“It was a risky proposition, we were well out of our comfort zone, I understood why publishers. Not that Strain blames others for passing on it.
That was incredibly fun for us.”įor precisely the same reasons, the game had been a tough sell to publishers, hence the partnership with Microsoft that saw the game debut on Xbox Live Arcade in June. “The majority of the first two weeks of YouTube videos were all about how people coped with losing their first character, how they dealt with that emotional loss and moved on and reset their thinking. “Do you scream and ragequit, or do you feel it was realistic and it not arbitrary, and do you understand the reason was because got cocky and that the game is teaching to be judicious and cautious, and that it's not a game where you run around spraying bullets but where you learn to put survival instincts to the test?”Īfter a fortnight, Undead realised that people were definitely getting it. Strain admits permadeath was a risky design choice, and that the player response to losing their first character would likely determine whether State of Decay would succeed or fail.
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