Tel the Gamer
A year ago today, a 19 year old called #UrbanDead was brutally slain by an Act of Parliament.
Buried 6ft under in Red Tape and Legalese, the powers that be thought it was gone for good.
They clearly didn't understand the genre...
#WorldwideDead is a black box clone of the now deceased game #UrbanDead.
A one person effort by Marcel Swann to bring back the game, and nearly a year in development. The effort is known to the original creator, Kevan, who has not responded negatively to it.
I played the Beta and I am now in the recently soft launched main game. Still a work in progress, but it's already implemented the bulk of the original game play.
It will hopefully manage to avoid the problems that lead to the closedown by keeping the community tightknit, ready to stamp down on the multi-account Zerging and offensive behaviour that plagued the unmoderated UD.
My main concern is it will not get a sufficient number of players to make the game play interesting. It has just past 350 characters, which is far short of the 3600 regulars in 2024.
It also requires a Discord login to access the game; many people will see this as a negative given recent goings on at Discord, but the designer is looking at alternatives.
Richard Orilla 
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