DayZ is a mod off the game arma 2 which was created in the spare time of Dean hall a nz video game designer. This game is a simulation, survival horror with hardcore game play with permanent death. Dean says that part of his inspiration came from dead island and left for dead where he liked the zombie experiences but he wanted it to be in a different way so instead of having a campaign and objectives the one and only goal was survival and what you do to survive is up to you. after just releasing the game in april with only 2 servers the game quickly got popular and more servers had to be put up to accommodate all the new people. The game is a zombie survival where you spawn randomly on the 220k map with nothing but a little back pack and a flash light. From there on you have to find yourself a gun for protection and find food and water over time to survive and because it is PvP and PvE you have to always be on the lookout for players (bandits) who will kill you for your gear and of course, zombies. The game is designed to be a hardcore survival game with permanent death where once you die you lose all your equipment and you have to start form scratch again. Dean wanted to create a game that kind of broke the rules in terms of normal game play for example not wanting the player to feel safe. At any time you can be killed and if you have good gear you want to keep it which puts some paranoia in it, from crawling from building to building in a high player zone to running through the woods you still have this instinctive feeling to always keep a look out just in case.
This game is currently only in Alpha stage and already has over 400,000 people playing it and some things that Dean talked about was that as a game designer with this game he has done a lot of trial and errors (because it is still at beta) which has helped a lot. There are ideas that he has been told by countless people wont work but have been a success when trialed and when new things are tried out and they fail he learns from then and takes it out of the beta in a update patch.
This is a link to an interview of Dean Halls at E3 talking about DayZ if interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAXqwewejwU
And DayZ game play here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGr9bV5BtQs&feature=plcp
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