Deep Space Zombie

"Deep Space Zombie"  is a 2D Zombie shooter with  not one, but two twists!

You are the last survivor - In a remote galaxy, you are "diving deep" into a pitch black space ship - full of Zombies. In this dark, hostile environment, your only two sources of light are your glowing bullets and the illuminated mouse cursor. But tread carefully - the more bullets you shoot to make your way up North to the exit, the more bullets you spawn, which increases chances of them bouncing off and killing yourself! 

Due to the glow and light emission - I would not recommend playing the game if you have any sort of photosensitivity. 

How to play

• WASD to move, mouse to aim with crosshair
  
• Shoot with left mouse button to kill zombies
• Navigate North to find the exist within 180 secods
• You have two ligth sources: 1) Bullets 2) Mouse Cursor
• Every 5 Zombie kills you spawn one additional bullet which bounce off and make it increasingly harder to avoid
• Top bar indicates time left / bottom bar indicates progress towards extra projectiles unlocked (eacah 5 kills)

Due to light effects I strongly recommend playing the downloadable version, as the web version can be slow, non responsive and feel sluggish!

This is a prototype with only 1 level

I started way too late (see Devlog for detail) and almost scrapped it because the game did not match my own set expecations. However, in the spirit of game jam, I still decided to go ahead and get done whatever I can get done.

And honesty, I really like the core idea of giving the player the choice between being completly in the dark, using bullets to gain light but then again the counterbalance of more kills equals more bullets, making it increasingly hard to dodge them. One level, that's it - last minute game jam flair.

By the way - why does it take unity 9min to compile the webGL version?!

Credits

Music: Draft Monk – ambience by McFunkypants

Artwork:  The character and the Zombie I have created and used myself in an earlier project.

Thanks Brackey's for being the reason I started doing jams back in February 2020!