Zombie Night Terror

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Short Ingame preview : Human close range fight!

SXSW Ingame Trailer

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We are a small team of indie game developers from France and we are proud to present our first game, a side scrolling 2D Game with destructible environment made with... Unity of course! Zombie Night Terror is a lemmings-like game, but different in many ways. The aim is to lead your brainless army throughout various environments in order to annihilate humanity! But be careful, Humans are not so defenseless and they dispose of various weapons and firepower to destroy the undead menace.
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So! How will you eat them all?
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Mutations: The player will dispose of many mutations to overcome human defenses and to progress through the levels. Mutations can be combined to have new tricky and devastating effects.
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Contamination: The player can choose one healthy human to become sick and to turn him into a zombie. It could be anyone, you just have to choose the poor victim and enjoy the massacre. Each human killed will turn into a new zombie, that’s how you will grow up your army.
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Level Design: Each level brings a situation with one or more puzzles to resolve. The player will have various tools like mutations and traps to experiment different solutions in order to convince the humans that being a zombie is cool.
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Atmosphere: We tried to add a dark, gory and funny graphic aspect to the game with a lot of blood, lots of human characters with many animations to make the world as alive as possible. And we'll try to focus on humor.
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We are expecting a release before the end of this year on PC and Mac - and maybe Linux - but nothing is definitive on that matter.
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Wow! Great job!
Love the style and the animations! How did you do them?

 

Glad you love it

Our graphist is using regular photoshop / pro-motion for sprites, pro-motion only for the animations. In Unity we are using tk2d

 

They're so smooth! Really impressive stuff!

 

looks like youve done a fantastic job, and the trailer is awesome.

pity its pixel art...

 

Great job there! Sure looks like a lot of work went into this! Curios about the actual gameplay

 

Love it!

 

Awesome! For mobile?

 

Even though they didn't invent pixel art,..I am getting a strong 'Other Brothers' vibe here,..dunno why,.
but hey,I mean it's a good thing!

would be mint if it was mobile, I agree. Android!

 

Thanks Gameplay will be presented this week in our website. News part.

First release will be PC/Mac but we don't completely reject a mobile version in the future.

Here is the first set of mutation available to support the zombie cause.

 

Even if we are not very fond of mobile games, the main reason for not aiming mobile platforms is we don’t have the resources to cover them, even if Unity is great for that. Technical issues aside, there are some aspects of the game we cannot directly port from one platform to another.

So, if one day we decide to port the game to mobile, it would need a fair amount of redesign to accommodate its new host…

 

when you make such fantastic pixel art , do you animate it by drawing each frame ? if yes , how many frames are in your animations ?

 

AWESOME! The game looks very interesting and I think it is fantastic you are releasing it for the PC (hopefully not just Windows 8!). I don't get why everyone is so focused on mobile games. A hell of a lot of us play games on the computer still.

 

Yep, our artist animate by drawing each frame. About the frame rate it depends. We have animations starting at 12 frames/sec for the slowest and up to ~30 for the fastest.

 

Wow, all kinds of awesome!

 

Very good work!

 

Wow , how many artists you have ?
And how much does it take one artist to do animations for one character ?

Sorry about all these questions , but you guys just inspire me .

 

We have 2 artists, one specialized in pixel art - he's doing most of the art direction and pixel animations - who works full time on the project.
The other one is more into 3D Modeling/Animation and FX - he's the one writing all our effects and shaders, but he sometimes help with animations - who works part time.

 

How much time does it take to make all animations for a character ( idle , walk , hit , attack ) ?

 

I couldn't say, I'll ask our artist tomorrow.

 

This Looks great, i love the style.

 

There are about 20 animations for Human – run, walk, death, etc. - and it takes around 2 to 3 days to make all of them. We are thinking about having a way to customize them to have more diversity.

Zombies have much more animations and some are more complicated than others. So some animations could take 1 hours while others could take half a day or more.

 

Can't wait to play it. I see your 2d characters have shadows, For these shadows, are you using a special shader or technique? or is just a perspective camera with the transparent/cutout/diffuse shader?

 

Almost all the shaders are custom and most of the time using surface shader language for an easier support of unity's built-in lighting system.
We are trying hard to implement a dynamic lighting system although this is a pixel art game because we think it will strengthen the dark atmosphere of the game.
For exemple i implemented this rim light effect which appear when a character is close to a light source like a burning barrel.

 

Good job man!

 

I haven't seen the movie in over a decade, but I recognized the graveyard scene in "The Return of the Living Dead" in the trailer... very nice!

 

Glad you recognised that !

 

the pixel art animations are superb!

 

Damn dude, those art styles are rocking! Great work, can't wait to play it. Are you looking to add this to steam Green light at all? If so lets us know and we'll vote for it

 

Updated first post with one ingame preview : Human close range fight !

 

When is this releasing?

 

I really looking forward to play that game soon!

 

Greenlight is in our checklist, we would like to release something before the end of the year... probably in early access though, we are far from a final version.

 

Concept Art - City Landscape

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Great atmosphere - good job with this game !

 

Quick UI preview

 

I present you the blocker mutation.

 

Some ingame screenshots of Zombie Night Terror!

 

Awesome job! I really like the animations!

 

Excellent art style, particularly the animations. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this.

 

Looks really nice! Probably the best Lemmings style game i've seen, and the animations are just awesome, great job!!

 

We will be at the SXSW Festival in Austin from March 13 to 15, there will be playable demo available and we hope some of you will be there to test it. For the occasion we made a small ingame trailer :

 

We published a new entry on our devblog !

 

The art style looks amazing! What resolutions are those backgrounds? How do you achieve such smooth lighting with a pixilated look?

 

Thanks !
On the background, each building is about 100x200 pixels .
the lights are made using a mix of basic several technics. First i draw the building , I duplicate it and i apply a strong brightness filter on the copy. Then i use a fusion mask to have the light where i want to. I finish with hand drawn additional shadows.

 

Here's a little gif of our new weather system, rain and thunder for a more horrific atmosphere

 

This is the best game with pixel art of I could see. I love it

 

Now thats some good looking pixel art

 

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It's been quite a long time since last update. The team have been really busy working on Zombie Night Terror. Here are some preview :

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And i'm glad to announce that Zombie Night Terror won the best fantastic game prize of the Indie Game Contest at Strasbourg festival !

 

Wow hats how you do it.