14 DAY TRIAL // The first actual first person shooter that uses the new Adobe Flash Player 11 technology to render quality visuals in a web browser has been presented by developer Neo-Pangea, in the form of Dead Coats, an outlandish title that sees U.S. founding father Benjamin Frankling use a lightening-musket to kill English soldiers that have been turned into zombies.
Adobe Flash Player 11 was presented at the beginning of the month and we were amazed to see that Epic Games' Unreal Engine was ported for the technology that allowed it to be played straight from a web browser.
While that was just a tech demo, Neo-Pangea has succeeded in pumping out a fully working beta of a game running in Flash Player 11 in just three weeks, managing, without any sort of actual experience or resources, to bring together an interesting game with an almost unique premise.
"Besides the obvious challenges of the new technologies, choosing a setting and a hero character may have been the hardest decisions" stated Neo-Pangea's Flash-bang master Jason Morris. "We went through several options and settled on the idea of a U.S. historical figure as the protagonist. Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt seemed like obvious tough guys, but then when someone offered Ben Franklin everything seemed to fall into place. Besides being a founding father, Franklin had the electric personality and the local Philadelphia flare that our hero needed."
As such, in Dead Coats, the actual name of the game, you play as Benjamin Franklin, who finds his native Philadelphia overrun with English troops. What's worse, these red coats are actually zombies, so he needs to pick up his trusty lightening-musket (we're not really sure if that's historically accurate) and fight against the legions of undead.
We tried out Dead Coats in Google Chrome and came away pretty impressed. While the game isn't nearing Crysis-levels of beauty, it's still decent. There's quite a lot of work needed for the actual aiming, as you can't really figure out just when zombies will attack you, but, for a game playable right in your browser and still in beta stage, it's quite decent.
Check out Dead Coats in action in the video below.
