Comments - Lorias

I bought the shop upgrade level 1, and there does not seem to be anywhere to actually buy items before going into a dungeon. Before selecting it, after selecting it (character selection screen) or after pressing go. All I see are the three characters, a pet, and some blank space where I assume the shop should be.

Is this not implemented yet? Or am I just bugging out?

Also great game. I bought this as a pass time diversion, and it is ending up as a full time game. The screenshots are incredibly deceiving in terms of the actual game play quality.

Wanted to get clarification / report what I've come across. I did a bit of searching and couldn't find anything on this subject (but I could be blind as a bat)

I came back after a while of not playing to check out the new stuff, and made a new game. The new game was supposed to reset all my progress and delete my guy, or so said the notes and the warning screen.

I was then transferred into the new game and had all my previously equipped parts already on (and incidentally fight/battle mode as well).

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Not entirely sure if this is intended or not, but I can imagine it isn't, considering the immediate power difference it causes at the beginning of the game.

I would also like to point out a few things before I take my leave.

1. They are trying to rectify problems for the future. Something Minecraft should have done with it's Java based implementation a long time ago. I commend them for that.

2. Unlike the Scam Z, Project Zomboid has actually been built upon a custom engine, rather than reusing assets from an old game. I don't know about you, but I'm too lazy to actually code out an entire engine, draw art, and put out multiple test builds to scam people with. Way too much work.

3. You'll remember they had a breach and lost half of the game, prompting them to recode it mostly from scratch. Why go through the trouble of that to scam people? It's at that point where you just shrug and go "welp, scam over. Time to move onto my next amazing trick".

If you are intimate with development processes, then you know of the SDLC. My guess is these guys got it wrong the first time (Probably with waterfall) and are rectifying the situation. The lack of anything tangible doesn't suggest it's a failure, or going anywhere south more than War Z is. I've had to completely rectify a development decision using the waterfall method before, and I tell you, I'll never go back to that method ever.

If you really want to talk about money grabbing, how about we actually talk about the textbook example scam that was War Z. It clearly broke the law, was sold under false pretenses, banned legitimate paying customers,and in many cases, gouged them using microtransactions that it still has (most of which disappear when you get spawn camped). The game you so actively choose to compare to PZ is nothing short of unethical.

Project Zomboid is NOT being sold on a lie, and never was. The game is still fully playable on the 1.5, 2.0Q. and 2.5 builds. Last time I checked, that wasn't money grabbing.

Sit down, and take your medicine.

I know exactly what I'm talking about. War Z is an attrocity that was nearly unplayable. Project Zomboid at least has some semblance of proper game play. It's more of a complete game in it's current state than War Z ever will be.

And I've seen my fair share of indie projects. And being a game developer/programmer myself, I can tell you for a fact that it isn't as **** easy as you'd like to think it is.

Oh man. You got my hopes up...then I went back on steam and realized that War Z has been put back on, asking for even more money, and is in fact, NOT out of business.

Thanks for completely shattering my hopes.

Also, War Z had a backlash because they tried to sell a game under a false premise. Project Zomboid is doing no such thing. You go into it clearly knowing it is a work in progress, and they say that they are taking their time on the update because they want it to be perfect for a steam release. You know, unlike other such games that you mentioned.

If you use the actual Desura client itself, you can right click on any game in your library and view the changelog like that.

Otherwise:

Feb 16 2013, 11:02pm - VERSION: 1.0.2
ADDED
invert mouse settings
various GUI features
FIXED
collision bugs
navigation issues
IMPROVED
Ai navigation
player movement mechanics

Fantastic game. It looks clean and runs incredibly well.

I do want to report something I almost immediately ran into...since I have a habbit of breaking games.

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In Southfrost, you can run to the pole immediately to the left and jump-climb up into the air(keep running towards it and spamming the jump key). The enemies can't actually reach you. Though this is only really effective against anything that doesn't have a gun, it does break the early game survival.

I didn't mean to impose on you to rush out an update with the maps or anything. Like I made a mention to, I had no regrets buying the game and supporting your efforts in making such a unique game in a genre flooded with zombie survival games. I just wanted to confirm, and make sure that I wasn't just being stupid and missing something. I admit my second post was far too harsh, and I apologize.

I was, and still am, more than willing to wait out all of your work until the game has that generation. I'm a programmer myself, so I can understand the fine quirks of all that you do. With that said, it also means I absolutely hate level designing, so I didn't want to use the level designer. That's just my own little thing though.

Mine came with one map, that isn't playable in the slightest. I'd also just like to make a mention that you are selling the game (alpha or not) with the impression that there is a playable map right "out of the box"(indievania also says randomly generated too I might add). Telling your consumer that they have to be the level designer after the fact seems like a pretty poor design decision to me, and I really hope that isn't what the final product is going to be like.

Uh, I don't know if I'm just missing something, but is the game currently just a tech demo? The screenshots, video, and patches seem to indicate that the game is playable, but I seem to be stuck with a single map and build that has none of that. I completely understand that this is in alpha, and I don't mind the purchase since I love to support indie developers whenever I can, but it kinda feels disappointing.