Soldak Entertainment Zombie Game Blogs

We still don’t have a title for for Soldak Entertainment’s take on the zombie apocalypse, but it’s worth mentioning that, since the announcement, the developer has posted two blog posts about its design.

The first deals with the implementation of clans. It sounds like, this time around, we’ll get to control one:

In our upcoming Zombie game, the player again controls their own clan. There are other clans in the world, but unlike DoP, the other clans aren’t direct competition for you. You don’t have to destroy or ally with them to win. That doesn’t mean that you can ignore them though. There are a finite amount of resources easily available and you just might be an easy target or they just might not like you very much.

Meanwhile, the other focuses on the possible dangers for a player. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone with a passing familiarity with zombie fiction, but zombies aren’t the only threat:

Don’t get me wrong, the zombies are definitely a huge threat. Not only are they attacking and killing every living being they can find. Their attacks are highly contagious. Almost anything killed by them becomes a zombie. Even as little as a scrape from a zombie might infect someone and then they will inevitably turn sooner or later. The zombie tide seems indestructible.

The previous wars in Aleria didn’t help, but the zombies have destroyed any semblance of society still left. There are no farms or supply chains still intact. Even much of the wild game has been killed or infected. The food supply has been decimated. You and your people must find enough food so that you don’t starve. This will not be easy.

Unfortunately, everyone else is in the same situation as you and they don’t want to starve to death any more than you. With everyone fighting over the limited amount of food left, humans and even some of the more intelligent monster races are forming clans to protect themselves. Some of them are gathering together so that they are strong enough to take what they want from others. It is possible to become allies with other clans, but when they are slowly starving to death, will they betray you?