General Discussion - Zombie Playground

Dystopia Rising - Zombie Apocalypse LARP in Florida

ZombieRising — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:06:55 -0500

Help bring the infection to Florida!

This project is aimed at helping us bring a branch of the Dystopia Rising LARP game to North Florida. Dystopia Rising LARP is a post-apocalyptic zombie survival live-action role-playing game where in players create characters within the Dystopia Rising Universe and interact with other players to survive the post-apocalyptic wastes. Participants will be able to interact with and even visit the events of other branches of Dystopia Rising with their characters in locations all over the United States!

If you're interested in this, please donate to out Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/216523850/dystopia-rising-florida

Additionally, you can check us out on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/611663388850697

Among the Sleep Alpha

LokiEliot — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:53:13 -0500

Another kid horror game i've backed has an Alpha out to play with - Among the Sleep - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krillbite/among-the-sleep/posts/480797?ref=activity

Clubs/guild

Brittleheart — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:45:13 -0500

So I think I am planning to make a guild/club called the black cats of the night. /nod

ITS MAY! - TELL ME WHERE THE ALPHA IS!

LokiEliot — Wed, 01 May 2013 05:48:29 -0500

Getting low on funds eh?

Ripster7 — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:10:04 -0500

Soooooooooooooooo you guys will be getting low on funds at Massive Black eh?

You should have another KickStarter!

Damage Type Variety

Speedy — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:45:45 -0500

Is there going to be one formula for damage calculation or will there be multiple damage options with their own defensive stats?

For example, some games have physical damage and magic damage with physical damage reduction and magic damage resistance while other games have one damage type and they might have a damage reduction stat.

Notable Insides

Konshu — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:15:33 -0600

Not sure if you guys wish to disclose but I am curious about some inner workings of the game.
1) GameEngine used
2) Zombie mechanics, are they going to free roam, do they hive up (one detects a person the hoard goes after them.)

I will leave it at those two basic questions for now.

zombie playground roleplayers

caramelxbigmac101 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:04:46 -0500

(i'll start)*jumps over gate of back yeard* 2 zombies falls from 2story window*ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dad get back some one help me!!!!!!

the game

KaikiEvans — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:03:35 -0500

When you download the game?
open beta?

ZPG Game Trailer

nicholas300 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:23:31 -0600

It's a month until ZPG will be out, I am just wondering if there would be a ZPG trailer before the game comes out when i was browsing steam and watch some game trailers, or maybe it is already in the works lol. I am looking foward to it :)

Pickup Weapons

Speedy — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:06:16 -0500

"Closed Alpha will be a Single Player Survival Mode... There will be different weapons/items (with varied stats) scattered randomly throughout the map for pickup."

Will there be a pickup weapon system (like Quake) in some modes on launch, or is this just a place holder in the closed alpha due to the lack of an inventory system?

"Final Inventory System will not be implemented upon Closed Alpha release."

I'd really love to see this (the weapon pickup system) implemented in the release (PvE and PvP). I loved PvP games with pickup items when I was younger (UT99, Perfect Dark, Killzone, ect); it is not as common in games anymore.

Ohai

Konshu — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:13:22 -0600

Yep, just a hello to wake the sleeping giant :D

Boss Idea: The Dean

vector — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:59:59 -0500

Not quite the principle, but for some just as scary. The dean mostly stays in his office waiting for bad children to be sent to him. When the first child turned "naughty", the Dean as forced to fight the zombified student. When he killed the child, he slowly went insane. As he started to kill every student that came near him, he grew closer to insanity. Finally, the blood of both zombies and innocent victims soaked into his wounds, and the Dean is now slowly becoming a zombie.
The dean would be a large, solo, heavy hitting boss. (maybe this could be where the paddle is).
The dean would have two heavy hitting moves, suspension and expultion, as well as basic strong attacks and a few AOEs.
Suspension would temporarily stun all targets. During this time they could be more vulnerable to attacks, so allies would have to keep them safe.
Explsion would be one large attack that did enough damamge to take out one of your "nerdier" characters (not only showing the trauma behind a good student getting expelled, but also because they are squishier characers)
Basic attacks could include swinging a paddle around, and even grabbing and spanking a student.

