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Coop extraction looter-shooter with colony sim elements. Explore procedurally generated neighborhoods. Loot guns, food, and supplies. Build your base. Sustain your colonists' needs. Sneak and shoot your way out of mycelium-infected areas. Inspired by Project Zomboid, RimWorld, Zero Sievert, Tarkov.

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ProtoZED May 2024 DevLog Update

31 May

Hey hey hey! It's been a busy month! Here's the squeeze.

Terrain Generation

is now dynamic and layer based. Similar to the step-based generation system in Rimworld, it has 5 generation steps ... for now. This will let anyone hook into the generation process and inject their own logic.

CityLayoutGen
RoadGen
HouseLayoutGen
FloorPlanLayoutGen
NaturalTileGen

World Item Visualization

I'm using intelligently-hashing Master InstancedStaticMeshComponent Manager to render items. This will allow rendering of thousands of items with minimal performance impact.

Serialization

The serialization/save system is working out well. World Inventories are now re-implemented so every 100x100 is a ground tile inventory. Of course we are not creating them if there are no items in that ground slot :)
Terrain data saves and reloads properly. Both tiles and vegetation. (The construction system has been serialized for a long time)

There's more but i'll save that for next time :)

Armin Haas

Here's a youtube video with some visuals and premiere of one of the exclusive procedural music tracks that will be coming with the release of ProtoZED. It is written and performed by none other than Armin Haas himself! Thank you Armin!

Until next time! Thanks for all of your support!

ProtoZED

Miss opportunity

This would have been good before Project Zomboid came into existence. Just on surface level watching the videos here, I don't see what this game has over Project Zomboid. Not to dis to attempt. There's many zombie games out there that are really bad, and this is not one of them. It's actually quite nice. Just a shame the timing of it. Directly competing with another zombie game that does so many things better, so much in depth, and is already available and being modded by quite a number of people. Dammit. ...

Mogg

9 Sep, 2023 @ 3:35pm

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Builders be building - April 2024 Update

30 Apr

Hello friends!

April was a busy month for me personally but i managed to get some good work done in the past couple of weeks.

Below you can see a preview of the UI and building system for placing structures. Buildings can be loaded from custom XML, specifying the mesh and texture to use.

Here we have the colony and pawn task system at work. Essentially, there is a colony "brain" that will assess all tasks and assign them out based on priority, ability, and distance using a sort of "Utility-based AI" system I'm calling Motive AI. ( Some of you might have seen a simplified version of this in action for my itch.io title code monkeys[scott-hf.itch.io] )

Lastly, here is a EARLY preview for health system. This is super alpha but i thought this was pretty cool. All of these body parts are also defined and loaded via XML. All clothing/skin materials on characters have a invisible blood mask on them that we can unhide on demand. Still need link XML definitions to skeletal bones but that is a task for future future future Scott.

Have a good one!
Scott

ProtoZED

Dev Update - March 2024

29 Mar

Hey! I've been working on NPC's and stores for the past couple weeks but I'm not ready to show anything just yet. Lots of code/background architecture stuff. Hopefully, i'll have something for show&tell next month though!

I've put some more polish into the item inspection window seen here:

As well as Timed Actions. For any of you Project Zomboid modders out there, the technical concept works nearly the same and will have the same principles when creating your own actions. The example I've got working now is reload/unload: