Project Zomboid Zombie Swarm / NPC Group Behaviour Dev Demo

[DarkSpartan776]

ive never seen more than one survivor in a house lol

[xXE4GLEyEXx]

at day 10 all places were swarmed by zombies :S and my character had a fever .... and a heroic death :D I LOVE PZ

[KrazxyAl]

I love how right around 1:00 down the bottom right there is a guy that is just like 'Screw this, you guys are on your own!' and then legs it.

[navadvipa27]

In the centeral park...there are almhowst no zombies the NPC's coud hawe leaved 5 NPC's to guard the entrances and build some safehouses ahhh only if they coud build,when i play the game i woud put the defences around the gates and recruit survivors and soon make safe walls around the whole town and leave the edges (spawners)open and they will spawn but never GET IN!

[HTGaming97]

It's really nice, but i think it could be nicer that when they are escaping ( Right big building at 0:17 ) they could be following each other.

[3lmo3ater]

So cool

[madrauk3495]

a zombie apocolypse could never have happened in the middle ages cause everybody had swords T.T advancement, aye humanity?

[IxodesPersulcatus]

See you at the bitter end...

[LucanJacups]

Haha holy shit there's one survivor that kills like half the zombie population of the area all by himself in this video. I wonder what weapon he had.

[ElmoIsMagniv]

Atom Zombie Smasher time! Where is the escue heli and the snipers?!

[93Gamerz]

question:

what would happend if you add instead of so much zombies.

a lot of humans?

then like 20 zombies comming and on, until the amount of 100 is reached?

So the infected get killed or transformed

[93Gamerz]

its also a bit sad to watch, there is no escape for the little white dots ;-)

the map is to small to escape, the zombies spawn, it must be hell.

but good work! can't wait to buy it some day over steam, i played the very old demo a long time ago.

[93Gamerz]

1:58 lol look rambo is in the center bottom

[maxihzb]

just add the save game option, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

i know, wait for the 0.1.6 version, but damn, i want it now D:

[Shwez]

Everyone keep saying, church here, church there... since when they put church in this map? xD

[Theenemy38]

well what do ya know a forecast model for zombies lol

[The1Next]

Can somebody help meh? I can't hear anything in this game, no sounds, no music. I tested full and demo: sound doesen't work on both.

About this game: I think, it is one of the best zombie game of all time! When pz will be out of beta, it will be the most realistic and epic zombie game of all time! Keep up the good work! (Ppl, thumbs up?)

[Jackpot807]

2:04 a bit south of the church, look out we got a badass over there in the street.

[TheJP3372]

Little Red Dots attacking white dots... very dam entertaining

[ReboundGamer]

Look north of church

2:15 - Hell yeah I can take these zombies

2:20 - Oh crap there's to many. Oh hey its the guy I don't like

2:23 - *Second person runs away screaming while first hides in park*

[nightcaller92]

what i kept saying the first time i watched the video was "the white dots eat the red ones as they come close"

[CualquiervideoxD]

1:55 the guy standing alone, is like OH SHIT! *RUns out* OH SHIT! *Runs in* FUCK

[DarkGamePlays]

I actually watched the entire video!

[Potencialiscsimbi]

Look at them! Eating all those white squares!

[broadsword1999]

wait more survivors keep spawning?

[broadsword1999]

I wish there would be limited zombies :(

[HandOfCode]

I gotta say this is pretty damn cool! Thank you for sticking with this project!

[TheKyshu]

Oh, this game will be so dmn awesome :D

[GezStickman]

Pick a white dot from the beginning and see if it survives the whole video :D

[IMMMedved]

@GezStickman

Impossible

[andrethegiant6969]

GO WHITE SQUARE GO, NO NO DONT MAKE NOISE THEY CAN HEAR YOU. OH GOD. RUN RUN

*turns red*

R.I.P White Square.

[splatterkkk]

0:37 damn I think that survivor ( the stationary one) eats zombies for breakfast!

[jhunt123456]

@splatterkkk if you follow him, they eat him for breakfast at about 1:20

[JD867]

It'd be cool if you could clear areas of zombies. For example, zombies only spawn once every two days at night, and if you clear an area no more spawn until the next spawn period.

[Klashorian]

They're so SMART

[MrDestroyerdm]

daaaaaaaaayummmmmmm. 3:09 that dude in the church went total beastmode

[ZippyChan]

The "Who'll survive the longest" Game.

Go to 0:06.

Pause,

Pick a dot, FOLLOW THE DOT THROUGHOUT THE VIDEO.

The longest surviving dot, post it in the comments/reply/whatever.

And name him.

I picked the dot in the bottom left, next to two zeds. I named him Squiggles.

He died at 0:40 from another survivor :C

[Kalipp0]

rest in peace, brave little white dots.

[Darkille02]

It reminds me of old game 8bit :D

[bigducey8]

are they playing muliplayer?

