Posted by Ross

Thu, 16th May 2013

Introducing the all-new “Prestige Mode!”

Hi everyone.  It’s been another busy week here at Laughing Jackal as OMG HD Zombies for the PS Vita has come out of - and then gone back into - submission.  While this has been rather frustrating we’re hopeful that we’ve managed to kill off the last few lingering issues preventing the game from being approved.  It all seems to be related to the new Mortar Zombie… I shall have my revenge on him come launch day. Mwahaha!

In this week’s blog I thought I’d continue our look at OMG HD Zombies’ awesome new features by talking about the rather unusual Prestige Mode and how it plays into our High Score charts.

Once you’ve gained Platinum ratings for all 100 levels you’ll then be able to select the Prestige icon from the Extras menu:

Once you have confirmed that you would like to Prestige the game, all your upgrades and level progress medals will be reset to zero.  However, you will also be awarded a shiny and rewarding Prestige medal!  *FANFARE* Here’s a look at all 20 medals in all their glory:

Each Prestige medal will also award you with a multiplier to your Leaderboard scores, which are calculated as follows:

Number of zombies killed

(1 point each)

X

Number of bullets remaining

(0 bullets = x1 multiplier, 1 bullet = x2, 2 bullets = x3, etc.)

X

Prestige level attained

(No Prestige = x1 multiplier, Prestige 1 = x2, Prestige 2 = x3, etc.)

=

TOTAL SCORE

Some examples of how this works can be seen in the following table:

Note, you’ll have to play a level again to get the benefit of Prestiging it (although you should be doing that anyway to get to the NEXT Prestige level!)

This means that to get the very highest scores you’ll have to gain Platinum ratings for the game a massive 20 TIMES (o_O) as well as being a master of bullet economising. Good luck out there!

That’s all for now. I’ll be back next week, but until then you can join us on our Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google+  pages where we will be posting all the news from Laughing Jackal.

Posted by Ross

Fri, 10th May 2013

OMG HD Zombies! posters arrive at Laughing Jackal

Hi everyone.  It’s been another busy week here at Laughing Jackal, but we have now got the European version of OMG HD Zombies! (Vita) back in submission with Sony.  We’ve also been hard at work preparing North American builds of Hungry Giraffe (Vita) and OMG HD Zombies!  While they’ve still got further to go than the European builds we are hoping to have more information for all of you soon regarding release dates in both territories.

We also had a rather special treat in the mail today, as two lovely OMG HD Zombies! posters arrived in the office.  They’ll be going up on the wall shortly, but before they do I thought you might like to see a couple of photos of them.

First up here is a poster showing the game’s title screen:

And here is the Laughing Jackal guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse.  This will be displayed prominently in case of zombie assault on the Laughing Jackal offices:

In other news our Senior Producer, Al, made his second appearance on the PlayStation Crowdcast.  If you want to hear his thoughts on OMG HD Zombies! and a new unannounced game we have been working on, then you can give it a listen here.

That’s all for now. I’ll be back next week, but until then you can join us on our Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google+  pages where we will be posting all the news from Laughing Jackal.

Posted by Ross

Thu, 2nd May 2013

OMG-Z Vs OMG HD Zombies – comparison shots

Hi everyone.   Since we mentioned in our original announcement that we had completely redrawn the artwork for OMG HD Zombies several of you have been asking us if you could see some screenshots of OMG HD Zombies compared to the original OMG-Z.

Please note these images are not full size.  To see the full size images please visit our Facebook page here

We’ve worked hard to take advantage of the Vita’s rather lovely OLED screen in OMG HD Zombies and we hope you like the new artwork.

Of course the artwork isn’t all we’ve changed and you can see us detail some of OMG HD Zombies’ new features here and explore the three brand new zombie types here.

In other OMG HD Zombies news the game has just been resubmitted to Sony.  Should this go well we are hoping to be able to announce a PAL release date soon and we are currently working to produce a version for  North America.

That’s all for now. I’ll be back next week, but until then you can join us on our Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google+  pages where we will be posting all the news from Laughing Jackal.