Unity Strategy Prototype

The First Bite

Start with a single infected unit. Spread the outbreak, build a horde, and overwhelm humanity before the survivors escape.

In Development PC Prototype Made in Unity

About the project

Humanity is organizing. The outbreak must grow faster.

The First Bite is a top-down reverse-zombie strategy game where the player controls the outbreak instead of the survivors. Every civilian converted adds another body to the horde, but the human population does not stay helpless for long.

Survivors search for supplies, take shelter, build defenses, form organized groups, and push toward evacuation as the alert level rises. The player must hunt intelligently, break fortified positions, spend infection points on mutations, and create enough chaos to stop the escape.

Current systems

Outbreak versus evacuation

Grow the Horde

Track down civilians, convert survivors, and turn a small outbreak into a dangerous mass of infected units.

Command the Attack

Select zombies, move groups across the map, enable autonomous hunting, and focus the horde on priority targets.

Break Human Defenses

Humans retreat into shelters and barricaded buildings. Zombies must breach those defenses before the survivors regroup.

Race the Alert Level

As panic rises, human behavior escalates from scattered survival to organized resistance and eventual evacuation.

Evolving Survivor Roles

Civilians, workers, police, survivors, medics, and builders contribute differently to the human response.

Mutation Progression

Earn infection points through successful conversions and use them to unlock stronger infected types as the outbreak develops.

Development gallery

Prototype screenshots

The project is currently using a mix of custom animated zombie models and simple prototype geometry while the core simulation, combat, shelter, population, and evacuation systems are developed.

Large zombie horde attacking human units during an active evacuation timer — A late-stage outbreak with a large player-controlled horde and an active evacuation countdown.

Close view of animated zombie units moving as a horde — Custom animated zombie units replacing the earliest capsule placeholders.

Wide tactical view of The First Bite map and survivor population — A wider view of the simulation, with survivor roles, shelters, resources, defenses, and roaming infected.

Custom zombie model standing on a selected unit marker in Unity — The custom zombie character during animation and gameplay integration testing.

Development note

Built as a focused strategy experiment

The First Bite is being developed as a smaller, systems-driven project centered on readable large-scale behavior, emergent battles, and the tension between outbreak growth and survivor organization. Visuals and balance are still evolving while the gameplay foundation is tested.

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