hey aprone, its dj rockmaster rob. Man you should place this game on your sight, the reason i say this is cause when i downloaded the game from the latest link, i get invallid zip errors all the way. Il try downloading it one more time and report back if i get any errors again, it almost looks like the file didnt download all the way.

On average it seems to be taking me about 6 or 7 shots to kill each zombie.  I haven't done a lot of testing with it though, so I'm sure my zombie killing skills will improve once I've had more practice.

I was just writing on Klango about how I really didn't end up with any time to work on the code today.  As far as I know, I will have a good sized chunk of free time sunday that I can use to repair this annoying bug that keeps crashing the game for people.  So look forward to a fix soon.  Once things are stable I can start tossing in new features that will help flesh out the game, like quests or more detailed maps.

I wonder if the sound of zombies getting hit isn't too quiet compared to the shooting sound?

I think another issue is that when a zombie starts attacking you, it's hard to tell where the attack is coming from.

I'm about to start my big block of free time, so I've been skimming through everyone's posts and emails so that I know what I need to be working on.  I think I will mess around with the sound when zombies get shot and make it louder.  CAE might be right about that being a problem of the louder sound drowning out the quieter one.  I'm also going to try adding some sort of beep that will let you know when you are on target with the zombies.  That will make the game so much easier that I'm a little reluctant to add it, but it can always be removed or changed later if it ends up removing the challenge too much.  The direction of the attacks gets confusing because I forgot to code in a bounding box for your main character.  Because of that little oversight, the zombies that attack you literally walk right into you as if you were a ghost, and then the attacking sounds are perfectly on top of you instead of being to the sides and so forth.  I should be able to fix that pretty easily.

Thanks Robla, can this be considered evidence that with practice the game gets more fun?  lol.  I was going to ask if your mouse made aiming easier, but it seems like you're even doing well with the touch pad!  That's impressive to me since I'm terrible at using my touchpad and always choose the mouse instead.

And of course, the number one thing I need to work on are these lousy bugs that keep crashing the game.  I feel a little like kicking myself with all of this, because I decided not to use the working sound buffer code from my other games.  I went to copy it and decided I would rather write new code from scratch because this game had a few things that would have forced me to modify the code anyway.  I'm starting to wish I had just used the one that I've already worked the bugs out from past games.  Oh well, once this one if fixed and bug free I'll stop kicking myself.

everytime I hit the swamp.exe file, it soes nothing at all, anyone know why this is?

I've just posted version 0.4b.  I would really appreciate it if everyone would download it and give it a try.  The sooner people start testing it, the sooner I will know if I've successfully fixed the bugs.  I'd like to make the most out of my free time today, so if I can get feedback quickly it will give me the most time to continue working.

Here are the changes from version 0.3b to 0.4b:
- Your bullets do a bit more damage.  On average I was killing zombies in about 3 or 4 hits.
- The sounds for shooting walls, shooting zombies, and killing zombies have been greatly improved and are much easier to tell apart.
- The gun only holds 20 bullets now, instead of 40.
- When the game begins, you are already facing the door of the shack.  Some people were having trouble getting out and asked for this adjustment.
- When a zombie is killed, it used to be replaced by a new one that would crawl on to the map from one of the edges.  Now a killed zombie is replaced by 2 new zombies!  This means that as you rack up a higher kill count, you are also populating the swamp with more zombies.  This will make the game naturally increase in difficulty as you play.  It also makes it more dangerous to make a lot of noise.  Having 3 zombies hear at once you isn't so bad, but having 15 hear you could be the last thing you ever do.
- The Z key for shooting, and the F key for toggling the aim, have been switched.  You now press Z to toggle aiming, and press F to fire the gun.
- The arrow keys for moving, and the W A S D keys for radar, have been switched.  You now use the arrow keys to activate the different radar modes, and you use W A S D to move around.  People did not care for the old keyboard layout because it was more difficult to utilize mouse aiming while trying to operate the arrow keys.
- The Readme file has been updated with these changes as well.

The download link is the same, but here it is for the sake of convenience.
www.kaldobsky.com/audiogames/Swamp.zip

wow, I can finally kill something! lol

Hi Aprone.
First let me say that I have tried the latest version of this game after reading through all the posts and I am happy to report no bugs on my end.
Now I have a question and maybe a suggestion. Would you consider putting in a way to recover your health? Or would that take away from the game. and my suggestion is this:
Maybe after someone gets a certain amount of kills, they could maybe find a machine gun or something like that. Just a thought Even without those things the game is still  great!

Hi,

I'm in love with the FPS genre. I don't know why, I just find, if they're well done, them the most enjoyable to play.
This one is definitely fun. Didn't take me long at all to pick it up and start playing to a point where it actually was fun. thanks for the game! ^_^

Hi there,

being a game developer myself I assumed this much already. If you should ever need help with story or anything, feel free to get in touch. I could probably provide some backstory, maybe add my ideas as to what and why this is happening. God, I'm already fighting with ideas...

oh,
just  to add!
having had near on 50 kills, i can safely say having a beep would make the game too easy!