Digger vs Zombies

You've just heard from a friend that a vast zombie horde is heading straight for your town, you decide the best thing to do is to jump into your trusty 20 ton digger and mow down the approaching horde. Can you save the townsfolk or will the horde triumph?

This is my entry to the Brackey's 2021 game jam completed over 7 days in August.  The theme was "let there be chaos" and this certainly can be chaotic driving a digger between buildings and cars trying to find zombies that are slowly decimating the townsfolk while trying not to run over the very people you're trying to save. The majority of the art and models are mine although the buildings and cars were originally created for Casual Pursuit. The character models, and the digger were modelled during the game jam.

Controls:

• w, a, s, d to drive the digger.
• arrows to turn the cab and extend and retract the boom and bucket.
• Escape to pause the game.

How to play:

• Use the digger boom and bucket like a club, but be careful not to hit any of your fellow citizens.
• The zombies will come in multiple waves, use the mini-map to work out where they are coming from.
• Try to kill all the zombies and keep the citizens alive.
• The game ends when all of the zombie waves have been defeated, or all of the citizens have perished.

Update 21 September 2021 (Version 1.1)

• Added destructible effects to some physics objects and characters so that they explode/splat when the digger drives over them.
• Added background music.
• Made trees destructible.
• Camera improvements to avoid losing sight of the digger when objects in the scene obscure the camera.
• Started work on a menu and credits screen.

Still to come...

• Fixes to the physics of the digger.
• New levels.
• Smarter citizen AI.

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