Performance improvements + bugfixes


New update!

1. Zombie performance is significantly improved, thanks to a combination of:

  • Making zombie hitboxes/viewboxes rectangles instead of circles, and removing the their "rotation" property
  • Limiting the amount of nearby zombies other zombies are aware of
  • Only updating complex zombie pathfinding (used for sound-chasing) every half-second instead of every frame

There is still a bit more that can be done but this already makes a huge difference to the game's playability I think!

2. Civilians now correctly flee from zombies (I broke this in a previous update and didn't notice), and pathfind towards the train more aggressively.

3. Zombies can now spawn from multiple directions out of a spawner tile at once

4. A bug whereby dead ends could still be placed in specific circumstances has been fixed.

Files

alienHTML.zip Play in browser
Jul 11, 2022
alienWINDOWS.zip 14 MB
Jul 11, 2022

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