New possible zombie game idea

[pillar]

I just thought of this game concept while I was at work earlier today. You have this character who has some weird gem/diamond stuck in his hand & its so embedded in his hand that nothing can remove it, yet it has such magical powers that it can both attract zombies not to mention that it has such powers to be able to direct zombies to a certain direction, based on where the main character wants them to go (kind of like Overlord). Unlike most games where the zombies come to you & you have to kill them, the zombies are actually on your side & you control where they go to eat the humans.

I thought of some kind of country side area, where theres log cabins or like old school looking houses made of branches and logs from nature. There would be 2 doorways that the npc could go through & you could direct the zombies to go through each door to surround the helpless human(s) & eat their brain(s).

Within a certain amount of time, the human would transform into a zombie & would become part of the main character's "zombie army". I am not sure if this will be considered an action/adventure/strategy zombie game (just taking a guess here).

Anyways, if anyone likes the idea OR knows of a game really similar to this (1 of my co-workers said he heard bout some kinda game like this), then please let me know. If there is no such game out there like this, then I would like to start this game off for PC & if we get enough attention, possibly port it to the consoles. Any & all feedback is welcome about this.

 

[Spitfire'd]

A zombie game with a sort of Dungeon Keeper twist? I like the sound of it! Do it to it!

(Harder levels the humans become better armed obviously)

 

[Bkoz]

Interesting concept, like the idea. I imagine the game being a real-time strategy which I think would be the easiest way to create something like this especially as an indie game but it could also be successful as an action/adventure though it would take a lot more dedication to create unless it ends up a side-scroller of some sort. I'm sure someone has had the idea (excluding the emblem in the hand portion) but I can't think of any popular games that have utilized it.

 

[Sexy Beast]

Sounds like Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse.

 

[pillar]

I know Sexy Beast & ive played that game. However that game ended up being rather lame because it used too much of the Halo engine (imho) & ended up not being all that. It was ok for a one time go, but got rather boring after that.

Anyways I was wondering, do you guys know if the Java script (or whatever program its called) can help me to develop such an idea? Maybe its the Adobe Flash program as well. Also if you know of someone that can help me to understand these programs, that would be awesome (im sure we have a few guys who dabble into these programs).

If anyone knows of someone that is good at art & likes to draw zombies, please send em my way! I want to create as many different designs for zombie looks as possible, mainly to make sure not to get repetitive on the overall zombie image.

 

[Raul Tha Monk]

Great idea just start working on it i guess

 

[Erebos]

Sounds like Left 4 Dead but the other way around and instead of a staff it's a shard in a hand that can be amputated ^^