Post by VectorX on Jan 4, 2016 0:43:56 GMT -5
I got a Chromebook laptop for Christmas. After you get the mandatory stuff out of the way in dumping your files onto it as a backup device, what do you do next? You see what games you can play with it, of course! (Ok, so you can just play this online at its official site of www.deadvalleygame.com/, along with playing it on Kongregate and probably a few other sites, but that's how I found out about it...)
Due to the zombie apocalypse theme going strong throughout many entertainment mediums, yep, that's what this game is about: a week after a zombie outbreak occurred, you're fed up with being stuck in your farmhouse with nothing to eat but beans (and the place probably doesn't smell real good either, I imagine) and have decided to make a run for it. The Emergency Broadcast System put out a message in regards to a zombie-free area 150 miles away, which you must make it there.
Every game starts out the same way: you're outside your farmhouse; zombies are milling around. Most of them won't get through your barricade of junk, so you're free to enter your house to grab several can of beans and a handgun with 15 bullets in it. A truck at the end of your driveway is all that will run, which it can be hard to snag because there's several zombies in the immediate area that run as fast as you do. If you can make it you've got transportation for a while...
So, that's how all games start out. After that, everything is randomly generated from there; no two games are alike.
So, the best thing to do next is drive around until you find a neighborhood. Stop and check out as many houses as possible until you've got a decent supply of food (pieces of cake give you back one full unit of health, whereas a can of beans only gives you half a unit), ammo/weapons and hopefully a flashlight. It's a very unsettling prospect to be out at night once it turns dark, as the game runs in real time and you can hardly see anything without one.
Then you have to be careful with driving: if you run into something, your car will start taking on damage; take on too much and you'll have to bail and walk. Once the Check Engine light icon appears you have to leave or else your vehicle will explode, taking your health (or life) with it. And the roads don't constantly run north/south either; if they run east/west you're going to have to get off of them, since that isn't helping you get any closer to your destination. And your vehicle will take damage off-road...
Being random is both the game's strength and weakness: you can run into some good fortune, but also you can have some unbelievably bad luck, such as no residential neighborhoods to be found for a while, you walk for 10 minutes without anything happening at all (VERY boring, as zombies hardly ever walk the desert), you can't find ammo for your gun (there's three guns and three different ammo types) and/or a flashlight, etc. It can be frustrating, but there are also some surprises too: one was there only mentioning houses and gas stations in the instructions. There's also a police station (a bit rare in a game to appear) but they're jammed with weapons and ammo. Another one is a hot dog stand just for how funny it is to see, as all they have is a siphon hose for gas.
A wiki page I wrote up for it is here, although there isn't much more there that I didn't cover here. A couple of screenshots are included though, but the stuff's pretty much 8-bit. But then, everyone on here knows graphics don't really matter, right?
Due to the zombie apocalypse theme going strong throughout many entertainment mediums, yep, that's what this game is about: a week after a zombie outbreak occurred, you're fed up with being stuck in your farmhouse with nothing to eat but beans (and the place probably doesn't smell real good either, I imagine) and have decided to make a run for it. The Emergency Broadcast System put out a message in regards to a zombie-free area 150 miles away, which you must make it there.
Every game starts out the same way: you're outside your farmhouse; zombies are milling around. Most of them won't get through your barricade of junk, so you're free to enter your house to grab several can of beans and a handgun with 15 bullets in it. A truck at the end of your driveway is all that will run, which it can be hard to snag because there's several zombies in the immediate area that run as fast as you do. If you can make it you've got transportation for a while...
So, that's how all games start out. After that, everything is randomly generated from there; no two games are alike.
So, the best thing to do next is drive around until you find a neighborhood. Stop and check out as many houses as possible until you've got a decent supply of food (pieces of cake give you back one full unit of health, whereas a can of beans only gives you half a unit), ammo/weapons and hopefully a flashlight. It's a very unsettling prospect to be out at night once it turns dark, as the game runs in real time and you can hardly see anything without one.
Then you have to be careful with driving: if you run into something, your car will start taking on damage; take on too much and you'll have to bail and walk. Once the Check Engine light icon appears you have to leave or else your vehicle will explode, taking your health (or life) with it. And the roads don't constantly run north/south either; if they run east/west you're going to have to get off of them, since that isn't helping you get any closer to your destination. And your vehicle will take damage off-road...
Being random is both the game's strength and weakness: you can run into some good fortune, but also you can have some unbelievably bad luck, such as no residential neighborhoods to be found for a while, you walk for 10 minutes without anything happening at all (VERY boring, as zombies hardly ever walk the desert), you can't find ammo for your gun (there's three guns and three different ammo types) and/or a flashlight, etc. It can be frustrating, but there are also some surprises too: one was there only mentioning houses and gas stations in the instructions. There's also a police station (a bit rare in a game to appear) but they're jammed with weapons and ammo. Another one is a hot dog stand just for how funny it is to see, as all they have is a siphon hose for gas.
A wiki page I wrote up for it is here, although there isn't much more there that I didn't cover here. A couple of screenshots are included though, but the stuff's pretty much 8-bit. But then, everyone on here knows graphics don't really matter, right?