We're now live! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rustdevilgames/zed-or-alive-the-zombie-miniatures-game)
I know, I know, "Another Zombie Kickstarter!?" But hear me out! :D
I don't know if anyone on here knows me at all, I've been a lurker and occasional poster here for a while now (even though it took me a good year or two before I registered!), but please rest assured that I and the rest of the Rust Devil crew are hardcore wasteland/post apoc/zombie fans and wargamers through and through. You may remember the crazy Mad Max-style limousine we did up for Wasteland Weekend from this thread (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=60023.0). But really, post-apoc is incredibly important to our group of friends - in fact, it was on the way home from our first wasteland weekend that we decided to pull the trigger on our first game as a company, Zed or Alive. We whipped out our smartphones and reserved domain names, started taking rules notes, and in the car on the middle of the highway, Rust Devil Games was born! We wanted to make an awesome campaign-based skirmish game like the ones we loved back in the day, only with a post-apocalyptic zombie setting, coupled with a super affordable price and streamlined rule system that would be fast and fun to play while having the detail to feel realistic and include most anything we'd seen in our favorite zombie movies, shows, and games. We made it purely because it's the game we wanted to play and think others will enjoy it. We may do miniatures one day, but that's not our focus: making an awesome PA zombie game is.
But, we're all working stiffs and don't have the cash laying around to start a company and do an initial print run, so that's where our Kickstarter comes in. I like to think we're the quintessential target user for Kickstarter - we're not a huge company taking advantage of it as a platform, but really just a few guys who, without this money, will have an incredibly hard time getting our company off the ground.
Anyway, enough about us, on to the game!
(http://zedoralive.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/KickStarter_Announcement_3.png)
Zed or Alive is a campaign-based miniatures skirmish game using the award-winning Savage Worlds: Showdown! system set in the years following the zombie apocalypse. You control one of several human group types such as Survivors, Tribals, or Military and battle each other and the ever-present zombie menace to gain weapons, supplies, and dominance!
Alternately, you may choose to play as a Virus Strain, gaining evolutionary material with every battle and evolving to become increasingly lethal!
The goal for our project is to provide players with a fast, furious, and fun miniatures game that allows them to use any zombie or survivor figures to play out campaigns just like your favorite zombie movies and shows!
Game Details:
So, that's the marketing copy, but I'm guessing people may have more questions if you're curious about any of the features of the game or anything else, just let me know! Our KS will be starting on the 15th and running through the 13th of April. You can do the whole social media thing to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just check out our website (www.ZedorAlive.com (http://www.ZedorAlive.com)) for updates. Thanks for reading :)