I'm thinking of starting a massive kickstarter project campaign.

Now before I get into it, I'll explain it like this.

Think of an amusement park. Now think of it being a Zombie Survival Amusement Park of sorts. This is the simplistic version.

Now the idea is to get a massive amount of land and build small versions of cities, or big if the land permits. This will be the location of the "park", so to speak.

People will pay for their tickets which will pay for their Hotel and so many meals that they won't have to pay for. Now, this Hotel will be located in what we'd call the "Safezone". The Safezone is it's own "semi-city" in and of itself. This will have places for them to visit, part, drink, eat and so on.

The other city will be where the zombies and survivors will be at. To be a zombie they would need to register beforehand. Any who don't, are the people who survive. This all will be Laser Tag based, but a tad bit more advanced. Let me explain how.

Each "weapon" has it's own statistics. How far the laser will reach, how fast, wide and powerful it is, and such. Each body part will have it's own sensor, and each shot hit gives points, and depending on how good the shot is, points vary. It all goes on a card used to get Health, weapons, "Armor" and so on.

It'll last for 1 week, 2 or 3 times a year. Food will be stocked in random places all over the Infected City, like in stores and so on, and there will be safezones zombies aren't allowed to go into, whilst in the infected city. This way they are allowed to rest and eat in peace. Points are streamed over to a leaderboard in the safe city, over to massive TV's outside, and on other TV's on certain channels. They can bet on who'd win, lose and so on.

All Vehicles won't run, no gas and can't be taken apart. No tools will be IN this city, and all breaking stuff like glass would be bulletproof and basically soundproof so they can't break it and stab people. There will be trackers placed on every person, and BIG cameras outside. Plus people wondering around making sure everyone is safe.

There will also be laser based blunt weapons, too. The area it'll work in is based on how close to the enemy you are. Can have laser based chainsaws, machine guns, swords, bats, etc.

Points are used up like cash. But they can also be saved up year from year, and the top 5 LIVING people will be who wins prizes.

Also contributors who donate at a regular basis, will have Billboards placed up for ads in both cities, and can have "custom" weapons made. If those weapons are used in the "game", they get a small portion of the total earning at the end of the event.

If someone gets infected they can either join their zombie brethren, or go back to the safezone to relax. It's that simple. People who register for the Zombies, so many can register for runner zombies, or so CALLED "BOSS" zombies. Boss zombies have higher HP in their system, more strength in their system, and higher defense and possibly speed. Only so many can register for anything different than a regular slow, walking zombie. Plus those who register for it, will be made up to look as REAL as possible. Those who are infected after, can choose to get it done and join them later. Any building really tall, windows will only open so far, and roofs will be covered in heavy cages.

Anything else, like wood doors and such can be broken in return for HP. Any who's HP runs out 2 times (or once for zombies) will be escorted out if they refuse to leave on their own. That is where trackers come in handy.

So what do you think so far, and what would YOU do to better this idea? I already have a lot of friends loving the idea. This is something that has been BIG for years now. Zombies is a big, loved topic in the US and a good portion of the world for a bit, now.

Also I may have left stuff out without realizing it, and Forrest will come in and add any missing details.

You've really thought about this.

So, in a nutshell, it's a Hunger Games style Zombie Apocalypse real life game using laser tag methods to create points? I won't play, but I still think that this is neat and will be interesting and has the ability to be big money to anyone who contributes, so I'll tell you what. I will personally attempt to get enough companies to contribute in order to get this started up. We'll need help though. Anyone who puts money into this will become rich fairly quickly seeing how many people will enjoy it.

Here are a few things that need to be considered. How do you control the speed of the zombies? Is there an age or height limit? What if someone simply gives up and wants to leave?

Ideas are great, and nothing was created without a creative guy behind it.

But let's be realistic, even with kickstarter funds, do you know enough people to take on something of this scale? Real estate, construction, management of everything in the park? Usually, kickstarters are supported when the people running them are credible. Because of how easy it is to make a kickstarter and type up a great idea, it's more important than ever to be completely capable of pulling off the idea. Sometimes a lot of money just isn't enough.

For example, people making kickstarters for video games are usually hard to credit - everyone fucking wants to make video games, it's every geek's dream. But only the ones that are capable of producing production material and provide credible resources and staff on their production team get funded, in the end. Usually.

