Dead Wake zombie game

[Game Producer]

Zombie survival & barricading (freeware) game: http://www.deadwakegame.com/

 

Just uploaded a new version:

Download: http://www.deadwakegame.com/downloads/

 

 

Game is using Leadwerks 2.24.

[AggrorJorn]

nice work!! slowmotion and your own dog

thats realy cool.

[dreamhead]

this can be a real danger for left for dead,great work love it B)

[Canardia]

It seems the flashlight doesn't cast any shadows. I hope the game has an option to turn full shadows on, else I wouldn't buy it B)

 

I would also like to have an option to adjust the ambient light to 0.01/0.01/0.01, since my monitor is tuned correctly and I don't want to mess up with the monitor tuning to play a game.

[Marleys Ghost]

I think you can adjust all that in the options menu ... have you actually downloaded it?

[Game Producer]

It seems the flashlight doesn't cast any shadows. I hope the game has an option to turn full shadows on, else I wouldn't buy it B)

Check "options"

 

I would also like to have an option to adjust the ambient light to 0.01/0.01/0.01, since my monitor is tuned correctly and I don't want to mess up with the monitor tuning to play a game.

 

There's increase/decrease brightness in options menu.

[Canardia]

Excellent, I see that you have thought of all customer needs B)

 

I think you can adjust all that in the options menu ... have you actually downloaded it?

No, I just clicked on the youtube video. Now I see that there is a demo too!

[Marleys Ghost]

 

 

No, I just clicked on the youtube video. Now I see that there is a demo too!

 

 

what was your clue? Download: http://www.deadwakegame.com/downloads/ ? your monitor maybe tuned correctly but your eyes need some work B)

[Canardia]

Anyway, I tried the demo, and it doesn't go dark enough, seems there is some hardcoded lower limit for ambientlight.

The shadows look wierdly triangulated when using 1024x1024 res shadows with high quality shadow mode.

When changing the options, they don't activate before you restart the game.

In the default "no shadows" mode the flashlight goes through walls.

There is no FullHD resolution (1920x1080).

[Pixel Perfect]

lol ... could you not find anything nice to say about it Lumooja

[Canardia]

What do you mean, bug testing is nice, some people even pay lots of money for it!

[Pixel Perfect]

Well that's true. Anyway, downloading as I speak ... I'll reserve my comments until I've had a chance to play it.

[carlb]

i say not many games can run at 1920x1080 and a lot of the time they set at a lower res and make full screen.

Lumooja from what i seen all you did was complain and you had not even tested.

that is not bug testing.

 

yes making comment is good but you have to have good with bad

beta testing show were the bug are but you normal say what you like as well.

 

anyway it not bad, yes shadows are not there, but i did not play with it much so can not say much more

i would have a option to change the keys as some people will not like the default

 

anyway keep it up

[Pixel Perfect]

Well I'm impressed. The most professional opening to a game I've seen yet in Leadwerks. Polished menu and presentation with a good introduction. Sound and graphics quality looks pretty nice. Unfortunately, on my old PC although it runs well and looks great I have no main character being rendered, just the gun. I do have an old ATI driver on this PC so maybe that's the issue. But I also managed to walk through a wall and then off the terrain which crashed the game!

 

I'll retry it on my nVidea machine which has up to date drivers but I can see you've put a lot of work into this since the last demo you published. Great work Juuso!

[Canardia]

i say not many games can run at 1920x1080 and a lot of the time they set at a lower res and make full screen.

Lumooja from what i seen all you did was complain and you had not even tested.

that is not bug testing.

 

yes making comment is good but you have to have good with bad

beta testing show were the bug are but you normal say what you like as well.

I disagree with that, because I have a different opinion. I think it's OK to have different opinions about things. I think it's not OK to judge people's opinions and tell them what they should do, because of their different opinions

[carlb]

Lumooja you make me laugh

am not going to say anything else , please reread what you have said in the section then you understand

why what i say is true lol

[Josh]

This is great.

 

-I love the whole zombie barricade thing. The objects hold well enough to stop the zombies, yet they can push through at a reasonable rate. It's pretty scary when your barriers start breaking down and they come for you.

