My brother emailed me about this indie game project called Project Zomboid that was apparently mentioned in CAD recently. The game's currently pre-alpha, but you can pay like $5-10 to subscribe and play the current version as its being developed (and eventually you'll own the full game).
It sounds like a pretty dark game with a bleak outlook - you are not going to "win" the zombie apolcalypse, it's merely a question of how long before you die... because you WILL die.
Website here: http://projectzomboid.com/blog/
Here's the TLDR description from the devs:
Project Zomboid is a Zombie Survival RPG. Here are some of its planned features:
◦Retro-isometric style with plenty of zombie insides thrown in for good measure.
◦A massive city and the surrounding areas to traverse, explore and loot.
◦Open-ended sandbox world survival is your only goal, and were sorry to tell you you WILL die eventually.
◦Get infected. How will you spend your final days? Will you have a heroic moment of self-sacrifice, or end up chewing your best friends throat out?
◦Meet other survivors who you can join forces with, trade with, undertake missions for, or fight with for resources.
◦Loot, salvage, and build what you need to survive the apocalypse, from food and medical supplies, to weapons, even just booze to help get you through the nights.
◦Advanced item crafting allows you to use looted items to build weapons, traps, defenses, and many other things to help you survive.
◦Character progression. Learn skills and perks to help your character face the challenges of survival.
◦Starvation, illness, loneliness, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, suicide, insanity, trust issues. Theres more to zombie survival than shooting zombie heads off.
◦Join your friends and survive the apocalypse together in co-op multiplayer.
◦The world changes the longer you survive; power plants fail, plunging the city into darkness and making batteries and tinned food prized commodities. The army rolls into the streets to perform clean up operations and other gamechanging events occur the longer you survive.
◦Play in your browser, or stand-alone, on PC, Mac and Linux.
It will be released Minecraft style, where there will be continual updates adding new features, weapons, game-play and locations.
You technically cannot pre-order or purchase the game, but we do give it away as a free gift when you buy our other games! (There are reasons why it has to be this way. Read our blog for an insight)
It is available here alongside aforementioned games, and there will be a tech demo coming soon.
The tech demo will just show a fraction of the planned features and is merely a taste of what is to come. We will continue developing after this point, feasibly for years and years, improving and expanding the game.
We have an active community that helps drive development, which can be found here.
It sounds like a pretty dark game with a bleak outlook - you are not going to "win" the zombie apolcalypse, it's merely a question of how long before you die... because you WILL die.
Website here: http://projectzomboid.com/blog/
Here's the TLDR description from the devs:
Project Zomboid is a Zombie Survival RPG. Here are some of its planned features:
◦Retro-isometric style with plenty of zombie insides thrown in for good measure.
◦A massive city and the surrounding areas to traverse, explore and loot.
◦Open-ended sandbox world survival is your only goal, and were sorry to tell you you WILL die eventually.
◦Get infected. How will you spend your final days? Will you have a heroic moment of self-sacrifice, or end up chewing your best friends throat out?
◦Meet other survivors who you can join forces with, trade with, undertake missions for, or fight with for resources.
◦Loot, salvage, and build what you need to survive the apocalypse, from food and medical supplies, to weapons, even just booze to help get you through the nights.
◦Advanced item crafting allows you to use looted items to build weapons, traps, defenses, and many other things to help you survive.
◦Character progression. Learn skills and perks to help your character face the challenges of survival.
◦Starvation, illness, loneliness, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, suicide, insanity, trust issues. Theres more to zombie survival than shooting zombie heads off.
◦Join your friends and survive the apocalypse together in co-op multiplayer.
◦The world changes the longer you survive; power plants fail, plunging the city into darkness and making batteries and tinned food prized commodities. The army rolls into the streets to perform clean up operations and other gamechanging events occur the longer you survive.
◦Play in your browser, or stand-alone, on PC, Mac and Linux.
It will be released Minecraft style, where there will be continual updates adding new features, weapons, game-play and locations.
You technically cannot pre-order or purchase the game, but we do give it away as a free gift when you buy our other games! (There are reasons why it has to be this way. Read our blog for an insight)
It is available here alongside aforementioned games, and there will be a tech demo coming soon.
The tech demo will just show a fraction of the planned features and is merely a taste of what is to come. We will continue developing after this point, feasibly for years and years, improving and expanding the game.
We have an active community that helps drive development, which can be found here.
Even if you only read the OP, it's clear that this game is completely unlike Minecraft in terms of the game content. You know, the whole "zombie survival RPG" part!
13,926 registered users, if that's any indication. This piracy issue aside since release has been wonderful.
That's rather unfortunate lazyness on their part. Unless Google Checkout is complicated to sign up for (I don't recall having any problems signing up for PayPal and I rarely use that account). If they really wanted to buy your game I'm sure they would have.
sorry to be at logger heads about all that, really just wanted to come on the thread and say thanks and as usual I get easily drawn into this kinda thing. 
