Road Rage or Lawn Mowing Simulator? | 1 Million Zombies Game Review

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Road Rage or Lawn Mowing Simulator? | 1 Million Zombies Game Review

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Graeldon

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@Graeldon 5 ай бұрын

Anyone else think the sheer number of enemies on screen at once is impressive? Or is it actually not as difficult as I think it is?

@wofan1000 5 ай бұрын

I plan on messing around doing that in unity so hopefully not too difficult 😅

@chernobyl169 5 ай бұрын

It's interesting conceptually but the models are clearly low-poly, no-texture which reduces the required computing power by magnitudes. This would never work if the zombies used high-quality models or textures. Improving any facet of the game graphically would come at a distinct cost to performance. With that taken into account, no this is not as difficult as it sounds. Computers are best at performing the same small task repetitively, and this is a prime example: each zombie is a very simple task that can be completed in nanoseconds. This does, however, throw all your game proposals out the window; improving the AI or variety would come at a significant performance cost.

@molluscumlore 5 ай бұрын

@@chernobyl169 For some of it though i feel like it could be pretty simple. Like with zombies getting more aggressive as there are less of them, since the AI getting more complex could be set to scale with the number of active zombies going down. But i'm no expert

@TomaszRyszkowski 5 ай бұрын

@@molluscumlore Oh well that's true! They could add individual zombie ai's for when there is less than 10 000 of them or something like that. I think that there are many ways in which it could be optimised to work, but it wouldn't be an easy task. Making that system would make the game 10x more impressive imo.

@yaoiboi60 5 ай бұрын

I find it very impressive!

@dhurd007 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the good honest review, some great feedback, so you may see some changes in the near future. And for those interested the intro scene contains 500k zombies ;) But yes I agree needs some better gameplay - while its fun mowing them all down, its more like a stress relief game at the moment. ChubbyKiwi

@dhurd007 5 ай бұрын

Based on this feedback, the first thing I did was put the game on sale this week, 60% off

@Graeldon 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting me know! I've put a post on KZbin and our Discord group! I wish you all the best with your next project!

@wofan1000 5 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with a stress relief game. These power fantasy 1 vs 1000 types are my favorite type of games. I'm a indie dev too and I plan on making stuff like this eventually. Was it hard to get such a huge amount of enemies on screen?

@dhurd007 5 ай бұрын

@@wofan1000 Cheers, and good luck with your endeavors (I am also a team of one) - it was pretty tricky, best tip i can give you is look into Compute Shaders - all of the zombies AI, motion and simple Collision was handled in a Compute Shader, which gives you access to lots of parallel pipelines. Saying that, the best advice I can give someone starting out is start off small - and release something. I've been writing games since 1994 off and on, and have had few real releases. I'm the programmer behind this one which got dropped back then - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eavCl62XqZKVfZI

@collegecube2602 5 ай бұрын

Duuude I'm commenting live as I watch the video, my opinion, but the comic book style menu screens are REALLY cool!!

@shinyagumon7015 5 ай бұрын

This feel like a Flash Game in the best way possible. Like it looks fun for a few minutes but it sadly lacks depth to hook you for longer. Still an impressive first attempt

@molluscumlore 5 ай бұрын

yeah this looks like a similar itch scratched as happy wheels or something. Looks like a lot of fun as a sleepover game

@TrueCrouton 5 ай бұрын

Still shocked this channel hasn't blown up yet. People are gonna come across this whole series years after it's done and wonder how they could have missed out on such an impressive feat.

@Graeldon 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! All I can do is keep making the best content that I can, and hope that people find it interesting enough to continue supporting and sharing

@margathapai4010 5 ай бұрын

My get rich quick scheme? Make a video game, put it on steam, charge a million dollars, have the title start with the number two, and then wait for Graeldon to play it.

@TomaszRyszkowski 5 ай бұрын

Graeldon would finish it in under 2 hours and return the game lol

@Graeldon 5 ай бұрын

Just you wait, it'll be an idle game that takes 2.5 hours to complete

@Jono997 5 ай бұрын

I kid you not, I actually want to do part of this, notably the "make a game so that it will get into a Steam Sequence video" part. Though I'd probably make it free lol.

@margathapai4010 5 ай бұрын

@@Jono997 I like you but I also want to afford rent for the next forever

@margathapai4010 5 ай бұрын

@@Graeldon (opens a blank google doc called "design do") ... go on.

@guydoesthings7580 5 ай бұрын

How does southern Grael affect the lore

@yannickgrignon2473 5 ай бұрын

This is the kind of video where the final review has me scratching my head as to whether it'll be a 👍 or a 👎 in the rankings at the start of the next video

@SpriteGuard 5 ай бұрын

This feels like those mobile games that are tuned to be exactly as compelling as popping bubble-wrap. You crush the things, and it feels kinda relaxing, and then it's just the same thing over and over. But this one doesn't serve you ads every 20 seconds.

@sinisterdesign 5 ай бұрын

Worth mentioning: this game doesn't just have simplistic graphics, it straight up uses Synty asset packs.

