Research

Here are a number of games I looked at to get ideas.

Zombieville USA

iPhone game

This is basically a simple zombie shooter.

Collect money to buy weapons/health. Lots of blood and
gore. We would definitely want to tone down the blood and gore compared to this game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvfVDczQXOY



Zombie Waster

This game is really basic.

I like that it brings up control instructions right away.

http://www.shootzombies.com/game/138/ZombieWaster.html



SAS: Zombie Assault 3

Has a nice opening menu. It has a variety of zombies.
It also has an upgrade shop where you can buy weapons, etc.

http://www.shootzombies.com/game/54/SASZombieAssault2.html



Zombie Blitz

This game is nice because it has a variety of Zombies. I
think we'll really want to have that variety in our game.

I especially like many of the zombie characters in this game.

http://www.box10.com/zombie-blitz.html



We've already talked about this but I really think we'll want to have a variety of enemies in our game. I also really like the upgrade options found in many of these games. Although I do think it would be better for us to have power-ups appear during game play.

We also will want to have the game play very cartoony to avoid the negative perception of a mall setting.

Here are concept images for a mall level:












The level design will be 2D and I think we'll want to look at having more of a cartoon look for the mall level to reduce the reality factor of the game.