A "basic" Wave-based FPS Zombie Game made for Jamsepticeye 2025

By MarkDotExe <3

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- Backstory ->

The original idea was a survivors style rogue like wave spawning but with standard FPS mechanics. 

Sadly a lot of parts weren't finished and the rouge like stuff was one of those parts. 

But we got a pretty solid FPS out of it. It needs some tweaking but it's pretty fun, imo. Crazy after a few minutes but fun. 

I had an absolute blast making this so I hope you do too playing it :D

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NOTE THERE IS CURRENTLY NO SAVING OR PROGRESSION IN THIS VERSION OF THE GAME. EXPECT UPGRADE-BASED PROGRESSION IN AN UPDATE SOON! 

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- WARNING ---- THIS GAME CONTAINS FLASHING LIGHTS AND MIGHT BE HARMFUL TO THOSE WITH ISSUES WITH SUDDEN LIGHTS OR SOUNDS. PLEASE BE ADVISED! 

Nothing beyond your standard "shooter" in the dark with a bunch of fun, colorful explosions, but I wanted to mention it, just in case! 

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IF YOU ENJOY THIS OR ENCOUNTER ANY BUGS OR ISSUES: 

PLEASE LET ME KNOW DOWN BELOW SO I CAN BE QUICKER UPDATING IT !!<3

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- FYI --- Please TURN DOWN YOUR VOLUME before it loads so you can adjust to a level that works for you. The background music and gun shoot sound is fairly loud.  

I didn't get the settings added in time sadly. FYI!!

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- "Features" & "Tech"

-- Fun Pointless Zombie Shooting Rogue Like with Explosions

-- Solid FPS Shooting

-- Rogue-like game, heavily tied to mission time and enemies waves

-- Flashing Lights and Explosions

-- Portals

-- Gun Noises (Sadly still UE base rifle skin, but it works differently kinda lol ) 

-- Unreal Engine 5.5

-- Shoot "Zombies" (ran out of time so we have animations but no "zombie skins" yet, oops)

-- Original slappin' background music

-- Basically No UI or settings (Ran out of time ooooopppps)

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- General Play Steps:

    - Main Menu -> Press Start 

    - Enter Lobby -> 

    - Select a Mission by Standing on a Pad at the front, 

    - Enter the portal, 

    - Pick up the rifle in front of you

    - Kill Zombs

    - Get Killed or Exit through a world portal

    - Return to lobby with winnings and repeat

    - Enjoy :)

    

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- Short Comings ->

It was meant to have a few more features, but I ran out of time. You'll probably notice a few weird quirks.

Here's a quick list I can think of:

    - No Rogue Elements (upgrades and different weapons didn't get finished!) 

    - No Options or Credits in Game (Coming soon screens)

    - Only one gun (I wanted more but had issues with meshes)

    - Base UE Rifle Skin (I wanted to quickly switch this out but ran out of time :D )

    - Portal Jank - (Honestly no idea if the end portals fully work, those were thrown together in an hour at the last minute oops )

    - Occasional bugs with the mouse cursor and UI

    - Loading times & Performance (Longish loading times loading into the work depending on your PC, 

    --- performance was OK for my PC (i9, 4070Super, 128Gb Ram) but I'm not sure how lesser or non-ray tracing GPUS will handle it 

    - Basically no optimization (A lot of programming short comings but hopefully the performance isn't terribly god awful, otherwise please comment and we'll get a patch out) 

Regardless, it's still actually pretty fun, ngl. 

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Wrap Up -> 

I hope you had fun! 

I'm a solo dev trying to make things work so I'm beyond grateful for anyone to play my games whatsoever! 

This was my FIRST EVER game jam. I've always been scared of doing them, tbh. 

Crunch and sprints aren't my style but if I didn't have a deadline and some cruch, I wouldn't have learned as much as I did. 

With that in mind, I'm thankful I was able to do this experience, even if absolutely no one plays my game, but hell, I had SOO much fun making it.

I've been doing Unreal dev for last year working on some projects that have taken a while, so it's nice to work on something different for a bit and get to share it with others! 

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Ads -> 

If you wanna watch some of the development streams or want to follow me more, check me out at below:

- Second to Last Day Stream 

    

    - Twitch -> https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2583335898

- Final Day Stream (Sorry for the timer noises lol)

    

    - Twitch -> https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2584122905

- Twitch: MarkDotExe -> https://www.twitch.tv/markdotexe

- Website MMakowski.org

- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MarkDotExe

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- Credits and Game Assets Attributions

- Made with Love by MarkDotExe <3

- Basically everything that isn't 3d meshes or sound effects, I made the music specifically for this game though :D

- General Programming, Visual Design, Background Data Structure Programming, Level Design, Main Background Song, Weapons, QA, 

- 3d Party Assets and Attribution: 

-- Sound

    - Valve Software

        - SteamSound from Valve Software Dev (Unreal Engine Plugin) - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-audio

    - Sonniss.com - GDC 2023 - Game Audio Bundle\344 Audio - Epic Impacts Vol. 1

        - impact 021, 038,045,059 .wav

    - Sonniss.com - GDC 2017 - Game Audio Bundle\Gamemaster Audio -  Gun Sound Pack

        - gun_revolver_pistol_shot_04 .wav

    - Sonniss.com - GDC 2019 - Game Audio Bundle\Glitchedtones - Zombie

        - Zombie Groan Pitched Down (6) .wav, Zombie Subject B Groan (8) .wav, Zombie Subject B Hiss (1) .wav, Zombie Subject C Zombie Brat Groan (9) .wav

- VFX

    - Advanced Magic FX 13 - Kakky - https://fab.com/s/bebb991699e4

- Mesh

    - SuperGrid Starter Pack - ZeOrb - https://fab.com/s/6507a4292775

    - Male Zombie 1 Animated (Currently Unused) - Tony Flanagan - https://fab.com/s/bebb991699e4

- Animations:

    - Zombie Animation Pack: Standard - QuaokkaVoid - https://fab.com/s/0655140aeb79

    - Death Animations - MoCap Pack - MoCap Online - https://fab.com/s/c40a8fd2c353

    - Epic Games -> Example Manny & Rifle Animations

- Post Process & Lighting:

    - Amplify LUT Pack - Amplify Creations - https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/amplify-lut-pack

    - Fog Gradients - Luna Joy - https://fab.com/s/2444bc262a65

    - Ultra Dynamic Sky - Everett Gunther - https://fab.com/s/77a632ad8b62

- Additional Plugins (FAB / UE MARKETPLACE / EPIC):

    - ia scatter - Iraisynn Attinon - https://fab.com/s/48f97eb9f6d1

    - Easy Crosshair - Dodge Theory - https://fab.com/s/c1447574175e

    

- UN-USED ASSETS:

    - Weapons FREE - Low Poly 3D Models Pack (CURRENTLY UNUSED) - ithappy- https://fab.com/s/6c629da6409c

    - Melee Weapon Aura VFX - Energy Auras & Glowing Effects for Melee (CURRENTLY UNUSED) - https://fab.com/s/17a7dd9c7b0c

- Special Thanks:

    - Epic Games for Unreal Engine

    - Steam for SteamAudio

    - NVidia for DLSS, DLSS-G, Streamline integration in Unreal 

Let me know what you think down below in the comments and I'll happily make more <3 

Thanks again for playing! You don't realize how important it is to me.

Thank you if you read this far! 

You're the best! Stay well! 

See you again soon, folks! 

With Love, MarkDotExe <3