Great concept.....but
It was a great idea for a game, and I know it's your first, so here's a few good ideas/bad ideas in the game, just to help ya' out:
1. A plot, to tell maybe why the zombies rose from the dead would be nice, and maybe even to tell who is being played in game, and why the story is connected to them somehow.
2. The instructions on which way to go, what to collect, and when/how to kill a zombie kinda made the game TOO SIMPLE & LINEAR-feeling.
Many people bear with the arrows telling them to go in a direction, but being told what to do at each of them cuts the surprise out of it completely.
3. The weapons should have had enough ammo to kill more than one zombie filled location, and it would be great to be able to pick what usable weapon you want to use at each of them, instead of being told/made to use one set weapon.
4. Also having one path to the car is great, but a couple of dead end, maybe even end of game side paths would have been great, like those choose your own adventure books.
5. Don't worry about big game size, you could have easily put both parts together, and it would have loaded maybe 7-12 seconds later on than normal. We in the broadband field love you author's big games and stuff, and even 56k'ers can get it quick enough to play reasonably.
6.Put some more creepy music into it, loved the first set BTW.
7. Don't let the zombies kill the main player that quickly, and mauybe put a health bar/meter on the screen at all times.
8. Allow the main player to have his weapon of choice be on-screen at all times, with the ability to switch to a different available weapon whenever the plauyer feels like doing so.(Loved the spacebar shooting part though, but the click and hold on a weapon to get it going first took too long IMHO.)
9. Maybe put an intro to set up the story of some sort, maybe even a small outro and/or list of next goals to be accomplished maybe next in the next game at the end of the previous one, maybe in the outro perhaps.
Tabitha123
Ta-BEE I.II.Tree....yes...tree
Hoping this brings a new game from this author to newgrounds that I can give a 4 rating to, maybe even a 5:).