I'm not trying to discredit you, but there have been so many bad ideas on kickstarter that are just thrown up there with no thought given to the reality of their project, and it'd be kind of bad if you fell into that group, inadvertently or not.

I mean I like the idea, it's cool. But I'd wait until you have the means to do it before putting up a kickstarter.

Far from wanting to do the kickstarter itself, yet. Getting it all planned out long before doing it, obviously :P

The main thing is getting the "inner workings" flushed out, and then getting the people together willing to help, and move on from there bit by bit. Maybe even find people who'd want to donate their time to work with the event, rather than paying them. Not everyone like that, just a few to help lighten the load, so to speak.

Also, speed wise I think it should just be based on registrations. So many can register, then the registrations for special zombies close. They won't have to run, but would have the options, and bosses can't have a choice in their power. It would be implemented into the system keeping up with the Laser Tagging and points.

Also if they quit, they would go into the Safe City, and call it quits, and can rest up, or decide to leave the entire area. I necessarily wouldn't want it all refunded if they decided to up and leave everything, if they participated, so maybe they can get little under half back.

Other PRICEY and hard area of this, is getting the weapons to look and sound as real as possible.
It might not be real, but making it move like a real gun, and sound like one, loud and everything, is a problem, but would draw a lot of people in.

Misuto has a point.

But yes, this sound fabulous. Absolutely Fabulous.

>>5 Of course Misuto has a point, as well as Leigha.

I want to do something like this big time, eventually.

Maybe if we allowed people to rent out places in the "Safe city" as homes for when the event is not going on, they can watch over the place, and pay for their water, rent, power and so on. This would be an extra little amount coming in.

I'm working out a few quirks for you.

You should distribute vests with tracking devices to the participants. The vests will light up a different color depending on if they are a zombie, survivor, or security. Said vest will have a speedometer to track the zombie's speed so that the zombie knows if it's going the speed they are allowed to go. We will allow some leeway on the speed seeing that it'd be difficult to control your speed. If your go too far above the designated speed or go above the speed for long periods of time, then the health starts draining. It should drain fast enough so that it does matter, but not so fast that zombies die from running. Another way for a someone to drain their own health would be by being too close to the safe zone for long periods of time, or standing right next to it for any period of time. That would be like the person that is it guarding base when playing hide-and-seek. It ruins the fun. Also have it so that if someone is in a safe zone for too long their health drains. That's be like someone being on the base during the whole game of hide-and-seek.

The price of admission should pay for sleeping arrangements, estimated food cost, vest rentals, and any other necessity. That should pay for some of the fee to keep it up and running.

Safe Zones should be scattered well, because if there's a person too far away from it, they'd be screwed. You need a security person to pick up weapons in a safe zone and giving it back when the person leaves, to prevent cheating. You should also get a TV station and have cameras put up to watch and helicopters hovering so that you can get money from people viewing the show. You'd then have companies pay for commercials. You can then have people pay a fee to watch it without commercials. Another way to get money in is to create a smart phone app so that people can see where each player, stats, and any other information that they might want. You can then have them pay to download the app. Another way to get money would be to allow people playing to buy a map of some sort. You can have the first 1-3 times you play, you get a free map. It's $50-100 after that. This is so noobs won't get lost. It can be attached to their vest, so that others can't steal it, but it can only say where the safe zones are and be labeled. If you want, you can make a technology map that says where they are that will cost more. You can have people pay more to get make-up and an outfit to math their role. Zombies can look more realistic as well as survivors. Some fanatics will pay for that. It will have to be enough money for the professional make-up artist as well as extra for profit.

As for location, I think a dessert would be okay. It can just be dry enough to not be built on, but not so dry that you'd have players getting heat-stroke. There should also be two buttons on the vest. They have to be placed so that only the person wearing it can access it. One for it the player forfeits. One for if the player has an emergency.

Once a player "dies", the zombie once and survivor twice, their vest will flash red indicating death. It'll also do his if the player forfeits. They then are allowed to leave the arena. This is just so that they will not be attacked while leaving. If you attack someone while dead, or attack a dead person, a percentage of your points will be deducted and given to the other player. It has to be a percent or else the players with a lot of points won't really care.

