Zombie Pandemic
Encyclopedia
Zombie Pandemic is a free-to-play survival horror Persistent Browser-Based Game
and MMORPG
.
As a lone survivor in a quarantined city, the player must fend off the zombie
hordes and scavenge for weapons and food to stay alive.
The game is available via the official website, Facebook
and the German game portal Bigpoint, and currently holds a membership of over 500,000 registered accounts.
As the game progresses, the player finds a number of notes and scraps of information at set locations that provide greater detail into the nature of the epidemic and its causes.
movies, Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead
, Dead Rising
and Urban Dead
in the making and developing of the Zombie Pandemic.
Zombie Pandemic project development began in 2008, with a closed Beta version (0.800) emerging on the 28th of March 2009. The game was made available to the public on the 26th of February 2011.
The game uses the Azure Services Platform
for cloud hosting and Microsoft .NET framework
based technology. It also offers system integration with Facebook
and is compatible with mobile clients.
Persistent browser-based game
A persistent browser-based game is a computer game that is both browser-based and persistent ....
and MMORPG
MMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
.
As a lone survivor in a quarantined city, the player must fend off the zombie
Zombie
Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...
hordes and scavenge for weapons and food to stay alive.
The game is available via the official website, Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
and the German game portal Bigpoint, and currently holds a membership of over 500,000 registered accounts.
Storyline
Zombie Pandemic (or ZP for short) takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting, where the outbreak of a new virus has turned most of the world’s population into flesh eating zombies. The game begins some time after the outbreak, the character waking up to find that he has no memory of recent events. A discarded newspaper reveals that a new, flu-like virus has been discovered by scientists and that the authorities have implemented a city-wide quarantine. Trapped with the infected, the character travels the city on foot, scavenging items from various sources and attempting to avoid the zombie hordes.As the game progresses, the player finds a number of notes and scraps of information at set locations that provide greater detail into the nature of the epidemic and its causes.
Development History
Zombie Pandemic is being developed by Pixel Pandemic, a Copenhagen based independent game studio. Self proclaimed fans of zombie movies and games, Pixel Pandemic cited such influences as George A. RomeroGeorge A. Romero
George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:...
movies, Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve Corporation during development. The game uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X...
, Dead Rising
Dead Rising
is an action-adventure, survivor horror video game, developed by Capcom and produced by Keiji Inafune. It was released on August 8, 2006 exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game console. The game was a commercial success. It has been introduced into the Xbox 360 "Platinum Hits" lineup, and a cell...
and Urban Dead
Urban Dead
Urban Dead is a Free To Play HTML/text-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Kevan Davis. Set in a quarantined region of the fictional city of Malton, it deals with the aftermath of a zombie outbreak. Players enter the game either as a survivor or a zombie, each with...
in the making and developing of the Zombie Pandemic.
Zombie Pandemic project development began in 2008, with a closed Beta version (0.800) emerging on the 28th of March 2009. The game was made available to the public on the 26th of February 2011.
The game uses the Azure Services Platform
Azure Services Platform
The Windows Azure Platform is a Microsoft cloud platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers. Windows Azure Platform is thus classified as platform as a service and forms part of Microsoft's cloud computing strategy, along with their software as a service...
for cloud hosting and Microsoft .NET framework
.NET Framework
The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
based technology. It also offers system integration with Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
and is compatible with mobile clients.
See also
- Zombie ApocalypseZombie ApocalypseZombie Apocalypse is a crossover thrash/metalcore band formed by current members of Shai Hulud, Shallow Water Grave, and The Risk Taken, as well as former members of the '90s New Jersey band Try.Fail.Try. In 1998, Shai Hulud members created a zombie-themed band project, called Boddicker. Boddicker...
- List of multiplayer browser games
- List of free massively multiplayer online games