Re: Stay at home and shoot some zombies!
@Pitermach, thanks for putting up the news and doing a nice job on the new UNDEAD assault page for the db, thumbs up.
I only have one small question.
On the db entry you describe the game as "top down first person." perspective, which I find a wee bit confusing.
I always assumed myself that first person perspective means that the directions are relative to the characters' point of view, EG if you're facing north and want to walk to the east, you need to turn the character ninety degrees to the right, using either mouse or arrows, then walk forward, as in swamp, HEARtREAD, blind legend and a hole bunch of other games going right back to shades of doom.
Whereas top down I always assumed means the characters' movement is absolute, with no direction facing, so if you want to move to the east, you just hit the right arrow, as in games like treasure hunt, Shadow rine, Manamonn, great toy robbery, most of the none side scrolling levels of crazy party etc.
You describe the controls as letting your character walk in the four compass directions and firing the way you're facing. In which case, Undead assault technically isn't a first person shooter, it's a top down shooter, though whether the game genre category should be changed to something else, or whether you just explain in the entry that though the perspective is top down the game plays like a first person shooter I don't know.
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