norris’ awesomeness, but comes close. still though con, keep up the good work! whens ur next alpha coming out? i check here multiple times each day, and i even made it my homepage.

@chance, i really wouldn’t go that far, i used to play deadfrontier alot, the alpha for last stand isn’t nearly as big, no offence con.

Hey Con, map looks great, don’t think I’d have the patience to work on something like that for so long. But anyways, I couldn’t help but wonder what happened to your original idea of using practically anything for a weapon? Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like you just scrapped it from what I’ve seen. I understand entirely how long it would take to use such a system, but I was just curious since I never read anything about it. Also, when are we going to see the fat grandma zombie? That thing was hilarious haha.

Can’t wait to see more work from you!

Hey Con, I was just wondering if there is a link to any of your art folios, or minor productions of yours.
I’d like to spread it around to some people via email or something of the sort.
Thanks

Not really, the Games page is the best place for it. I don’t have an art-folio really.
- Con

wow WOW wow you are a REALLY good artist you know that?

@the dog, still wrong and by the way you said rivals , was most likely meant as in a chance to be better then him, an early alpha in a 5-6 screen alpha isn’t close to chuck norris who has proved to been quite popular, in his tough guy image…

the blood is on your hands you bastard die die die

Are you threatening me, sir / madam?
- Con

guerilla g, do you have a problem? i think you need to sit down and take your meds….oh and make sense.

hello, Will you start off in a random house or just a specific house?

You’ll start in a specific place.
- Con

For the first time today I sat down and actually scoured over your map. I looked at all the roads, buildings and yes the rooftop ac units. I must say I’m impressed. You must be a saint when it comes to patience, either that or your OCD. Probably some sort of mixture of both. Anyway, You put in some serious amount of time into this. It looks like quite the work of art.

Thanks, I’m definitely obsessive, don’t know about the compulsion part.
- Con

uh… con i think guerila G (comment # 149) is talking to the zombies. . . .

great map! so, i was thinking about it, and i wanted to ask you,will we be able to fortify a base of some sort? like we can chose a location (not just random house, but like a abandoned building [police station, church, ect..]) for us to come back to before the ends if we chose to?

by the way, i feel bad for you about all the trolls on this forum

on behalf of every one i’d like to say……….CON! YOU ROCK! we all apreciate youre trying to get this done, and i’d rather its was a slow release and it loads better, than a fast and crappy release.

oh yeah, comment 72. chaos dude saying PWEASE? lol

Its very well made and the alpha is going nicely! I see you made a few nods to fallout, the bottlecap reference was nice. and the 5.56 ammo you dont have a weapon that uses it in the aplha

Somewhat off topic, sorry, but they’re bringing back the faction system in Fallout New Vegas. Are there going to be factions in this game? Anyways, great work on the map, I probably would have given up after 5 or so buildings. Good luck, and god bless you.

Sean

Those suburbs are awe-inspiring!

Wow…. I never thought i would ever put suburbs and awe-inspiring in the same sentence before….

Looks awsome bro

My God, it’s full of lights.

-End Transmission….

my mind=blown

Con, when the game is finished, you DEFINITEVILY deserve vacations and a BIG reward. Seriously.

oh shit i forgot about the q&a thing yeah sorry i still think people would be bogged down in the stadium most likley a heli pad there for evac or something

Awesome map, I’ve always wondered how advertisements work. Like in a game preloading ad, for every person that visits do you get like, 50 cents, or do they have to click on it to make you money?

Also, my soul yearns for this game. No pressure, of course

My main question is, will we be able to go to that small island? i’d love to hide out there at times.

lol i never knew the pentagon was in union city, i thought it was in D.C…. lolwhatever.

Yeah, except the Pentagon is….pentagon shaped?
- Con

it is pentagon shaped, its a five sided building between the stadium and the island, and i little north. lol what else kind of a building is pentagon shaped? a stop ‘n’ shop?

Hah, so it is. I thought you were talking about the one on the island. Think I intended that to be a hotel tower.
- Con

when will this map be used

Hahaha… Pentagon shaped..

And I just realized that there aren’t any government (looking) buildings on this map. Whats the deal?

Very cool! i like the little island off to the left, and the big stadium would be an awesome Survival Mode place!

holy crap thats a big map not trying to start a longass q&a here but will there be bad guy gangs that have gotten stronger because of union citys downfall if so will you be able to fight them

So, Con, is this your birth-day gift for me?

will the docks be a possible alternate ending destination(cause that would be awesome)

This map is like Zombi Pandemic Map !!!

Ilike the layout it is like a generic american city but it would be better to have a customisable house/hideout

i see a secret stuff a poster “is war is about the militiamen of jonestown and the hunters of clendale” what is that con

It’s a poster for a football game.
- Con

NICE man, it must have taken forever.

*completely pointless comment, con artist knows he’s awesome*

Yeah it took quite a while.
P.S – I’m awesome.
- Con

Ahh i see a rooftop without an AC unit!

lets be realistic. where are the cars and y are the streets so clean. i cud work on making it look like havoc broke out. but wat wud i do with it once im done and can;’t send u the pic

Please don’t.

I’ve got plans for the cars, you’ll see. Just got to source some non-branded car imagery.
- Con

Con, can i ask you something??? where we Escape? im thinking about that… is it on Union Island(maybe the name is right) or in Some of the Section?

Not talking about story right now.
- Con

Con, are u already fix the Dog Bug? i see some of the Dog Running over me and bite Me, after i killed the dog i keep walking and the dog do nothing…

Oh god. We’re all waiting to play part 3. Part 2 was so fun. I can’t wait for part 3. Matt.