Zombie Browser game

[hallsofvallhalla]

So I have been wanting to create a zombie browser game for sometime. A PHP one, where players run from zombies, build up shelters, get turned to zombies, ect..

Problem is there are already quite a few zombie games. How could I create one to be different? What features would it need? WOuld there be a better genre with this style of play? ect...

[dave3460]

You could use the basis of Forsaken and just remove some skills as for turning in zombie maybe a % of damage gets you bit and turned then you need to find a antidote or just get some stats reduced and some increased .then players can decide if they want to stay a zombie or not. Or even see how many other players they can convert to zombies. just a thought as i have never played or thought about making a zombie game

[hallsofvallhalla]

well i want to build the game from scratch, make it point and click to enter a building, then you are faced with options on what you want to do, like fortify, search, ect..

[dave3460]

Nice What a true Rpg is about

[Perry]

I was playing dead frontier for awhile which is a browser based game but i think it was in flash. I love those types of games but they always seem to lack the sense that you are actually trying to survive and find food and all that i ave played seem to just be a zombie killingfest. I think that it would be fun to have more survival themed instead of just kill zombies and loot. I was on a team working on a game like that once but it didn't work out for a few reasons

[hallsofvallhalla]

that is exactly what i am after. Survival. You must find food, escape from, not kill the zombies. You can kill them but they are extremely powerful. When you are killed by a zombie you turn into one and can search for players. As a zombie you get no points, items, ect, so you want to be a player.

[Perry]

Also depending on how you plan to have them come back to being a player(an idea our team had was to have the zombie kill x amount of players to get back to being a player but i dont know) but you could have either an xp hit when you first become a zombie or you could lose a certain amount of xp each day you are a zombie or whatever would fit your idea.

[SpiritWebb]

Also depending on how you plan to have them come back to being a player(an idea our team had was to have the zombie kill x amount of players to get back to being a player but i dont know) but you could have either an xp hit when you first become a zombie or you could lose a certain amount of xp each day you are a zombie or whatever would fit your idea.

Well you could have the option like Perry said with the "returning player back to human from zombie" but instead of like the xp hit, or kill x amount, whatever...you could have it like "I Am Legend" where he tries to find a cure. But instead, as a zombie, you can find a "cure." But it would be VERY rare. Then if you use it, and get turned again back to a zombie, x amount of days before a new "cure" is found, but you have to find it. In the mean time, finding players to "eat."

[hallsofvallhalla]

excellent ideas. I was going to go with players healing zombies but that has become cliche. Was thinking about a food item zombies can eat but are rare that could turn them back or a amount of time. Like the infection only lasts for so many days. But during those days you only receive xp for killing or turning other players. You lose all items when turned and cannot fortify buildings, only destroy them.

[SpiritWebb]

excellent ideas. I was going to go with players healing zombies but that has become cliche. Was thinking about a food item zombies can eat but are rare that could turn them back or a amount of time. Like the infection only lasts for so many days. But during those days you only receive xp for killing or turning other players. You lose all items when turned and cannot fortify buildings, only destroy them.

That would be neat with the infection lasting x amount of days. Days in RT or ?