Zed's Dead: alpha 0.2 file

Zed’s Dead is an online isometric arena shooter. With zombies. The focus is on quick, fun competitive multiplayer play: pick your teams, pick your map, set the game parameters, and go!

It’s most fun with a few players.. so if there’s no-one in the game lobby, get a friend to try it with you!

Zombies

OK, so there was this biological warfare experiment that went wrong. The head science guy running the experiment was called Zed. Before you know it, there’s thousands of brain-dead infected people swarming everywhere trying to eat people. We call these zombies “Zed’s Dead”. The zombies act as obstacles (or opportunities?) during the core player-v-player game, rather than being the primary challenge.

Controls

WASD or Arrow Keys to move; point and click with the mouse to fire.
TAB to open/close in-game chat
Stand by a doorway, car, etc. to search it. The chance of finding stuff depends mostly on your character’s “searching” skill. If you start shooting while searching, your search will be much slower.

Servers

For the moment, all games are hosted on the psychicsoftware server, and there’s just one map (“airport”). You start game instances on request from the lobby. The plan is to have player-hosted games too, and these will be playable on any maps that the host has made.