[PC/MAC/Linux] Project Zomboid

[Timotheus 416]

"This is how you died."

 

 

 

 

Zombie survival game

Java based

Strong gameplay focus

Objective: stay alive

 

 

 

 

Project Zomboid is a Zombie Survival RPG.

Here are some of its -planned- features:

 

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• 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.
  

 

 

 

Please, understand that this game is still under heavy development. The current status is defined as pre-alpha tech demo. Not everything is done yet! For instance, there are virtually no useful NPC's at the time I'm writing this. Thankfully, a lot of zombies though:

 

 

 

 

You technically cannot ‘pre-order’ or purchase the game, but they do give it away as a free gift when you buy any of their other games. There are reasons why it has to be this way. Read the blog for an insight and check the spoiler for more info.

 

 

For the curious: they got in trouble with Paypal and Google Checkout, mainly because of the word "donation" used in the pre-ordering process apparently. They got things solved after some time, in the mean time earning some press concerning the conflict on other sites.

 

Currently, they are only using Google Checkout (CC based), but a quick search on the boards will find you a guy playing middleman. You send him the money through Paypal, and he creates a Google Checkout order for you.

I've also used his service, because I don't have a CC.

 

 

 

 

If you care to try it out, please buy it, don't go on a hunt for torrentz. Your money will help full-time development of the game. These guys are real enthousiastic about the game, a great deal of community feedback finds it's way in the development process, and it's VERY addictive, so help me get to see the finished product

Or, as one of the developers puts it:

 

Sadly our landlord and local grocers don’t accept our enthusiasm for game development as legal tender.

 

 

Game website

Game official forum

 

 

The end of the game? You die.

Yes, you will ALWAYS die.

 

So.

Tell us.

How did you die?

Edited June 9, 2011 by Timotheus