Normally, this would be the "introduction" of the post followed by a list of changes. Though there has been many changes, that list is not the focus of this post. (you can read a decent amount of the changes at the bottom of the post) Almost every month I try to inform you all of what is new with the game. This month I decided to spend my time polishing what was there for future improvements, but mainly additions. With polish comes tough choices, and one of those choices was to reset every leaderboard currently in the game. Why? The game is meant to be a fun, arcade shooter to play with your friends, or as a highscore killer. It always has had this vision aside from the core idea of "make a game that supports controllers". To let this idea come to light, I decided to update the game to be entirely score based rather than based how many enemies you killed. It has lead to an overall more quality experience and I hope you find this to be true. Below is every level that is/was in the game and who the top players were over the last 4 years. With this is also a video from myself thanking and naming the top players for each level. It's about 10 minutes long. [previewyoutube=De_4LZ39PC8;full][/previewyoutube]

Infinite Levels

Round Based Levels

So what's next?

The Normal Monthly Update Stuff

INDTRODUCTION I decided to update the game how I used to this month. This resulted in a few errors so I will probably not do that again. Errors like "Levels going to the wrong levels" after rearranging the main menu was not the goal lol. Overall, I think the game feels nicer to play. It's a more "well-done" game now. My work over the last year has definitely paid off. ..so this is everything new, fixed, or changed this month. At the end of the change list is a bit more to read for those interested in the development of the game. NEW MAP Grand Hall Compressed was added by accident haha. This is a great take on the make "Grand Hall", it is a new Horde level for people who own the Map Pack. NEW STUFF AND CHANGES LIST * Starting with Quad, every map has been updated to fix spawning issues. * Fixed the Depth of various objects not complying with Flood Depth. * Slime have been fixed, (you know what I mean) * Changed the visual effect for blood over buy stations. * The Cursor is now green. * Added Mouse Assist for fun. Also changes the mouse back to white when off (on by default) * Fixed an issue with "Auto Aim" was not being saved. * The mouse now is at the angle of your aim. Not that this was overlooked, it just looks better now. * Hedge has had it's secret achievement fixed. * Big Bois now have a death body. (Oversight) * Flood speeds have been changed. Both Horde and Round based modes have better speed progression. * Removed the stupid puzzle from Introdux because it was obnoxious. * Changed the Absorber Noise. * "Grand Hall" Map has had slight alterations. * Fixed a spawn issue with Bombers that kills FPS. * Potentially fixed an issue with over-spawning of Bombers which also killed FPS. * Changed Money Colors. * Changed the Drops of ALL enemies. * Fixed Hedge scores not uploading! * Fixed enemy-kill border for outside of the map on every level. * Added a new Horde map that will also be a round map. It's just Grand Hall, but changed up because I was testing it to fix some stuff while fixing all maps for various reasons and thought it would be more fun if it was smaller. This is a DEAD+ map like all future maps will be. DEAD+ is $1 as it has been. Someone told me it was a good idea to change it to $5 because it will make it look "more credible". * Updated the way music is done. * The level menu has been rearranged to better suit the majority of players who probably like Horde mode more than Round levels. I also did this because the round based levels aren't even really done and I was tired of being taunted by the fact that I've had these levels out for 8 months and I couldn't get much done with them. * Added "Stats" to the bottom of the options/esc menu. * Changed "off" options color. * Optimized the "Bomber" enemy a bit. * Added a small art detail to the "Bomber" enemy where when they get close to instant-kill you they get "lower". * Bombers now speed up to fuck up your shit. * Potentially fixed shotguns interacting with explosions. * Blue Flood Health has been altered to not be 1 shot kills with base level weapons. * Removed the "Box" black border (looks cleaner ngl). * Slater: Fixed the Blockade from crashing your game. * Slater: Wrote the story for Slater and the basis for subsequent levels. * Changed the coloring of some enemies. * Fixed some exploits with Grand Hall (you sneaky sneaks). * Added some hedges to Box. * It is now more obvious what you need to do on Hedge. * Fixed a ease-of-use issue when using a controller to buy items. * The hitbox of "Health" is now bigger to easily buy-and-go. * Fixed "Lava" over-hurting enemies and causing lag holds. Why I do any of this I make this game for the challenge. I think it is fun to work on. I believe in the community, however small, and I like making the game for those people. Personal I hope y'all are alright, I know I sure ain't. DEADs Future I have tried for a very long time to get other people on the project to help me with things like music, or advanced programming concepts I simply do not understand/do not have time to understand. This effort has just not worked out in my favor. I have a friend of mine who helps occasionally but he, as I, do not have the time. I may try and fix performance issues with the game by removing features like "co-op" by changing co-op to all be on one screen, removing it all-together, or having it be a separate but equal build similar to how there is a "Bedrock" and "Java" version of Minecraft. I may also make a standalone camera that is just better in singleplayer and keep the poopmess that is the co-op camera for co-op. I am actively disappointed in the round based mode of the game. I may remove the mode for a month at some point when I get the chance and re-do every level. I think I have mentioned this before. This would also come with a revamp to how the round-based mode is done, and new music. The music part of getting someone to do it is such a painful experience as a lot of "musicians" are using a.i., are sad about a.i. and therefor lazy because they think it'll take their job (but that thinking will make it take the job), or they want to charge me 1000 dollars per track (I cannot afford that). Hopefully, one day, I will meet another musician that will do the tracks for a reasonable price. I am unsure why people think I have 1000 dollars. I would use FMA, or even find a licensed track I can buy but I prefer music made for this game rather than random music made for no reason. Recently I have been playing Quake. I have never played Quake before because when I first was learning about the series when I was younger the only way to play was in a poor state, and over time I didn't care to play it. In 2020 a ?remake? was put out on Steam, so I've been playing that with the recent Quake-Con sale that happened. It is a bit inspiring. Why I mention this is because I, for a long time, have been trying to think of ways to make the round based levels stand out in their puzzle design but the only puzzle games I've ever really enjoyed were Mario, and LittleBigPlanet. Two Side-Scroller games that have puzzles that do not exactly apply to a top-down game. The way that puzzles are done in Quake are very cool. Doom is terrible btw, just throwing that out there again, sucky mf game. Duke Nukem is better (another game i've been playing and being inspired by). I am wondering how to get the community more involved in the game. I want more discussions to take place in the Steam Discussions tab. No idea how prompt that. Map Pack Rename and what even am I doing with it. This Month, I renamed DEAD+ to "Map Pack" on the Steam Store pages DLC section. The reason I did this is now unknown because I did it pretty early in the month with no write-up on why, and then a bunch of personal life stuff happened so... yeah. It's renamed for no known reason. Let me know how you feel about it. I am thinking I may go further and either remove it and making all levels free, or having all Horde Levels Free, while removing the round based levels until I can remaster them with the new format I want to do and having the DLC be buying the round based mode for 5 dollars. (Obviously everyone who already bought DEAD+/Map Pack would not be charged as it would be under the same DLC) Thank you for reading, if you thought this was a decent enough read please react to the post. I have no idea what I am doing :)

