oh well i'm pretty sure it was based off of the last stand.

here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2CuMoe3TWU

It was based on Tower Defense, not Last Stand. If you want the proof, here it is... from the creator of the game-mode itself.

"Anyway, the first thing I asked Dan was if he’d ever played any “Tower Defense” games. He hadn’t, so I explained how the mechanics are pretty simple"

http://www.jessesnyder.org/trenches/?p=42

It was based on Tower Defense, not Last Stand. If you want the proof, here it is... from the creator of the game-mode itself.

"Anyway, the first thing I asked Dan was if he’d ever played any “Tower Defense” games. He hadn’t, so I explained how the mechanics are pretty simple"

http://www.jessesnyder.org/trenches/?p=42

8th paragraph. i found this

A few hours after talking to Dan about doing the extra content, I was taking to one of our designers, Sean Slayback, about tower defense games and the proposal to make one. He mentioned a game called “The Last Stand“

8th paragraph. i found this

A few hours after talking to Dan about doing the extra content, I was taking to one of our designers, Sean Slayback, about tower defense games and the proposal to make one. He mentioned a game called “The Last Stand“

Yeh it seems you're right. Also I've read this article before (must read IMO for any zombie fan) and if you look through the comments, you can find the origins of perks and PAP in there...

8th paragraph. i found this

A few hours after talking to Dan about doing the extra content, I was taking to one of our designers, Sean Slayback, about tower defense games and the proposal to make one. He mentioned a game called “The Last Stand“

Yes, one of his work mates mentioned Last Stand, not Jess, the guy who masterminded it. He based it on Tower Defence, as he states. Inspiration may have been taken from LS but Jess originally wanted to do a TD style game.

Either way, it leans on both so it's six and half a dozen.

Yes, one of his work mates mentioned Last Stand, not Jess, the guy who masterminded it. He based it on Tower Defence, as he states. Inspiration may have been taken from LS but Jess originally wanted to do a TD style game.

Either way, it leans on both so it's six and half a dozen.

well anyway i knew i had heard this somewhere. but anyway no more posts about this, we are kinda derailing the zombie map into an arguement of whether the chicken came before the egg. this could go on for hours. so lets just stop it here.

It was based on Tower Defense, not Last Stand. If you want the proof, here it is... from the creator of the game-mode itself.

"Anyway, the first thing I asked Dan was if he’d ever played any “Tower Defense” games. He hadn’t, so I explained how the mechanics are pretty simple"

http://www.jessesnyder.org/trenches/?p=42

I was looking for that before, I found a whole interview with them somewhere but couldnt find it again

A few hours after talking to Dan about doing the extra content, I was taking to one of our designers, Sean Slayback, about tower defense games and the proposal to make one. He mentioned a game called “The Last Stand“

ah yes... prob amoungst 10 other games while talking about the tower defence "genre", and gave that as a example "of" that genre, as the other guy hadnt heard of it at all. Then the next paragraph reads a whole list of things they saw as negative about it ( to start with, in that same paragraph it says if the windows are breached your toast. Not really respective of nazi zombies... )

Ive heard so many theories on this, its a genre, not based on any one game....

I immediately rushed over to Dan’s office. “Hey, so I have this idea, I think it’s going to be awesome. Let’s do a tower defense game where zombies are attacking a building you’re holed up in!”

Theres literally hundreds of "tower defence" games that predate that little flash game... the flash game that was prob based on other "tower defence" games to start with...

I gave him my pitch anyway but he wasn’t terribly impressed, even after showing him “The Last Stand”. He told me we wouldn’t have enough time to make it, doing such a game mode would require all new assets, it’d be a huge risk, the mode didn’t fit the theme of the game at all plus it would be too campy. However, when I started pitching the idea to others on the team, they seemed to love it, especially some guys that had played a lot of WarCraft or StarCraft and knew a lot about tower defense games (those blizzard game were where the Tower Defense craze got really popular).

games... with an s


This whole subject just reminds me of everyone going mad about AW, saying it was a rip off of titanfall

When A - titanfall came after halo, and many other games with verticality / parkour movement ( Brink being one such game )

B - Both games were in development at the same time - how do you copy something thats not out at the time

C - an aspect of a movement or genre, does not immediately mean "oh they copied" - and in this case, its merely using the powers newer consoles can now provide. Not doing it would be silly and limiting yourself

lol

This next update will ake about 1-3 weeks. im adding path ways too the tunnels and adding mazes too the safe houses.  ive decided too make the easter egg a little more last stand based. you will have too search for supplies around the area. but too put my own twist on it, the safe houses will be protected by various puzzles, mazes, and riddles.

Okay here are some images of the inside of the office building next too the silos. I went a little too fancy and made it look like a nice hotel.  The tunnels and mazes are half way done. ill have images of those as soon as i have prettied them up a bit.

Update 10/25/15

It was based on Tower Defense, not Last Stand. If you want the proof, here it is... from the creator of the game-mode itself.

"Anyway, the first thing I asked Dan was if he’d ever played any “Tower Defense” games. He hadn’t, so I explained how the mechanics are pretty simple"

http://www.jessesnyder.org/trenches/?p=42

and further down in that article you'll find this:

I was taking to one of our designers, Sean Slayback, about tower defense games and the proposal to make one. He mentioned a game called “The Last Stand“, which is a flash game where you play as a survivor fighting off zombies.

and further down in that article you'll find this:

Dude we ended this conversation a long time ago. And i asked everybody not too post anymore comments about its origin. But since it seems that you didn't read that part i'll say it again. No more post about this, we are just derailing my WIP topic into a arguement about whether the chicken came before the egg.

Dude we ended this conversation a long time ago. And i asked everybody not too post anymore comments about its origin. But since it seems that you didn't read that part i'll say it again. No more post about this, we are just derailing my WIP topic into a arguement about whether the chicken came before the egg.

ah ok i missed that one sorry

ah ok i missed that one sorry

Your good.

I am still working on this map, I have just been playing around with the FX editor and making the wonder weapn(Fucking hate Stocks)

But i have made some progress on the map iself, i have added some lights and expanded a few rooms of the house. and i have also added a few prefabs that i made too the silos/factory/hotel(i might move these apart and make them separate areas entirely) area.

Few images of the house, factory(thing), and starting area.

I'm digging the custom textures, all you need is some color correction and it'll look real photogenic! 

I'm digging the custom textures, all you need is some color correction and it'll look real photogenic! 

yeah i'm looking for a decent looking "seamless" textures for the ceiling and walls. until then it will have too stay as that checkerboard thing.