Zibbs: Alien Survival
Zibbs - Alien Survival. Devlog #12: Alien Hunt
Killing people in the game will have consequences. This will affect such parameter as "Rumors". When this parameter exceeds a certain value, military agents will come. A helicopter and armed people will chase the alien and try to kill him. They are really dangerous and can cause a great damage to the alien. So player needs to balance between killing people and hiding from them to keep "Rumours" parameter as low as possible.
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Zibbs - Alien Survival. Devlog #11: Dance and Fight
Our alien continues to learn human behaviors and now he is ready to dance! The gameplay now contains groups of people come to dance in nature. The alien can copy body movements of humans, which are unusual for him. So how the dancing people will react to the new dancer in their company? Also animals and distant birds were added to the game, the environment now looks more naturally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cDc9fMVOPQ
Early Alpha Gameplay Trailer
Today I have a short post in which I want to show the new Early Alpha Gameplay Trailer with demonstration of the most interesting features described in previous devlogs.
The video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdUaywSfFOo
New Screenshots:
Curvature Projector
7236 triangles, realtime render with Blender Eevee.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mqRbJ8
Devlog #9: Another Mind Control Features
Instead of using possession the alien can control several humans with help of special feature from holographic base. Now we can build mind control farms to catch humans and set their behaviors. Captured persons will help the alien search and pick up useful items or protect him from other aggressive people. So, from now we can do some building work to create mind control farms and then don't be afraid of people that could attack us. The alien may have his own little army, but what may this lead to? Will see.
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Discord Server
I've just created a Discord server for Zibbs - Alien Survival. Feel free to join and share your thoughts about the game and its development .
https://discord.gg/AXpRv7
Zibbs - Alien Survival. Devlog #8: Possession of Humans
New and interesting feature of humans possession has been added to the game. This ability will help us to interact with humans and use them to get resources and useful items. Possession skill let the player to move around as a human and start fights with others. When a human gets a knock out we can search him and take some items we require for various purposes. This also helps to protect the alien from human aggression. The new feature very fun to play and can result to various interesting and unexpected consequences. New video is ready, let's see how the gameplay with new ability looks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbdE7OBBshU
Zibbs - Alien Survival. Devlog #7: Building System.
Now our alien can build Holographic Bases with a variety of unique features. The building process consists of 2 stages: energy floor design and creating of items. The alien can create 3 types of energy spheres, they can be combined in many ways. This gives us different energy schemes for further building. The items require a certain amount of energy in the floor beneath. Currently 2 types of items are ready: nutrients farm and resource farm. I plan to add much more items with unique and interesting features in the future. In the video you can see the process of building along with an episode of building resources gathering.
Video demonstration is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNcZQW012eg
Zibbs - Alien Survival. Devlog #6: Building Resources and Dynamic Weather.
Scanning of the environment has been completely reworked and now looks completely different. Now there is a trace that our alien must follow to collect builders for the nutrition chest. This makes searching of nutrients more fun and unpredictable because the builders trace can take you far from the start of scanning. Also, now the alien needs special building resources. To find them the player needs to watch the environment and catch the resources with an energy pole. The whole building system will be described in next devlogs. Another feature that has been already added to the game is a simple dynamic weather system. Now we can watch wind speed changes, clouds and rain. The rain can cool the alien's body and may dangerous or useful in different situations.
Here is a video with demonstration of the new features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNbT3leKcUU
Zibbs - Alien Survival. Devlog #5: Stretching and Splits
New feature has been added to the game and now the alien can move faster and more effective. Stretching the body is the innate ability of the aliens. Using it in the Earth environment leads to interesting results. The alien can stretch and throw himself in the air and then hover above the ground stretching his legs between trees or rocks. This abilities can also help to land on the ground safely. Scanning and searching of nutrients has been also improved and became harder on the ground. But it can be easier when using stretching taking nutrition spheres from the air. The new features were hard to integrate into the game, but now I am happy with the result and I have a video to show you!
The new video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_raPNIoXI