Tag Archives: DayZ Standalone

Bohemia Interactive drew inspiration from CCP in conceptualising DayZ’s base building, which it envisions as similar to EVE Online’s capital ships.

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Dean “Rocket” Hall has taken a holiday from development of the standalone version of DayZ, but the rest of the team is hard at work on new features, including radios.

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DayZ creator Dean “Rocket” Hall is pretty sure the zombie survival sim will come to consoles, and wants the master race to know this isn’t going to do them any harm.

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DayZ creator Dean Hall gave a lecture at GDC last night, in which he argued that complexity and a lack of hand-holding is positive. Letting players figure things out for themselves is a cornerstone of the game’s appeal, and will live on in DayZ Standalone he explained.

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DayZ Standalone will go into Alpha sometime after a development review in June, Dean Hall has told Joystiq.

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A devblog showing some in game footage of DayZ Standalone has been released. It discusses a solution to the “zombie zig zag”, “server side mass zombie spawns, and loot spawning inside wrecks.” While the video pretty much touches on everything mentioned on the blog side of things, if you prefer to read, you can scan for information on: the inventory system, crafting, expanding the health system, the Chernarus expansion, loot spawning, and more. Video is below.

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Bohemia Interactive has released a pile of new character and environment images for the standalone release of DayZ. Once expected to be a simple conversion of the existing mod, the project has since blown out to a full remake, and it’s paying off, as the new assets show. Check out the images through the break. The accompanying developer update promised new content every week.

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DayZ Standalone’s collection of weapons, clothing, and items will expand regularly, and project lead Dean “Rocket” Hall hopes to make the content free if possible.

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DayZ’s standalone release is really happening, you guys, as this video of it in action confirms.

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Dean Hall has posted new screenshots of the stand-alone version of DayZ.

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Part two of Sam Clay’s video interview with DayZ creator Dean Hall is live. In the second part of this interview from late last year, Hall talks about living and breathing DayZ, engaging fans via social media and the open nature of DayZ’s development.

Part one, in which Hall discusses development pressure, is here.

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Day Z Standalone clearly didn’t make its 2012 release date, but is very near to closed beta testing, with developer lead Dean “Rocket” Hall explaining the delay with good news for fans.

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DayZ Standalone developer Dean Hall has confirmed his high hopes for a console port in a new interview, but stressed that it all depended on development of the PC build. Hall has also discussed the game’s new engine and release window. Get the details below.

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DayZ Standalone will launch on Steam, with plenty of Steam-specific features bundled, according to a new update from creator Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall. Check out what to expect from his expanded survival title below.

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DayZ standalone creator Dean Hall has revealed the first in-game shots of the games interior locations, and houses from the outside. Check out the shots below.

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DayZ started life as an Arma 2 mod, but now it’s grown into something bigger. VG247′s Dave Cook spoke with creator Dean Hall about where the game goes from here.

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DayZ standalone creator Dean Hall has explained to VG247 why big console publishers should take a hard look at themselves going into the next-generation of consoles, and prepare to compete with open platforms and emerging innovation in the PC market.

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DayZ creator Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall has told VG247 that he is still confident that the standalone version of his survival horror Arma 2 mod will launch in November, and that the game will expand in a similar fashion to Minecraft going forward.

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A DayZ developer session hosted by Bohemia Interacive’s Dean Hall was held at Eurogamer Expo today. In his talk, Hall spoke about changes coming to the ArmA 2 mod as it becomes a standalone experience.

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