This means that, for example, you’re given 50 energy points per day and every time you go on a mission it costs energy. One downside to The Walking Dead AR that I’ve seen so far is the utilization of an energy system. The trick is that you want to visit safe houses regularly and contribute survivors often to get better rewards. For example, when I downloaded the game last night I built a safe house on top of my real world house’s location to serve as a sort of base of operations. Safe houses are built by players and exist as persistent objects in the game world with a real world location. If saved, you can bring a survivor back to a safe house. When you clear the final wave, you get a big reward with a higher chance of scoring rare cards (more on that later.) Then there are Rescue missions, in which you need to kill the zombies harassing a survivor. Other mission types include Infestations, which are multiple wave split into separate instances. Your companion will jump in and fight as well and you can even toss out grenades, Pokémon Go-style, by flicking your finger upwards on the screen. Try and get as many headshots as possible to take down zombies more quickly, but that’s about it. This is the bread and butter of the game and typically rewards some basic cards.Ĭombat in The Walking Dead AR is simple: you tap where you want to shoot. From what I’ve seen so far missions include basic “Encounters” in which you clear out a single screen’s worth of walkers, usually five or six, in a matter of seconds. You have to physically go out and explore to find missions to complete and play the game itself, which involves killing lots of zombies. You can see your avatar as you physically walk around and explore your environment and it moves in unison based on your phone’s GPS tracking.
Similar to Pokémon Go, The Walking Dead AR is powered by Google Maps to display a map of the real world in real-time on your phone screen. The answer to all of those questions is almost certainly no, but if you don’t take things too seriously and think it’s fun to gamify all aspects of life, then The Walking Dead: Our World could be just for you. Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry.