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Devlog #10 - my last devlog.

Done:
Removed jumping (it had no purpose)
Repairing is now done via the F button.
Shipped the game to itch.io. This took me a while. The export was 2.3 gigabytes, so itch.io flat-out rejected it due to size limits. I removed a pile of unused models from the export. GPU texture compression came out garbled in WebGL, so I switched the textures to WebP capped at 2048px. That got the build down to about 150 MB, well under itch’s 200 MB per-file limit. You can play it here: https://madyarov27.itch.io/station-siege-web.

I also cleaned up the repo, rewrote the README, and pushed everything to GitHub, including the zombie model through Git LFS.

#9th devlog. Station Siege.

Achieved:
Added acid puddle as an environmental threat. Can be used to kite zombies and kill them or likewise, end up hurting yourself if you step on it.

Messages in HUD when interacting with barricades, vending machine, and acid puddle.

Improved zombie navigation. Now it’s completely foolproof to sharp corner turns.

Added sound effect when reloading. I had the mp3 and wav files lying there doing nothing for a while but now i finally wired them in.

Added like a dozen new props. Took everything from SketchFab, and used them to decorate medical bay, engineering, and cargo.

Replaced almost all existing AI generated 3d models to the ones took from sketchfab. Mainly because they had like a trillion faces which was frying my CPU but also they kinda looked soulless and low effort.

Added an interior wall in the spawn chamber so zombies dont look like they appear out of thin air when they spawn. Also redesigned the barricade slightly. Good for realism

Changed the game map extensively. The ring part is gone. That part made sense in the beginning but the more I tested, the more I realized that shape is not ideal for my game. It’s too big and you can kite zombies forever. Now, the map looks more like spaceship themed family home interior and it’s actualyl challenging here now. You can get cornered and slimed unexpectedly.

Devlog #wa8

I’ll just keep it short

Added:

1. Sprinting
2. Added male zombie (finally)
3. Overhauled wave manager. Now zombies in rooms that are locked will not spawn until you unlock them yourself.
4. Switched to open only doors so players can’t just go to empty room to heal forever
5. Replaced wooden plank in barricades for rusty slab of metal with sound effect when fixing.
6. Fixed a bug where zombies broke barricades unreliably. A dozen zombies took a whole minute to break 2 barricades due to a timing mismatch
7. Built main menu screen
8. Built pause menu
9. Added ammo reserve system so weapons finally stop having infinite ammo except for default pistol

**Devlog #7 **

A lot of stuff added so this time I’ll try to keep it short and concise.

1. Gun model kickback on firing.
2. Muzzle smoke on every shot
3. Real travelling bullet projectile instead of yellow ray
4. Bullet shell ejected every time you fire
5. Fixed the weird bug with zombie not spawning at all.
6. Fixed an unexpepcted bug where corridor lights worked facing one way but not the other. It was because of too many lights crowded into one area after duplicating the lights node to new added areas.
7. Fixed the bug with bullets sometimes passing through the zombies without hitting
8. Fixed the bug with the gun accidentally damaging the player
9. Added extra damage for headshot
10. Added head bob to player POV so it feels more natural
11. Fixed the crosshair not being perfectly centered on screen
12. Added a sliding door

Station siege - Devlog #6
This time I spent my hours optimizing the game, mainly because the game was borderline unplayable to work on.

The map had ~90 live CSG collision shapes constantly recalculating in real time. I baked them into static geometry.

Also, I swapped out the majority of 3D models in the map, which were absurdly overbuilt. Most had over a million faces, while one was sitting at ~3 million faces for a single 1x1 meter window.

The editor is noticeably faster now.

Another huge change was the map. Now it is a tube-like corridor connected to a polygon with 18 sides. There is also a small room connected to the ring. This ate up most of my hours.

A small yet meaningful thing was the lighting overhaul. I pivoted from flat, evenly lit corridors to nearly dark chambers with higher contrast and isolated pools of light. Moreover, I added flickering animation to some of the lights so there’s some variety.

Last thing is the new HUD. It’s not final yet; I will likely iterate multiple times before settling on the ideal one. However, it’s a noticeable upgrade from the previous flat white text on the screen.

What I’m most happy about is still the optimization. My laptop isn’t particularly a RAM titan, so this is really important for me. I think this will ripple into other areas of the development and speed things up a lot.

Devlog #5 - The station finally looks like a station.