ETA for ALPHA/BETA/RELEASE?

crasher — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:21:06 -0600

Hello there everyone,

My name is Hugo a.k.a. Crasher here in the forums, I am one of the 3,787 backers that this project had back when it still was in the funding phase. I followed the game development progress closely, up until December 2012, give or take.

Today, after several months of not checking the forums, it saddens me that not a single post/thread created by the mods/devs/admins of the game is up, regarding the dates for the ALPHA/BETA/RELEASE stage of the project (which in Kickstarter was stated March 2013).

I want to see this game live as much as everyone that contributed for the funding, but at this point, kinda feel like my money was thrown way and wasted, sadly in my behalf...

Anyways, if we could get an OFICIAL update regarding these dates it would (in some way) help compensate what I had refereed above.

Thanks for taking the time to read my little rant, I wish to you a pleasant day and an even better month.

--
Sincerely,
Hugo a.k.a. Crasher

Dancing!

vector — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:13:03 -0500

I'm back from my hiatus. So i've noticed in just about every game i've ever played, the characters can dance with a command button or good ol' /d. So i was thinking, how would the characters in this game dance? I'm not sure about the other characters, but the fat kid better do the truffle shuffle!

Only 6 Days left of march

LokiEliot — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:16:36 -0500

Pet Idea: Imaginary Friend

vector — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:25:54 -0600

We've all had one. Some played on the swings with us, or the seesaw. Others comforted us in hard times. Some searched for ways to kill you, and tried day in and day out to make your life miserable. Yes i'm talking to you Steve!
Childhood traumas aside, i was thinking of a pet that instead of being able to directly help, could go out tell you when zombies or items are nearby through subtle hints.
You're walking along and imaginary best friend replacement Jerry says "What are all those imaginary friends doing running in the OTHER direction?"
In the lunch area, "We should start a food fight. Come on, it would be fun!"
At the deans office, "This is all your fault, ALL YOUR FAULT! I told you not to start a food fight, but nooooo.... you had to go and hit Susie Crawford in the face with the green slop."
etc.

No Pressure but....

LokiEliot — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:23:52 -0600

What are the chances of Zombie Playground Alpha being better than Aliens:Colonial Marines?

New update this week x3

Brittleheart — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:30:14 -0600

Ello!
I just wanted to tell you all a new update should be coming this week! I'm excited for it, I hope you all are as well! ^.^

Merry Christmas Massive Black!

t3dd13 — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:59:23 -0600

...and Merry Christmas to everyone who attends the forums here. Hope you have a safe trip to your parents place, enjoy some delicious food and rock some awesome gifts. Hope I get to play with a couple of you some more in the near future. Peace! - Teddy

It's the most wonderful time...of the month

t3dd13 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:01:59 -0600

Merry Christmas everyone! It's the first week of December so here's fingers crossed for an update from MB soon.

Hope everyone is festive and done their holiday shopping list.

[FanFic] ZPG Boxing and Brawling: Class 1-1

Onions — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:40:02 -0600

Zombie Playground Day 1 – Zatoichi Private-school for the Gifted 5:00PM

The metallic smell of fresh blood fills the corpse strewn halls of the top floor of ZPG’s chūgakkō (middle school) building. The halls echo with the screams and yells of students and teachers outside. Many of the classroom doors are missing or destroyed. “What the heck is going on?” I mumble to myself. Did one of those shootings I heard about on the news occur while I was asleep on the roof? Looking outside, I notice people running toward the front gates of ZPG’s massive complex. They seem like they are in such a hurry they are actually hurting each other but it is too hard to tell from all the way up here. I should probably get out too. I heard that kids in America were violent but…

