My plan for my indie dev project is to create an open world, first person, survival horror game where the only goal is to stay alive for as long as possible.
The player will be dropped into an open world based on New York City with only a handful of items. While contending with hunger, thirst and infection, they must explore the world, searching lootable objects to find items which they can either use or craft into useful things.
All buildings will be explorable and the player will be able to enter these buildings, clear them of the infected and claim one of them as a base. Once claimed the player can fortify the windows and doors against zombie attacks while using special workstations found in buildings to craft more powerful equipment.
Zombies will regularly attack the player’s base so they must return each night to defend it. If the player is killed or the zombies reach the safe room then the building is lost and must be cleared again.
