Role-Play/Horror Game UDK Ideas

[Fi5h1fishy]

Hello again everyone, and recently i have been planning on creating a horror game in UDK. I have got a storyline set up, and i am ready to create the game, but i was wondering if anyone had any ideas on good features that i should include, to make it better. I have been thinking about what would make it better, and i cant really think of anything. It is going to be an abandoned town/village, full of zombies, and i need certain missions, and tasks that you have to complete in order to progress in the game. I mainly need some task ideas, which the player will have to complete in order to continue with the level. At the beggining of the game, you will not have any weapons, and the first mission you have to do is find a gundealer, who survived the Horde. He says that he has not get any weapons, and he asks you if you can go collect the stock of weapons from the warehouse, which is not far from where you are. That is one of the examples of the tasks that you have to complete, but i need some more from you all. I dont neccicarily want there to be missions like, killing the zombies, as you are trying to avoid them, and i need missions that are based on survival needs, and stuff like that. Thanks for the help, and i hope that you will be able to give me some ideas in order to go ahead and create my game, thanks!

[JessieG]

Why did you make another thread for the exact same thing? Try keeping this to one thread.

[Shindawg]

Hasn't the whole zombies in an abandoned town thing been done a bit too much at this point?

[TriiX]

Hello again everyone, and recently i have been planning on creating a horror game in UDK. I have got a storyline set up, and i am ready to create the game, but i was wondering if anyone had any ideas on good features that i should include, to make it better. I have been thinking about what would make it better, and i cant really think of anything. It is going to be an abandoned town/village, full of zombies, and i need certain missions, and tasks that you have to complete in order to progress in the game. I mainly need some task ideas, which the player will have to complete in order to continue with the level. At the beggining of the game, you will not have any weapons, and the first mission you have to do is find a gundealer, who survived the Horde. He says that he has not get any weapons, and he asks you if you can go collect the stock of weapons from the warehouse, which is not far from where you are. That is one of the examples of the tasks that you have to complete, but i need some more from you all. I dont neccicarily want there to be missions like, killing the zombies, as you are trying to avoid them, and i need missions that are based on survival needs, and stuff like that. Thanks for the help, and i hope that you will be able to give me some ideas in order to go ahead and create my game, thanks!

why not instead of zombies make it vampires and your in a village/town when theres 30 days of night,thats when the vampires strike so basically thay planned it the whole time.the people have to survive also make it multiplayer if you can,add guns barriers and you can enter houses you make safehouses from the vampires and theres 3 ways to kill the vamps 1.get a headshot on them 2.chop there heads of with an axe 3.kill them with a UV light
PS:more fun if multiplayer

[TKBS]

game designers are idea people; level designers generally are artists or work from others artwork.

- yes the zombie thing has been done too much; but for a new person starting a small project for fun, zombies is probably appropriate for a variety of reasons.

- being unable to think of ideas, starting more than one thread for the same ideas, and spamming random comments onto people's posts to bump up your post count so that people can read your name is not good.

- What are your skills , talents or at least objectives for embarking upon such a project.

- i can sling ideas your way by the dozen, im sure many others could aswel, there is also about 10, 000 or more zombie games that are full of ideas [do some research]

- i am always happy to help people; but you my friend, as as fishy as your name implies.- and IMO it comes across as you not being serious.

[Fi5h1fishy]

Alright i have been away for a while everyone, and now that i am back i am glad to see that some of you have been giving me some ideas, and tips on what i should do when i am going to be creating it. Triix- thanks alot for the vampire idea, i think that it is a very good idea, and i think that a vampire game, would be pretty amazing. Im going to carry on working with zombies in the meantime, as i have already got the models for them and all of that, but if i feel that your idea would be better, then i am going to choose the vampire idea, as it is rather exellent. Thank you everyone for the help, its really....helpful!

[Graylord]

Hasn't the whole zombies in an abandoned town thing been done a bit too much at this point?

Not really.

Yeah, there are a lot of games based around zombies, but none that really nails the survival aspect.

[Fi5h1fishy]

Yeah, i know that this is a bit of a late reply, but i am not planning on doing a suspected zombie game, i want to go up with a new level, somthing that has never been done before. By that, i mean a very good and detailed story, and i want to make the game frighten you. This is one of the things many horror games dont have. yes, there are mayn zombie games out there, but they are all the same old zombies, spawning at the same areas, and yes there may be scary parts, where they jump out and scare you, but once you have got use to that, its not going to scare you forever. The idea that i thought of comming up with was that zombies would appear and scream at different areas of the map, and there is a 1/100 chance that you are going to see a zombie scare you in the same area, by this i mean that there are going to be loads of areas of the map at which zombies will appear.