 

-The cursor is very hard to see until it turns red. I can't really see it when I move it around, and I just have to wave the mouse until it shows up on a zombie.

 

-The day time is at least twice as long as it needs to be.

 

-It's not worth offering a 64x64 shadowmap resolution. Use 256 as the minimum.

 

-I'd turn shadows on by default, and show them in your video! You want the first impression to look the best. Graphics are a big part of your game, so you need to do more to show them off. If you cripple the visuals by default, then you just have poor visuals and limited compatibility with hardware.

 

-Add a directional light during day time and make it brighter. I didn't realize at first there was any difference in the lighting.

 

-I think you should place a few lights in the scene, so the player will naturally be drawn to those "safe" areas where they can see well. That might improve the mechanics a bit, and you would constantly be looking around to see when the zombies were going to jump into your circle of light. Then you could control where the player was supposed to build barricades, and place the advantageous spots under a streetlight or something. As it is, it's hard to see where the player is, and we never really see him lit. A few lights in the scene would really make a huge improvement, in both graphics and gameplay. I mean, the user would be scared to venture into the dark areas after night. The static shadow map options and light optimizations in version 2.31 will help a lot with this.

 

-There's a lot more with lighting I think you can do. Make it integral to the gameplay. You can have flares, lights in the scene, campfires, flickering strobe-like lights, headlights of a vehicle, lights the player has to do something to enable, like turn on a generator. You have a zombie game with lighting features no one else has, so have fun and take advantage of it!

[Canardia]

The flashlight could also go out of batteries or when you least want it (electrical contact failure when zombies are incoming).

 

It could sometime slowly dim out (player is using lead batteries), or it could go out at once (player is using alcali batteries), or it could last much longer and go out pretty quick (player is using lithium-ion batteries).

 

In case of electrical contact failure, the player could punch it against his hand, leg or head (!), but it would have a chance to completely break then also. He could also remove the batteries and brush them and reinsert them (takes longer, but doesn't have a chance to break the light bulb).

[Josh]

Flashlight batteries are another good idea.

 

It wasn't clear to me how I was supposed to acquire the shotgun, or where I could pick up ammo or food.

 

You have a really great concept here that can be made into a unique strong game. I suspect you are listening to the wrong people due to the way you turned the visuals down so much by default, and in the video. I am really excited about the possibilities you could have with the lighting in this. Leadwerks Engine is really good at drawing a lot of shadow-casting lights. Use it to your advantage and make something no one else has.

 

With the recent improvements in lighting, your game will be drawing an order of magnitude fewer polys to render shadows, and all you have to do is adjust a couple settings in the editor:

 

[Masterxilo]

Would you mind making a non installer zip version? I don't like installing and I honestly don't know why Microsoft invented it.

The only thing installing does more than unpacking a zip is creating links on the desktop and in the startup folder (which you can do yourself) and WRITING THINGS TO THE REGISTRY, which shouldn't be (and isn't often) used by any application. But however...

[Richard Simpson]

Good video. This is a great feature you have added! I also like the use of background music in your video.

[Game Producer]

Anyway, I tried the demo, and it doesn't go dark enough, seems there is some hardcoded lower limit for ambientlight.

The shadows look wierdly triangulated when using 1024x1024 res shadows with high quality shadow mode.

When changing the options, they don't activate before you restart the game.

In the default "no shadows" mode the flashlight goes through walls.

There is no FullHD resolution (1920x1080).

I suppose I could take the limit off and add that resolution parameter. Thanks for the pointers.

 

Well that's true. Anyway, downloading as I speak ... I'll reserve my comments until I've had a chance to play it.

(Yaiks! Hopefully something good )

 

 

i say not many games can run at 1920x1080 and a lot of the time they set at a lower res and make full screen.

Lumooja from what i seen all you did was complain and you had not even tested.

that is not bug testing.

 

yes making comment is good but you have to have good with bad

beta testing show were the bug are but you normal say what you like as well.

lol. I appreciate all the comments. Bring 'em on.

 

anyway it not bad, yes shadows are not there, but i did not play with it much so can not say much more

i would have a option to change the keys as some people will not like the default

 

anyway keep it up

Yeh - well you can change the shadows from the options menu.

 

Change keys - I simply didn't take time to do this. The keys are quite universal so hopefully not too strange...

