The zombotropolis from timothymtorres

Refactor item/skill scenes overlay

All items/skills are in one overlay that is cluttered, messy, and a PIA to navigate. Let's break down each one into their own scene to make it easier.

Add tap event for human sprite within room scene

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Zombies can attack (via claws, bite, or acid)
Humans can heal (via items)

Test zombie bite with infection skill

Test syringe usage vs a zombie at varying levels of health and xp

Add action cost to list for syringes

Add tap event for generator sprite within room scene

FUNCTIONALITY

Zombies can attack

To refuel a human needs to click on the gas can in their inventory?

Add tap event for transmitter sprite within room scene

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Humans can retune the frequency of the radio
Humans can transmit a message
Zombies can only attack

Add msg log to syringes

Add tap event for search area sprite overlay within room scene

Make sure that a player can only tap a area corresponding to the stage they are on. (if they are outside, they can only tap the outside search area) Only humans should be able to interact with this tap event.

Refactor durability for items to include single/limited/multi usage

Add tap event for zombie sprite within room scene

FUNCTIONALITY

Humans can attack or use items on

Moved equipment item list to building equipment list with updated durability

Troubleshoot adding syringe msg (1st item to be added with a msg)

Add event zone to syringes

Make speak action overlay

Add corpses to room scene

If they are any corpses present in the room scene, add them.

Test antidote use on a human who is infected, and who is not infected

Make action overlay for drag prey

Move syringe code from outcome into item activation

Bugfix infection/antidote/syringe

Code antidote into item

Fix Panning Boundaries on room scene

Panning the room scene goes outside of the boundary when moving. Thought this was fixed earlier but it broke again somehow. Argh!

Code syringes into item

Suggestions from my own sad attempt to brainstorm a game

Sorry about the length. Really. (Hangs head in shame). Cannibalize or ignore at will.

I had posted some ideas about a replacement game on the Q19 forum, but Sv7 seems to have wiped a bunch of threads. Let's see what I can reconstruct from pitch emails:

We reached peak zombie a few years ago. The cultural time we live in isn't the same one as the time that zombies became popular. If anything, today's threats are more like Invasion of the Body Snatchers-- is that person who lives next door or works in the next cubicle or drives that truck really just like us or is there something inside their heads that makes them a threat?

I had suggested a new game with a series of rotating monsters trying to take over the same town. The winner of the round becomes the home team and faces a new invader in the next round. For example, humans and zombies fight in round one. Zombies win, so they fight people controlled by alien plants in the next round. Maybe the plants win the next round and fight cultists possessed by a Cthulu-type evil god or people controlled by Illuminati brain chips or something. Humanity just becomes one more set of monsters to cycle through.

Who's to say that the different species can only infect or inject the other? Maybe there's a species of changling that can take the shape of some other player, or a clan of gnomes that can kidnap you and drop you in random spots on the board, etc. Let your imagination run.

Imagine that both sides playing, no matter what species they are, have a goal to reach that does not involve ruining the entire city. Both sides need to build something or accomplish a goal, both sides barricade or tear down barricades, both sides destroy the other side's work. You can play a more complicated strategy game (like the humans) or just destroy stuff (like the zombies) for either team. For example: the humans want to knock out the zombified / infiltrated humans, sample their brains and find a cure. The plant people want to inject spores into enemies to control them and ultimately build a giant greenhouse for the Triffid Queen. The brain chip people want to spread more brain chips around and build a quantum computer to take over the world. The cultists want to possess enough humans to fill the city with enough evil altars to summon the god.

Both sides need to build artifacts within buildings and keep them secure, both sides need to destroy the other's artifacts, both sides can barricade and must destroy the other team's barricades to pass. Humans nail up plywood and pour concrete; plants can grow Sleeping Beauty- type brambles around a house; cultists create a wall of psychic energy or hang up some really unnerving tapestries, etc.

By giving each side a positive goal (find a cure, build an altar, etc. like what the Q19 humans did) and a negative goal (ruin stuff and attack the enemy like Q19 zombies), players can play for either side while keeping their preferred play style. Changing the species around would also encourage people to try something new and keep the game from growing stale. Also, if one species turns out to be no fun to play, it can be dropped or replaced, or fixed behind the scenes while the game goes on for the players.

Players can choose to make a character (or two) on either side (or both) upon entering the game. If there's an option for choosing "Surprise me!," the game could assign the new player to the side with fewer players to keep things fair, or perhaps tell a new player that X humans and Y plant people are playing. People playing on teams could enter a side together. The win conditions the teams need to reach should be flexible and reflect the number of active players on the board. In case of one side outnumbering the others, the game will adjust the goals so the outnumbered side doesn't need to grind through a stomp and hope for a better round in a few months.

Suppose the next game round is Plant People versus Evil Cultists. You are playing for the first time and decide to be a Plant Person. The round has started several weeks ago, so there are characters in the game who are already much better than you and the barricades are already up. Now what?

