- Contributed ideas for making Survival Zombie funny
- Showed the zombie's concept art to the team
- Participated in the Global Game Jam along with the rest of the studio
- Watched Is This A Zombie?
- Watched Is This A Zombie? of the Dead (in progress)
Things I'm planning to do this week:
- Make more concept art
- Make a generic humanoid model
- Learn making sprites (in case we need them)
- Finish watching Is This A Zombie? of the Dead
- Do more zombie research
The team didn't do much last week in terms of Survival Zombie because we all participated in Global Game Jam 2014. Nevertheless, thanks to the Game Jam, we learned a lot about our strengths and weaknesses as a team. Personally, I learned that I can make use of my talents in drawing, which I used to make 2D animations (and masks) in the game we made at the jam, CIX. I also learned that, in pressure, I tend to focus on finishing what I have to do before I relax (even if I get so tired afterwards I can barely use my hands).
Last week, I've been watching Is This A Zombie?, an anime series that aired on 2011 and 2012. This series is about a high school student who was killed and revived as a zombie, and how he lives as one without revealing this fact to normal people. This series is interesting in the fact that it doesn't stay in the stereotype of zombies being mindless people who can only grunt and do nothing but eat brains. The protagonist, Ayumu Aikawa, knows that he's a zombie, and takes advantage of it by exerting strength up to 1000% of what humans can do. Of course, since his body is human, using strength beyond 100% takes its toll on his body (one example being his arms breaking when he used 150%), so he had to use magical garments that increases his body's endurance. One other weakness Ayumu has while being a zombie, which is also covered by the magical garments, is the fact that he dries up when exposed to sunlight (the fact that he's seated by the class window doesn't help). As a result, he had to wait till sunset to go home.
I think that we can refer to Is This A Zombie? to make zombies that're different from their stereotypes. Although Ayumu barely acts like a zombie, so copying him would most likely make the player character simply a human that can't die, instead of a zombie.
