Information This Week, Brian Mitsoda Is Answering Your Questions (Dead State Q&A)

[Crooked Bee]

Tags: Brian Mitsoda; Dead State; DoubleBear Productions

Got questions about Dead State, the zombie survival cRPG soon to come to Kickstarter? The DoubleBear team (Brian and, I assume, Annie Mitsoda) are addressing your concerns this week in a special Q&A thread on their official forum:

We’re making great progress on our latest build and adding new art, dialogues, GUIs, music, and code practically daily. Our internal weekly team updates have been massive lately. We can’t wait to show you the progress when we finally debut our trailer.

Now, this week, I thought we’d open up the forum to questions for the developers. Since we have some new members to the forums and quite a few people are still wondering about our Kickstarter plans, we’re dedicating the update to answering your questions. Ask us about Dead State, Kickstarter, RPGs, making indie games – whatever you’ve been itching to ask the devs, we’re here to take your questions.

We have just a few simple rules:

1. It should be a question. I know that seems obvious, but it has to be said.

2. If you think it’s a suggestion, snarky comment, irrelevant to this thread, please don’t post it.

3. Please read the FAQ if you haven’t before – we answer a lot of basic questions in there.

4. If we don’t answer something, it was probably because of rule 2 or 3.

We’ll answer your questions up until next Monday, so if you don’t have one right now, you’ve got a whole week to come up with a good one.​

So if you have a question, be sure to head over there and ask away.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Sounds really good so far. If they have some nice screens to show (also some UI, inventory, items and such), and the game is not overly expensive, I would give them their money.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

Will there be multiracial child zombies

I hope that hasn't been asked yet

 

[Burning Bridges]

Has already be answered, when Brian said what amounts to: there will be no emotional stuff.

Also: characters cannot get pregnant.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

characters cannot get pregnant

modders will fix it

like unreal tournament mutators

Pregnancy [X]
Fast Zombies [X]
Male Survivors only [X]
Female Zombies only [X]

YOU'RE SITTING ON A GOLD MINE HERE BRIAN

 

[Johannes]

Has already be answered, when Brian said what amounts to: there will be no emotional stuff.

What the hell does that even mean

 

[Stinger]

You will be emotionally indifferent to everything in the game.

 

[Burning Bridges]

He said no to relationships.

Second question: will their be a marriage system, ie can you get married? * or just have a spouse/lover*
No to marriage. Allies may be in relationships, but any relationships you might have with someone are fleeting. We really didn't want to make romances a big thing in the game. Also, your character may have been in a relationship before the game started, so they may have lost someone important to them at the start of the game.

 

[Achilles]

So no "emotional engagement"? Excellent.

 

[DwarvenFood]

I'm already starting to feel indifferent to the whole thing.. it's working.