Zombies, Run!

Zombies, Run!
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Developer(s)Six to Start
Publisher(s)Six to Start
Producer(s)Adrian Hon
Artist(s)Kas Sweeney
Writer(s)Naomi Alderman
Rebecca Levene
Composer(s)Mark Pittam
Platform(s)iOS, Android, Apple Watch
ReleaseiOS
  • WW: February 27, 2012[1]
Android, Windows Phone
  • WW: June 15, 2012[2]
Genre(s)Location-based game, Fitness Game
Mode(s)Single player

Zombies, Run! is a 2012 mobile fitness game co-developed and published by British studio Six to Start and Naomi Alderman for iOS and Android platforms. Set around Abel Township, a small outpost trying to survive the zombie apocalypse, players act as the character "Runner 5" through a series of missions during which they run, collect items to help the town survive and listen to various audio narrations to uncover mysteries. [3]

The storyline of the game is written primarily by Naomi Alderman and a team of writers, with guest contributions by notable science fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Bear,[4] Joanne Harris[5] and Andrea Phillips. The game was funded by a Kickstarter campaign which raised more than five times what was expected, a total of $72,627 from 3,464 backers. Additional season expansions have been released annually. In October 2012, Zombies, Run! 5k Training, a spin-off app designed as a "couch to 5k" training program, was released. [6]

Zombies, Run! became the highest-grossing Health & Fitness app on Apple's App Store within two weeks of its initial release, and has drawn praise for the way its immersive storyline makes running more fun and academic attention for its genre and mHealth applications.[7]

  1. ^ "Zombies, Run! on App Store Tweet". 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference langshaw1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Zombies, Run!, PopMatters". www.popmatters.com. 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  4. ^ "'Zombies, Run!' Game Writing Apprenticeship: Open call for early-career writers :: National Association of Writers in Education ::". www.nawe.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  5. ^ Hon, Adrian (2014-06-26). "Introducing guest writer Joanne Harris". Zombies, Run!. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  6. ^ "Zombies, Run! hits Windows Phone, Android". Digital Spy. 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  7. ^ "App Review: Zombies, Run!". 2015-03-03. Retrieved 2024-04-29.