Zombie-game

This one’s huge. 14 hours logged and the game is totally not the same game anymore.
Biggest news first: I pivoted the whole thing. It used to be a generic zombie shooter on Earth. Now it’s Station Siege - a dark horror-survival game set on n abandoned space station. And no, this wasn’t a random. Three reasons: Earth zombies are overdone and generic, my 2018 Intel Mac physically cannot handle realistic Earth environments without dying, and a pitch-black abandoned space station justifies the oppressive lighting and lore for free. I even did actual homework, studied why Lethal Company, R.E.P.O. and PEAK blew up (turns out: co-op survival horror, simple visuals, mood over graphics). So the direction is locked now, backed by real reasoning instead of vibes.
The zombies got a massive glow-up. They now groan at you in the dark (positional audio on random timers. Honestly the single biggest horror upgrade I’ve made), they wind up an attack animation when they reach you or a barricade, and they play a death animation before crumpling and disappearing instead of just vanishing. I also generated a custom horror zombie with Tripo3D, retopologized it from 1.9 million triangles down to ~11k so my Mac doesn’t catch fire, and rigged it through Mixamo.

The struggle award goes to the AnimationPlayer. Getting multiple Mixamo animations onto one model in Godot is way more painful than it sounds, name collisions everywhere (everything Mixamo exports is named “mixamo_com”), two AnimationPlayers fighting over one skeleton, and getting the death animation to actually finish before the body gets deleted. I spent hours in that menu. But it works now. Btw thanks to @sol4r_on_hackclub for suggesting using mixamo assets.

Atmosphere-wise: black space void background, cold dark lighting, fog retuned to feel like a morgue. Added screen shake when you get hit and a blood overlay that gets heavier the lower your health drops. Also solved a nasty FPS hitch where the whole map stuttered the first time it rendered, fixed it with a black loading screen that spins the camera in a full circle while hidden, so all the shaders compile before the player ever sees anything. Pretty proud of that one.
And of course, the Intel GPU texture curse struck again (devlog #3 readers know the grass saga). Every single model I imported rendered as a black blob until I remembered my own golden rule: compress everything Lossless or it won’t decode. Nearly lost my mind a second time before it clicked.

One design decision I’m happy about: I’m keeping real gun sounds instead of sci-fi laser noises. Grounded firearms fit horror way better, and they make sense for a human station that got overrun.
Next up:

Finish wiring the male zombie (texture + animations)
Reskin barricades into hull breaches / blast doors
Build out the 4-room map (Airlock → Hangar → Reactor / Med Bay)
Per-room zombie spawning (only spawn in rooms you’ve unlocked)
Props to fill the empty rooms - consoles, crates, corpses - so the station feels lived-in and abandoned

Devlog #3 - A lot of updates on the zombie-game.

Whooh, where do I even start?
I made a functional barricade that repairs when pressing shift and that zombies can break to escape.
I added crosshair, gold and health labels on screen.
I added actual grass texture instead of grey floor
I added shotgun - a second weapon - and a real shop where you can buy it using gold.
I added jumping mechanics
I changed the map from 2 platforms connected by a bridge to a single large platform.

The biggest struggle was the grass although it sounds kinda ridiculous. I added it for the first time and it rendered either extreme green or extreme grey, nothing in between. It resembled nothing in the actual grass texture that I used. Turns out my Intel Mac can’t decode DXT-compressed textures so anything I imported rendered as weird slop. Fixed it with one setting - compress: losless. Nearly ragequit but then reimported and worked perfectly.

A lot of stuff out of my to-do list in just 7 hours. Next, I will focus on adding more weapons (e.g sniper), expanding the map, adding actual buidings (e.g bunker), dedicated zombie spawning spots, and real sound effects.

Made some progress on my zombie game! the map is a larger now with a corridor connecting 2 platforms. I also added 3 more zombies and obstacles to the map. Next step is to make them spawn continuously and give them actual body instead of green cube :/

Working on a cool zombie game :). Just made the first map, working gun and zombie (that little green cube on the screen). So far smooth, never had so much fun. Next step is to give shape to the player and the zombie