You then also have to have gloves connected to the vest. That way they can't be stolen. The gloves will send a signal to the vest when a weapon is held. It will then indicate it as you using the weapon therefor you get the points when someone is hit with it. The info will be transfered as if it was laser tag, but the gloves are what link that weapon to you.

You also need to have security on staff to watch for anyone attacking people, and crime of the people living there. I think there should be a mandatory background check when someone signs up. It'd be as thorough as it would if they were looking for a job. You killed someone? No playing for you. There are also other things that automatically disqualify them from being allowed to play. You have to make sure your living area is safe. The emergency button will send a medic team and police as fast as possible. Anyone who pushes the button for any reason other than an emergency is disqualified.

If you forfeit, then you get a percent of your money back. The amount you get back depends on your life left. This way people don't forfeit just because they are about to die and want their money back.

I'm thinking there needs to be a few "Free" items in this. There will be no App. It'd be a custom, uniquely designed "phone"-like gadget, that uses the programs built in. Like it streams live video footage of the "Zombie City" to the phone, as well as Audio. It will also connect into any "phones" in the Zombie city. Like Payphones. The Payphones in the Zombie city only connect to other phones in the Zombie City. Also it will show on the Map, the location of other members may it be through finding their phone location, their locator location, or their VEST location.

Plus it can be used to show your "gamer score" so to speak, as well as others.

It will also show ONLY the survivors, and not the zombies. Will probably also suggest Computers that connect to other computers throughout the City, and the phone shows where they all are, give or take. By give or take, I mean some computers give the location to hidden ones.

I feel having some type of GOAL other than "live" could be a good idea. Like they have to find all the computers, and find out why the City has been infected, and the computers have "Files" that need to be read, and each computer gives passwords to other computers.

Also what about an Item that can be bought with points, a lot of them, that can bring you back to life once dead? Same for stopping the "virus" from infecting you 1 time each usage?

Also maybe the "infection" if touched enough by zombies, SLOWLY takes effect on the vest? So that if you know you're going to be one, but can't access the point stores, you can give points to other players through your phone. Same for giving them "items" through your phone.

Another thing, the safe city also having places people can set u shop in. They have to buy a special Ticket to be able to sell their stuff, and a small portion of it goes BACK to the park.

It can allow for massive sellers if it's a city and big empty buildings are for use. Imagine Comic-con. People buy booths to sell all of the time. Now image this. People selling food, drinks, clothes, comics, music, and whatever else they can.

>>11 This.

TL;DR, But I get the idea, this needs to happen, I would pay top dollar to indulge in this. Thiamor was already shooting some ideas to me. Also, if I get a job, I would definitely support this with my on cash. Haha

Bumping this up.

I kind of feel that upon Registrations, before joining the Zombie Infected City, there needs to be a sort of "day" (really a month long prior to the event) before the actual start of the events, that allows the staff to do a full-out background check on the zombies and survivors. With the people who join just for the partying and betting and whatnot, a search of their objects and a pat down would suffice.

This way they would know what they needed to. Also they need a bag check and pat down as well.

Any contributions? May it be on your own, or on what others have said?

Alright. Anyone who has a good speaking voice and people qualities, I would love their help.

I am wanting to contact Ubisoft in hopes of getting them, out of many, to back this project. May it be by advertisements, funding, contributions in maybe products, or whatever else they all can provide.

So if anyone is willing to help, here is their contact information page.

http://www.ubisoftgroup.com/en-US/contact_us.aspx

Also another idea is that the entire city should resemble Steampunk. I never see any Steampunk related zombie outbreaks in comics or games. Not even in movies.

>>18 I think Boneshaker is getting a movie.

Bump.

This sounds extremely awesome, but if you were able to get a hold of Ubisoft's attention, where would you find someone able to develop laser weapons with the likeness of a real weapon? Also, what would the costs of admission and living expenses be?

Well thinking realistically on prices, tickets would be 200-500 dollars. I know that I eat 3 meals a day, and what I eat would cost about a few hundred a month. So probably 500-700 dollars per person would suffice for admission and food. Plus an additional, say 60 through 100 for a hotel room. Well enough so that we can finally sustain ourselves, and be able to feed people so they won't have to pay extra, as much, to get food.

Weapon wise, I'm still looking into that.

...holy fuck, Thiamor. That's a lot of money.

Well tickets wouldn't hurt to go down a notch.
200 to 300 per person might get the job done.

