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The Reckoning
by Ed Anderson First a little background. Survivor Z was released in Fall of 2014, and for almost six years, players have been strategizing, competing, and killing for their digital lives in the first text-based multiplayer online role-playing game. Survivor Z was an evolution of Ed Anderson’s original game “ZDAY Survival Simulator” which was a very well-received release on the iTunes Store in Spring of 2012. Now, on to this idea of the reckoning. What players may know about Survivor Z is that it keeps track of your decisions, and it presents gameplay options based on the choices you make. What many of them may not understand, is to what a degree some of these decisions are being tracked and recorded. The intention in the case of Survivor Z was always to come to some kind of conclusion about every player, and at that point give them some kind of resolution. When I first starting writing for Survivor Z after writing Simulator the first thing I realized was that there was almost no limit to how much content I could produce for this game, and that really other than thematic limitations there was no limit other than my own ability to avoid burning out writing zombie-themed game content. So I realized that I needed...
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Survivor Z Review Are You Clever Enough to Survive? March 7, 2013 – Clovis L. Dye, Jr. Ever wondered how well you’d truly do in the case of a worldwide viral induced zombie outbreak? While many people have often envisioned strategies for where they’d plan to hole up in such an event, and which weapons they might prefer, what they often don’t consider is one of the most important things of all: what are they going to do for food and water? Unless you have somehow sequestered away years worth of food in advance – a feat preferably accomplished before the initial wave of zombie induced panic strikes – at some point or other you’re going to have to begin scavenging for resources, and it’s this idea that is at the very core of Mongadillo Studios’ recently released Survivor Z . The first – and easily most significant – way that Survivor Z majorly differs from the horde of other zombie games currently available on the market is that it’s a text based RPG, rather than an action title. After first completing the game’s lengthy prelude/tutorial – chronicling the protagonist’s run home, avoiding rioters and the military in the process, in order to reach the safety of the bunker he or she has prepared – the real action begins...
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What do zombies and Foursquare have in common? Survivor Z. By Nick Tylwalk | Feb 26, 2013 Since I’ve never shot a gun and have a tendency to be way too trusting, I probably wouldn’t last long in a zombie apocalypse. Survivor Z by Mongadillo Studios and 3 Jacks Software is driving that point home even more since its text-based RPG adventuring and turn-based combat incorporates real world locations. Yes, the struggle against the undead is now personal on your iPhone, but that doesn’t...
Read MoreSurvivor Z gets a 9/10 for Gameplay on LevelSave
Survivor Z – The People It Kills Get up and Kill Published on February 25, 2013, by Austin Griffith Survivor Z is the latest title from the creators of the zombie survival simulator “ZDay”. Survivor Z has the same basic elements of its predecessor, only with more fun baked in. You’ll start Survivor Z at the same time the outbreak occurs in the original ZDay, as all hell starts to break loose you’ll be given text based choices to...
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Survivor Z Review Our Review By Jennifer Allen on February 14th, 2013 Expanding upon the offerings of its predecessor, ZDAY Survival Simulator, Survivor Z deserves to be quite popular with adventure game book fans. It tells an interesting story while offering them sufficient control over their destiny, also. It’s all about a matter of surviving here. There’s no deliberate mission to save the world or anything like that, it’s just a matter of lasting as long as possible, much like its predecessor. What changes...
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ZDAY Survival Simulator: Shoot the Zombies, Save the World March 29th, 2012 by Luke Patrick Reviewed by Luke Patrick When it comes to modern fads, we personally hope the zombie-mashing-blasting shooter is here to stay. There’s nothing we like more than sending some undead baddies back to the beyond. However, how long would we really survive in a zombie apocalypse? Between you, us and the walls, we haven’t got the foggiest clue. But, with that being said, ZDAY Survival Simulator by Mongadillo Studios takes us one...
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The Reckoning
by Ed Anderson
First a little …
Survivor Z back online!
After a long hiatus and multiple server issues, we are …
A note from Survivor Z creator about player inventory
Ed Anderson, the creator of Survivor Z discusses the strategic disadvantage of accumulating too many inventory items in Survivor Z.
Mongadillo to re-release Joe Keatinge’s “Comic Con Z” for SDCC
To celebrate San Diego Comic Con Mongadillo Studio’s plans to re-release Joe Keatinge’s 2013 “Comic Con Z” challenge for Survivor Z for one week only.
Survivor Z 3.0 release goes live on iOS
Survivor Z 3.0 update is live on the App Store and features clans and in game messaging!
Survivor Z 3.0 update is a game changer
Survivor Z update will add clans, communication, and travel!
Public Beta of ZDAY Writing tool released
Players can now write their own challenges using the zday writing tool.
Want to try writing a Survivor Z encounter? use Twine!
We have been working on our own authoring tool, but …