So basically, I cannot be bothered to work on, or make any sort of large scale project. Anything that takes over a few weeks is too long for me and I end up losing interest in working on it!

So, I'm going to work on smaller games, nothing big or epic, just something that'd take a week or two to make from start to finish.

The first of these is a zombie SURVIVAL game, with emphasis on actual survival.

The game is going to be something you can just pick up and play, but at the same time, something you can play for a while. There will be no character progression of any sort in the game, other than people who are hording weapons/food/tools, everyone will be equal.
The only real differences between characters is that they are all randomly generated. Some are stronger, some better shots, some run faster and so on. These will not play a massive role in the game, but will make each person noticably different.

The game also puts a major focus on realism.
You tend to die very easily, if you get mauled by a zombie, a good chunk of your health will be missing, you will also end up bleeding, which if you do not fix will result in your death.
You also need food. You can last about 3 in game days without food before dying.

Day and night play a major role in the game (one hour is 1 minute). Without a source of light, at night time your vision is limited to not even being able to see your feet because it is so dark. You will need a source of light to move around at night time. Since there is no electricity in the world (since it has ended), battery powered flashlights and fire will be your main source of light.
However, travelling at night time with a bright light also makes it much easier for zombies to see you. They are too stupid to make use of light, but if they see a light they will wander too it.
On top of that, the game makes major use of sound. Everything you do will make a sound, sound will attract zombies. Things that make a lot of sound, like shooting a gun will attract zombies from all over the place, if you stay in one place shooting a gun for too long, you will soon be vastly out numbered and soon die.
On the upside, sound can be used to distract zombies. You can light a firework, run and then when it goes off, the sound will attract zombies too the firework, potentially making it safer for you to travel to another area.

There is a variety of weapons, tools and objects in the game.
Anything that is not glued to the floor can be used as a barricade (with varying hardnesses).
Most barricades can be broken to for make shift weapons (such as the leg off of a chair).

Pretty much anything that can be used in a semi-lethal way can be used as a melee weapon. Kitchen knives, frying pans, various DIY tools (hammers, crowbars, screndrivers, wrenches), you might also find the rare objects that would make a very good melee weapon such as a fire axe, or sledge hammer.
However, all melee weapons can, over time break. Makeshift weapons tend to break fairly quickly, breaking after taking down just a few zombies. Some weapons however can last you for a hell of a long time (crowbars are practically indestructable).
Melee weapons can also be used to destroy scenery, a crowbar can open a door quickly without breaking it down, a sledge hammer can quickly pulverize anything into bits and pieces and so on.

Guns are the second major type of weapon. They are relatively uncommon compared to melee weapons, but are usually more dangerous.
Guns are divided into pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, sniper rifles, SMGs, assault rifles, machineguns and special.
Of those pistols are by far the most common, revolvers are a close second, rifles and shotguns tie in third, but are much more uncommon. Anything else is very uncommon, with machineguns, sniper rifles and special being very, very rare.
The downside of guns is their reliance on ammo, they make a lot of noise when shot (and draw a lot of attention from zombies due to this), and guns can miss much easier than a melee weapon.
The accuracy of a gun drastically decreases if you are moving around, if you are injured, or if you fire them in prolongued bursts (due to recoil).

Players can only hold a limited number of items too, largely dependant on how strong they are.
To make this even better, the game always has friendly (or not so friendly) fire turned on. You can hit or shoot any other players in the game, and kill them. Any dead players (or those that logout, which will be represented by "suicide") will drop all items they are holding where they die, which can make killing them a viable method of surviving.


Zombies are relatively slow and cumbersome, a player will easily be able to run circles around them.
However, the game uses a system where zombies will always spawn at a "safe" distance from a player, but can only spawn in areas marked as outside, they also tend to spawn much less commonly during the day. On average, one zombie will spawn per 10 seconds around you at night time, or every 20s at daytime. This system basically means I do not need to randomly add millions of zombies to a map to make it look packed full. However, I can run the game with 3000 zombie AIs active with 10% CPU usage, more players would negatively effect this, but 3000 zombies at once is pretty insane.

The game will also be played on a relatively huge map (500x500). At the moment only 1 is planned (will be a city centre type map), but I may in the future add more.
The game will not have anything like rounds or safe zones or spawn points. You login, and get randomly dumped on the map. You start with nothing, the game is not going to be nice or friendly to you. Try and not die too soon I guess.
Communication in the game will also not be easy. You can talk, shout and if you have one, communicate over a radio. People on screen will hear you talk, shouting will be about 3x the size of the screen, and only people with a radio tuned into the same frequency will hear you on a radio. However, communication will also make noise. So it might not be a smart idea to go around shouting too much, unless you want to attract hordes of zombies.

The objective of the game is simply, survive. It is a survival game, the objective is to literally survive as long as possible and nothing else.
There will be enough resources in the game to make survival possible for days (real time), but you might be lucky to survive for more than 1 ingame day (which is 24 minutes).
How you survive is upto you, you could work as a team, build up a fortified base and gather as much supplies as possible. Alternatively you could be a lone man, and go around robbing, killing and doing whatever it takes to survive for as long as possible.

Excluding the map, the game is more or less completed, and has only taken me about 3 days to make. The aim is to get it finished within 2 weeks, which shouldn't be too difficult to do.

Does this sound like a worthwhile idea? Y/N??