Meet the Cast: Tank

The strongest and toughest of the undead – you really need to watch out for the Tank.

Although the Tank isn’t the quickest of the dead, the punch he packs will see of a survivor in seconds; even if you have barricades up. To make matters worse a Tank is able to soak up more incoming fire than a dug in King Tiger.

Ascetically the Tank is similar to the Shooter; it’s once human body twisting and warping as the plague turns it into something alien and terrible.

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Tools for the Job: Shotgun

We all know shotguns and zombies go together like a horse and carriage… or perhaps more accurately like an old horse and the knackers. Either way a zombie game without a shotgun would be like a pistol without ammo or a Christmas party without booze.

In Zogma the shotgun plays a special role. While it doesn’t do the most damage in the world, it does both slow and knock back the incoming undead – putting vital distance between succulent human flesh and gnashing zombie teeth. In the hands of a good player the shotgun will buy you the time you need to let your machine guns and sniper rifles put the undead back in the ground.

While this game design stuff is ok; more importantly nothing beats tearing apart the stumbling undead with a 12 gauge blast. So make sure you buy a shotgun.

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Meet the Cast: Shooter

Even though these zombies have nothing to do with the terrible Marky-Mark movie of the same name, these guys have shown themselves to be a real headache during testing.

In Zogma’s half thought out background the Shooter is the first kind of zombie to begin to change – it’s infected body warping and changing as the virus/plague/dark magic tears the victims human body apart.

In attack the Shooter lurks behind the other undead, hurling blobs of plague fluid that weaken the survivors. It’s the range that the Shooter posses that makes them really deadly; while they aren’t as dashing as Canadian snipers, they are painful to deal with!

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Zogma – The Zombie Survival Sim for iPhone

Zogma, the Tactical Zombie Survival Simulator is the ultimate zombie survival simulator for the iPhone. This masterpiece of mobile game design places you in charge of a group of survivors doing their best to survive a global zombie outbreak. Use a combination of weapon upgrades, barricades and strategy to survive as long as you can against the never ending undead horde. It’s time to put the undead back in the ground; one shotgun blast at a time. Will you be the greatest survivor out there?

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009