Installer is back up. Sorry for the long wait.
The installer's about 350 MB, it unpacks to twice that amount. For those of you not in the know, this release will let you bomb through the introductory section and first level out of four planned levels. Check out this handy map for your visual reference pleasure:
Whether or not we'll actually be providing those other levels is a question to ask us some other time. Zombie Zoo's fate is still undecided beyond this release. The current release is very rough around the edges. Trust me, we're aware of this. That being said, learning these tools as we went along and starting out with a team of only four people (it ballooned to ten during the second semester), we're quite proud of the final product and hope you enjoy it for what it is.
If you're wondering what the deal with the preview image of this news post is, that strange red thing behind the text is Blobmonster. He was our quadruped stand-in we used in the game while we were still working on modeling and animating the animals. He came in red, yellow, and blue and he will be missed.
Also, I've uploaded the re-edited Introduction animation. It's very similar to what was up there before, just a few small changes and additions. Anyway, that's all. Go grab the mod and let us know what you think!
Love,
semicomatose and the rest of the Zombie Zoo team
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Holy ****! I can't wait to play it!
ZOMFG!!
Im gonna download this right away. :)
"It's a bizarre and dumb oversight on our part that you have that thing and can use it."
Well assuming you haven't done this already, here's a tip:
Get fresh eyes to test the mod when appropriate, especially before a release. In this case these are players that will immediatly rate you down on it. But even fresh eyes can miss that sort of stuff, only a larger scale "test" like a release is likely to find all the bugs you weren't aware of.
Anyway, not too interested in playing it myself in such an early state, especially without a gameplay video to tip me over *hint hint* but consider you guys have a decent rating from 8 people already tells me you're at least on the right track with a sort of "Release early, release often" type approach.
I wish you luck for the future of this project.
Indeed, you are always telling the truth. Give it a try and then post here what you really think, but i'm with you, I hate to play "rip-offs" of the complete game. Guys, I'm gonna wait more and when you fully release it, I will be glad to play.
I wouldn't hold your breath on that one. This was a student project. Most of us are going our separate ways after this release. We very well may make more Zombie Zoo but it's entirely likely it won't even be a Source mod in the future.
Wait so all were going to get on the source engine is the first chapter? :O
Most likely, you are correct.
Sweet, I'll play it tonight!
Wow looks great! I'll definitely play tonight! :)
I'll be severely disappointed if this is all the Zombie Zoo we get :<
Great first chapter, the narrator was brilliant :D
Thanx! Thats the first comment (I think) I've seen about the narration/Voice work....
If your team does decide to not continue developing the mod is there any chance it could be given to the community so we can carry on making it?
I think it's full of potential and would love to get hold of the maps and 'pretty' them up for you.
Anyway, well done on making such an original mod!
i like the music! :D
self made?
All the music, intro excluded was made by our very talented sound designer.
played it.. it was short, but AWESOME
Maybe fix the overlapping speeches
Like it! But you should make a better animation for the boxing gloves and for the animals
OMG YES! YES!!!!
I loved it, short but sweet, and congratulations for making the trippiest boss fight ive ever played
I see a future for this game.I enjoyed every moment but it has to improve.
For example the models, they aren't bad but it could be better I will look foward this proyect.
Also the concept is cool.
nice mod, but still full of bugs. you can jump outside the map in the last part
Really? How exactly were you able to escape the battle to the death?
just jump to the fence and to the wall and you get outside the map. there is alot of bugs in all maps.
I played it, and while it was fun, it definately could use some map editing. The NPC's were very cool, except that the bunnies could maybe hop at you a bit :) Overall, a lot of fun, yet with some level work it would be pure awesomeness.
is there a petting zoo area ;)?
Wow, nice job guys! I really like the intro animation. Kudos!
Daaah it's take such time ! i want try it !
Who ever drew Zombie Intro Final Is an amazing artist and who ever made the music for it is amazing aswell ******* awesome 10/10!
Awesome
Am I blind, or am I just not seeing where to download this amazing Zombie Zoo ?!?
umm its being re uploaded due to the installer having bugs and waiting for authorisation
It was very disappointing. While the audio was nice,the graphics were extremely ******(textures were filtered with Photoshop "cutout" effect. I know it was suppose to look cartoony, but it just looks lame. Take a look at TF2, the textures aren't blurred and formed by 2-3 colors.
Make chapter 2 less ****.
I finished this mod in about 5 min. I was very disappointed. Find a new mapper It is ALLOT of mapp glitched(shortcuts, purpel black textures, blocks in the AIR, Allot of souns playing at the same time there were u enter the first mission wtf), and fix the combat system. the zombies diden´t hurt me once event on hard. And the tf2 textures :/
This is a fail mod
Everyone who rates down constructive criticism knows that we are right. So the more "-" the more people saying "You are right, but we can't admit it".
We'd appreciate some constructive criticism. Radu and meecrob can you be a bit more specific about the mapping problems. You mentioned purple textures, air blocks and shortcuts. We'd love to know where so we can resolve the issues. Thanks
@Radu, the form it is given which is bad, also like kingmook said, it's not about right or wrong. Also detailing these problems would be alot more helpfull to the developers than just stating found problems but not where they occured.
Whell they have a bad mapper
Mee, would you kindly get the **** out of here?
karma spamm-_-
Amazing short video!! That artist deserves a cookie!
The mod was quite fun, quirky and comical. My only suggestion would be to merge the levels into one map, the levels were so short that it kinda broke to flow to have to load every 3-5 mins. Not that the load times were bad, just could have easily been two large maps for the whole game.
I just played through the chapter that has been released.
The gameplay is boring and uninspired. Punching about 15 rabbits 4 times is not fun, and neither is pushing and breaking blocks.
Visually, the game looks ok. However the cel shaded textures sometimes conflict with the more detailed ground and rocks.
The best part of the mod is the audio, which is passable at best.
5/10.
Your face is passable at best. BOOM!