*moan*

Someone is still up here and they sound hurt. I should see if I can get them out as well before some psycho comes back up here. I slowly walk down the hall listening closely for either the wounded person or a psycho. I hear a combination of crunching and squishing sounds coming from a class room a few steps ahead of me and decide to approach with caution. As I look around the corner into the classroom, it is a complete mess. I slowly step in inside, avoiding the broken and upturned desks that litter the floor. I notice a few dead bodies as I slowly walk towards the teacher’s desk where the sounds seem to be coming from. As I look towards the desk I see someone lying on the ground behind it. “Hey, are you ok? Do you need help getting outside?” I say quietly. “We should hurry before the psychos ret… what the heck?!” As a walk around the desk I see that the person on the ground is dead and there is a female student crouching on top of his body. As the student slowly turns her head to stare at me with hollow eyes I see a chunk of flesh fall from her mouth. “oh crap…”

I start to back up from the terrible scene before me. The student slowly raises and I can see that the teacher’s neck is almost completely gone. I shudder at the sight. “This can’t be happening, maybe I was playing too many video games last night and it is making my dreams totally creepy. That must be it right? Zombies aren’t real…” I tell myself this because no-one in their right mind would believe in the walking dead. I can feel the terror start to consume me as I back up into a wall, the zombie girl slowly closing in on me like a cat about to catch a mouse. “This can’t be happening!” I cry out. If only I were like Makunouchi Ippo, Fighting Harada, or Muhammad Ali. They wouldn’t be afraid of some stupid undead girl. They’d just blast her with an uppercut that would send her flying to the moon. If only I was like them, I thought as I tried to overcome the fear that gripped my heart. “Just one uppercut, just one, just…” I closed my eyes tightly and cringed as the zombie girl was almost on top of me. “ONE!!!” I screamed as I threw an uppercut as hard as I could. All the while, imagining myself as a professional Boxer knocking this zombie into space…

After a second or two I notice that nothing has happened. I’m not dead nor am I a zombie’s lunch in progress. Slowly, I open my eyes and look around. Slowly dissolving from around my hand is the translucent image of a silver boxing glove and the zombie that used to be in front of me was now waist deep in the ceiling. “woah…” I whisper as the last remnants of the glove disappear.

General gameplay questions [edited]

t3dd13 — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:13:41 -0500

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Fans From In Second Life

LokiEliot — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:44:35 -0500

A lot of Kid avatar players from Second Life are supporting this project. Cant wait to play it.

In the mean time we are kitting up and killing Zombies in SL while we wait - http://telly.com/AX3GD

Will the Alphas be available on Mac?

LokiEliot — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:00:51 -0500

Am considering upping my donation for the early access Alphas, but seeing as im a Mac user i'd be bonkers not to ask wether the early alphas will be available for mac testing?

Update?

MistahK — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:57:13 -0500

Last one I've seen comes from the Kickstarter page a month ago and there's nothing on the home or journal pages here.

Fan Contributions, legality/practicality of

marduk2 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:12:21 -0500

Yo hey, quick question here. Now I know this game is supposed to have a steam workshop page when it comes out, cause it'll be on steam and whatnot, but there was one little question that's been bugging me a while and I thought 'hey, let's ask the zombie playground folks'. Anyhow, I know bout the whole disclaimer/waiver thing with the workshop in regards to items, weapons and such, but would there be any special legal issues if Massive Black decided to add something bigger such as a fanmade character into the game? Sorry if this isn't the most well thought out or well constructed question, my brain is a bit off lately, possibly as the result of a minor zombie attack, or lack of sleep, either works.

A long overdue Blog

Zephn — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:28:49 -0500

Part 1
http://zephn.blogspot.ca/2012/10/zombieplayground-and-infiltration-of.html

Part 2 will be a while which involves my interviews of the staff.

Part 3 will be about my fan film, and that is all I'm going to say about that.