Zombie Gun

[Yeong]

I haven't tried this game yet, but I will soon. Looks incredibly fun!

[squidgetx]

Thanks

Does anyone have ideas for powerups?

[Freyaday]

Man on Fire: For a short time, you deal damage to zombies when you come in contact with them, at the cost of your own health.

Also, I think some sort of melee option should be present.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Invincible: Take no damage for a few seconds
Invisible: You're invisible so zombies won't chase you for a while
Regen: Regain health gradually.
Insta-gib: Zombies die in one hit, no matter what weapon used, for a while. (This should probably be a rare, harder to get one)

[Freyaday]

Zombie repellent: for a short time, zombies run away from you
Bounce: You now bounce high—real high. But you can't stop. But you can shoot down.

[hellninjas]

Spray: You have unlimited ammo and fire extremely fast for a limited time, damage is based on the weapon your weilding.

[squidgetx]

Thanks Half-update time!

I've managed to get the item system working pretty well . When you kill something, there'll be a 25% chance an item is dropped. 50% of the time it will be money, 25% of the time it will be ammo, 12.5% of the time it will be health, and so on. Armor pickups are also available (6.25%). I haven't yet coded the actual power-ups yet that's next on my to-do list. Also armor has been made way better (5x more effective, since before it was kinda worthless haha)

[kindermoumoute]

Woow !

Where can I download it ?

[aeTIos]

another powerup::  drain:If you get touched by a zombie you drain his health.

[Yeong]

but that's basically "invincibility"
I think that can possibly ruin the game a bit.

[squidgetx]

Well, powerups are only going to last for a certain amount of time. I already had a shield/invincible powerup planned, so a drain would just be an extension of that. However, it would make it kind of hard to program...The code for removing a zombie and recording a kill is fairly complicated and embedded in the bullet code loop. The code for checking for zombies' proximity to the player are in a completely different place and environment I could make it that zombies lose health via drain, but they wouldn't be able to die. Would that be weird?

[DJ Omnimaga]

I don't know, I guess it's best to not add that one if it makes it too complicated to implement. What other power ups are you planning, by the way, besides the ones you mentionned?

[squidgetx]

So far I have fully implemented and coded
-Shield
-Time freeze
-Power fire (Bullets do 4x more damage)
-God mode (Shield and bullets do 16x more damage)

I also have a rapidfire power up in the game, but it currently causes a RAM clear as soon as you pick it up...lol. Gotta fix that Also I want to put in invisibility as well.

[DJ Omnimaga]

That reminds me... would it be a good idea to add flying zombies and allow shooting vertically/diagonally?

[Yeong]

or adding a boss stage.