JULY

INTRODUCTION My life has been wild the last month, but you do not care about that so here is some stuff I did rq: NEW STUFF AND CHANGES (Fun note, this list is basically what is added in it's order) *Github said 300+ so, I probably did other stuff. *The Main menu background has been changed once again, but I think my monitor is dimming so I dont think I actually know if it looks good anymore. *I added a new secret achievement that took less than 2 minutes to add. *I've changed the main menu lobby and quit button color *The DEAD+ levels for horde had bad images due to an oversight, it is now fixed. *GameMaker is terrible in terms of support, Opera is evil and was malware (if not still is). Anyways, they messed up my animations so maybe it's fixed maybe it's not but GameMaker is going downhill. NOTES I have no idea why the studio level is so slow. I blame the engine. I haven't changed it in years and it's all of a sudden the slowest map. FUTURE PLAN UPDATE if you have been reading these for a while, gigastructure, my sandbox survival game that I have been dealing with delays for years is finally at a place where it will come out on Steam. The plan is to roll things out slowly, as it from 0, to keep the game updates going, and to let people play while we make it because we will be doing some dramatic things I think will be dope. I think there also might be potential for a multiplayer addition to this game later this year, or early next year once we have a few months of gigastructure out... or we need a break. The levels that are coming are coming slow due to my new schedule, and my focus on gigastructure. DEAD, as continued to be promised, will continue to live on so... do not worry. I still have no word on new music. L. The overhaul of the round based levels will come. Anyways, have a great day. Please give the post a like so it will show up somewhere. If anyone out there knows #GameMaker (the thing this is made in) and is a fan of this game and wants to work on stuff with me, hmu. Here is a crappy image that hints at how to do the newest achievement