[smaug131]

@bigducey8 no, the white dots are survivor npc's

[BrendonECarpenter]

This is amazing guys, thanks for tossing the community a bone and giving us something we can ogle at. I've bought Project Zomboid and you spend so much less than what the game is really worth. Buy PZ for your beloved gamer/zombie enthusiast at Christmas! It'll make his or her holiday season!!!

Yay park isn't so dangerous this time around!!!

[KRZKrizza]

I can see the npcs, all 4 in one house, 1 goes out to search for supplies, one of those at the safehouse turns, and they kill him, jump back and you can see him get bitten and flee to their safehouse, I wonder if one of those npcs went out for medical supplies?

[hillz746]

shit, i keep trying to move that damn cursor...

[xRaTcHeT302]

the white dots are players?

[smaug131]

@xRaTcHeT302 survivor npc's

[Foxstab]

Screw you Justin Bieber and bow down to the beef lord Zach Beeber!

Seeing all those white dots make me want to play PZ co-op.

[pjbyrne1997]

when is project zomboid gonna be updated coz its gonna be sweet

[MLavaYT]

@BlitZWTF oh wow! I saw a comment from you on a vid like 2 days ago,and I dont know why I remember your name0.0 when I can't even remember things for my midterms o.e that are tomorrow...but yeah I think I remember you cause of your unique name and that you mentioned something about touhou....my test should be about TH....

[LordJusticar]

This just proves you don't need fancy graphics in a game to tell a viable and realistic story. I imagine from watching this many people saw many tales been told just by looking at two different coloured squares on a map. Amazing. Oh and the AI is looking good, guys. Maybe after you've done with Project Zomboid you could do an overhaul on the Skyrim AI ;P

[Lucios1995]

Why doesn't the site allow comments anymore?

[peraxx779]

down right <------ l4d moment

[silenceyouidiot]

Are civilians/survivors randomly spawning though? Every so often white blocks appear and disappear out of nowhere.

[xXCriptlordwcXx]

while im watching this.. its like there are flashes of scenes on my head depending on the situation, drama, barricading, decisions, arguement.... dear god this is gonna be awesome if it's finished!

[Pzsturmwagen]

Looks awesome! I can't wait to see that in game. I definitely need more vids of how the IA works!

[Gregorie0582]

iw ant a multiplayer mod for this map for 3-4 friends it would be very funny

[WAFLNeo]

The group of survivors that died around 0:52 in the bottom right corner, I really felt for them :(. As for the game though, I am majorly proud of the team for these teasers, they have really made my money's worth just watching and reading about development, as soon as the game comes with a tad more support regarding the maps and controls (I suck seriously) then I think a few "Lets Play" stories will be recorded :) keep up the good work T.I.S!

[InnSain]

So excited for the update that brings these NPCs you don't even know.

[ChXrisTV]

You can do it white dot!!!

[hartlockersh]

Gonna be so cool, great coding, looking forward to some more complicated behaviours! Great job on visualising this time around!

[InvaderHaizek]

1:20, up towards the top right: "You get inside, I'll hold them off!"

[AlexFili]

Love this game. Can't wait for the following: Saving & NPC co-operation! :D

[PestVolk]

It will be pretty amazing, imagine crafting something in your safehouse, then you hear gunshots, you open the curtains, look outside and see people fighting for their lives.

[NegativeBlink]

I read your blog post about this and I was thinking, maybe some NPCs shouldn't totally freak out when a horde comes their way. Maybe they should have a leader attribute or something like that so that they don't just run away and abandon their "allies".

[nubakos]

This could be made into a minigame itself.

[Metrunuituragaful]

I almost cried at 1:23 when the big-time killer guy dies (park, south-right) The one that kills every zombie in the left side of the park should have survived =[

[YourLittleMartian]

To be quite honest i like watching simulations like this oh and if you look at the church at 1:20 (Where the 3 people are at)The guy turns and there both like "Oh SHIT he was a zombie

[Blade199117]

@YourLittleMartian lol so true <3 i want this game so bad to come out so i can play MP!!! it will be so awesome :D

[stiivais4]

@YourLittleMartian should have sent him to the lower right of the map @ 1:30

[battlefieldmen]

1:10 on the right side in that house near the park, that's a killer. He makes the whole area green! XD

[SuperNidzy]

imagine the multiplayer for this shit. It would be magnificent.

[Slamami]

3:46 In the center, that dot sacrificed himself so the other could escape. ;-;

[Firethrough]

5:48

i would not like to be in that park

[Tottte]

2:32 an npc suddenly vanish under the bar building. I guess he got infected.

[carefaceeightyseven]

I hope the final game doesn't have 1000 zombles per map section, you shouldn't run into them every other minute (if you are going for the 'realistic' approach atleast). Fighting more than 2-3 at a time should be a big deal.

