{"id":658,"date":"2016-07-20T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T19:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/?p=658"},"modified":"2016-07-20T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T19:13:17","slug":"time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"A taste of what&#8217;s to come&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a huge amount of time has passed since the last update.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that a ton of stuff has been added to the game, and I&#8217;ve been working on it harder than ever&#8230;I just haven&#8217;t posted any updates because I&#8217;ve been focusing on getting a playable version of the game ready for beta testing. I&#8217;m also knee deep in reworking the NPC\/story AI, and want to hold off on posting any real updates until the NPCs are done&#8230;.since they&#8217;re the biggest hurdle left in the game&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n<p>However, here&#8217;s some stuff that I&#8217;ve done since the last time I posted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve added a character upgrade that allows you to pick up, carry and throw zombies<\/li>\n<li>there&#8217;s a fast-travel subway system you can unlock throughout the world to travel quickly around the map<\/li>\n<li>on-screen indicators alert you to nearby hideouts and landmarks<\/li>\n<li>many buildings now have basements you can explore<\/li>\n<li>there are 4 new hero zombie types, each with special attacks and much higher difficulty<\/li>\n<li>a new achievement system was added with 90+ unlockable achievements<\/li>\n<li>the Zombox world map has been expanded to be nearly twice as big as before, with tons of new areas, islands, etc<\/li>\n<li>crafting system improved: you can build bridges over water, you can build doors into empty doorways, etc<\/li>\n<li>craftable structures must now be constructed from the ground-up, after placing them in the world<\/li>\n<li>the original book-reading system for unlocking new crafts has been improved<\/li>\n<li>structures that require power now indicate visually &#8211; through animated electricity textures &#8211; whether they are functional<\/li>\n<li>new craftable tesla coil trap zaps nearby enemies with electricity<\/li>\n<li>save data is now much more efficient &#8211; save files are 5x smaller than before, on average<\/li>\n<li>items dropped on the ground are now saved to the location they are dropped at, so they won&#8217;t disappear when you walk away<\/li>\n<li>bombs\/molotovs\/etc you throw now have an on-screen indicator showing direction of throw, as well as time until detonation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, I&#8217;ve been busy! Once the NPC\/story AI gets closer to completion, I&#8217;ll post some images and videos of the things listed above so you can see them all in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a huge amount of time has passed since the last update. The good news is that a ton of stuff has been added to the game, and I&#8217;ve been working on it harder than ever&#8230;I just haven&#8217;t posted any updates because I&#8217;ve been focusing on getting a playable version of the game ready for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8,5,6,9,7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}