INTRODUCTION I changed the level ASH to look kinda cool, and fixed some other stuff over a long period. I have not been with it lately in terms of having time to mess with this project, or really drive to do anything. It's been busy. CHANGES a few changes, fixes, and additions to the game that you will notice: (Fun note, this list is basically what is added in it's order) *removed round based scoring in infinite mode... some of it. It looks cool sometimes so I left the coolness? Maybe it's just a mess, let me know. *fixed enemies not spawning, or too many/fix enemies spawning in infinite mode *removed line of code that changes the music (because it stops all sounds) from the controller option. *door buys now display around the closest character *some other small fixes i forgot. *I changed some things with the 3D positioning to speed up performance, notibly 1 variable, and a removable of a line of code. *I then sped up the machine gun fire speed. *The Ash Level has been updated to resemble Ash instead of Snow. *A bullet bug has been fixed, thank you "dr*gs_good" for the bug report. *You now auto-reload on infinite levels. Seemed to make sense. *Test level is available for those with a mouse as you must click it. It is for testing for myself only. *The FPS counter was removed as it was a debug thing. FUTURE PLANS Game is still going to have more fixes, changes, etc. minimally for this year, so don't be upset. I am currently trying to find someone to do the round based music as the guy who originally made the music for the infinite based modes I am not in contact with anymore. There will be more levels coming out. I have a fun idea for one that is using lighting, and another using Spikes as they are underutilized in the entire game. The lighting map focused map will come with what I will describe next. I want to vastly improve the round based levels. I only started messing with them in december (yes 6 months ago), and actually focused on improving them like 3 months ago. I've been very busy. What I want to do is something similar to cod zombies where the a.i. takes apart a wall. This has a lot of potential to be expanded greatly. I feel that the infinite mode I have made is good enough as it is. I originally made it in 2020/2019. There will be a focus on other games. I haven't made a new public game in a while despite making a few prototypes (fighting game, various survival games, virtual board games, etc.). I would probably focus on this more if it effected more people. Additionally, Valve has made a few things clear to me so I am sort of forced to work on other projects. Anyways, have a great day. Please give the post a like so it will show up somewhere. If anyone out there knows GameMaker (the thing this is made in) and is a fan of this game and wants to work on stuff with me, hmu.

CHANGES a few changes, fixes, and additions to the game that you will notice: (Fun note, this list is basically what is added in it's order) *Controller switching fix confirmed to work properly (going from keyboard to controller without interruption). *The Main menu has been altered to better fit future levels. There are now sub-pages for each category of game-mode. These are DEAD+ levels, like I said there willl be a lot of them so I needed room. It will be a thing with value. I will say that I think it has value, I update this game all of the time. *Along with the redo of the main menu, (hopefully the final one until more modes are added), the leaderboard has been updated to look better, as well as show more names. Soon it will be scroll-able. *The Shotgun was given a different visual for it's animations. This will have future changes as well as all of the other weapons and sprites. *The Camera was slightly altered to be better, I still need to redo it completely but... it's better. *You can no longer control all 4 player dolls with your keyboard/mouse. Nobody should have been able to to begin with but someone might have been abusing this so... they can't now lol. *The player model is now a different size, and so is everything else. *This is 1000 changes says github, so far anyway. *I added the ability to change you volume at some point. These are some of the more obvious changes, there are a few others. I did majority of this in February, recently I have been feeling very burnt out from this. Not that I will be stopping, I just have a lot going on. I keep this game as a scheduled thing I do just to make sure it does get touched. give the post a like?

new menu has been added along with some other fixes. have a great friday. in april there will be a lot of changes including overhauling a few of the maps, and changing how the game is played in some instances. I want to make the game 100x more fun than it is. Horde mode is sitll a lot more fun to play. Round bases is basically a proof of concept with a few levels. So a sum: a new menu has been added, and a bunch of changes are happening in april that will be dope.

