Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer

Tagzombies

First Impressions of DayZ

In recent weeks, the internet has been afire with blog posts and articles praising DayZ. For those of you uninitiated with the project, DayZ is a mod (currently in alpha testing) for the otherwise forgettable first-person shooter ARMA II. The mod takes the gritty military-themed game and transforms it into an even grittier online zombie survival simulator. Being a huge fan of zombie cinema, I was...

Zombie Cinema

Last summer I had the opportunity to try out Zombie Cinema, a storytelling game released by Arkenstone Publishing. Nestled in a VHS-shaped box splattered with blood red letters, the game immediately caught my attention. The blurb on the back of the box appropriately reads like a B-movie poster: Nobody knew when it started, or why. Perhaps the lonely death of a spinster was one too much for angels...

Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer