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These are the end-times [Project Zomboid]

FlayFlay Registered User regular
edited June 2011 in Social Entropy++
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What is it?
Project Zomboid is a dark, java-based survival RPG. It tasks you with surviving wave after wave of zombies by barricading yourself inside or fighting off the undead for as long as you can, before your inevitable, untimely death finds you. In other words, it's the zombie game I always wanted but never was.

From their website:
  • Project Zomboid is a Zombie Survival RPG. Here are some of its planned features:
  • Retro-isometric style with plenty of zombie insides thrown in for good measure.
  • A massive city and the surrounding areas to traverse, explore and loot.
  • Open-ended sandbox world – survival is your only goal, and we’re sorry to tell you… you WILL die eventually.
  • Get infected. How will you spend your final days? Will you have a heroic moment of self-sacrifice, or end up chewing your best friend’s throat out?
  • Meet other survivors who you can join forces with, trade with, undertake missions for, or fight with for resources.
  • Loot, salvage, and build what you need to survive the apocalypse, from food and medical supplies, to weapons, even just booze to help get you through the nights.
  • Advanced item crafting allows you to use looted items to build weapons, traps, defenses, and many other things to help you survive.
  • Character progression. Learn skills and perks to help your character face the challenges of survival.
  • Starvation, illness, loneliness, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, suicide, insanity, trust issues. There’s more to zombie survival than shooting zombie heads off.
  • Join your friends and survive the apocalypse together in co-op multiplayer.
  • The world changes the longer you survive; power plants fail, plunging the city into darkness and making batteries and tinned food prized commodities. The army rolls into the streets to perform ‘clean up operations’ and other gamechanging events occur the longer you survive.
  • Play in your browser, or stand-alone, on PC, Mac and Linux.
  • It will be released Minecraft style, where there will be continual updates adding new features, weapons, game-play and locations.
  • You technically cannot ‘pre-order’ or purchase the game, but we do give it away as a free gift when you buy our other games! (There are reasons why it has to be this way. Read our blog for an insight)
  • It is available here alongside aforementioned games, and there will be a tech demo coming soon.
  • The tech demo will just show a fraction of the planned features and is merely a taste of what is to come. We will continue developing after this point, feasibly for years and years, improving and expanding the game.
  • We have an active community that helps drive development, which can be found here.

Is it any good?
Hell yeah. It's super atmospheric and quite pretty ingame. Playing it has reminded me of x-com more than once, which is not a bad thing at all. Rock Paper Shotgun ran some impressions of it, if you're interested.

How much is it?
Technically, the game isn't being sold yet. However, if you purchase one of their other games, you get access to the alpha version and all the updates once it's actually released (ala Minecraft). These range between £5 and £15 pounds.

What does it look like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to4lNOuE3FU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP-1IELr6cY

Where can I get it?

Here

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Well shit, on my first night I...
    ... left the oven on while trying to cook soup and burned the entire house down. I guess they're serious about this game being about survival and not just zombies.

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    LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    so is this like a more complex version of that other game

    you know the one

    browser based zombie survival multiplayer

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I'm not sure which one you meeean, maybe it's this one? I think there are a few crummier ones out there.

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    LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    this one had no graphics, there was a group from pa that played, man that will drive me crazy, let me check the mmo forum.

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    Stew_StickStew_Stick Dinner UKRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Urban dead?

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Oh that. I gave Urban Dead a shot a while back, couldn't get in to it. The developers said that it's "primarily a single player game that will be extended to have a Minecraft style multiplayer mode", so it's a pretty different game (multiplayer hasn't been added yet). and it's not really so much a browser-based game since java can run on pretty much any major platform.

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    godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    This looks pretty cool! I'll have to remember to check it out sometime.

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    Ashaman42Ashaman42 Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Bought, and died halfway through the tutorial.

    So I've gotta do that all again unless there's someway to skip the tutorial?

    Seems to run a bit slowly on my computer but that might have been the virus scan that kicked in.

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    i wish it had multiplayer....now

    but it can run on mac so I guess I am gonna play this!!

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    man this sounds great

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    it has insanity and alcoholism so, yes!!

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    TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Ok, looking at the videos on their site, I think I'm going to like this.

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    TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    First night:
    accidentally used pillow on wife instead of sheets for bandages... welp.

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    TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    TheLawinator wrote: »
    First night:
    accidentally used pillow on wife instead of sheets for bandages... welp.

    *slow clap*

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    TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    TheLawinator wrote: »
    First night:
    accidentally used pillow on wife instead of sheets for bandages... welp.

    *slow clap*

    Oh god now there's banging at the door.

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    Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I really like how developers are now using minecraft as a model

    that's p cool


    also, this seems like fun but I have yet to play it

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    this looks neat

    would be cool if it had a multiplayer element. isn't some other group of developers working on something similar?

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    Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    also, this game has given us this

    mrt.gif

    deff playing it

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    smart hero READ!!! THIS game will have multiplayer

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    actually I'm also curious if frozen synapse is any good

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    Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgYly2yNtfo&feature=player_embedded#at=115


    heh

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Being outside in the middle of a zombie horde and surviving was both terrifying and brilliant.

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Charles Kinbote wrote: »
    smart hero READ!!! THIS game will have multiplayer

    oh in that case perhaps i will pick it up

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    TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Edit: Nevermind, for some odd reason the crafting button wouldn't work earlier.

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    LokiamisLokiamis Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    that goddamned oven

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I guess I got bit and there was no way to heal so i did

    fert

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    LokiamisLokiamis Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Turned the oven off this time and went upstairs to listen to the radio. The game wasn't giving me more objectives so I stood around for a bit and some guy kicked in the door and shot us. Whoops.

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