# The Zombie Apocalypse has never been so... **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 25, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300 "2012-06-25T22:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300/1 "2012-06-25T22:55:55Z")
cute. It was late, and conversation had drifted oddly, as it often does amongst geeky gamers. My friend was trying to remember a [picture](http://kotaku.com/5137453/left-4-dead-++-now-for-kids) that she had found horribly appealing. She thought perhaps she had heard that someone was trying to make a game based on it. A game about children fighting off zombie hordes. She was right. I give you [Zombie Playground](http://www.zombieplaygroundgame.com/), which pits schoolchildren against the undead (and a disturbingly familiar-looking raccoon, which works on several levels). I just happened to stumble across it on the final day of its [Kickstarter drive](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/massiveblack/zombie-playground-zpg-3d-action-online-battle-rpg?ref=card). (This isn’t a solicitation; they’ve already reached their funding target, so whatever they get now is for expansion, and I have no affiliation with the company. I just found it goofy and cute enough to share.) We’ve had Doper teams for L4D and TF2. Anyone interested in some schoolyard zombie-whacking when this hits Steam? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300/2 "2012-06-26T03:19:49Z")
Sounds great. I’ve thought the L4D series needed more kid zombies. Like the come flooding out of a school bus. It would help to make the game harder if the zombies had real height differences. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300/3 "2012-06-26T07:36:13Z")
Somehow, its much much creepier with child zombies than adults _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300/4 "2012-06-26T15:12:37Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Somehow, its much much creepier with child zombies than adults _shudder_ Of course it is. I can only hope that some variants sing. For maximum creepiness, they should sing nursery rhymes, very slowly and mechanically, with occasional rasps as bits of their vocal apparatus comes loose. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300/5 "2012-06-26T15:23:53Z")
Where’s the raccoon? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300/6 "2012-06-26T18:04:35Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > Where’s the raccoon? Well, the latest Kickstarter update shows his head on a pike outside a _Kids Next Door_-esque treehouse (just rough concept art, but I like it). ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300/7 "2012-06-26T18:29:49Z")
Never mind. I found a pic of it on their forum. It looks interesting for people who like zombies (I’m too easily freaked out). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-never-been-so/626300/8 "2012-06-27T05:18:10Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > Never mind. I found a pic of it on their forum. It looks interesting for people who like zombies (I’m too easily freaked out). Ah, if you’re not zombie-inclined, I should probably explain the reference–aside from the fact that the concept art has the zombified mascot posed like pedobear. The other reference is to Raccoon City, the site of the t-virus (zombie plague, basically) outbreak in the _Resident Evil_ series. Well, technically, the first game was set _near_ the place, but close enough. At any rate, the Kickstarter project is closed, having reached over 150% of its original goal, so now it’s just a matter of waiting to see what comes of it.