[knight508]

This really opens up visual thinking. There should be progressively larger "releases" of zombies until only 10% of the map is "green". Each iteration slow the spawning down a bit and go up a notch in the next round; repeat until the map is loaded; though this may kill slower machines. As is it seems as though the NPCs and player too easily diminish the numbers. Once NPCs start dieing off one by one though that too will pump the zombie count. Add some pressure!

[CrocoShack]

Before having watched the video : "Oh god, I will never get my release ! All these update news are useless..."

After having watched the video : "OMFG, I'm not dreaming ! the fuck, oh my god, oh my god they have done it ! They actually made it look cool !"

[zukas5]

This means new update soon :D ?

[riksharp]

so, hypothetically, if zombies only spawn at the edge of a map, could you build barricades on all the edge tiles thus preventing spawning and then clear out the block, making the entire map safe?

[CrocoShack]

@riksharp Yeah, more or less, though blocked or not, they are still able to take the barricades down.

[soxfan849]

@riksharp That's highly impractical, not to mention probably mathematically impossible (it would take a ton of wood). Besides, zombies can destroy barricades, so they'd manage to tear them down before you could even manage to put something like that up.

But I guess it could be hypothetically possible. It wouldn't surprise me if they had some kind of check for that, though. A sort of if the tile that you're trying to spawn on is occupied, then spawn on the nearest unoccupied tile.

[UberLithen]

Why am i still watching this and why is it so damn entertaining?!

[Peyam187]

@UberLithen Great minds think alike. :D

[UberLithen]

@Peyam187 Indeed :]

[IMMMedved]

@UberLithen

Cause this is an AI bro. A live beyond human's. I could watch it all the day long.

[Mauraaal]

I love the man on the left who killed a shitton of zomb xD

[TheDefiantBadger]

The developer of atom zombie smasher is jealous. (Probably)

[Zanek007]

amazing! I can't wait!

[draxx85]

wow didnt expect to get so heavily fan boyed. I bought this game so I am entitled to my opinion. U don't like it then thats not my problem. My arguement is that half that battle with alpha funding is to find a good workflow for content delivery. IndieStone made a good quality game but unfortunatly fell short when it comes to workflow. As for going to buy mainstream games, i dont see what that has to do with this arguement. The person who told me to go and play SC2 is an idiot.

[TRULYTWIST3D]

@draxx85 again...stop being dumb and read the reasons why they didnt update in so long... they had alot of bad luck, alot of things happened that were COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR CONTROL that slowed theym down... biggest of which THEIR LAPTOPS WITH THE NEWEST UPDATE WERE STOLEN before they had backed it up on other computers... they didnt fall short on work flow... theyve just been getting the shit end of the stick and had no choice...most developers would have quit by now but they havnt

[draxx85]

@TRULYTWIST3D Fair enough, No need to be insulting but I understand your point. It was bad luck but I was a huge fan of the game and don't feel my money was badly spent. I just got impatient waiting for them to add more. I'm sure everyone can understand that. I am glad that at least IndieStone have the support of a very pationate community and now that things seem to be getting on the right track I hope they succeed. As for devs quitting; Passion is a powerful driving force!

[ItchyFlea1]

@lemmy103 Just a thought, why not let the people who bought the fanboy edition download the most stable, yet not officially released, updates for the game.

In a similar method that Mojang did with the pre-releases for Minecraft?

[ItchyFlea1]

@AlexVSharp You should watch "The return of the living dead". Its a zombie movie with rather intelligent zombies. It also explains why zombies want to eat your brains. (Something I was always curious about)

[CrocoShack]

@AlexVSharp They can smell flesh.

[EchoEnder]

It'll be interesting to see how this acts when humans are thown into the mix. Zombies are predictable...the player won't be.

[St1ckm3npwn]

Just this pixelated view could be considered a great game alone. I can't wait for this to be implemented.

[981darklight]

Can we download it? I just love this pixels!!!

[XxVarkaxX]

It's like watching a zombie apocalypse tale with each white pixel have it's own story and it's attempt to survive

[draxx85]

I loved the idea of this game but what pissed me off about it is that i lost all interest in it due to how long the devs have taken to update it. they should do some research on how to run an alpha project before taking peoples money. Unless they suddenly pick up the pace i cant see myself bothering to install this again

[kaizersosa81]

@draxx85 Right, because someone forced you to buy it when a gun to your head. What a coincidence! The same thing happened to me! Who would have thought?

[St1ckm3npwn]

@draxx85 You really can't blame them. The first delay (which was the longest) was only because they were waiting on steam and desura and whoever else to finish up; They were already finished their part. The second thing is that their office was robbed, along with most of their computers; which contained the majority of the updates. They've been working vigorously since then to get the update out for us. Do some research before bitching about people not doing things right.

