Hi folks,

I'd like to present you my newest project: "Survive!"
Please keep in mind that this is an early version, the grafics are ..well.. basic, and a lot of features are still missing.




Official Server online 24/7 (Location Germany).
If you get "no server found" after clicking "join official online server", it's not available.
Opening an joining LAN servers is now possible.


The idea: You and the other players are trapped in a desert. You've got 80 seconds to build up a defense using some old crates, after that you'll be attacked by endless waves of monsters.. First, it's only slow mummies, but it's going to get worse! Good thing you brought your weapons with you.

New update:
I've released Version 0.57.


Download: 10Mb

http://rapidshare.com/files/267660864/Survive__V0.57.zip
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IQ6UZ6AO

If no new enemies are spawning, enter "/catch" in chat (without the ""). I'll then get a bug report. only use this when the bug appears!

Changes from v 0.56 to 0.57
- tried fix "stuck on waves" bug,
but it might still be there
- added some debug info

How to Play, quoting the readme.txt


Hint: If you are on your own, a good defense should look like this:
[Image offline]

Technical details:
- uses the native 3DGS network engine (direct play), no plugins
- should be playable with a latency up to 200 ms
- up to 30 moving attackers at the same time,
dplay_entrate is set to 2
- max 8 players for now

Known Problems:
- server has "phantom" players on it, because num_clients is inaccurate. this is a known bug of A7.77 and A7.80 Beta
- because of that, new rounds might start although there is no player. if you start in fighting phase with no defenses, just get yourself killed. a new round starts after that and you can build.


Planned features:
look here


I'd be happy about any comment on the game or the gameplay,
but please, don't spam about the graphics.


Hope you have some fun,
-SchokoKeks

Great game I like the idea of playing. I think I won the round we played ;-)
Sometimes the game is a bit monotonous. Maybe you could add a feature like
slow builing of boxes. The player can stop building a box, but if he does the box will be destroyed. So he must deciede if he shoots or builds boxes...

And make the ki a little bit better, so that they go into the area if they can and don't continue destroying boxes...
Another point is the running. In our round you saw that I could run away from the enemy's. Make the player slower or something like this, but at the moment the player can run and run and run and the enemy's don't hit him...

I hope you will add the lan feature, because I think the game will be great on lan-party's

Mfg, Martek

Really nice game
I thought I won, Martek...
Its fun, but you should add more group features (like calling a jet which drops bombs around the middle) and more weapons (sniper, grenades or drones which shoot at the monsters too).
The performance is quite good, I didn't have any lags.
The graphics are ok for me.

Continue on that project!

Mfg, Timothy

Well it was quite some fun!
First I thought the monsters wouldn't be able to destroy crates.
But they did, that was pretty much a surprise

I also agree with martek on the AI. Didn't have any lags too but at the end I lost the connection.
Playing it alone was pretty much boring though.

Keep it up!

But at the end when I died my points top left said something aroud 33000...
I forgot to say some points:
Add a box destroy sound and maybe some effect when the boxes are hit.

Very well done!
Things to improve:
o the player's movement (especially jumping, as you know, camera bobbing)
o add a little gravity script to the boxes => players can build bridges/towers and so on...
o hitzones
o places where you have to buy your weapons (like in CoD5 - Nazi Zombies) so the player has to move

And please spend 90%+ of your time on the gameplay and <10% on the graphics!

thanks for the kind replies!

I'll add some power ups (health packs, quad damage, air strikes) to add some variety. Jumping is also on the to-do list now.
also, I found some new bugs: the score list is not always complete, martek should have won that round but his score wasn't shown. plus you can't read all of the chat if you type in long messages.

btw it took me 3 weeks of programming to do is. it's still written in C-Script, not lite C. maybe i should port it later. client_id would sure be helpful.

the next update might take one our two weeks, so please continue to post all problems and suggestions you have! Thanks

Edit:
got a good idea about the weapons:
as soon as one of the players reaches the required points, an airplane will drop a crate somewhere in the level where all players can get the new weapon. this will require jumping on crates as most players totally block the spawn

i played together with SchokoKeks and it was quite fun!

There was no latency problems. current system is quite solid except for a few little bugs... gameplay is a bit monotonous but, that could be improved with some ideas, like SchokoKeks already said, powerups, boss waves and such... i already made a lot of suggestions in-game, hope they were helpful.

I'd like to play again with more players, game is pretty fun at it's current state more people can be more fun, waiting for nex update

Nice Game, it makes really fun to play!
Played it with Schokokeks to Wave 7.. Then died ^^

Things which can be made better or should be created:

-Ingame Menu , to in/decrease the Mouse Sensivity
-Afer Setting the whole Defence, a Button should be appear, which you can start the game without waiting for the Counter!(All Players must accept!)
-Delete Crate Function, if the user created a Crate at "the false" position
-Enemy's left Digit
-Player's Score Panel(which can be opened wiht TAB or something else)... This Panel shows the Current Users / the Score / Ping and Kills from all Players.

cYa Sebastian

Hm... I always joing in the fighting phase, when the first wave starts, never been able to start in build phase. And since I'm always the only one online, it's kinda hard to survive...