Game Ideas

I like Shadows idea but he is right with the AI. Creating an intelligent and challenging horde of enemies is not so easy. The rest of the game can be made quite simple, graphics, collisions, moving through the world and stuff like that is not really hard. Take my little test here as an example, tiles and walking through the world is easy. The hard part is making enemies that do more then simply walk into your direction.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xbrkb6k1hcn4ff5
WASD to walk T for collision info. No enemies included right now.

EDIT:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ij7n6nuncdjdgxj
Same as above with one stupid enemy. Hide behind a wall and he can't get you.

Well, if i were to make my full idea, it would require a big company with AI mechanics similar to this one.
VALVe mabye.

For the flash game
I think it would be actually simple to code normal and special infected(mabye).

Commons just walk towards you and when they get to melee range, they start inflicting damage at a regular rate.
Hordes would come at a random interval, thats in between a minumum time and maximum time, these variable vary with location, time(if the game had day-night transactions), difficulty, and group size(if companions are a plausible thing),and gear weight(running around in a stealth suit with a silenced pistol attracts alot less zombies than running around with a knights plate armor, with a mini-nuke launcher).
Ex:
You finish killing a horde(no more zombies on screen after the horde)
It sets the next horde to appear in a number between 90 seconds and 150 seconds.
If you are alone, in broad daylight, out in the middle of nowhere, on God-Mode difficulty, the horde comes between 5 minutes and 10 minutes.
If you're in the middle of a city, at night, on OMGWTFBBQ difficulty and you're travelling with a pack of loud
Random number = 108.8 seconds=Next horde.
The size of the horde is also based on this concept, getting influenced by the same factors above.

Specials have special abilities, for example:

Smoker, pulls you toward him.
When in distant range, a tounge comes out and starts pulling you toward him, when he pulls you to melee range he starts inflicting damage and you gotta mash buttons to escape.
If stuck on a wall for more than 3 seconds, it starts damage, and the button mash.

Spitter, spits acid.
When it spits, it creates a medium circle that inflicts damage at increasing rates the more you stay in it.
Move outside it to be safe.

Charger and hunter have a similar way of attacking.
They would increase walk speed(doesnt matter, since its overhead) when in medium range,like if they were charging/pouncing) and if they touch you, in the hunters case, you would pass directly into the button mash fase(mabye recieving bonus damage if it pounced from farther away), taking constant damage, while the charger would keep running for a medium long distance, or untill it hits a wall(in which case you take an medium small potion of damage from the impact).
Then it starts pounding you, taking damage and passing to the button mash.

Jockey, attacks by jumping on you and steering you into danger.
It would run toward you untill at close range, and lunge on to you, starting a button mash and taking small potions of damage at a costant rate, while driving you into danger.
Ex:
An acid patch is on the screen, the jockey pulls you toward it.
A horde of 5 or more zombies is on the screen, he pulls you toward it.
A drop is nearby, he pulls you toward it.
If its non lethal, you fall and take damage.
If its lethal, it gives you a last chance to survive, giving you 10 seconds to pull yourself up with a button mash, before you fall and die.
All common infected would scramble around now,going in random directions, looking for you, but not attacking, when you pull yourself up, they turn around, moan(giving you a 1-2 second window to recover), then attack again.

Boomers "attack" by vomiting on you and attracting more zombies.
I think this would be easy, since all there is to it is add a proportion of the horde total to the screen.
The lower the number of zombies on the screen, the more zombies added.
Ex:
You arent getting attacked at all.
You get the full horde amount.
There are 50 zombies onscreen, you get no additional zombies.
There are 5 zombies, you get half the horde amount.

Boomer bile could also make it harder to see, by adding an overlay for 10 seconds that gradually becomes clearer.
HUD would also get blurred.

Then there could be more specials, but for now, thats all.

I would love to see another game like Thirteen More Days In Hell, it's great, except a lot more work could have been put into it. With a multiplayer function! :yahoo:

i would like an online first person shooting game like halo and you could have a multiplayer function by using wifi and with campain you can connect on wifi

So co-op?

basicly i guess and I think the should also be able do things like firefight and forge and such but in forge all the money of the people are combined

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Originally Posted by asd123

basicly i guess and I think the should also be able do things like firefight and forge and such but in forge all the money of the people are combined

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That's plagiarism. And not very original. Bungie could probably sue you. Correct if I'm wrong.

If you make money off of it, yes.
Otherwise its called "fair-use".

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Originally Posted by ShadowHaunter

If you make money off of it, yes.
Otherwise its called "fair-use".

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I'm pretty sure fair use only applies for learning purposes.

I saw parody flash movies saying that they are using fair-use.