Third Person Class Based Tower Defense Shooter with Zombies.

AdamC · 2011-12-20T14:51:06

As with any game, balance is a huge issue. Making sure the classes compliment each other, making the abilities effectively work, and implementing gameplay that is fun is hard. So I want to make sure I'm going in the right direction. Think Monday Night Combat in an Urban setting with Zombies. The basis for the game is to select a class defend your base from both the zombie horde, and the raiders from the other team. In order to do this you need to collect survivors and supplies scattered about the city. Survivors can be set to tasks (fortifying areas, raiding supply points, tending to wounded) best suited to their randomly generated stats. You also need to stock materials, food, ammo, power, and medicine. Each item category is color coded, and every item has a inventory block value. When returned to the Fort, a percentage of the players supplies will be added to the stockpile. The more survivors you have the more tasks you can assign, but you also need more supplies to maintain them.There are Five Classes right now. The Scavenger, The Wrangler, The Caravan. The Defender, and the Tech Guy. The Scavengers are fast, and can jump and climb where others cannot. Light Armor, Light Weapons, and limited item capacity. They search the buildings in the city, and mark them for raiding (all players have GPSs, that can be synced). The Wranglers are in charge of zombie crowd control. Moderately armed, they can set and disable traps. They also know how to get the attention of the zombie crowd and lead them away from your base and over to your opposition, then blend into the horde without being attacked. Being the loners they are, they can set spawn points within the city at "safehouses". The Caravans are all about the raid. They can command the 2nd most survivors, carry the most items, and build temporary emplacements to station an armed survivor along the caravan route they set through the city. The Defenders are in charge of the base. They command the most survivors, set the defensive positions and weapons, and protect the group. The Tech Guys are basically the engineer class. They can set proximity alarms, upgrade your gps/communication abilities, but most importantly, they can re-route the power back to their base, or sabotage the opponents connection. The game also plays using time, starting in the morning, when Zombie activity is least. This gives you time to explore, raid and fortify, as well as making the other team more of a threat. As the day progresses into night, the numbers of zombies increase, finalizing with a massive street filling stampede that will stress your defensive measures to the max. There are a lot more features and breakdowns, but that's the gist of it. So with all that in mind, some of the questions I have are: 1) Do you make each team one of each type to force balance, or let the players pick? 2) If its one of each type, then would it be better to have each team be controlled by 1 player, switching between the different units? Are there games that do something like that already? 3) Zombies? Do I keep them all one kind, and make numbers the problem to tackle, or do I vary the kind there are, and make certain classes better against certain zombies? 4) Any class suggestions or abilities?

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Started by AdamC July 07, 2011 07:15 PM

10 comments, last by Boallods 13 years, 1 month ago

RONINtheSmoshPuppy

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July 11, 2011 07:47 PM

A little tweaking and some editing and you got yourself a TD zombie dota...

Boallods

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December 20, 2011 02:51 PM

"[color=#1C2837][size=2]1) Do you make each team one of each type to force balance, or let the players pick?"
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[color=#1C2837][size=2]I think you should let players pick. Would you feel good if you couldnt choose class in RPGs or race in RTSs? I quess not!
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[color=#1C2837][size=2]"2) If its one of each type, then would it be better to have each team be controlled by 1 player, switching between the different units? Are there games that do something like that already?"
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[color=#1C2837][size=2]There are games like that on the market already. You could do that in single player but in multi player, 1 player would control 1 unit.
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[color=#1C2837][size=2]"[color=#1C2837][size=2]3) Zombies? Do I keep them all one kind, and make numbers the problem to tackle, or do I vary the kind there are, and make certain classes better against certain zombies?"
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[color=#1C2837][size=2]Its better to make classes of zombies. It would make less repetitive gameplay.
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[color=#1C2837][size=2]"4) Any class suggestions or abilities?"
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[color=#1C2837][size=2]Fat zombie (slow, 150 kilos heavy zombie) "ancient" zombie (zombie with nothing but muscles on its skeleton)
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[color=#1C2837][size=2]Good luck! ;)
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