With the popularity of movies like Zombieland and TV shows like The Walking Dead, it’s hard to get the zombie apocalypse off your mind. And while you’re busy watching those shows, you’re probably on the couch, and not using your valuable time to gear up for the nightmare zombie wasteland. Well there’s a cure to all your ills now.
Six to Start, the “next generation of story tellers” have been using their talents to create online games, and after a massively successful Kickstarter fundraising campaign, have come out with the app for smartphones (Android, iPhone, and Windows Mobile) “Zombies, Run!”
Zombies, Run! Combines storytelling, zombie hoard chases, objectives, item collecting, your music, and running to make an actively fun workout. You star in it as Runner Five, helping Abel Township restore and keep safe in a brand-spankin’ new zombie infested world. You collect items on your runs to upgrade your base, and you can choose to be chased randomly by zombie hoards that you have to speed up to avoid or get caught.
It uses the GPS on your phone to track your runs and upload the information to ZombieLink so you can track the specific progress of your run. It lets you view a map of your run, highlighted with where you picked up items, where you were chased by zombies, and where in your current mission you were at what time in your walk.
Recently, Zombies, Run! Has come out with a 5K trainer as well to get you ready for an extended run away from those ravenous grasping hoards.
You can walk, run, jog, or shamble along with Zombies, Run! to get in shape and have fun. If Zombieland taught us anything, it’s that cardio is important, so hit the streets and beat the geeks!