Zombies Ate My Teacher

Devlog

• Project Fate: TBD
  March 04, 2019 by CloneDeath

  In short, I'm putting this project on hold, possibly indefinitely. It's an interesting proof of concept, but I think I tried to do too much, too quickly. In between this being my largest project, shifting my blog from Patreon to Itch, and being sick... There's a lot for me to learn from this project. In the meantime, I'm going back to my daily posts, with weeklong games, and slowly work my way up... Continue reading
• Soul Fragments, your source of power
  February 28, 2019 by CloneDeath

  In earlier screenshots, I had experience points and a level. Today, I implemented that. Aaaaaand... it wasn't that fun. I've always loved how souls were handled in Dawn of Sorrow: Whenever you killed an enemy, there is a percent chance they would drop their soul. Each soul gave you a unique power; either passive or active. The more souls you have, the stronger that power is. I have always wanted t... Continue reading

  
• Attack on Zombies!
  February 28, 2019 by CloneDeath

  What changed? This update features two new features: Attacking (minor) A crouch before you jump Attacking is a big part of the game, but I needed to prevent the player from moving or jumping while you're attacking. I ended up putting in a function, "is attacking", and a bunch of hacks to disable everything. Cool. Moving on, to the crouch jump... I was watching some youtube videos, when I came acro... Continue reading

  
• In Development: Zombies ate my Teacher
  February 24, 2019 by CloneDeath

  Here it is, after only a day of tinkering around, I've got an early development build ready for you to play. There isn't any meat here, but it's got some core engine concepts implemented, like snapping the camera to different cells, some areas spanning multiple cells, the game physics, etc. I'm trying something new here with the platforming: accelerated conditional gravity. I've seen a couple vide... Continue reading