Welcome to February, over the last month many changes have been made as well as an additional new map has been added. With this years major update, I added round based gameplay, as well as 4 additional free maps for you all to play. This month I will be introducing PIT 2. The map was originally planned for DEAD 2, but for those who read our last announcement, all of those features that were planned for that were instead added to this game to continue adding to it rather than making a sequel that could be avoided. The map was originally meant to show off the art direction while I worked out other core features. . Below, you will see the new maps layout:
The map around the same size as INTRODUX, or HEDGE but more compact, and honestly a more personal favorite than those two. Currently, LAB is my favorite. If you've read this far, give the post a like :) Aside from the new map, I also have a few changes, fixes, and additions to the game that you will notice: (Fun note, this list is basically what is added in it's order) *Pit 2 has been added for DEAD+ players. *The Layout of the Score, and Rounds GUI has been changed . *I added a number for remaining enemies for quality of life after requested. *Main menu changes *Weapon Upgrade Station now displays the number before interactions. Weird bug ig. *Layout of death screen has been changed. *Show Buy Text option is properly working again but because there is no literal item text anymore I may change the name. *The Quads starting rounds now play a little faster. *Spawn Rates changed in all levels. *Added new type of barrel that functions as a timer. *Changed the builds uploaded on Steam BETAs for the 2020 Timeline. *Added Super Computer option to the game. This makes all effects permanent. *Introduxes first puzzle now has a better indicator as to what may happen. *Added basic ambient occlusion. *3 New level buttons on the main menu, which enabled vertical menu movement instead of just horizontal. 2 of those levels are coming soon. *The price of the Machine Gun, Shotgun, and Rocket Launcher have been changed. *Fixed random spawn noise issue. *Spitter Enemy is now fully paused on pause, this enemy has caused so much trouble haha. *Updated 3 Store page assets. May revert one of them. *Fixed some enemies not doing damage sometimes. *Fixed some problems block door buys not displaying when 3D is turned off. *Changed the Iteration Sprite. *Changed the Health bar to be sprite based. *Added bomber introduction noise *Various object overlapping issues have been fixed. *Rounds properly end at the desired kill amount. *Bullet location creation has been changed. *Fixed stupid main menu bugs. *Options menu controllers specific rather than universal now. *Changing the overall volume of the game is now in the options menu with updates to come. *Steam Cloud is added. *After watching gameplay from a co-op user I also noticed how horrendous 3D looked to another player besides 1 so I have updated this. Doing this also had a positive effect on the viability of the UI. *Introdux has a new fun surprise. *You can now get rid of the absorber.

