CTRL+ALT ZOMBIE ESC
A solo game jam made in ~50 hours about surviving a zombie apocalypse. There are 4 different endings (5 if you count dying) that you can uncover. A single playthrough can take as little as a few minutes if you know what to do and the RNG gods are on your side. Average playthrough seems ~30 minutes.
# INSTRUCTIONS
- Press "?" to open up the help menu. (`Shift+/` sorry non EN keyboard / dvorak users)
- Generally read the screen, anything in square brackets can be pressed on the keyboard to activate it. i.e. press the [t] key to "Play with [T]urtles", etc
- "Shift+I" opens up your inventory, and shows how many HP you have.
- Go to your bedroom (where you start) and press [R] to rest. It will pass the time until the next morning. If you have any food, you'll eat it and regenerate your HP.
- Killing enough zombies will get you more max HP after a sleep.
- Read descriptions, they change based on what items you have in your inventory.
- Every action progresses time. The clock is displayed at the top.
# Hints
- Watch the clock! Night is dangerous, more encounters, harder to run away. More likely to run into giant hordes that will mess up your face.
- Hidden stats like: noise weapons make, critical strikes, etc. Play around with different weapons.
- Scavenge a lot: drop rates are really low.
# Source Code
All source code, including the python script that generates the ASCII art is available here:
https://gitlab.com/game-jammers/zombie
Bleeding edge version of the game can be played on gitlab pages (ie: this gets updated whenever I push to master, may or may not be working at any given time)
https://game-jammers.gitlab.io/zombie/
# Dev Notes
I've been trying to do a game a month, but this month I won't have access to my computer for 2 weeks so I had to rush. I waffled a while and couldn't figure out what to make, this game was a happy accident. There's a few endings I missed, and I was planning on going through and rewriting everything with more of an Earthbound flavor (my first pass was generic zombie stuff) but ran out of time. Oh well.
I wanted to practice my JavaScript and try this UI library called SVELTE and this sort of just happened.
I'm posting this a little early since I will be AFK and not able to make updates if there are game breaking bugs.
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Author | Jamming Games |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | Dogs, Survival Horror, Text based, Zombies |
Average session | About a half-hour |
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