Zombie Dance, Dance!

Whew. There are about 800 lines of code done after the last two weeks of making art, debugging, coding, making more art and etc. The server project for my networking class is almost done too.

Here's a dancing zombie that I made. Enjoy!

Is it Zombie Week Here or Something?!

Oh lovely! Imported Zombie Virus! Yum, yum! I made my arch-nemesis Osmotic Ricardo this birthday present from a Halloween sticker and some Photoshop.

Here's the back:

It was nice to have a little break today from all the work that I've been doing.

Happy Birthday Ricardo!

Zombie Game Design

I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving. I enjoyed some gluten free corn casserole and mashed sweet potatoes (my brother made the casserole, yum!)

I have actually been working a lot on graphic design for various projects at school and some side projects with a very talented professional (top secret though).

In the rest of the free time I've been trying to get everything done for my game at school. I have to finish the chipset music for it and my Mr. Geek is recording some metal riffs. I'm not ready to unleash my guitar playing on an unsuspecting world (who would cover their ears!).

Here's some of the early design stuff for one of the zombie PC's in the game.

This is a quick sketch that I did and scanned into the computer. From there I cleaned up the area around the image. When I was working on the sketches I left the sketchbook out and my cats walked all over it, smearing the paper.

Since this game has low-res graphics and is not a full screen game I kept the drawings very simple.

Next, I began to color them in Photoshop (I have Elements student edition).

I wanted the zombie to have paradoxically gentle coloring compared to her goals in the game itself and so I went with soft colors and textures.

I am also making all the backgrounds and the npc's. So I better get back to work!

They're Coming...

Oh no! I found a super hero generator and a zombifying web program to preview my zombie self for this weekend. However, my zombie costume will look much more terrifying than these... The superhero generator allowed me to mix stuff up enough to make a zombie jail-break!


Ok, this next one is pretty scary:

Zombie Walk!

Oh zombies! From friends of mine making zombie films, performing metal songs about the living dead, and oh yeah..video games...zombies seem to have taken over a little, decaying corner of my life.

I've run from zombies, but I've never portrayed one in a zombie walk. This Halloween weekend I will finally have a chance at the Paducah Zombie Walk!

Here's a couple of great promos for the event featuring video from last year's appearance of the walking dead...





My zombie costume will not be named for now, but I will be there terrorizing folks! So who else has done this or is planning to?

Zombie Dice

Do you even dare to reach your hand in a canister such as this? Zombie Dice is a putrid party game that you play with decaying dice. The dice comes loaded with fangs and wants to eat your brains or your fingers or whatever it can sink its rotting teeth into!

So now that you don't want to play this game let me tell you what it's really like.

Zombie Dice is by Steve Jackson Games and it if we want to be alliterative, a better description is that it's a portable party game. All the pieces you need are the dice and the canister (which has a very solid lid that makes storage easy).

Playing the game is simple. You draw out 3 dice at a time, throw them to get your result and depending on what you get either earn points or lose your turn .

You are trying to roll for brains. Each color of dice including green, red and yellow has a different ratio of brains to shotgun blasts to footsteps.

If you get three footsteps on the first throw you lose your turn because your victims got away. If at any time you reach three shotgun blasts you don't get any points and your turn ends. So you must be savvy about the number of brains that will satiate your zombie lust. If you don't keep your points at the right time and your next roll is a shotgun blast that takes you up to 3 hits then you don't get any of your brain points.

The more delicious brains you get the better! You are trying to be the first person to reach 13 points by "eating" 13 brains.

This is another game that can have added layers to it if you tell little stories about what's happening, but it's not necessary to do anything more than roll the dice to have a fun time.

I wonder if you could do a variation of the rules to try to kill zombies by getting shotgun blasts instead of brains? Or footsteps? In any case I think this game would be great to play with people who don't normally indulge in gaming.