Be Excellent To Each Other

-Set during the breakdown of society as emergence of zombies causes widespread panic and disorder.

-Slow, shambling zombies. Spreads like a virus/bite transmission. No, you are not a zombie, that would be stupid.

-Serious examination of a national crisis or natural disaster. Humans and a lack of order are a bigger threat than the undead. Think Hurricane Katrina, Children of Men, Dawn of the Dead NOT Resident Evil, Return of the Living Dead, zombie shooter-type games.

-Game is about survival. Scavenging resources, exploring the area, dealing with other survivors, and managing a “shelter” of sorts are the main focus of the game. More on this later.

-Game is open-ended. There are characters and events that could happen, but the story depends on where you go, what you do, and who you meet. Of course, there’s a lot more to this and we'll go into more details as time goes on.

I don't like MMORPGs either. But a simple, goal-free world populated entirely by the shambling corpses of other players could be fun. No gold/resources to harvest, no quests, no levelling, just "don't get killed by the shambling corpses (or other players who don't want to get eaten either)".

Thanks to the tediously predictable lack of imagination of about a million game and film makers over the last few years, we'll soon reach saturation point, and end up going for about forty years with not a single zombie-related thing. Although frankly I'm already tired of hearing about the bloody things.

Is it a MMORPG? If so, does death-to-zombism result in that player having to start over and their ex-avatar shambling around from that point on? Because that would awesome - one of the best things about Nethack is stumbling across corpses of your previous characters.

Can I be the first to say (in this thread) that I want this game, please?