The second update for Zombie Football Carnage has been approved. You’ll receive a notification when you start playing the game.
This is mainly a bugfix release that addresses the following main issues:
Fixed P2P score sharing issues (yet again ), now everything works as expected. If you have your local scores filled with people you don’t know (due to the error present in the last update), you’ll have to delete your saved game data to clean the list. Be warned you’ll also lose the improvements you could have bought on the shop. Sorry but there’s no other way to fix this.
Now the game doesn’t periodically pauses on some consoles due to ingame data saving.
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During the last week, we’ve been gathering feedback and suggestions from users, in order to finish the first update and make a better game.
The things we’ve planned so far are the following:
BUGFIXES:
Fixed many P2P score issues, such as not properly loading data from disk or not sorting data on the high score list.
Some people have experienced random lockups during play. We can’t tell for sure, but we’ve suffered from these as well and we’ve been trying our hardest to find the issue. Since it can happen on the game menu as well, we think it’s related to P2P score sharing, so it should be fixed as well.
Fixed some minor graphical glitches
GAMEPLAY CHANGES:
Reduced difficulty of all the 1st quarter waves (So it’s easier for absolute beginners, and a way to rest after a sudden death)
Increased “The Plague” wave difficulty (It was too easy to be a Sudden Death)
Reduced enemies movement speed and projectile speed, in order to reduce the game difficulty a bit.
Increased “Rinosaur Rex” wave difficulty a bit (Rather easy to be a Sudden Death)
Reduced “Dinobikers Attack” wave difficulty a lot (Too hard to be a 1st quarter)
NEW FEATURES:
Ask for a confirmation before exiting a game from the Pause menu.
Added a new background, the Junkyard
Added some basic instructions when the game starts, so people can learn the basic controls faster
Added new wave configurations, one per quarter, to increase a bit more the variety.
We expect to finish the patch someday next week. Until then, we’re still open to suggestions and feedback.
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Last week we showed you some concepts for our current project. We’ve been advancing at a good rythm and the game is almost finished!
The name is Zombie Football Carnage, in this game you’ll fight through several waves of increasing difficulty, grouped in matches. To slay the zombies and monsters you have three main weapons at your disposal: A football, a charged attack and a dash to escape from enemy attacks. While playing you’ll earn money, that allows you to purchase upgrades in the shop to reach further levels and get higher scores!
The game features 15 different enemies, each one with its own behavior, combined in more than 20 wave configurations, and more than 10 special weapons that you can use.
Here are the first screenshots for the game:
The church scenario
The Metro scenario
This is one of the biggest and best looking games we’ve ever done here at Milkstone Studios, and it shows off some of the improvements we’ve made in the engine during last months, so we’re proud of it .
We expect to put the game into peer review some day next week. We’ll be posting more screenshots, boxart, info about the game and a gameplay video during the next days, so be sure to check it out!
UI: Added a delay on some screens (Score boards, Versus game configuration, Mode instructions) to ensure they are read before any player accidentaly presses A.
UI: Added a Purchase button on the game pause menu.
UI: Changed the way the user selects a custom pot. Instead of using the two axis of the Left stick, all the variations can be selected with left-right.
BUGFIX: The Earthquake power up pushes in all directions instead of only to the upper right corner
BUGFIX: Fixed a grammar error in the Trial mode message
GRAPHICS: Made power ups a bit brighter to ensure the icon can be seen on dark backgrounds
GRAPHICS: Made darker backgrounds a bit brighter, also reduced a bit the tint effect.
GRAPHICS: Added 10+ customization variations.
GRAPHICS: On Bomb mode, a marker is shown to make it easier to check who has the bomb.
GAMEPLAY: Reduced a bit Arcade mode difficulty, AI pots agressiveness increases 50% slower, and they don’t do power dashes on the instant the player gets back to the arena after dying.
GAMEPLAY: Changed spawn positions of players and power ups, so players are on the corners and power ups on the sides. This way, each player start position will coincide with the corner shown on his gamepad.
GAMEPLAY: On Catcher mode, reduced the penalization for falling (You lose now 1 point instead of halven the score)
Now the game has just hit the virtual shelves, we have some things planned for a future update, along with some bugfixes that were reported.
UI: Add a delay on some screens (Score boards, Versus game configuration, Mode instructions) to ensure they are read before any player accidentaly presses A.
UI: Show the instructions on the pause screen too.
BUGFIX: The Earthquake Power up only pushes players to the top right, it should be totally random
GRAPHICS: Make power ups a bit brighter to ensure the icon can be seen on dark backgrounds
GAMEPLAY: Change spawn positions of players and power ups, so players are on the corners and power ups on the sides. This way, each player start position will coincide with the corner shown on his gamepad.
GAMEPLAY: On Catcher mode, lessen the penalization for falling (now you lose 50% of your points)
NEW VERSUS MODE: Yet to be disclosed…
NEW VERSUS MODE: Yet to be disclosed…
GRAPHICS: Some extra customization variations.
NEW POT MODEL: Yet to be disclosed…
That’s the current list of changes we have in the works. If you have any suggestion or bug you want to report, just let us know by posting a comment here!
), now everything works as expected. If you have your local scores filled with people you don’t know (due to the error present in the last update), you’ll have to delete your saved game data to clean the list. Be warned you’ll also lose the improvements you could have bought on the shop. Sorry but there’s no other way to fix this.