Last time, the place was simply a box with some texture, fog and good lighting. Now it actually has real objects, and smoothher gameplay. Biggest thing: I built out a full Tripo3D asset pipeline and used it to generate a whole set of props. Window, metal junk, archways, tubes, a metal fence, vent, door, and a vending machine used for weapon purchasing, all are wired up. The place, at least the corridor, can larp as an abandoned space station and not just a box.

Another small update for immersiveness: I added creepy ambient background music. Small, but does a lot of work when you are in an empty hallway and hear nothing but that song.

Took me expensive 13 hours but it was all worth it.

This one’s huge. 14 hours logged and the game is totally not the same game anymore.
Biggest news first: I pivoted the whole thing. It used to be a generic zombie shooter on Earth. Now it’s Station Siege - a dark horror-survival game set on n abandoned space station. And no, this wasn’t a random. Three reasons: Earth zombies are overdone and generic, my 2018 Intel Mac physically cannot handle realistic Earth environments without dying, and a pitch-black abandoned space station justifies the oppressive lighting and lore for free. I even did actual homework, studied why Lethal Company, R.E.P.O. and PEAK blew up (turns out: co-op survival horror, simple visuals, mood over graphics). So the direction is locked now, backed by real reasoning instead of vibes.
The zombies got a massive glow-up. They now groan at you in the dark (positional audio on random timers. Honestly the single biggest horror upgrade I’ve made), they wind up an attack animation when they reach you or a barricade, and they play a death animation before crumpling and disappearing instead of just vanishing. I also generated a custom horror zombie with Tripo3D, retopologized it from 1.9 million triangles down to ~11k so my Mac doesn’t catch fire, and rigged it through Mixamo.

The struggle award goes to the AnimationPlayer. Getting multiple Mixamo animations onto one model in Godot is way more painful than it sounds, name collisions everywhere (everything Mixamo exports is named “mixamo_com”), two AnimationPlayers fighting over one skeleton, and getting the death animation to actually finish before the body gets deleted. I spent hours in that menu. But it works now. Btw thanks to @sol4r_on_hackclub for suggesting using mixamo assets.

Atmosphere-wise: black space void background, cold dark lighting, fog retuned to feel like a morgue. Added screen shake when you get hit and a blood overlay that gets heavier the lower your health drops. Also solved a nasty FPS hitch where the whole map stuttered the first time it rendered, fixed it with a black loading screen that spins the camera in a full circle while hidden, so all the shaders compile before the player ever sees anything. Pretty proud of that one.
And of course, the Intel GPU texture curse struck again (devlog #3 readers know the grass saga). Every single model I imported rendered as a black blob until I remembered my own golden rule: compress everything Lossless or it won’t decode. Nearly lost my mind a second time before it clicked.

One design decision I’m happy about: I’m keeping real gun sounds instead of sci-fi laser noises. Grounded firearms fit horror way better, and they make sense for a human station that got overrun.
Next up:

Finish wiring the male zombie (texture + animations)
Reskin barricades into hull breaches / blast doors
Build out the 4-room map (Airlock → Hangar → Reactor / Med Bay)
Per-room zombie spawning (only spawn in rooms you’ve unlocked)
Props to fill the empty rooms - consoles, crates, corpses - so the station feels lived-in and abandoned

Devlog #3 - A lot of updates on the zombie-game.

Whooh, where do I even start?
I made a functional barricade that repairs when pressing shift and that zombies can break to escape.
I added crosshair, gold and health labels on screen.
I added actual grass texture instead of grey floor
I added shotgun - a second weapon - and a real shop where you can buy it using gold.
I added jumping mechanics
I changed the map from 2 platforms connected by a bridge to a single large platform.

The biggest struggle was the grass although it sounds kinda ridiculous. I added it for the first time and it rendered either extreme green or extreme grey, nothing in between. It resembled nothing in the actual grass texture that I used. Turns out my Intel Mac can’t decode DXT-compressed textures so anything I imported rendered as weird slop. Fixed it with one setting - compress: losless. Nearly ragequit but then reimported and worked perfectly.

A lot of stuff out of my to-do list in just 7 hours. Next, I will focus on adding more weapons (e.g sniper), expanding the map, adding actual buidings (e.g bunker), dedicated zombie spawning spots, and real sound effects.

Made some progress on my zombie game! the map is a larger now with a corridor connecting 2 platforms. I also added 3 more zombies and obstacles to the map. Next step is to make them spawn continuously and give them actual body instead of green cube :/

Working on a cool zombie game :). Just made the first map, working gun and zombie (that little green cube on the screen). So far smooth, never had so much fun. Next step is to give shape to the player and the zombie