Beyond this update

Coming Sooner Than Later

This is the final overhaul of the game. It brings many changes, additions, and fixes. Over the last few months there has been an update once a month to fix, change, and generally remaster a game that I have had on my mind for the last 4 years. Over those last 4 years, the world has changed dramatically, and with it my life and trajectory. A lot of my time with the game has been escapism from my actual life. From people who I would think to trust being worthless petty people, to my world view shifting, being overwhelmed by things I have no control over, and dealing with the consequences of being alive in the life I live growing up around people I happened to. It's been a mess, and this project, and some others, have been my distraction. During development I have been in and out of the military, moved to the opposite side of the country from where I used to live, met many people, been in and out of school, dealt with death threats, moved a few times within the area I live now and plan to leave soon, and have generally just dealt with a lot of nonsense. I have sat on this game, released a few builds a month in some periods, sometimes dozens, while other periods nothing has come for a month or two because I have a life outside of the internet. Sometimes I was given help, but 99 percent of everything in this game is all me. I've spent a lot of time with this project. I am moving on, at least for the most part. There will be updates past this point, but mainly focused on fixing anything that I broke by accident, or bugs that are found. A map may come out once a month, or maybe never again. I do plan to add more options. Mainly censorship options, visual options, and more accessibility features but again I am only one dude. There may be more music, I am unsure. Future wise, I will be working on a VR title. It is the project I have been meaning to make for a while, it'll probably disrupt the way people see VR as a whole and the potential for it. I have to redo the design document (which will not take too long but I will be putting time into) and then start the development. I will be using a new engine on top of that meaning learning a whole new world of development. 3D is a lot easier than 2D. 2D I had to make each asset, animation, and move the UI pixel by pixel in weird but creative ways. 3D is just collisions. 2D is just collisions, but in a very different, more annoying way. The reason DEAD 2 never came out is that I put everything I was going to put into DEAD 2 into this game instead with the recent updates. Why make a new game when you can fix, or upgrade what was already there? Very much a Valve approach. The only thing left to do is to add the map 'Pit' which you can find in the "Betas" section under the games properties tab in Steam. DEAD+ will be either totally removed at some point, or be turned into a map pack similar to older call of duty titles as well as include a downloadable version of the soundtrack. Totally removing is not my objective, people bought it and I want to improve it. This update took about 120 hours of my time, and 40 hours of play time maybe more. It's a soft estimate. This was all in December. Thanks to my girlfriend for always being there to test my games, and give me feedback. Anyways, here is all the stuff I did for this final revamp update (give or take): Updates/Additions: *Added Various Beta Channels so players can play each version of the game that has been released. (This maybe changed to find better builds) *Leaderboard now shows your score, friends scores, and top 30 score instead of just top 30. *Weapon Reloading, Sounds, Additions, and Upgrades. *Hundreds of Sounds. *Entire game Visual Overhaul. *4 Round-Based Levels, with more to come. *New Enemies. *New Blood Interactions. *Better collisions. Fixes/Tweaks/Optimizations/Changes *Steam SDK Version Change. *Level images being too big and invisible, so you would select all levels at once in some instances. *Hedge spawns changed due to problems. Hedges now lighter. Hedge still sucks as a level. *Main Menu track. *Game Breaking kill 500. *Bombers and Big Boys not pausing. *"Start Game" Text. *Teleport hover messing up GUI layer. *Changes to Steam Store descriptions and summary. *Clearer Magnet Visual. *Bullet, and Money Icon. *Buy Station Images *What you buy and prices. *removed the throwing knife. *Changed weapon upgrades from being terrible, and/or not working. *Fixed some wall collisions. *Removed SPD "upgrade" because it was way too game breaking. *Changed hard-save data to local instead of app. *Steam Overlay being horrible. *Changed collision distances. *Cleaned up the FONT! *Better Controller Support. *controller lock-on option for people who do not want to aim because it is difficult. *Removed a few hundred lines of not needed code/made stuff more efficient because I know more now. Stuff that will come sooner than later, probably the next post: *More Steam support (Cloud, etc.) *Some other stuff I do not want to promise but will do in due time. *Proper ambient music for the 4 round based levels. Right now it is silence, which means fart noises. *PIT as level 5 for round based gameplay. *More options: Keybindings, Sensitive Content Warning Disable/Enable, Auto reload (idk if i want to). *Weapon Modding *1 New Enemy *Grenade reintroduction (requires keybinding update) *More power pickups. *Start Splash screens for Quality of life reasons. *Probably one more achievement, as well as more achievements per map. *New trailer, and Steam Store art (this is super annoying and tedious so if anyone wants to help hmu lol) Special Thanks to Flaming Potato, and Trash for helping report a few glaring bugs. Also, just as a note, this update has been out since the 29th or something... from then till now has been constant updating to make sure it was all proper before it was announced.

