ZEDisDEAD: Ruth and Her Cat Amidst the Undead Horde

ZEDisDEAD: Depths - Proto2 | Themed Horror Game Jam #11

In this experimental tech demo, survival skills and wits are essential to navigate a city scorched by the sun and overrun by ravenous zombies. As an old woman forced to abandon her refuge in the sewers due to a flood, you set out to find a new home and reunite with your beloved cat, who was separated from you in the chaos. Survival won't come easy, as you must contend with sinister beings and hordes of the undead while scrounging for water, searching for supplies, and fighting for your life.

CONTROLS CORE

•  [W] [A] [S] [D] or Arrows move
• [Mouse Left] attack
• [Shift] to run
• [E] Pick / Interact
• [1] [2] [3] switch weapon
• [F] turn lamp on/off
• [Q] yell to call attention and to improve your will
• [C] Drink from canteen (usually automatic)
• [Z] Apply bandages (usually automatic)
• [R] Reload gun (usually automatic)

EXTRA

• [Mouse Wheel] [PgUp]/[PgDown] zoom map, see closer or farther
• [Spacebar] or [Escape] pause, mute and show the last message
• [-] [=] or Numpad [-] [+] volume change
• [Tab] hide / show HUD
• [Enter] restart game (after a gameover)

CREDITS IMAGE City

• Carlo "zED" Caputo wrote some tools and edited the images
• composition and topology with D3.js v7 + voronoi
• lighting and render in Blender 3.4
• contrast adjusts and dither in GIMP 2.10

Spritesheet

• Characters concept and animation by Rebeca Traldi
• Objects and HUD illustrations by Carlo "zED" Caputo, edited in GIMP 2.10

CODE

• Carlo "zED" Caputo with contribution of some snippets by ChatGPT 2023-01-30
• The main APIs used are WebGL2 and Web Audio
• The render is mostly done by one fragment shader, that raymarches the visibility of every pixel in a mix of screenspace and the space of the game collision grid

TEXT

• Argument and editing by Carlo "zED" Caputo
• Contributions by Rebeca Traldi
• Text mostly written by ChatGPT 2023-01-30

AUDIO

Carlo "zED" Caputo

Music

• ambient: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blear_Moon/tundra-orchestra
• piano:  Meditation Impromptu 02 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• Edited and combined in Audacity 3.2.4
• Combined and compressed with FFmpeg 2022-11-03

Sfx

• walk: https://freesound.org/people/worthahep88/sounds/319224/
• walk: https://freesound.org/people/speedygonzo/sounds/257659/
• bag_hit: https://freesound.org/people/Genevieve_Lupke/sounds/366475/
• bag_miss: https://freesound.org/people/berglindsi/sounds/402977/
• yell: Google TTS en-US-Neural2-E
• reverb: https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/free-impulse-responses-exce...
• reverb: https://www.openair.hosted.york.ac.uk/?page_id=476
• zombie_move: https://freesound.org/people/Huminaatio/sounds/189281/
• zombie_attack: https://freesound.org/people/soykevin/sounds/213509/
• cat_attack: https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/656619/
• cat_move: https://freesound.org/people/16GPanskaZlochova_Eliska/sounds/496280/
• broom_hit: https://freesound.org/people/worthahep88/sounds/319217/
• broom_miss: https://freesound.org/people/Bleachbear/sounds/327019/
• gun_hit: https://freesound.org/people/lumikon/sounds/564483/
• gun_miss: https://freesound.org/people/FALCONS_SHADOW/sounds/408733/
• gun_empty: https://freesound.org/people/UncleSigmund/sounds/30990/
• gun_break: https://freesound.org/people/mkoenig/sounds/81171/
• broom_break: https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_2104797/sounds/164472/
• gun_reload, gun_unload, gun_rack: https://freesound.org/people/AugustSandberg/sounds/508746/
• zombie_miss: https://freesound.org/people/Huminaatio/sounds/189280/
• cat_call: https://freesound.org/people/XiscoVar/sounds/474983/

• Edited and combined in Audacity 3.2.4
• Compressed with FFmpeg 2022-11-03