Apocalypse Survival

Join Date: 2010-01-01
Post Count: 5658

#183846187Wednesday, February 17, 2016 11:16 PM GMT

This is a first-person shooter survival game I am working on. In this game you will run, build defenses, collect items, harvest resources, make friends/enemies, craft items, and much more. The game will feature gun controls similar to Phantom forces. Currently, I have a Glock-17 gun in the game and have been polishing the gun engine so that new guns can easily be added. You can already put different sights on the gun using the inventory crafting system and will hope to add other attachment types such as suppressors to the engine later. I still need to do a lot of polishing to the gun system and come up with a standard for the new guns I will be making to follow so that the guns all work based off the same engine without having to do any additional scripting. The aim down sight and hip-fire works for the gun already as well. I decided to put the gun engine off for now and focus on other aspects of the game that will help further the concept of how everything will work. For example, I have added two useful items to the game. An axe and pickaxe. Similar to the gun engine, I have to make these items work off the same engine. I believe I am done with them... They work based off animations. You equip the axe to cut wood and the pickaxe to mine ore. The system uses animations when mining/chopping and detects the point in the animation at which a confirmed strike would occur. Then it gives off some nice particles depending on what you are mining/chopping and gives you the item corresponding to the material/object you are harvesting. The animations look fairly nice and work amazingly so far. I have not made a big map yet, but I have a small starting town with fairly decent looks. I hope to have an alpha stage out within the next month. Maybe after that is finished, I will possibly be looking to get some builders on board to help make this map. Some features I want to include in this game after the foundation of the engine itself is completed are.... Forts: These are structures that you can build using certain certain craft-able items. I plan to have its system similar to that of a game called rust. This will most likely be the last feature implemented, but I think that this feature would be a nice addition to the game as well as something else to do than just running around and killing/stealing. It would give a "safe" place to store items you can't hold in your inventory.... But beware, wooden fortresses will be easily raided with the requirement of 1 C4 on wood doors and 2 C4 on structure walls. Metal Structures will require 3 c4 on doors and 5 c4 on walls. Cars: Correct me if you think this is a bad idea.... I want to make it able for players to collect car parts and craft a car that they can carry materials in. The car will require some form of gas that will be fairly rare, making the car a luxury and not something to just cruise around in. Crates: Obviously with the idea of cars and the ability to carry items in them, there needs to be some type of container players can craft to store items. This will be crates. Crates will hold up to a certain amount of items and will be able to be raided by other players as well. I don't intend on adding any sort of "private" chests into the game except for maybe a weapons chest with like 3 slots tops. That way when you leave the game you can store your favorite weapons for later rather than having a complete restart when you play the game. Skills: I do want to add some type of system to the game that will keep players coming back. One idea I have had is a skills feature with skills such as: mining, woodcutting, and crafting. You will have to play the game and level up these skills to do certain things or craft certain items. This will possibly up the PvP aspect of the game. Want an item someone else has? Go steal it. It may also open up room for another feature I would like, that is trading. Currency: I am not sure about this yet, but if I do trading, I think it would be neat to add a currency feature to the game. No items will have set prices, that will be up to the community of players to decide based on demand. However, I am thinking currency would allow players to have something to trade with that is valued by all players, rather than looking for an item to trade someone for. Currency would be a persistent-feature between game plays. However, to regulate it there will need to be economic sinks and economic drains. This means that there has to be a way for the game to give currency and take it... Rather than it staying in the players. For this I think it would be best to give players so much currency each time they log on as well as every hour they are on. However, when a player is killed they will lose so much currency to the system and the killer will gain a portion of that players currency lost.... but not all of it. So say player1 kills player2. Player2 loses like 50 currency and player1 gets like 10. If I do this, I will add in a feature that prevents a player who dies many times from losing any more currency. So say player2 respawns and is killed in the next 5 mins, they will not lose any money, player1 will get like 2 currency based off this kill. This kill would be called noob hunting. IE respawned player has nothing to defend themselves with, so its not exactly a rewarding kill. Additionally, when a player joins they will not lose any currency from being killed in the first ten minutes. This will give them enough time to find a secluded place and set up base. Beds: With the idea of forts, beds will be a Respawn spot. To prevent people who are being raided from constantly spawning in their bed there will be a 5 min reset rate. If you spawn in your bed and then die before 5 minutes, then you will have to wait until the 5 mins are up to use the spawn again or you can you randomly spawn on the map. Random Spawn Killing: Random spawn killing will be where people camp at random spawn points waiting for players to spawn in. Any player who kills a player after they random spawn will lose money. No questions asked.. Random Spawnkilling will be frowned upon. Expected Questions: 1. "Will players be able to save their forts when they leave?" No, each time you play the game you will start fresh other than maybe the weapons crate feature.