Walking Dead: Text-Based Adventure Game (Closed)
Hi guys, okay so I've always been interested in making games especially point-and-click adventures, however I can't do that. I wanted to and planned to do it with 'Unity' however I don't really have the time at the moment to learn programming all to well and the 'Adventure Game Creator' that I was planning to use costs quite a lot of money. Money which I do not have.
So therefore I figured what better way than to make a text-adventure game, now please take into consideration that it is very early pre-alpha. It is NOWHERE near finished, and the most gameplay you'll probably get is 10 minutes maximum. It doesn't even have a cliffhanger or anything it just ends in the middle of a conversation but don't worry I'll create a demo and share it on here when it's done.
It also uses 'Walking Dead' music from the actual game and obviously it's a text-based adventure so don't expect any quick-time events and such, as this is my first text-adventure game ever and I'm learnig. I'm hoping if this is popular enough with the users on here, for 'Season Two' to be better. This brings me onto why I'm releasing it on here.
Firstly alongside the awesome fan-fics, great fan-art (both 2D and 3D) and such I feel that this (if good enough) can hopefully tide fans over until the next Walking Dead episodes are released from Telltale themselves. I am in no way trying to sound cocky or arrogant, I'm just hoping to please the fans enough. Alongside this I feel this community is very good at giving constructive critiscm and seeing as how I'm a writer (well I guess you could say that) I would love to learn a new form of story-telling rather than novels and plays, so I feel this could be a good way of branching out.
Anyway I just wanted to announce this (I guess) and tell you guys, I'm hoping to see what you think. Also don't be afraid to give me critiscm and what things do you guys want to see. I mean it won't really be as great or vivid as 'The Walking Dead' in other mediums especially the video games since it's only text but yeah anything you guys want I'll try and get it in.
If you have any questions please don't be afraid to ask, I'll try and answer all questions and get the demo out right away so you guys can see what I should improve on and such. Thank you so much for reading! It's appreciated! 
HOW CAN I GUYS INTERACT WITH YOU/REWARD YOU MORE? ANSWER HERE PLEASE
SNEAK PEEK TRAILER/ FINAL TEASER
EPISODE ONE ACCOLADES TRAILER IS ON THE WEBSITE (Please use Internet Explorer if you'd like to hear the music)
WHAT CHOICES DID YOU MAKE?
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IMPROVED?
I RECOMMEND YOU USE INTERNET EXPLORER TO PLAY THE GAME IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR SOUND
EPISODE TWO TEASER (I recommend you open it in Internet Explorer to hear the music).
Comments
Sounds pretty cool! Looking forward to it.
Thank you for very much! It's appreciated
Does anybody have any constructive crtiiscm? Any feedback would be helpful!
This seems cool, tomorrow when I have time I'll try this.
Thanks, it's appreciated!
I have started playing and I have to say it's pretty good and I'm glad you don't make us play as a preset character we play as ourselves.
Thank you and yeah I felt it'd be better for characters to play themselves since it's a text-based adventure game it may be tougher to get immersed into the game since most people play games with actual graphics and tons of other things text-based adventure games can't really do, so I thought it'd be better if I let people imagine themselves in it.
10/10
I just played it, and wow its amazing.
Its written really well and the choices are good too.
I was going to click off and go back to tumblr (don't judge meh ;o) but I was actually really intrigued by the game and its choices.
Well done!
I don't know if you've got this idea already as the game hasn't properly started yet, as its just the demo, but I think that you should bring in more dialogs depending on the choices (I know it might be a lot of effort and hard with a text based game) and also instead of driving the player down one storyline that will end up the same way, it would be nice to have different storylines to go down and different paths to choose. But I know that could be hard with a text based game and stuff. Just my opinion ^-^ But it was really good!
Haha, thanks ;D
Thank you, don't worry I don't judge. :P Are there any improvements I could make at all or anything?
Yeah If you scroll up I replied to one of the comments you made and just gave my opinion on things you could add/improve on!
Thanks and don't worry I will try - The main overarching plot will be the same but character deaths, injuries, and such will depend on your decisions. Like I said I will try my best and yeah it's pretty difficult, but thank you. I've incorportated some differences depending on choices, if you'd like to hear them I will post a comment on them but with a spoiler-tag attached to it, so others who want to play don't get spoiled
Impressive, i'm usually not into reading, but this game was pretty fun. The soundtrack obviously matched the reading perfectly, and it actually felt like i was playing the game.
All i can say is you did a good job, it's hard to review a demo but it was pretty good.
Thank you so much!
May I just ask, did you download the game by any chance or did you play it online?
I'll play this later...
Thank you, it's appreciated!
Wow, you put quite a good bit of effort into this. Make sure to keep us updated on the progress of it!
I played it online.
Ah okay, thank you again
Thanks, I'll be working more on the game and update it after next Friday, I'm just focusing on feedback to see what I could improve. Episode One will probably be done and released by the end of June. Once again, thank you for playing
That game was awesome! You've actually inspired me to create my own version of this kind of game on the site. In conclusion, Great Work!
I finished play it right now and I liked it so far, I'm really curious to see how your story will procede.
I checked it out.I wasn't dissapointed
I wanna play it tomorrow after work.
I played the demo. It was really fun. I was sad when it ended, really looking forward to the full version.
I'll take the time to go over some of the writing I feel could be corrected, or at the least made to sound a bit better.
First thing I noticed was that in this sentence, "The decisions the player makes, how they treat others and the actions they do all result in different paths," I felt like "actions they do" would sound better as "actions they perform." This sentence, "The six episodes will focus imperitivavly on survival..." I think "will focus primarily" makes more sense than imperatively, just going by the definitions of the two words. Also, "The six episodes will focus primarily on survival, and the survival for others; if you wish to comitt yourself to that role," looks better to me.
"The forest around you looked oddly organized, trees surrounded you as you walked across the dry forest path which seemed to go forever in the distance." Organized was a typo. I think if you replaced the comma with a period and made this two sentences you would be better off. A semicolon would work as well.
"You look up, your backpack hugging your back tightly as you felt slightly depressed by the absence of the stars in the sky." Your first sentence is in second person past tense, but here you switch between past and present. Absence was also spelled incorrectly.
"Right now more than ever you felt that you could view a beautiful view, that something could go right for once. You barely function, unable to comprehend that your family is most likely dead. " Here again you are switching tense, and I imagine as I keep reading I will find this more. For now I need to go to bed. I'll play through it tomorrow, and if you would like me to keep attempting to help you edit it let me know. If not I'll just give you my opinion on the story thus far.
I love the idea, but will you make a DOS version?
This game is amazing. 10/10, sir!
Is it okay that I use this program too? I've been looking for something like this.
The whole design is brilliant. Nice writing and implemented music is a nice touch. Keep it going!!
Here is the link to my version of the game. I hope this gets you hyped for more: Do not use the link that was posted here. Use the link at the bottom of this discussion with Harj.
There's another zombie text game like the one you have.
Anyone interested can google Zombie Exodus. It's a tad slower, but still good. And I don't mean it's ''bad slow'', but... Let's say this demo here is fast like the first six issues of TWD, whereas Zombie Exodus is slow like the Prison storyline. It takes its time setting things up with good payoffs.
I liked this! It was really fun
I can't wait until there's more of it to play!
Aww, that's so nice I'm glad I could inspire you, however it doesn't seem like the link is working as it says 'no game specified' when I click on it. I hope you can fix this soon, I'm interested. ^^
Thank you so much, I'll be sure to correct myself! I appreciate the help!
I'll try to make one, once I finish up the the whole project
Thank you!
Sure, I don't own it - Anyone has the right to use it