The Dream Zombie Game

Before i start, i must warn you this is goin to be quite a bit of reading but here i go......

Today i was googling to see if there was new info on Left 4 Dead and i came across some L4D forums to see if any offered any good info. Unfortunately i could not find anything. BUT i did come across Steampowered.com's forum. I found a thread that really interested me entitled "The Perfect Zombie Game", and this is what its starter said.....

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Yea.. Left 4 Dead looks really cool.
But this thing in Game Informer really got me thinking.
It was a picture of a Fallout character and described Fallout MMO.
What if there was a Zombie Hunter MMO that was sortof like Fallout.
It'd be perfect.. A few thousand survivors (Aka, the amount of people on one server at once) A few player towns (Safe havens, like an oil rig, strategically placed on a map to be logical and actually safe) Ability to scavange towns for anything useful (Aka guns, gas, food, water, ammo, anything to help you and your friends) Factions and Groups formed to obtain a balance or order (Create your own with enough people and set up your own town.. or try to take one over.. theres the PVP portion)

Blaah.. 5 am.. and im thinking about this kind of crap.. lol.

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After that i kept reading through the thread (which by the way was started January 16 of this year at 2:59 am and is STILL GOING TO THIS DAY!!!!!!!!)
and was just in awe at some of the creative ideas and detail put into them by these ppl....

(heres the link if you wanna read yourselves
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=527448)

The thread is 16 pages long and i read EVERY SINGLE POST ON EVERY SINGLE PAGE!!!!!!!!!!! I got more excited after reading every post and no such game has even been announced, though some posts were irrelevant.

And id like to shout out to 1 person who doesnt even kno i exist, that person's ID is "THE triggahappy", who has literally kept that thread alive for almost a whole year and has given some of the most vivid details for this dream zombie game................now for my input....

Ive always had an idea for a Zombie MMOFPS stuck in my head since PlanetSide. And if 1 was to be made id definitely pay for it. People seperated into different troops scavenging for anything, guns, food, gas to power the vehicle you drive( gotta make it as real as possible), cut down trees or tear down a wooden cabin in the forests to carves arrow out of for bows. Cities spread out so you can take your troop and head out in your vehicle across the country side, pick up a lone survivor (maybe someone who jus bought the game????) and take them with you to another town you are going to, meet other players you could make alliances with or enemies with( these are zombies were talkin about...some troops may become desperate and loot your troop or safe haven for supplies). And also as i was reading the steam thread ppl were talkin about "zombie hunting"? This is survival, you wuldnt go looking for them. That would make the game more intense. You and a couple teammates go out to scavenge and your attacked by a mob of zombies so you get what you can and hurry back to your town to let them kno zombies are on the way so you prepare for the attack.

As much as i have ranted on, i want your creative ideas...
Tell me what YOU would want in the ultimate Zombie MMOFPS????

Even if its only 1 idea jus say it

Ah man, I've had an idea like this for awhile, and it's cool to see other people feel the same way. Awesome ideas on that site as well...

Ah man, I've had an idea like this for awhile, and it's cool to see other people feel the same way. Awesome ideas on that site as well...

jamejame

Finally someone that feels the same way as i do!!!!!!!!!!!!! Each server could be a town with 1000 ppl in each, you have to find thing to make you barricaded stronghold...you could find like an abandoned grocery strore or gas station and turn it into a supply station for ppl and you have to defend it from zombie attacks here and now, that would be awesome...i wanna kno more ideas, ppl let me knoooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Yeah, and when running low on food you and your clan could perform raids on other clans to get food, only to get there you'd have to go across zombie infested towns. I could totally see like a rugged pick-up truck with a turret in the back running over zombies and making a drive-by at a gas stationanother clan is holding out in,with the turret guy shooting at gas pumps and explosions everywhere. This could seriously awesome if done right.

Yeah, and when running low on food you and your clan could perform raids on other clans to get food, only to get there you'd have to go across zombie infested towns. I could totally see like a rugged pick-up truck with a turret in the back running over zombies and making a drive-by at a gas stationanother clan is holding out in,with the turret guy shooting at gas pumps and explosions everywhere. This could seriously awesome if done right.

jamejame

WOW...i just totally visualized all that in my head, that would be awesome!!!! Say your clans in friends with another clan and you decide to team up to find more resources, so youre goin through the forest and you see a zombie runnin so you kill it. Next thing you kno zombies are everywhere!!! youre jus killin zombies left and right while youre runnin through the forest. you run into a cabin to regroup...share ammo and health, drink water and eat to raise your stamina before the zombies come...then you burst out shotguns and SMGs goin off while you run back to get to your vehicles....jus thinkin about it gets me hyped!!!!!!!!!