This is part 3 of the final overhaul of the game. This is part 3 of 4 (3/4). In this update I focused on changing the sprites to be clearer by changing the colors, or updating assets that were literally from my "I made this in a month" build. Here is the change log listed out: Updates/Changes: - All level selection images. - The hit box of every enemy to feel better. - Bullets look, feel, and speed for each weapon. (Feels better, still arcadey). - Player looks a lot more visually appealing (changed the body, and skin colors) - Various level backgrounds to make the player/enemies look a little clearer (I can only do so much without just re-doing all the art (though a lot of it ended up getting recolored) - Recolored a lot of Assets.... - The weapon holding sprites are a little different. - Walking Sound Effect - Default Gunshot Sound Effect - Music On/Off option - X, not > for exit. - Reorganized all folder structures for open-source release. - Redid all item common item sprites, and buy station sprites. - "Hedge" level and leaderboard. Tweaks/Bug Fixes: - Pausing properly pauses all enemies. Sorry this was not there before, I basically never pause the game, and only recently added the proper options menu. - Fixed Studio Start-up Crash - Removed a lot of redundant code/old images/old objects to prepare for open-source publish. - Tweaked startup screen button colors/text - Seeing despawn. - Hearing despawn. - Random Player2-4 deaths on some maps causing loud bit noise. - Audio Mixing for Music - Resized all Buy Text - Correct Levels sometimes showing incorrect leaderboard Future Information as of 11/29/2023 1amish Realistically, DEAD 2 will be great and I am not worried about that. I am currently spending 3-4 hours a day when I have the time/will to actually work on this. I usually listen to PKA, but this time I was listening to "The Making of an Internet Monster" by Art, or TheGamerFromMars. I've never really looked into Chris Chan aside form know of him and various happenings by him for the last 7 years. I am enjoying revamping DEAD 1 for the final update and I did a lot in the last few days like re doing all of the coloring to be a lot clearer. I wonder how people will react, if at all. I know this game isn't anything huge but to me: finishing what you have started matters. Quitting when you could do better is what losers do, but knowing when you should move on is important. Sunk Cost Fallacy is very real in the world we live in. Luckily, I do not make money off this game and enjoy spending my time making this and many other games. Over the last 4 years, my life has been very much a learning experience, but it has also been incredibly depressing in terms of my personal life and past as well as how I have been personally treated by people I thought close, including friends and family members. Treat people well, or have them out of your life. It is such a pain in the ass to make maps for this game, a very big reason why I am moving onto DEAD 2, that, and having new AI. Part of me (like right now) thinks I should keep DEAD as a singular game and have maps in different categories considering how much this game has evolved on it's own over the years but I am not sure that makes any sense long-term when I could realistically just remake any fan favorites from this game but in a new format. Call of Duty, and everyone involved are lazy, and have no work ethic. It is not hard to design things, it's actually incredibly easy. It's also easy to make maps, tweak weapons, change IDs, edit anything in your game in general. Those impressed with the very tiny are the reason we have bad games where people are impressed by audio bouncing off walls when if I wanted to have a gritty experience I could very easily have enemy a.i. detect you based off of sound alone and it would take me (took me) about 2 hours to do. "Oh but George, you aren't making Call of Duty!!" it's the same principles, design does not change at it's core, it's not hard to know what is fun, it's not hard to listen to your community, it's not hard to change the price of your 15 year old game, it's not hard to tweak some weapons, it's not hard to add new weapon skins, it's not hard to keep the game not an anime/rapper/invislbe skin fest. It's purely bad management, and bad design. I fully plan to release this as an open-source thing people can dig through. This is one of the only GameMaker Studio 1, GameMaker Studio 2, and GameMaker Studio 2.3 games that has been not only released on Steam, but consistently updated over a period of many years. I hope that the open source of this project will help people learn the engine if that's what they want to do, or help them in them see what to/not to do for their own projects. Maybe someone will learn something, maybe it'll be universally hated.. at least I tried.

This is part 2 of the revamp. there are 2 more parts. Below is the list of all additions, updates, and changes made to my game DEAD in the past couple of days. Updates - Changed Path finding for all Enemies as well as their speeds. l. - Level Selection Screen Overhaul 5: There kept being stuff wrong, so I redid it again. - Options Automatically Save to whatever you set them to, and Load Automatically. - Cat Launcher, Aura Bow, Slow Gun, and Ric Gun no longer suck. - Music: Readded Main Menu Music, Changed Ash Level tracks Minor Tweaks/Bug Fixes - Updated Steam Version - Added "Top 30" text to steam leaderboard. - Redid a lot of code. - Tweaked Location of Bullet Creation (If a zombie is right next to you, it'll actually hit it now). - Fixed Steam Screenshots not working (nobody cared but still) - Options Text was bad, now it's not. (Visually and Alphabetically) Added Bugs: - Going to the main menu and clicking on a level after already having been in a level will let you instantly click the desired level instead of being able to click to see the map/stats beforehand. Future Information as of 11/18/2023 Over the next 3 months there will be updates until the steam together event. After that, only bugs will be fixed/looked at. Why? DEAD 2 needs focus. We recently redid the A.I. for DEAD 2 (redoing it for DEAD 1 would break all of the maps to the point of having the game unplayable so we just have to move on). What I plan to do over the next 3 months is add 2 more maps, maybe more but promising 2 (Hedge, and one other) for free. While more fixes/changes, and overall balancing will go through the game. The leaderboard will not ever be wiped besides removing cheats but the common man can easily see who faked it, and who made it. Revamp 3 will come in December and will include Hedge, as well as update, or redo a few maps (redos do not replace a map, it just adds more maps (think box expanded)). DEAD 2 will be 100x better as any good sequel would be. The reason it didn't come out last year is because I made it, and then I lost the file (no idea how, blame ADHD and life). It's a lot better than it was anyways but I lost a lot of progress including a lot of art. It would have come out October 15th 2022. You can still play that version of the DEAD 2 under this games Beta Tab under properties via Steam.