Official Page on Facebook is set up. Already have like 14 likes since making this.

Undead Atrocity Official Facebook Page

>>25 Maybe there should be a few different types of tickets (similar to those you can get for conventions) so that people have a few options for their price range. For instance, you could have general admission tickets versus all inclusive tickets, and then there could be various types inbetween.

General Admission: admission is paid, but they have to handle their own food and lodge
All-Inclusive: admission, food, and lodge are all part of the ticket deal
Admission+ (Package 1): admission and food are paid for, but they have to handle their own lodge
Admission+ (Package 2): admission and lodge are paid for, but they have to handle their own food

And obviously, you could add whatever else might be included in the tickets at the end as well.

Oh. Should ask, huh, or else GA might not work. Would people be allowed to come in and out each day rather than stay at the "Hotel" every night?

Well they wouldn't have anywhere to stay unless they plan to travel miles upon miles, upon miles to get somewhere. So they could, but not suggested.

>>28
I like this idea a lot. If you use Facebook, post this on the Undead Atrocity page. I would, but it's your idea.

The Page now has 20 likes and a semi-famous youtube singer as a part of the group. Most of the 20 came from a few hours ago today.

Friend of mine invited his personal friends, and his 2 thousand some fans. (Not the singer from above.) My other friend invited his 700 some friends.

Also got a guy on Youtube who has over 2.5 Million fans, to advertise for this on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. So, this might get famous in a day. "Who'da thunk it, amirite?"

I like this idea..I'd probably never get to go because of prices (and no one would take me :P) but I liked the facebook page and invited my friends.
Good luck with this idea.

Talking about Roller Coaster rides and whatnot now. I think we need to talk about adding a 3rd part to the city for rides.

I wish this was real so bad. But with real zombies n stuff.

>>36

The plan is to make the Amusement Park real. Obviously not the Zombie part. XD

Thought of an idea after talking with my Musician friends who are a part of this.

Make and sell "Undead Atrocity" brand items. Which got me think of this.

The idea is to sell original "Undead Atrocity" instrumental soundtracks. Mix of metal with a slight electronic feel. This people would buy to support us, and get a taste of what we hear when we feel/think of this project.

Bump.

Bumps.

The Official page, https://www.facebook.com/UndeadAtrocity gains a little more everyday then it's previous day. How much, you say? Little over 100 unique people a day.

I've also started a Concept Art Contest over on DeviantArt for the Amusement Park.

If you'd like to know about it, visit Undead Atrocity - DeviantArt Concept Art Contest

Bump.

I've created an official Twitter for this now.
Undead Atrocity - Official Twitter Page

I just created it today, and already have 190 people following. By the time this ends, it'll have more, give or take close to 100.

>>44
200. And I meant by the time I'm done posting that post^

Have almost 400 Followers, and will probably have 600 to 800 by the time I wake up.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Almost all of your followers are those "Follow me and I'll follow you back" things.

Which aren't really "followers" who have an actual interest in whatever you're doing

Obviously, as you could tell. It still gives me potential people in which I can get over onto the site. Let me put it this way. Say I had 5,000 people from this. That is still 5,000 potential people able to view it. Plus if we had 5,000 views, that ups it up on Facebook, and actually showcases the page a lot more because of the higher stats. I know what I'm doing.

Plus the more followers on there, showcases my Twitter page more to other people. Think about it.

>>49
Plus it ups my following limit so I can follow more. Thus I can follow those in which I want to get to help me with this, while follow many with the same interest. It all eventually works out.

This sounds IMMENSE! The idea is already being used, but on a much smaller scale. I saw an advert for it in a shopping center. But to have whole cities and/or towns. That would just be the best holiday/theme park EVER!

>>51

Thanks for the support.
I plan to try to get the Twitter page officially "promoted" through Twitter, thus helping us get a lot more people to follow us.

We have almost 700 likes on Facebook now. In less than like 30 minutes. Satan on Facebook advertised.

Almost have 800 likes on Facebook. All of which joined BECAUSE of the goal.

Here is the new Cover Photo for the group on Facebook. A fan posted it.

Almost got 1,000. Give or take a bit more to go.

Bump

I recommend building this in Death Valley, California just like that one fan said. 1.) I really like the sound of it. 2.) It's close enough to where I can help you build it and all that.

