Well seeing as MCF bought me a BYOND membership I suppose that I’ll make use of it and give anyone who’s interested a little idea of what may or may not be available from me in the future.

Dead Zero

Some info:

- Post apocalyptic
- Action / RPG (utilises modified GURPS rules for combat etc)
- Skill based environment interactions (lock picking, examinations, medical practice etc)
- Semi realistic injury and status ailments system (broken bones need to be set by someone who knows the skill, no miracle cure for all health issues, headaches etc)
- Dynamic mission system based from the needs of a town (i.e. a specific town is running out of canned food, jobs will arise to hunt the surrounds for possible food supplies or even to clean out factories)
- Crime elements, persistent personalities, mass raids on towns by monsters (ooh) and raiders, military service
- Much, much more

The game is essentially based on a man made disaster that has decimated a good percentage of both the earth and its population amongst other major effects. In that light, weapons are very much items of opportunity. Guns are rare, ammunition rarer. More often than not players will find themselves fighting hand to hand with their enemies with nothing more than a rusty bar or piece of wood, such is the nature of this future.

I’m going for as much open-endedness as possible. This means that anything I can think of that is relevant to the gaming world will hopefully be possible (for example the town I’m working on at the moment has a generator active for power in underground areas, it is possible to turn this off and plunge the place into darkness and thusly take advantage of the inhabitants).

Hopefully I can get an RPing community active as it’s my intention to hold events as regularly as feasible (reclaim a town from raiders, defend a town, mass gatherings, and much more!) with the possibility of persistent staff an player characters that have an impact on the game world.

A lot more has already been completed for this game than I’ve written down, and with any luck I can get something out soon. Been working on it too long and I just want people to enjoy it already!


More to come later!