I have updated the game today, I also plan to go over a few things: In the last 3 months this is everything changed including stuff changed today: -Main Menu Redone: Leaderboards working properly, navigation working well -Escape Menu Fixed: -Enemy Spawning Tweaked for slower fast-paced gameplay (more tweaks to come with feedback) -Costs reajusted and prices fixed -Enemy Drops Changed -Enemy spawnrates changed -Explosive enemy explosive properly exploding visual These may seem like stuff that should've been fixed and now they are.

Changelog: -Proper Pausing (Sorry, I didn't have this before) -Revamped Main Menus (Works way better, if you can about the original, change the game version) -Updated Performance.

A few things to keep the people updated for those interested: The Sandbox game is going strong, we switched back to our primary engine simply so we can get things done faster, * Our multiplayer system can hold any amount of players we desire up to 100,000 (basically overkill and unneeded but good to have). * Animations look dope and I am proud of what I have done. Currently we are building the Inventory system, the building system, and we have just finished up our first pass on a new path finding system that updates automatically with blocks broken. (the ai is 100x harder to break compared to DEAD). The next thing to do with the A.I is make it more... dynamic? Cooler. Expect something by April.. probably a private test build and a steam/epic store page.

in 2019 I started work on an idea for a game that revolved around digging and mining underground with your friends. That turned into me writing a 30 page binder in study hall in my highschool about an infinite and dangerous labyrinth where people are sent to die/live out their days. Well that game faded away and it never got done. It always stuck in the back of my mind. In fact it got far enough along that it basically had everything but multiplayer so I ended up turning all of those assets into a singleplayer introduction to an idea of what I wanted. Basically a an advanced prototype - Published Here: https://gamejolt.com/games/gigastructure/506534 - and I left it alone. I came back to a few projects and even made a post about my history in failures a few months ago. Now, I am finally coming back to it, from scratch, and with a set time and plan in mind (working with a programmer that is making sure we get this done as well). The plan for the game is to release it into a private alpha on Steam. (to get updates and private keys you would need to join us in our discord I just opened https://discord.gg/VHpGTB4MZ6 ) We will have a build out within the next 2 months there. More posts should be made about it. To be perfectly clear. We have the multiplayer framework and a lot of basic needs done. Now we are on to core functions like a newly designed inventory (almost complete) that should give you more player freedom than seen in any game ever besides maybe Project Zomboid or Dwarf Fortress. We will then move onto our crafting/building system (building is done but we need to advance the system), and then AI. All while that is happening art is being made as well as our future plans.

Hey, just a quick "update". Fixed the ability to... well play the beta and now you can if you didn't know how to fix it already. I changed the speed of enemies spawning. Let me know if it is a fair/fun speed. Yes, enemies stop spawning at a certain point. Why? Because I testing if this is a good speed for spawning. It if it is I can keep going... if it's not then I can potentially make it faster.

dead2iscominginoctober ...is the password to play.
Expect to die a lot, potentially find a lot of bugs and be able to have full controller support and mouse/keyboard support. To play do this:

(Main menu works very with keyboard and mouse... unlike dead 1 lmao)

Previously I showed off this about a year ago:
but now something is actually being done with it. DEAD 2 will be releasing at some point later this year. Currently I am opening the availability to play in set beta/tech tests that I will be privately hosting to gain feedback that I otherwise would not be able to see for myself. Below is a video of the current look of DEAD 2. [previewyoutube=sU908myrcGI;full][/previewyoutube] To be able to join in on Beta Tests you must add me on Discord georgehennen#8969 so you can be invited to a private discord group for various Keys and Beta testing release windows.