Ok here we go:

Alright we have 6 HUGE maps (I'm talking Oblivion size) that all play differently.

500 people per server, and there are about 4 towns per map. The servers reset every 30 days, and choose a new map. The game assigns you randomly to one town at the beginning of each cycle. You are all able to spend 2 days scouring the countryside for resources, and on the third day, the zombies randomly attack 3 of the four towns. For 27 days the attack is relentless, receding only once every day between 10 AM and noon. This two hour window allows for the fewer players that are on to recover and try to steal resources from the other towns, the most obvious target being the one that has no zombies. This allows for a lot of gameplay variety because the town that isn't attacked plays PvP, and everyone else plays like 90% PvE and 10% PvP. Your character gains experience for killing zombies, killing other people, and a very large amount of experience for surviving the 30 days. If you are killed, ever by human or zombie, you go to a random place on the map, with a 'fog of war' type thing going on where you only can see where you've gone. You are able to join any town that you find or finds you.

The six maps all are different environments throughout different periods of time. The future, Roman times, the middle ages, modern times, classic Greece and the dawn of man. All have different weapons, art styles and play differently.

You guys know what else? The dream Zombie game should be around on a real life day schedule, based on time and such. At midnight, it should be dark. So if you and some buds decide to have an all nighter, its really an all nighter. There should definately be different hour servers and such. Some for different areas and places of the world. US, Africa, Austrailia, Europe, etc.... But this may cause a problem for people such as I. Because one of my best friends on live actually resides in Switserland. What would we do? Well he or I would have to pop into each others servers. No big deal. Maybe people could create a specific character for a specific server. I am sure there are millions of ways to deal with this.

But as the day progresses, there should different amounts of zombies. What about this..... You and 10 other friends are getting really tired (in real life) its about 1:30 in the morning. You guys stop in a house that seems to be empty. Well this house will be able to be yours, maybe lets say a spawn point for future logins. This house will belong to you and your faction/clan/survival team. People that will stay at your house in the future, may have to pay you a fee of some sort. Or maybe food, ammo, etc. Thats what the house will require for you to pay, to be able to stay there in the middle of the night. If you can not pay, you can not stay. This could possibly be set up on a menu system where it asks you to pay the fee. And if you are unable to, you get kicked back to the game, and are unable to enter the protective structure. But here will be a new dynamic, maybe there will be an ability to capture certain houses that are already under control. But on these houses will be robotic weapons, that activate when a zombie infestation or human threat needs to be exterminated. Of course the amount of weapons your house is equipped with will depend on your clan level. If they are very low with maybe one automatic turret, then it will be claimed easily. This could provide HUGE amounts of clan rivalry which would be PRETTY BADDDD ASSSSSSS!!!! (Clans could choose what the fee or price would be, depending on how safe the structure is, the better it is, the more expensive it will be. The worse it is, the cheaper your clan can make it. This can create a business aspect to the DREAM ZOMBIE GAME.

But lets say there is a poor group of people, or maybe a group that may not want to pay for some house. They will have to stay in a structure that would be completely open to zombie attack, and is unable to be claimed by the teams. This would be an abandoned home that would be unable to be claimed by a clan, but will be able to be inhabitited while being there. There will be forts built over the night. These areas could also be in very vulnerable areas to zombie attack. Which could cause some epic battles for survival for the players.

These are just some ideas, and I really would like to discusss more with you guys.

I like the business aspest systemakid, but i dont thinkleveling up should really be included then itd be a normal RPG...i think more on the lines of if you as a player explore more and try more things then you jus become more experienced than some1 else who jus got in the game....but say sum1 jus comes into the game and discovered a skill that took you a couple days to discover then that would be ok you know...it depends on the skill of the human player to be a very resourceful person instead of having a lvl number and wait to a certain point to do sumthin..it would kinda be like havin braggin rights...the word spread thats a new player to the game killed a big number of zombie with almos nothing or he found developed some awesome barricade jus becuz he as a player is good not becuz of his lvl you feel me??? tell me what you thinkMOB712

I am not talking about player level. I am saying leveling up (MORE OF STACKING YOUR RESOURCES UP WITH YOUR HOUSES) your house. Maybe not a level number. But these places to go to for resources and protection. Maybe these houses could offer stuff for sale or so on. But I am not talking about leveling up. Look at scarface, he did not level up, he got his resources down and became a business man. He ended up dead tho. But thats like the part where other clans want to kill you. You see what I mean?

