February 3, 2012 6 Responses

28 Bratwursts Later – Zombie 2.5D Shooter Game

“23.12.2012: Scientists finally have interpreted the last icon of the dresden codex. It shows a bratwurst…”

Together with some mates I’m currently working in my spare time on a small fun zombie 2.5D shooter game with the fruity title “28 Bratwursts Later”.
It’s developed with Flash and uses the Stage3D framework ND2D and it has evolved far enough to show at least a short video.

The final version will feature 10+ different weapons, 5 maps with lots of different quests, 6+ NPC types with various AIs and a “bold” soundtrack.
May be, if there is some time and motivation left, a multiplayer cooperative gameplay mode could be feasible.

 

Filed in AS3, Flash

6 Responses

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  2. Niraj on February 9, 2012, 1:52 am

    Hi
    the video is very cool,
    hope to play soon

    can you give more on why go with nd2d when there are other full blown 3d api such as minko and away3d.
    can you give us more detail on the game did you import any 3d models or all of them are 2d sprites.

    the video shows very good zsorting
    can you tell us how to achieve that

  3. bma on February 9, 2012, 10:11 am Author

    I decided to use a 2D framework because of the possibility to reuse some existing assets, in this case the map graphics. They are taken from an older game called “Jingleballs” – http://www.jingleballs.de (only available in German language).
    And at the time we started to develop 28BL, ND2D was the only framework which offered the usage of BlendModes to paint some nice atmospheres…

    The characters are indeed built in 3D and then exported to multiple sprite sheets.
    I will soon post the 3ds Max tool I’ve built to automate the sprite’s export. So if you’re working with 3ds Max this might be useful.

    The z-sorting is actually a pretty simple solution: it sorts all “z-clipping-objects” according to their y positions on the screen. The greater challenge is to optimize the placement of the no-go areas to prevent clipping errors ;-)

  4. Niraj on February 9, 2012, 10:53 pm

    Thanks for the reply
    I have been big fan of Pushbutton game engine
    but very disappointed by its forum/main site being closed
    did you use any entity management engine or any other game engines for this game?
    what about tiles/maps and level desiginers

    would be very thankful if you could share as i am also planing to make a flash game based upon an ancient story.

    thanks
    Niraj

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  6. Audas on March 19, 2012, 9:55 am

    Good work – let me know when I can play it – was sent here from the ND2D developers site which has a link here.