Also, I think the layout of the town should resemble 1940's and 1950's style. That way we can make a cool vintage sign that says "Welcome to [insert name of town]".

tl;dr but I read "zombie theme park" and thought I should post this.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-detroit-zombie-park-20120706,0,561181.story

Well we're doing Steampunk to bring in the many who like that as well.

But also >>59, people bring it up like it's magically going to change my mind. The fact is I knew about that, but it's still far different than my plan.

We also have almost 6 thousand likes.

The City itself will be all Steampunk styled.

>>60 Perhaps it could be steampunk, but rather than Victorian era be 40's and 50's era. Think of the Fallout universe.

We're also doing a Collab Album getting 10 bands adding 2 of their best quality songs to add to a CD. Then going to your local Record/Music store (Not a big company one) and trying to get them to sell it.

Plus selling it on Itunes for 25 dollars. That is 20 songs on the CD.

>>63 I told a local band about you. He should be contacting the page admin soon.

Here's an idea: vehicles. But not for civilians, but for security. You see, here's the idea: You can buy or salvage stuff but for those who'd like to buy stuff can go to a phone booth. They can call the security and buy weapons, food, water, etc. but what if they wanna go to a safe zone? They can call and go to a specific zone, which would be on a map chained to the booth. Oh, and another thing, I think hotels should only be in the roller coaster park. because think. this will be a realistic zombie survival thing right? So how about they have the ability to build an encampment and sleep. And they can buy things like backpacks, basic beddings and flashlights. And civilan vehicles shouldn't be completely bypassed, things like bikes, scooters and other manually powered vehicles should be allowed. at a cost of course. And you should be able to have point bonuses and something that allows you to track points [Think Pip-Boy] for example, surviving a day should get you enough points to get basic food and water the next day. Or if you want to issue a daily challenge [kill "x" zombies, Find safe zone, kill boss zombie, buy vehicle] and then if a player completes said challenge, they get an amount of points based on difficulty.

Bump.

We have come up with a lot of stuff for this, and much progress has been made.

We have a Radio to help showcase music we're selling, as well as the radio can earn us money itself, as well.


Undead Radio: http://www.krykey.com/Radio/PRSPage.aspx?id=17444

Undead Atrocity: https://www.facebook.com/UndeadAtrocity

We decided to make this in an Insane Asylum, plus contacting the United States Air Force for help on the Laser Tagging System.

Even more planning and revisions were discussed. The main issue at hand is obtaining the location. The location I want to aim for is old, empty prisons for sale since all over the US there are a ton of them.

Anyway what was changed is now no longer laser tag at all but instead flag capturing. What I mean is each survivor has 5 red bananas tied onto them, over their body. 1 "flag" is 1 heart.

all 5 being taken from the zombie side, and you join the zombie side (by going out and getting the zombie flags)

Zombie flags are 3 green flags, and if a survivor takes 1 flag, that is 25 percent of 1 heart. Turn 4 in to get a heart.

Here's a sample run down list of what we're planning:

While a lot more has to go into it, my new idea for it can allow my crew to host one in their area any time to earn money here and there. In fields, in rented buildings, and so on.

So at the least there's ways of funding this slowly, and to use as a basis for investors to see how it'll run.

I'd advise to be aware that your advertising, no matter the form would be most productive around Halloween.

This isn't advertising now, unless you mean when it starts? Because the plan is to have the park open every week minus resting and cleaning up.

>>29 Thinking about it now, GA has a lot of unused space, and there are a lot of areas there that have so many unused lots.

Also, question, if a human dies and becomes a zombie, but one of the human's still living friends wants them to be a human again, is their any sort of reviving system?

>>75

I never actually thought about that but there could be. Though what I'd do is allow in safe zones for the person to hand over 3 of their hearts to the person they wish to revive.

>>76 That's what I was thinking. If a person wanted to revive another for the sake of allowing them to stay in the game, they could hand over a certain percentage of their life force to let the other come back in. Then the newly revived human could either risk his life alone, or just go with his friend.

I think its really amazing how much thought has gone into this project.

>>78
I just need to save up enough money to buy the initial equipment to start this out small time.

^

sounds like a cool idea.

^

sounds cool, surprised I havent read this thread before.

congratz on getting 12k likes on FB!!