[QUOTE="MOB712"]I like the business aspest systemakid, but i dont thinkleveling up should really be included then itd be a normal RPG...i think more on the lines of if you as a player explore more and try more things then you jus become more experienced than some1 else who jus got in the game....but say sum1 jus comes into the game and discovered a skill that took you a couple days to discover then that would be ok you know...it depends on the skill of the human player to be a very resourceful person instead of having a lvl number and wait to a certain point to do sumthin..it would kinda be like havin braggin rights...the word spread thats a new player to the game killed a big number of zombie with almos nothing or he found developed some awesome barricade jus becuz he as a player is good not becuz of his lvl you feel me??? tell me what you thinkSystemaKid

I am not talking about player level. I am saying leveling up (MORE OF STACKING YOUR RESOURCES UP WITH YOUR HOUSES) your house. Maybe not a level number. But these places to go to for resources and protection. Maybe these houses could offer stuff for sale or so on. But I am not talking about leveling up. Look at scarface, he did not level up, he got his resources down and became a business man. He ended up dead tho. But thats like the part where other clans want to kill you. You see what I mean?

OOOOOOOOOOOh ok i get you, youre basically sayin the same thing im sayin, jus in a different way...misunderstanding

im liking this idea, i'll toss my few cents in this, there will be of course more zombies at night, however, not just more, certain ones that are nocturnal, and are more disfigured and what not..... give it a horror MMO kinda feel. but oh the testing and balancing of a MMO is mind bogglingKGB32

i like that. and also maybe diffent zombie classes. Like some that will run and some that will be slow as crap comming out of a constipated bull. But more disfiugered and horror like zombies????/ YOU GOT YOURSELF A PARTY. that would be DAMN fun and hopefully scary.

i love this idea. my ideas/changes for this would be \\\\\note:i did not reall pay attention to many posts except for the few the creator of this thread mad, so sorry for repeating any ideas.\\\\

possible third person mode, it would make the game feel a little bit better for me, a kinda secure feel to see other players. also there should be like a barricade slash home protection editor thing so your house isnt generically upgraded by what you gather.leveling wouldnt be bad but not general experience but like oblivion-ish leveling where you get experience for doing stuff often. so to say if you edit your barricade often you can design stronger, maybe even deadlier barricades. and if you go drving with your buddies for resources often you get better driving skill. killl a bunch of zombies your no scope accuracy is increased and the like. what would also be cool is a fusion of skills. like the guy who is good at barricade editing would be able to fuse his skills wiht a car to make like a super car or a heavy car or modded engine to it. and nas and the like. also i wouldnt really want servers to restart every month that would lame,no offense to whoever said that. but you knwo it would be cool to have your little town goign and really get to be buds with te guys in your town. also the towns could be towns. but it wouldnt be encouraged. like if lots of houses and barricades gathered in one spot more zombies would spawn near the town making it more difficult to be a group. so small villages lone house would be a good idea. and the size of the server is questionable. also if the clock would be kinda of accelerated but not life like. so you would never have to really worry about always being on so you wont die kinda thing. and i do love te whole oblivion sized map thing. and it would have to be set in agood time and place. it would be cool to have a semi-rural area. i think where i live would be sweet. there are houses and stuff but it isnt like atlanta(my state capital) and if i coudl choose a time it would be awesome if it was now maybe a little in the future. oh yes, i almost forgot. the sound . it would have to have some kick butt music to go along wiht destroying zombies. and also have some great sounds of idk ripping zombie guts out, sniping their heads off, getting there bones stuck in your car grill. furthermore, killing zombies shouldnt really become a chore. they need to have some sort of purpose. like very minimal amounts of recources. and maybe some sort of repelent that is invented somehow by someone. so zombie blood is a symbol to zombies that this place is all ready over run go away kinda thing. and the game needs to have an unbelieveable frame-rate, lagfree good fun. the graphics should be amazing if that wasnt all ready a given. and the game needs to have some sort of chemistry system or something so that you can create zombie poison, as forementioned zombie repellent, health mods, bullet upgrades, and possible zombie clones to place in other peopls camps to mess them up. i hopefully keep updating wiht my ideas on this thread. hopefully some developer will read it someday and use these ideas.

im glad you actually read that whole thing. but yeah this will be awesome. i might end up with a list. im looking for some more ideas. so we could get like a full list of requirements to maek this ultimate game.adam-99

yeah ill add to that list aswell. u play CoD4?

i like the house business thing. iread your post about it it and the only thing i dont like is real time. i think as i said before a little accelerated time schedule.and also it shouldnt really ever restart. now im just wondering on how big a house could be. you knwo they need parameters. also do you like my idea of the villages get attacked more than a lone house? or do you think that is lame.

i like the house business thing. iread your post about it it and the only thing i dont like is real time. i think as i said before a little accelerated time schedule.and also it shouldnt really ever restart. now im just wondering on how big a house could be. you knwo they need parameters. also do you like my idea of the villages get attacked more than a lone house? or do you think that is lame.

adam-99

i think it all depends on the location of where you are in the world of this idea of a game. How far you and your party have explored. So maybeyour in a village or maybe your in a lone houseon the country side I believe villages would be really bad ass. This just actually gave me an idea.

