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Would you like to have a playable survivor card of your self, in the Zpocalypse?

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Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:36 pm

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Zpocalypse is a survival board game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Two to four players start in a basement/fallout shelter which can lead out to several base locations or even through the tunnels to sewer grates throughout the transformable board. Their survivors are trying to make it day to day in a world torn apart from the walking dead.

As in any survival game one needs food, guns, ammo, and more. Players go out into the wasteland and scavenge for supplies, or perhaps to find a new gun or melee weapon to fend off the next zombie attack.

In addition to gathering supplies, each player forms and controls their own squad. Each squad works to fortify the base(s). However your walls and barbed wire won’t hold the dead for long, and they’re getting hungry.

Player's receive victory points for killing zombies, building defenses, and successfully completing goals. Victory points show who is soldiering on the best in this wasteland. The final tally of points determines the winner. Victory points also act as experience points for leveling up a character.

The game combines combat, resource collecting, character development, team play, and strategy towards the goal of surviving in the Zpocalypse!

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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby sigboy40 » Sun Mar 11, 2012 4:30 pm

One post, and you're already begging for money? It might be a new record!!
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Sun Mar 11, 2012 4:46 pm

Apologies on the product placement. Just a small time startup trying to drum up some interest with zombie enthusiasts.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby majorhavoc » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:26 pm

Any reviews of this game?
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby sigboy40 » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:49 pm

I will say that the premise looks solid, looks like it can be fun. I just feel like you walked into my house and asked for money, you didnt even let me play the game first.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:49 am

majorhavoc wrote:Any reviews of this game?

A prototype of the game is in the hands of Tom Vasel from Dice tower Games at the moment and a review video should be forthcoming very soon. (Once posted, I'll add an update here)

sigboy40 wrote:I will say that the premise looks solid, looks like it can be fun. I just feel like you walked into my house and asked for money, you didnt even let me play the game first.


That's about correct..more or less..

We aren't a large corporate gaming entity, and are just 5 friends who wanted to build a game about surviving the zombie apocalypse, that actually felt like you had an element of survival to battle with. Other Zombie themed board games just had you fight off Zee's with your shotgun or chainsaw, but did little to thwart your continued existence with such elements as keeping fed, reloading your weapon, building explosives, and managing a team instead of just individuals. Our game also has a lot of what we call 'flavor', extra story like elements that add to the zombie survival experience.

Anyway, we posted here to help bring our game to other Zombie enthusiasts, through the crowd sourcing website of kickstarter.

Kickstarter allows for us to bring you a game that we could never fund just by ourselves. How it works is people back us at various levels. They can support us with a little bit just to see the game succeed, contribute just enough to get a copy of the game(if it succeeds), or contribute to higher levels that include having your own survivor card made or even our team coming to your house and playing the game with you.

Ultimately though, if the game fails to reach it's goals(not likely) you're refunded whatever you contributed. If we reach double or triple our goal, then we can replace inferior game components with better higher quality components. This is focused mainly on the miniatures. The more we raise, the better quality mini's we can include in the game.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby majorhavoc » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:21 am

It's always a tough call. On the one hand, we're an inclusive, yet tight knit community where the coin of the realm is sharing ideas and actively contributing to the discussion here. Someone suddenly barges in with a baldly commercial motive and it can seem really discordant.

On the other hand, we are a community of zombie enthusiasts after all. A natural target market for OP's product. If OP's outfit is really a shoestring operation like he says, it's not like he has a ton of time and resources to thoroughly suss out the culture of every forum community he finds. He's scouring the internet for groups that might buy a product like this and is trying to get the word out.

For what it's worth, I'm familiar with Kick Starter and I think it's a really cool concept. Assuming the product is good, I wish OP well. I'll be looking for that game review.
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Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby BadIntel » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:42 am

Well, unlike other "fire-and-forget" spammers, you actually came back to answer questions on your topic, so thanks for that.

I'm a big board game fan, so I'll be waiting for that review. The concept sounds awesome, and if it playtests well, it may end up on my shelf in the future. Good luck!
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:22 pm

majorhavoc wrote:For what it's worth, I'm familiar with Kick Starter and I think it's a really cool concept. Assuming the product is good, I wish OP well. I'll be looking for that game review.


And as promised, here's the review!

Zpocalypse Board Game Review by Tom Vasel of Dice Tower Games, 13 minutes long.

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Even though I'm/we're shlepping a product, and the reason I found this site, think I might hang around for a bit, as you guys seem to have a pretty tight zommunity here that I wouldn't mind getting to know better(and waste time at the day job).

Seems your guys are a bit firearms heavy, I'm more of a melee/unarmed guy myself(machete n' hatchet, camper/hiker).
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Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby BadIntel » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:31 pm

Great to have you! Since you're sticking around, why don't you head over to the introductions forum and introduce yourself (if you haven't already).

ETA: just watched the review. I'm definitely impressed. How much detail is planned to be on the actual final models? (I play warhammer 40k and love to paint, so if the models are generic colors, I'd probably eventually paint them up if there was enough detail).
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:37 pm

BadIntel wrote:Great to have you! Since you're sticking around, why don't you head over to the introductions forum and introduce yourself (if you haven't already).

ETA: just watched the review. I'm definitely impressed. How much detail is planned to be on the actual final models? (I play warhammer 40k and love to paint, so if the models are generic colors, I'd probably eventually paint them up if there was enough detail).


The mini's are our main focus at the moment, But It's all dependent on how much we can raise, which at the rate we're going looks like it'll be good.

4 survivors(2 per stand) 10 grey zombies and 20 purple zombies.