Tutorial Level: You start with a small set of practice buildings in which to find items, download your "radio app" (in-game chat), find a weapon, practice defeating a cultist, tear down their altar, flag the map and whatever else is important to know how to do. Perhaps the cultists barricade by casting evil spells, so you need to remove the spell and raise your own barricade of prickly thorns. The tutorial will also explain that the goal of your side is to build greenhouses to grow enough plants to take over the area, so you loot a building for supplies and build a greenhouse. The goal of the other side is to build evil altars all over town to raise the Death God, and you must destroy their altars.

You finish the tutorial level and move to the main game. Because some of the buildings are not useful to either side in this round, and the goal is not to repair or destroy the whole town, there are buildings that are not worth barricading. Now you don't have to spend your energy climbing repeatedly into a building, failing, and dying on the street (and getting annoyed and rage quitting the game immediately, like the 71 new accounts I found at the end of last round.) There are places to hide besides the street while you build your skills.

Because you have unlocked a radio app in the tutorial, you can contact other members of your side and tell them you have joined the game. (Perhaps the higher level players have a recruitment skill that tells them when new players join the game.) Also, the information on the metamap is available to all players of the same species.

I imagine a fog-of-war system in which your side only knows what is going on if some other member of your side has visited the square recently. Maybe the large map for the entire species gets updated only if the person uploads the building status to the metamap, but the information fades after six hours or when an enemy goes in. To keep the information current, the side must set up an alarm (flags the metamap when set off) or a camera system (records the actions performed within the building in the last eight hours, or records the last 100 actions) or leaves a trap (metamap flagged when set off, enemy character is harmed in some way). These would function like generators, and make the building's stuff (greenhouses, altars, etc.) harder to ruin.

I also imagine a crafting system which will make looting more important. You know all that stuff lying on the floor when you spend 35 ep looking for a vial or a medkit in Q19? What if you could consolidate the items into a better item? Zombie Pandemic also did this. A crowbar at 15% strength plus a crowbar at 25% strength equals a crowbar at 30% strength, (then 35%, then 40% as your repair skill goes up.) There would be a point to finding all that stuff, and you wouldn't need so much inventory space for spare weapons.

Quarantine 2019 players have been complaining about the brain/ ruin ratio for years, as far as I can tell by reading older forum posts. What if the goal changed depending on the number of active players in the game? Urban Dead does something similar by making revivification syringes easier to find when there are more zombies in the game. Fewer plant people means fewer greenhouses needed. More evil cultists means more altars needed. No more stomps.

Triggering the win should automatically announce the new invading enemy and reset the game for the next day, just enough time for players to decide which side to play and line up teams for the next round.

The city remains the same in each round. Create all the artwork only once. However, different resource buildings would be more or less important depending on which monsters are playing. Humans would need hospitals and labs for the cure; plant people might need the window glass factory and hardware stores and lumber yards for their greenhouses, etc. No one would need the abattoir or the Candle Shoppe until the cultists show up and need to build altars, etc. Since ruining the entire city isn't the goal, there would always be some open buildings for new players to hide in, so they won't die on the street after not finding an unbarricaded building and rage quit immediately.

How about using the players' time away from the game as game content? Perhaps the characters can set traps for each other instead of just walking up and killing them. Maybe a cultist character might expend action points to set a trap in a building to possess a human character who chooses to sleep there (log out for an hour). Triggering a low level trap would cause the human to climb outside the safety of a house where she could be eaten. A high level trap that takes, say, 25 action points to set might give the trapper control of the possessed character for 50 ap and force the possessed character to find the nearest teammate and attack him or break his own team's artifacts or de-barricade some doors, etc. Possessing the character in real time would be a blast too.

Syringe skills affect antidote spawn condition

Test zombie bite with infection advanced skill

Test zombie bite with infection vs a human who is already infected (should have temporary immunity, until infection kicks in)

Make search action overlay

Make attack action overlay

Add city map boundary

Add panning restriction to movement when near the edge of the map
Make city map center around player's x/y position
Add background image/sprite to display on map edges

Add syringe search rates in hospitals and research labs

Add a 2nd room template

Make it bland and basic. We can test between the default and second one to make sure they are rendering properly.

Test City Map Displaying Room Template Properly

Make sure that when a player is at position x/y that:

Building type for code is properly selected (ie. hospital should have hospital search rates, etc.)
Room template is correctly selected (hospital layout, church layout, etc.)
Room equipment is displayed (transmitter, generator, terminal)
Barricade state is displayed (loosely, EHB, etc.)

Additionally check that these things don't carry over to the next position accidentally. (ie. a generator spawns in the player's position, but he travels to another building and the generator is still there because it wasn't deleted in the room scene)

Add tap event for entrance sprite overlay within room scene

FUNCTIONALITY

Humans can use this to enter/exit a building
Zombies can attack
- Sentient zombie can open/close door if no barricades
Zombies can use this to enter/exit a building if no barricades and door is destroyed or open

FUNCTIONALITY

Humans can dump out of buildings
Zombies can feed on

Humans can scan zombies via the network
Zombies can attack.

Humans can repair with a toolbox
Zombies can attack (only if no humans present)
- Zombies can ruin?

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