People all start out living in a house that is assigned to them. In a regular neighborhood. or city. That would have the zombie infection break out in. This would give you time to gather your resources and evacuate. Or prepare your village or structures to stay. This can have so many outcomes its mind boggling. But I dont like the idea of things resetting either. So that would be hard to do with what I just said. Accelerated time does make more sense aswell.

What I am about to say may be considered really far fetched.

But creating villages or stranded houses would be awsome. Maybe if you and your friends started a new game or so, they could be branded as a family.Being brothers sisters, mother and dad. Each having own skills.Hope what I am about to say would not be offensive to anybody, but if your a Dad you will have strength and wisdom, good with weapons.If your a sonyou could have more athletic ability,good with few weapons. Good with technology. Sister could have skills with technology and food. And the mother would be wise, very skilled with food and maybe good with weapons that are not gun related. Such as a knife.

But maybe if people wernt interested in family things, what they could do is have a list of skills to choose from. Maybe 2 or 3 skills percharacter. And you and your friends need to spread out skills evenly, so your faction or clan or family is well balanced, with necessitys to survive.

Maybe there could be an option to start out with your friends from the beginning, and gain new ones while making your journey. I think that would be pretty awsome.

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Always wanted a C&C type game but with zombies as the enemies. Collect supplies, pick up more survivors, fortify your base area, train people with basic weapons(no high tech ones).mrgab

Star Craft has a game mode just like u speak of.

Left 4 Dead is as close as ever to the perfect zombie game.

Think if there was like a zombie sand-box type game, like your in the middle of infection and you have to do different tasks and stuff until it ends.

I can't wait for left 4 dead.

id buy it

Dude, reading soem of these new ideas made me squeal like a little school girl... some dev totally has to pick this up, this'd be an MMO I'd seriously pay a monthly fee for.

Well what sucks is that all of us contributors to these different ZMOS (ZOMBIE MASSIVE ONLINE SURVIVER) lol, would get tottally screwed by a developer. Maybe if they ever did use these ideas they could promise all of us a really early beta. SO we can tell them how we like it. ANd after that they could give us free copies of the game and never have to pay a monthly subscription? And then we can advertise how bad ass it is like corporate toools. 8). And we should also get paid by the hourly that we are online and playing that game. 8) 8). Most likely tho we will just end up getting screwed. :cry:SystemaKid

well system(sorry for whatever your real sn is but it is just easier to call you system if taht is ok.) but yes the family thing is cool. but i would kinda want it to be symbolic because a guy that gets stuck with sister for the rest of the game would pesonally suck. so if they wanted to be a guy but iwht attributes of sister taht would be more of an appeal thing, so more would buy it because they could be whoever they wanted to be. and it would also add depth with character-creation and such. i do like the idea of creating just about everything in this gmae from the ground up. you knwo you hcoose how to build your house waht you put in it and everything. and i think the families(or really just a set of characters with far different skill sets) would band together so they could have 3 or 4 families to maek a prodcutive unit. this all will be better if we got a more organized way to set this up.

just a suggestion. would all of you posters want to be my friend so i could create a union out of this and we could discuss different aspects clearly? just a suggestion to see if we could really get it going into a full-baked game idea and with enough hope and luck, it could turn into a real zombie game. so if you want this to be a union do whatever you need to, to become my friend so i can meet the requirements of this union and all. then we would have a game in writing.

Thats perfectly fine System is what I am known as anyways on xbl. And I was also thinking about asking you about a Union type thing. That would be cool. I was thinking about making a wesbite with forums that would be dedicated to the "Dream Zombie Game" for fun. But a Union would be cool too. lets get on that.

all right then. if you dont mind, i would like to be the leader. but the charter or officers that start this union would be you, probably mob just because he started this thread and hasa few good ideas. and two other active people on this thread. but as soon as we can get the union started we will have something rolling. oh yes and once the union is started we need to send out tons of invites. get some activity going.

uh. i have flash 2004. and the amazing paint! but i could probably do some stuff. im talented.you?adam-99

uh well unfortunately i lack the good programs to do this sort of stuff. I have taken classes in school so i am really familiar with programs such as Photoshop CS2 and such. But I dont have anything, so that will be up to u or someone else with the programs.

here is a rough banner of what i just did. tell me what you think. i think it sucks because i just cut and pasted. idk if it worked.

I'll be one...