MiniGame for Horror Modification

duhchamp · 2006-11-25T21:19:08

I am trying to design a bite system for my team's horror modification for the Half Life 2 Source engine. Our game uses minimal interface, so I am trying to keep it consistent with the rest of the game, but I am having problems thinking of ideas. I would like to start an open dialogue to help get my creative juices going. So far, I have come up with two options. The first is the mouse cursor and the circle idea. The following sums up the idea: Human players can be infected if they receive more than 20% of their total hitpoints in damage in a given period of time. The decay of the player from this point will be determined by the players RESISTANCE and ENDURANCE attributes. (I have yet to come up with the formula). Once a player is infected this way, zombies will have a much easier time in biting them and completely incapacitating them. Zombies may bite the player if they manage to keep hold of their opponent for x amount of time. First, they must grab the uninfected humans. Once grabbed, the human will need to move the mouse, whose position will be denoted by a “cursor” outside of the zombies “circle”. The cursor and circle will be able to be moved using the mouse. The zombies circle will always move at the same rate, while the player’s cursor will move at a speed depending on the amount of hit points left and the player’s ENDURANCE and STRENGTH stat (If the player is infected, this will also slow the player’s cursor down substantially). If the zombie is able to keep the cursor inside of his/her circle, he will be able to bite the player by pressing the action button (left mouse click). If not, the player will break away and play will resume as normal. Additionally, any trauma caused to the zombie by an outside party will immediately break the mini game and play will resume as normal. Obviously, for this idea, we would have to record the mouse movement for both sides. Mouse speed would be slowed dramatically to increase the playability of the mini game. While this idea isnt terrible, I'm not sure how I would present this to the players without adding additional items to the UI. My second idea involves using a combination of button presses. These presses would involve the movement keys, wasd. The human player would press a key, and the infected player would have x amount of time to mimic that key press. If the infected player is able to sustain control of the player over y amount of time, the infected player would be able to bite the human player. Again, I am not sure how to do this without adding UI elements. We could simply show movement with an animation or maybe just a quarter circle glow over the 4 areas of the screen (top, left, right, and bottom) to denote the presses. Those are my ideas, tell me what you think and feel free to brainstorm your own with me.

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Started by duhchamp November 13, 2006 10:05 PM

10 comments, last by Arthuros 18 years, 2 months ago

duhchamp

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November 25, 2006 02:35 AM

Well, we dont want grabbing and biting a player to be that easy. By establishing a somewhat difficult mini-game, this will ensure difficulty for biting a player, and will require skill to do so.

Still, I can see your point as to how it could be considered over-complicated. What are some other opinions?

Arthuros

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November 25, 2006 09:19 PM

If i got this right, if the zombie misses the bite, play is resumed as usual, right?

Be sure to make it a doubel edge knife them... if the zombie misses the bit he may fall down or be "stunned" for a second or two.. enough time to take some bullets in the head...

this enforces a more strategic aproach to bitting... as you should try to just bite anyone and everyone

Also, you can try something likea button mash.. Zombies presses the space button several times to try and bite, and humans press the space button several times to break free...

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