[TRULYTWIST3D]

@draxx85 stop being dumb... nuff said

[BlitZWTF]

@draxx85

Or you should occupy yourself elsewhere while they do, maybe then you wouldn't have a problem with it. Terraria, Minecraft, hell, you don't have to just occupy yourself with an indie game, why not buy something like starcraft 2 (Granted, it is expensive) and fuck about on that like i did?

[JustShotsForMeh]

It's sad when you follow after a pixel and suddenly he dies. D:

[mwangolatrue]

Thumbs up if you bought the game or are going to.

Indie Stone is doing great jobs and you should support them.:)

[bakasomething]

It's still to bad lemmy acted the way he did earlier on twitter. Still never buying this game because of that unprofessionalism

[JustShotsForMeh]

@bakasomething /Care about 1 person.

[St1ckm3npwn]

@bakasomething What did he say?

[Scrier9]

@mackncheesiest its the same guy lol

[mackncheesiest]

@Fireflypaw

I say the guy in the building in the middle of the left side at 3:09ish kills more haha.

[Fireflypaw]

look at the lone dot near the store on the right of the map. at 2:06 watch him/her they are lyke fking rambo, theyre just killing all of the zombies

[xXRedyzXx]

This looks more and more like rogue survivor; and I absolutely love it!

Keep up the possibilities! I love your work

[C4pt4inC4rr0t]

I take this to mean that there are only more and more zombies, which is awesome, because then sometimes you do have to go out a purge a couple hundred to stay alive and avoid a build up.

[kpooh256]

This would be a really cool way to view our game after we die.....this game needs a replay option!

[mannonc]

@kpooh256 That's exactly what I was thinking and you're getting thumbed up by me. I hope the devs see your comment or one like it.

[MashPotatoful]

@kpooh256 I think you'll be made happy... ;)

[kpooh256]

@MashPotatoful Fingers crossed. Is this inside info?

[MashPotatoful]

@kpooh256 I'm part of IndieStone :)

[kpooh256]

@MashPotatoful You sir, have made my day. Keep up the good work guys....I'm playing this as much as Skyrim.

[TheSteaIth]

Oh my god. this just made me so excited for project zomboid.

[Reds994]

Actually seeing some footage of them ingame would of been nice but still; looking good.

[GarouVerroq]

It's amazing what AI scripting can do to create a story for a pixel...I don't know how many times I shouted, "You left him! You bastard, you left him!" The zedpocalypse is certainly a story of love and of loss.

[Lucios1995]

0:26

Look down with the group of 5 survivors, one died from nothing?

[mikegnr99]

@Lucios1995 maybe, although he might of just went up stairs.

[Scotsman1337]

@Lucios1995 Either what mikegnr99 said about one of them going upstairs. Or he may have died from illness/hunger/previously sustained injuries? Who knows?

[pocketlint60]

@Lucios1995 The NPC's die of hunger and thirst and stuff, so that's probably it. Or maybe he was sad and killed himself. The NPC's all have stats like yours, I think.

[hiphopguy0]

lol at 1:20 a human became a zombie. in the convenience store.

[SuperPaperMetroid]

@hiphopguy0 He must have eaten an infected hotdog.

[Lithuania158]

@hiphopguy0 what is funny with that? :\

[nonstopjc2k8]

Pick a dot, watch the last moments of his life...

[Scotsman1337]

It's like watching the spectacular failures and adventured on Dwarf Fortress. You could watch this endlessly and still catch new things because of all the activity going on.

[MrMhroczny]

I feel sorry for the group in the bottom building (hardware store) getting screwed up by 1 zombie banging at the door 0:27-1:00 . Still one of them managed to leave his friends and survive :p

[reenolith]

great work guys :) i love watching the npcs forming groups and "swallowing" the red squares

[PicaresqueMedia]

Soooo looking forward to this.

[glokkpod84]

The Dot that winds up alone in the top right of the map at 0:52 is a supreme badass.

[Thechuz1337]

1:20 A survivor in the left building turns into a zombie, and his friend has to kill him :D

[Ghaleon2004]

Multiplayer ist still needed for the great outcoming

[Cysorgaming]

@Ghaleon2004 there will be a multiplayer, but first of all they wanna create a stable single-player experience before they get on the multiplayer. :)

[AikiRoM]

I want this update. I hope Christmas will bring it.

[IMPLowzow]

Impressive! gj :D

[odin6616]

What timescale is this?

[TvCheese]

Great!! can't wait for the update :)

[xZamadagax]

This is extremely interesting. I love seeing things like this develop. Good show!

[BLourenco96]

These are some of the most entertaining pixels I have ever seen.

[VanguardDragon]

@BLourenco96 I like trying to imagine what they're up to. I like how some of the white ones make a lot of the red ones go away.

[SolidGaby]

those are a LOT of zombies D: