(1) Zombie Island: The Curse of the Lost City

[King Klear]

James Hammerfist shipwrecked on an uncharted island. After a little exploration he'll find that something is terribly wrong with it...

Overview:

The inspiration for this map have been the classic old-school survival horrors, namely Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil series. I've tried hard to make it as close to those as possible. As long as I know, this may be the first map of its kind. It's also so far the only non-cinematic map made by myself.

A sequel has been in production for over a year and it will come out "when it's done". I just hope that this phrase doesn't bring bad luck.

Main fetures:

Scary atmosphere
Fixed camera angles.
Limited saves
Books and diaries uncovering the history of the island
Unique enemies requiring different approach
Many short cinematic sequences, fully skipable
Three difficulty settings.

This map is quite old, it's hosted on the Dwarf Campaign Website, has been posted on Maps'n'Mods for years and so I've already got a lot of feedback. Therefore I can address some of the more frequently discussed issues here:

Music - I've decided to keep the game silent, to give more weight to the ambient sounds.
Difficulty - it may be a good idea to start with "Easy" option. Some people complained about difficulty, so I added the 3 different settings.
Orientation - some survival horrors are sometimes confusing due to the changing cameras. It's a bit worse in this map because of the RTS controls - if you click just when the camera's changed, you may run in a completely different direction than you wanted to.
Gunpowder attack - it is a bit strange, but it's needed to maintain gameplay => shortening amount of ammo.
Inventory - some people complained that the inventory is too small. Well, that's the point. You have to decide which items to bring along.

Screenshots:



Downoad:

Zombie Island - The Curse of the Lost City - R2.w3x

I think that's about everything.

Enjoy your stay on the Zombie Island!

[Rao Dao Zao]

Despite this map's difficulty (I've never managed to complete it ), I say approve approve approve.

Approve approve approve.

And again for good luck, approve.

A better map you will have a hard time finding.

[Daxtreme]

is this map multiplayer or singleplayer ?

Seems sweet I'll try this.

[King Klear]

@Daxtreme
Notice the (1) in the thread's name. Also, survival horrors tend to be single player only.

@RDZ
Thanks thanks thanks and thanks
Wish you were an admin here =)
Thanks!

[moyack]

Heyyy :)

So you pass from the comedy cinematics to the horror games!! I'll check it out when I come back home.

[Feanor]

Wow, nice map. Looks like you were right about doing it on easy.

[Daxtreme]

Wow insane map.

OMG ! I'm blocked at the ice canyon with the skeletons raping you! So hard

Do you have a forum along somewhere with your map so I can spam people to know what to do ? :P

[ragingspeedhorn]

Nice map mister klear, +rep!

[Juliano]

wHat the fu** I must do now? there's books that said i must find some runes, when I stand on some of them they don't are activated(the buttons)

than what I must do, very cool map but can you explain me? it's about 30 minutes lost to solve this...

HINT:the guy moves too slow...can you make him faster?

Edit: nononno, I opened the rolling stone door now, dont need to tell me nothing more now... :) keep the good job
Edit: I died when I killed the gem...what happened ;,,,,(?

[Anitarf]

A nice map. Rather short and not really all that scary, but well made with lots of nice details, like the illusion of the spiders coming from the ceiling.

I approve this.

[King Klear]

@Moyack

Irony, isn't it?

@Daxtreme

The forums used to be at here, but there was no activity, little news and therefore no point to mainatain in any further.
You can spa- *cough* post in reasonable ammounts there anyway.

@Juliano

Unless something is wrong, you won the game...
And the speed of the hero is exactly what it should be. The game is short nevertheless.

@Anitarf

Thanks... that means, three more?

[ragingspeedhorn]

Originally Posted by King Klear

@Anitarf

Thanks... that means, three more?

You need 3 approvals in total.

[Hemlock]

My older comment looks a bit corny so therefor I changed it abit, so here where my thoughts about the game.

A great game in which is clearly visible that alot of effort and work has been made.
The camera control was nice and above all unique, might present some irritations at start but especially a few minutes in game, it a real candy to the eye, in my honoust oppinion.
The book with the dialogue clicking was another nice invention you made, very lovely.
Another things that cought my eye was the throwing of the bottle in the watter to save the game, very nice.

The only down side effect I noticed when I played the game, was that I had to play it over and over again from time time since you die so easily.

Other than that a splendid game with loads of inovational stuff, would be my summary for this game

[moyack]

I played in normal mode and I was killed after I throw the empty bottle to the sea. I'll have to put it in easy mode in order to give a good commentary.

I liked a lot how do you simulate the camera like in alone in the dark, It's just great.

[King Klear]

You were killed by the undead, not some bug, I hope...