 

Well I'm impressed. The most professional opening to a game I've seen yet in Leadwerks. Polished menu and presentation with a good introduction. Sound and graphics quality looks pretty nice.

Tears of joys are running on my cheeks. Thanks mate.

 

Unfortunately, on my old PC although it runs well and looks great I have no main character being rendered, just the gun. I do have an old ATI driver on this PC so maybe that's the issue. But I also managed to walk through a wall and then off the terrain which crashed the game!

 

I'll retry it on my nVidea machine which has up to date drivers but I can see you've put a lot of work into this since the last demo you published. Great work Juuso!

Thanks.

 

This is great.

 

-I love the whole zombie barricade thing. The objects hold well enough to stop the zombies, yet they can push through at a reasonable rate. It's pretty scary when your barriers start breaking down and they come for you.

Yeh, in some earlier versions you could stop the zombies that they couldn't pass. Well - in this version you'd experience a nice lil surprise I also really enjoy seeing those barrels flying...

 

-The cursor is very hard to see until it turns red. I can't really see it when I move it around, and I just have to wave the mouse until it shows up on a zombie.

 

-The day time is at least twice as long as it needs to be.

 

-It's not worth offering a 64x64 shadowmap resolution. Use 256 as the minimum.

 

-I'd turn shadows on by default, and show them in your video! You want the first impression to look the best. Graphics are a big part of your game, so you need to do more to show them off. If you cripple the visuals by default, then you just have poor visuals and limited compatibility with hardware.

 

-Add a directional light during day time and make it brighter. I didn't realize at first there was any difference in the lighting.

 

-I think you should place a few lights in the scene, so the player will naturally be drawn to those "safe" areas where they can see well. That might improve the mechanics a bit, and you would constantly be looking around to see when the zombies were going to jump into your circle of light. Then you could control where the player was supposed to build barricades, and place the advantageous spots under a streetlight or something. As it is, it's hard to see where the player is, and we never really see him lit. A few lights in the scene would really make a huge improvement, in both graphics and gameplay. I mean, the user would be scared to venture into the dark areas after night. The static shadow map options and light optimizations in version 2.31 will help a lot with this.

 

-There's a lot more with lighting I think you can do. Make it integral to the gameplay. You can have flares, lights in the scene, campfires, flickering strobe-like lights, headlights of a vehicle, lights the player has to do something to enable, like turn on a generator. You have a zombie game with lighting features no one else has, so have fun and take advantage of it!

You can press ENTER to skip the day. It's just for the player to get familiar & see some tips.

 

Very good points about the lights.

 

The flashlight could also go out of batteries or when you least want it (electrical contact failure when zombies are incoming).

 

It could sometime slowly dim out (player is using lead batteries), or it could go out at once (player is using alcali batteries), or it could last much longer and go out pretty quick (player is using lithium-ion batteries).

 

In case of electrical contact failure, the player could punch it against his hand, leg or head (!), but it would have a chance to completely break then also. He could also remove the batteries and brush them and reinsert them (takes longer, but doesn't have a chance to break the light bulb).

 

 

Would you mind making a non installer zip version? I don't like installing and I honestly don't know why Microsoft invented it.

The only thing installing does more than unpacking a zip is creating links on the desktop and in the startup folder (which you can do yourself) and WRITING THINGS TO THE REGISTRY, which shouldn't be (and isn't often) used by any application. But however...

Uploading one right now with my crappy internet connection made of wood. This should take about 10 minutes or so (I'll put the download link to www.deadwakegame.com website)

 

@Richardsimpo123456: thanks.

[Game Producer]

P.S. I took the liberty to steal your comments and make them visible in Dead Wake website.

[Canardia]

Bah, you only put positive comments on your game web page, why not the critics too?

[Game Producer]

Bah, you only put positive comments on your game web page, why not the critics too?

I get to hear those well enough

 

And hey, I put this as well:

"Well I'm impressed. The most professional opening to a game I've seen yet in Leadwerks. Polished menu and presentation with a good introduction. Sound and graphics quality looks pretty nice. (But I also managed to walk through a wall and then off the terrain which crashed the game!)"

 

You are just jealous for not making it in the front page.