what i was thinking of doing was utilizing things like google maps etc to get some base data, cities etc.. while we won't be 100% on what each building is etc... we can be creative beyond that and make up the floorplan or actual use of a specific building footprint...
As for game style, what i'm planning is a bit more gritty than the usual, sort of a realistic thriller puzzle rather than a traditional zombie storyline of "wha! what are these slow shambling dead-looking things! i'm going to stamp on it's foot to make it go away!"... where you are trying to survive, where every human you meet along the way is even worse then the thousands of dead... i'm planning on making the zombies the thing to fear, and require you to use your surroundings to survive.
Basically, i'm expecting people to know what they're talking about... if you want to make it easy on yourself... play yourself.. or someone very similar to you.. that way you can try to survive using your own experiences and skills... if you want to be creative, and pretend you're a scientist, a survival guy, a soldier... be ready to do some research because i want you to be able to backup your actions... by this i mean i want people to be able to describe what they do.. not just be "i'm an electrician, so i rig up some electric fences around our shelter..."... i want to know where you get your power source, how you're running the current, how much power there is, and how you go about handing that power yourself... I really enjoy the creativity people come up with in a pinch, and i think that it'll give a gritty, realistic sense to the whole game..
basically, i want it to be like a reality show, except that we're not holding back to make sure people don't die.
this being said.. i'm not planning on holding many punches, so my players may well die often.. so i'd like it to be fairly quick to get back in the game as another player. I'd like to base the general outbreak in say... uk or maybe europe... mainly since i figure there would be less guns around, and therefore require more creativity to stay alive.
I understand the dislike of the genre.. it's not for everyone.. while i'd be all for people contributing or using the maps for other purposes, what i'm hoping to create is a sort of... content-set of crisscrossing paths... where we have an idea whats happening in the overall area, big horde movements or some such... any special events... as well as the general actions in each story... but.. due to each stories actions, they'll create debris, dead bodies, discarded items, notes, trails, etc... that can be found by another story, and therefore each story acts as sort of a... extension of the setting of the others... also, obviously, its possible storylines could cross, or what have you.. if we can work out how that'd work...
Thats what i'm thinking anyways.
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