So, to begin, I need to identify tasks, and seeing as how I am sure I will miss something I’m posting this to get ideas.
In a world overrun with zombies, what tasks must an individual person perform to survive. Obviously, one must kill zeds, because while zombies are a finite problem (if the world population is 7 billion and you are the only survivor there can, at most, be 7 billion minus 1 zombies, since they don’t reproduce) they will cause issues if too many are waiting outside your door. Beyond that, there is gathering food, water, weapons, clothes, sanitation, entertainment and the extremely important activity of repairing the barricades.
Lets start a bulleted list:
- Kill zombies
- Gather Food
- Find/Purify Water
- Empty poop bucket
- Find/Maintain weapons
- Weather appropriate clothing
- Shelter/Barricade Maintenance
- Books/Music/Entertainment
Optional items:
- Maintain Generator (fuel)
I’m sure there are things I am forgetting, so if you have ideas, I’d love to hear them. However, I request that suggestions remain in the “one person all alone” realm as I plan on tackling that first before working on any kind of multi player aspect.
How about exercise/training? Finding weapons is good, but you should probably work on using them and becoming familiar with them so that you’ll be good in a pinch. And what about adding the need to stretch or something before you go exploring so that you could throw in the uncertainty of pulling a muscle if you get startled by a zombie which would hamper your escape ability or getting a cramp if you are out of shape and trying to run from a horde of the dead.