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Shoot, loot, and craft to survive in this top-down extraction shooter. Explore procedurally generated neighborhoods. Scavenge for guns, food, and supplies. Build and upgrade your base to sustain you and your fellow survivors.

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Dec 2024 Update - Happy Holidayz!!

29 Dec, 2024

Happy holidays friends! I hope you all are having a family-filled, wholesome time at the end of 2024!

We're getting closer to an alpha 1 release but still not quite there yet.

Here are the highlights:

The floor plan generation system is officially in beta. (IE: No active major bugs)
The map generation system is also in beta and we now see loading statuses and related percentages (IE : Placing Roads( 72% ), Populating Foliage ( 20% ), Generating house floor plans ( 100% )
Animations have been added for reloading

Dev Updates For Nerds ( Curated descriptions lifted from p4 repo )

Floor Plan Generation Fixes: Room mismatches & Improper layout generation
Custom Animations and Montages can now be driven by Efz Action Manager.
Reload Animation implemented
updated house 3d models and assets to be more run-down/dirty
efz actions can now hook into UE GAS for replication purposes
reload anim montage is now being triggered via GAS
implemented plugin "cog" for debugging/troubleshooting GAS framework
Floorplans: fixed rooms spawning without doors
adjusted floor plan instanced static mesh generation to use collision profile name on HISM component generation

To ensure we can get a build out for internal testers for alpha release 1, the scope is tentatively being locked down with the following criteria:

One extraction zone map
One "Home Zone" Map (Static)
4 weapons : Bat, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun
3 Stats : Food, Water, Health
Only zeds in extraction zone map. (Random Armed NPC's will be Release 2)

ProtoZED

Miss opportunity

This would have been good before Project Zomboid came into existence. Just on surface level watching the videos here, I don't see what this game has over Project Zomboid. Not to dis to attempt. There's many zombie games out there that are really bad, and this is not one of them. It's actually quite nice. Just a shame the timing of it. Directly competing with another zombie game that does so many things better, so much in depth, and is already available and being modded by quite a number of people. Dammit. ...

Mogg

9 Sep, 2023 @ 3:35pm

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October 2024 Update - Animations & Optimizations

31 Oct, 2024

Hello there protozed fans & friends!

Recently, I noticed some performance hiccups so the past couple of months have been lots of optimizations. I know I know, it's not terribly exciting but the good news is - were back up to 90+ fps. Anyways, here are the updates:

Physics-based animations for zeds are now in place. It's small but it gives a little more life to the animations. You can see what I mean in his arms as the zed is knocked back.

Interaction/looting mechanics SFX and animation

I've added a dedicated “constructed” collision channel. This allows for unreal's PCG framework to properly place foliage types inside/outside of houses.

Also, this further enhances the masking tech I've implemented for reducing draw calls. This was mentioned in the last post but for anyone interested, here is a diagram of how that works. The blue spaces are defined per inside instance custom data. All three wall sections are the same mesh and material :

Other:

Up until recently, the damage value from melee and projectiles has been static. Now, this can be dynamically driven by weapon attributes
WIP - automated dirt/gunk mask placement on constructed surfaces
refactored for loot generation to be completely driven by lua

What's next?

Many of the loot tables and items are already in place. Tags/Name assignments to world objects are required to properly generate the loot. This will be a primary focus over the next couple of months.
Loot generation for zed corpses
I like how the zeds react to being hit. It feels right but player animations are a bit lacking.

As always, thank you for your continued support!

ProtoZED

craft & consume!!! - aug 2024 update

31 Aug, 2024

Hello friends! I've been hard at work on Protozed. hope you all are doing well! Overall, my plan is to have an early alpha demo build by end of November. Won't be anything like the final product but I'm itching to make something i can share with my brother at least! :)

Been working on crafting mechanics and survivor action logic. Here you can see the player opening a can of food, and then eating it.

Here the Crafting recipe is very simple. Open Canned Tuna. Also, you see a new player action, consume

Tooltip showing possible crafting recipes and what you're missing

Here you can see my new IK logic at work. Still very WIP but how he holds the rifle is dynamically driven by IK.

I've implemented new logic for floor plans, removing the need for "door frame" and "door window" modules during the configuration/generation process. By dynamically tracing a box where the door/window should be and passing those parameters into the instanced static mesh, we mask out the wall dynamically . This will greatly help with content procurement, reducing the need for LOTS of complicated assets (due to varying sizes of doors and windows)