These are the very minimal miniatures we are currently toting. At the moment we just hired a guy to do 3d water tight image modeling for us, so we'll be able to get very high detail 3 dimensional prints of the miniatures for final mold casting at the manufactures, once the kickstarter campaign ends.

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Previously our prototype miniature was hand carved by some guy over in china. It was decent, but the features were a bit meh.

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There are plans for more elaborate miniatures, but I can't speak more on that for the moment.

But I hear you on the miniatures. During the research days, before their was a Z-team for building the game, I remember discovering the miniatures from Last Night on Earth. Good gawd o mighty are they some of the snazziest modern clothed miniatures I've ever seen a non RPG board game come with.

I had actually wanted to include a set of paints in our kickstarter campaign for the mini's, but was voted down, seeing as how if you're into miniature painting, you likely already have a treasure trove of your own gear already.

I'll get over to introductions as well
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Postby BadIntel » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:17 pm

Honestly, I'd agree with not including paint stuff. Most people I know that would play the game would either just junk it or leave it on the shelf, as they wouldn't put the time into painting at all, and then people like me would most likely use their own brushes and paints.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby sigboy40 » Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:01 am

I have never painted minatures, and have had no real desire too. But for this I probably would.

As for the OP, I'm glad you decided to stick around, and welcome to our little band of merry misfits.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby silversnake » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:27 am

Hi Zpocalypse,

You guys were at TempleCon in February, right? I think I recall seeing your table as I was running back and forth. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to stop and talk and check it out, but the production quality looked decent enough from a distance to give the game mechanics a try if I had the free time. Closest I got was dragging one of your crew into a turn or two of Firestorm Armada when the d6G guys were running it Saturday night.

Glad you decided to stick around and chat. There are a great bunch of folks here and well worth getting to know. Who knows, you might find more here than just a potential customer or three.

Best of luck with the Kickstarter thing.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Deschain » Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:52 pm

Hmmm...I'm willing to give the game a shot. How about you put up a copy of the game manual, so I know what I'm getting into?
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:00 pm

Hi Silversnake,

That was me that was pulled away at templcon to play Firestorm. It was a busy night, all I know is I was about to use the rail guns on the battleship to shoot all the ways across the map. But sigh.. I was called away for another group of 5 people who wanted to play Zpocalypse.

You going to be at any upcoming conventions?
We are going to Vericon this weekend, and in a couple of weekends Conbust and Pax East.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:03 pm

Deschain wrote:Hmmm...I'm willing to give the game a shot. How about you put up a copy of the game manual, so I know what I'm getting into?


We are still working on some final edits for the rule book and the video tutorials, please stay tuned.

As you can see in some examples posted on BGG and Kickstarter The QR code will link to a video which does a fantastic job of telling / showing the rules for each page. The video tutorials is something which I feel will make our game stand out from others.

I mean who wants to read a bunch of text when they can listen to a lovely lady showing then how to play the game ;0 --- The videos will follow the same format as our game overview video.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby silversnake » Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:25 pm

Zpocalypse_GBG wrote:Hi Silversnake,

That was me that was pulled away at templcon to play Firestorm. It was a busy night, all I know is I was about to use the rail guns on the battleship to shoot all the ways across the map. But sigh.. I was called away for another group of 5 people who wanted to play Zpocalypse.

You going to be at any upcoming conventions?
We are going to Vericon this weekend, and in a couple of weekends Conbust and Pax East.


As luck would have it, I'll be at PAX East. I'll be pretty flat out running demos and such for Privateer Press games, so I'll be around the miniatures area pretty constantly. If you get a free minute, stop by and say 'hi' and maybe I can work out some sneak away time. I'll also see about trying to drop by your tables and say hello myself. One way or the other, we're bound to bump into one another. Would love to check out the game if time allows.

See you in a few weeks.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:52 pm

Anyone that is interested in Zpocalypse, we are running a survey over on Facebook for a new weapon card to add to the game.

https://www.facebook.com/zpocalypse
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:36 pm

I just wanted to invite you all to come out and play the game and meet some of the Greenbrier games team tomorrow at Vericon: We will be there from 11-5

http://www.vericon.org/events/26.html
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Postby BadIntel » Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:14 pm

Bah, if it was CA and I had this weekend free, I would be there testing this game out in a heartbeat. Dang.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby ninja-elbow » Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:24 pm

Not that I am trying to compare your game to others, but I got to ask:

How is your game different from Zombies!! and Last Night on Earth? I did not watch the review you posted.
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby Zpocalypse_GBG » Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:36 pm

ninja-elbow wrote:Not that I am trying to compare your game to others, but I got to ask:

How is your game different from Zombies!! and Last Night on Earth? I did not watch the review you posted.


Multiple days/nights of play. The others are both focused on a single night of play.

by night I mean game time. During the daytime, time isn't real time, but passive, and you draw scavenging cards for that days result in resource gathering.

We tried to really incorporate scavenging and survival into our game. All of your survivors must be fed to fight, you control multiple survivors, who can have multiple weapons and armor. You can get better at either melee or firearms skill throughout the game.

Our tiles are double sides for double the fun, as well as more replay-ability(some goal cards will have you flip the map tiles after the day, due to moving to a different camp)

Our goals cards, are a lot like LNoE's scenarios, however each player gets a goal for just that day, so players can often find themselves seeking different objectives, for different rewards.

Lastly we have fortification, building up of junk walls, barbed wire traps, sand bags and lookout towers(allows line of site firearm firing over walls)
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Re: Zpocalypse: An Epic Zombie Survival Board Game

Postby MADic » Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:41 pm

How much will the game retail for once it is officially released?
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