Hey there, this should be a simply post. I am asking questions. Dead 2 (Another free game) is being created. I am pretty much ignoring dread because it's too large, and costly and would take to long if I were to do it alone or multiple people were to do it for free on their own time. 1. What do you want improved from Dead 1 in Dead 2 (fixes, additions, removals). 2. How many maps should there be? 3. Should there be DLC (if so what is in it, what is the point?) Dead 2 will also have online multiplayer to it. So, even though it's free, something will be paid in it and i don't know what would be appropriate. I need some ideas. I am only making this game because a few people have messaged me asking for there to be a second game and it's still sort of popular. The reason more updates havn't come to this game is because the menu system is not easy to add to, and the actual game itself is too taxing when it comes to AI and the AI doesn't work very well. It's still fun just buggy. Someone also said I should crowdfund something. That's an idea.

Hello, Over the last 2 months we have been creating a new game, DREAD, last month you saw a GIF of a prototype for it showcasing new things like bullet casings dropping, smaller bullets, and more detailed environments (the ground looks nicer). Below is that GIF again:
I personally wanted to give another update to what has been going on, even though not as flashy as the GIF above it should give you a lot of info on how the game will play. Dread is the sequel to DEAD. It will explore a lot of the world as well as be a multiplayer, online, pvp/pve game. We currently have around 8 people working on the game and our current price point is undecided either being free with paid content or 10 dollars flat out (Regardless it will need paid something to support it staying online). We are creating it as a collaborative project though we are looking for publishers, or/and direct funding so we can get it done a lot sooner and make it a lot more public and have a proper advertising campaign besides this game, which was a test to see how well a free game would do in a niche market. DREAD is currently looking to be online-only but we are thinking to do singleplayer. The reason our first thought is to not do singleplayer is because it wouldn't make very much since because of how we are planing to do our inventory system which will be along the lines of something like Diablo, Unturned, or a more modern example like Escape from Tarkov. We know people don't have online abilities and steady internet so we are trying to keep it simple as DEAD is when it comes to data but using Godot instead of GameMaker 2. GameMaker 2s biggest problems were path-finding takes up far too much CPU and barely works to where similar games like Hotline Miami usually only have 1-10 enemies on screen for stability reasons. Godot does not have these problems and is an open-source engine giving a far better community and easier to get support for when we have problems unlike GameMaker which is a private company constantly changing owners and gets very little proper support and help from others without paying large sums of money. I will never use GameMaker for another project again. Dread will be the second game in this series. Below is an of one of the smaller maps in the game and has a lot of descriptors on it. This is an image of the current thought process when it comes to creating new maps.
(a link to an imgur post where you can click or download the image to have a better look: https://imgur.com/gallery/hUXZazz) We want to make sure the maps are easier to travel while having obvious blockades like vents that you need to unscrew to get into, office doors that are locked and require a key or the need to use explosives. We also want to make sure there is a proper amount of obvious lore like the three mutilated bodies and floors painted in blood. Other thoughts would include making sure it feels like it is lived in with desks not all looking the same, large office rooms with wires strewn about with cables, and papers where papers go. Here is a link: https://discord.gg/G5uRZzQYXH : to our discord. Currently, we have been slowly stockpiling people to grow the community though we are not posting very much publicly there as there isn't much to show besides back-end stuff. We plan on posting more content in there as well as here. it is much easier to respond to any questions there. Thanks for reading if you got this far. George.

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Hello everyone! DLC Content is now available to buy for 99 cents. This lets you buy the unavailable maps you couldn't access before. This also lets you buy any future content that is coming out including access to future online multiplayer modes. Buying these supports additions to the game. Linux support has been added. We have no idea how well it works but we know it does work and that you can play it. If you own a Linux machine and would like to help us out please get in contact with us. I also fixed a few bugs that were in the game. Feel free to send in screenshots or gameplay because that helps us out!

You probably didn't expect very much from a small zombie bullet hell game but I felt the boredom to make a new map. With that, below is an quick explanation and a screenshot of the new, free map.

BOX EXPANDED

• Hellish theme
• New Layout and gun locations
• More Danger
• Changed how the enemies act on that map.

Okay right of the bat: Bugs that were fixed:

• You couldn't press enter to restart the level
• You couldn't upload your score properly sometimes