MSXdev'11 - #8 Zombie Incident

Great game!!! More and more quality games each year! Long life for MSX!!

I've had a preview of this game at the 2k11 launch party and was absolutely stunned by its quality. Brilliant stuff, this...

I have played the work in progress some months ago and I love to see the subtle changes in gameplay and if I'm not mistaken, some graphics and the music were polished as well. Great work guys!

Very high quality game indeed, and very fun to play!

I also tried it on the MSX AcidTests, and passes the MSX Acid1Test-slots, but sadly it fails to pass the harder MSX Acid2Test-hardware (resets after you press the trigger to begin the game).

Hope to see it soon in physical version. It´s a wonderful game.
Only one thing... in real MSX, at 60hz the game starts automatically in the "songs menu"

like this hap? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isd7MZgpJYs

I've seen this one in action. Really amazing how colorful this game is. Also amazing is the speed of which you can control your character. Music fits like a glove! Thumbs up!!

Hi all,
Thanks for the compliments, it is comforting to know that people like the game (despite the errors that are appearing).
The "magic travel" to the right of map it's an error ... yes (it's obvious) ... a pitiful mistake that was detected and fixed some time ago. But I don't know how, I'm be able to put in again!!
I'm sorry if I have disappointed someone . It is a inexcusable carelessness, I have no excuses. The problems that are appearing aren't lack of time or unfinished work, it's simply a series of oversights plus a lack of experience.
But, as I said to people of the team, the game will be fixed and updated till become a polished work. I don't know if I will be capable but I will try.  
Thanks again for the compliments.

Best regards,

This game must be in a cartridge!!

Thank you for your game nenefranz!

First, two little bugs, when I press Space while demo is showing gameplay, nothing happens = game doesn´t start. But I can start game normally after ingame demo ends. Second bug happens when you keep pressing cursor down after jumping, when you land to ground, it gives BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! noise as long as you press cursor down. I don´t mind them, just wanted to tell you.

Then I can say my opinion about your game:

AT LAST!!! Someone thought to give shades to MSX-1 sprites!!! Thank you!!!! They look really great!!!!!!!! There are some few MSX-1 games with shaded sprites but this game surely has the best looking shading EVER!!! I also do like the pastel like background colouring.

John´s music are nice to hear!

It´s a nice feeling that when jumping, you can grab the wall to get even higher!! It also was a surprise to see how my five year old instantly managed to play SO GOOD with so great speed at the very first try!!!! So I must congratulate and thank you for great player control routines!!!!!!!!

On the other hand, I personally feel this game is too easy, as it´s so hard to get energy bar to decrease even when trying hard to do so. (no, not a bug) I feel sad to say that such thing makes my interest fade too soon on this game, as otherwise this game really is something which is never seen on MSX before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, I played just few tries yesterday evening, so I don´t know how large game map may be, so it may be possible that energy decreasing factor is tuned just right if this game´s map is really big. I am just used to the fact that in the eighties games were usually hard. But this is very good game for young children as game continues for a long time!

So I will congratulate you!!

Oh, player sprite looks like multicolour shaded sprite version of Binary Land´s girl!! Lovely!!

Yes wolf_, I think that John consulted you about music for ZI. "The end" tune is great ... all music for the game is great!! ( and not only for this project!! )

Thanks to all,

My intention was to create a game that was enjoyable to play for everybody. I didn't want to make a game imposible to beat, like some in the 80's. In order to acomplish this I has let the player recover energy when erase all zombies of a room, or find a star. Maybe this action makes the game too easy.  But to balance the difficulty no always the reward is the same. When player is full of energy the reward of vitality is one or two units, but if player is near death the reward of energy is three or four units. Anyway, an average player with prudence can finish the game without too many problems. I prefer a good game that can be finished that a awesome game that you can ever beat.
Also I have tried to give a point of replayability, so every game the stars are in diferent places (not always in the same rooms).

Best regards,