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Zombie (Urban Dead)

GamesUndeadShambles2000 to 2009

The player-controlled dead of Urban Dead, a free text-based browser game by Kevan Davis that ran for twenty years. Death switches a character's side instead of ending the game, so both the survivors and the horde were communities of real players organising sieges and defences.1

Battle it
First appeared
2005
Urban Dead (2005)
Source work
Urban Dead (2005)
Kevan Davis
Made in
United Kingdom
What causes it
Never explained
Not explained on the sources consulted; the game is set in a quarantined district of the fictional city of Malton.
How you become one
A survivor who is killed stands up as a zombie.
How it moves
Shambles
Low-level zombies move at half the speed of survivors.
Intelligence
Some intelligence
Weak spots
  • barricades
  • revival: a skilled survivor with the right equipment can return a zombie to life

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2005

Urban Dead (2005)

field notes

What the sources say

1

Every zombie is played by a person; the game has no computer-controlled characters1

2

A killed zombie simply stands up again at full health1

3

Limited to claws, teeth and blunt weapons1

4

Experienced zombies gain a crude form of speech1

5

Ran from 2005 until 2025, when its creator shut it down over the requirements of the UK Online Safety Act1

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Zombie (Urban Dead) about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Urban Dead - Wikipedia

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