@ZekeDidNothingWrong 5 ай бұрын

New Zealander here! TIL we're responsible for some video games (and some rather successful ones at that). I thought our biggest contribution to society was the electric fence but maybe it's actually Day Z! (Electric fence is a close second though)

@AkorBestoff 5 ай бұрын

Therapist: Australian Graeldon isn't Real he can't hurt you Australian Graeldon:

@Jono997 5 ай бұрын

That is absolutely not Australian

@everfluctuating 5 ай бұрын

i thought he was going for southern US

@AkorBestoff 5 ай бұрын

@@Jono997 i have no idea about Accents but he was Born in Australia so i am basicly right xD

@annawanna5995 5 ай бұрын

This whole formula reminded me of Undead Bowling; a hidden gem for the 3DS, although 1M Zombies takes place on a much bigger scale, as you only kill up to a few hundred zombies per level in Undead Bowling. Basically, you roll a huge, metal bowling ball through the track filled with zombies that move towards you before every throw. There are a few game modes in it (like a killcount treshold based one), three different types of zombies with different stats, looks and game over screens, a few difficulty settings unlocked after beating the boss level on the previous ones (the boss is real fun, too) and some fun bonuses (like being able to throw an even bigger, jagged with spiked ball once per level, or setting the floor behind your ball on fire after you do a nice combo with it, stunning the zombies caught in the flames for one turn etc.). It's also a tad bit repetitive, but I really do recommend it overall

@jonatanrobledo9812 5 ай бұрын

I love how many of these games are just asset flips of the Synty stuff. Look them up, and you will NEVER STOP SEEING THEM EVERYWHERE

@lukecwolf 5 ай бұрын

Ahhh that mag explain how easy it was easy to replicate thousands of zombies without frame cuts. High quality low poly

@lukecwolf 5 ай бұрын

Ps synty assets, not sinty

@jonatanrobledo9812 5 ай бұрын

@@lukecwolf yup. I'm 90% that the maps are too assets from them, just a bit extended. Btw I follow synty, I loveeeee their style, but seeing their stuff everywhere around steam makes it a bit difficult to try these 1 buck games lmao. Also, thanks, corrected. I aways write their name wrong.

@TheRealVenusian 5 ай бұрын

I'm just impressed at the rendering of all those zombies, like you said. Take this game's graphics team and put them in a AAA studio, and we could have something great on our hands.

@iizepic9788 5 ай бұрын

Cant beileve they made graeldon texan 😔, atleast this game will be the first to sell 1 zombillion copies

@thekeithfulbarrums 5 ай бұрын

true zombillionaire grindset

@wpk914 5 ай бұрын

Yeah I get big Flash game energy from this, but in a good way. If I had stumbled upon a top down 2D version of this on Addicting Games 17 years ago I probably would have sunk an ungodly amount of time into it

@Treekyboi 5 ай бұрын

YEEEEEHAAEWWWWWWW

@Graeldon 5 ай бұрын

HAAEEWWYEEEE

@ReadyPlayerJorden 5 ай бұрын

I feel like this could be really fun with some inspiration from Vampire Survivors sprinkled in

@andreworders7305 4 ай бұрын

0:59 wait, what!? Triple AAA games can’t even do that? This dev must be some sort of genius.

@Groovecharge 5 ай бұрын

I love southern Grael

@doka-sp 5 ай бұрын

This is the first game I've seen on this list that I'm actually interested in giving a try. Gonna watch the whole video first tho

@TomaszRyszkowski 5 ай бұрын

and what's your opinion after the video?

@gimok2k5 5 ай бұрын

My guess? They put the same black magic to use that CroTeam did with Serious Sam 4 and its Legion System. Which looks even more visually impressive.

@Hiya8partyz 5 ай бұрын

What in the tarnation

@horrorsage1346 5 ай бұрын

I am all for southern American accent Graeldon! Yee-haw

@donlasagnotelamangia 5 ай бұрын

9:29 hahaha nice one

@andreworders7305 4 ай бұрын

Seems a bit like 3D vampire survivors in a car

@ThatOneShortieHo 4 ай бұрын

I slightly worry for when you reach the "100 cats" section of steam. Theyre cute but have no replay value and are essentially just "wheres waldo" but its in complete black and white and the cats are weirdly shaped against the background. Again, cute, but not much else. Oh and theres an achievement for each cat per my knowledge. Ive only played one of them and from that id say ive played them all. There IS a time trial mode but thats only unlocked when youve beaten the game, at which point you likely know where the majority of the cats are.

@jinxhijinx1768 4 ай бұрын

Grael hasn't played classic doom lol The shield works like doom 1&2 armour which was basically just a second health bar

@Graeldon 4 ай бұрын

Dang, I got called out. It's true though, it's on my backlog of games I haven't played but probably should

@renatocfrancisco 4 ай бұрын

So basically, its a worst version of zombie driver. I played recently. I only felt "eh"

@Ziklawz 2 ай бұрын

I think a mode were you were paid for completing missions and had to pay to refill the ammo in your guns could be cool too, a little like the armored core games were every missed missile hurts your wallet and would incentivize efficience and speedrunnig if finishing the level faster also paid better.

@SometimesRPG13579 Ай бұрын

The accent change is just... wow.

@Graeldon Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@matt92hun 5 ай бұрын

Zombie Driver could be fun with this many zombies.

@theinfinity2994 5 ай бұрын

You ever think about reviewing games in the opposite direction as well? Like from Z-A then alternate with how you currently do it?

@Graeldon 5 ай бұрын

I've considered it, but currently 1 per week is about the best I can manage while still working full time. Plus, there isn't a way to sort the Steam store in reverse alphabetical order that I'm aware of

@heraditestreamingarchive1100 5 ай бұрын

@@Graeldon I wonder if there's a way to get an API of the Steam game catalog. Then all you need is some basic javascript and HTML to make your own table you can sort any way you want in a local web environment. In theory it shouldn't be too difficult even for a beginner coder.