You have games that go straight for the highest visual fidelity, but then the cost of adding features is so much higher in terms of time and effort, that it’s hard to attain that type of depth. “The way I always like to put it – there’s a scale between attainable depth and graphic visual fidelity.
Although the game started its journey looking deliberately modest, that’s something Simpson feels Zomboid has outgrown. When you look at it after a decade – or a decade later – that doesn’t cut the mustard anymore,” explains Simpson, admitting that the game felt “quite clunky” before the latest update. “What we didn’t want to do is just stick with the same level of production value and graphics, and everything that we started with, because we were two people right at the start. The build itself – which includes a complete overhaul to every animation and action in the game, dedicated multiplayer and heaps of new content – looks to match The Indie Stone’s ambition for Project Zomboid, which has grown exponentially since its inception in 2011.
The new-found polish and detail has transformed Project Zomboid into its best iteration yet, and it’s perhaps no surprise that it’s been warmly received by thousands of new fans.Ĭhris Simpson, coder and managing director at The Indie Stone, says the success of Build 41 has been “beyond what we could have expected”, adding that “we knew we had something good, but we were still looking for ways it could go horribly wrong for us – so we were glad to be proven wrong.”īeing anxious about the update’s release is understandable, especially when you consider the amount of time that went into the update – Simpson clarifies that while the full team has been working on it for a couple of years, “seeds of it have been going for about four or five years in the background”. The patch has been in the works for years, and although Project Zomboid is still in Early Access, it now feels leaps and bounds closer to that elusive finish line. So, where has Project Zomboid‘s new fanbase swarmed in from? The answer is in Build 41, a sweeping update that – put simply – overhauled the entire game.
Judging by the explosive popularity of Project Zomboid right now, you’d be forgiven for believing the game is newly launched and full of fresh (un)life.
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