Tag Archives: Dean Hall

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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It’s always nice to slaughter zombies on a Friday. Dean Hall recently confirmed the DayZ standalone will feature new content every week, and has released a video highlighting the upcoming title’s motion-capture development.

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

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Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, has once again visited Reddit in order to answer questions about his game and The War Z. As expected, he doesn’t pull any punches when giving answers. Hall discusses the responsibility of consumers, his anger towards The War Z, and accusations from his family in decent length.

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The two Bohemia Interactive developers imprisoned in Greece since last September on charges of espionage have been released on bail and allowed to return home to the Czech Republic.

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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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In an unreleased video interview that took place at Eurogamer Expo, VG247′s Sam Clay asked DayZ creator Dean Hall about his hectic development process and the feedback DayZ Standalone has been getting from fans.

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DayZ creator Dean Hall has responded to a Reddit thread dedicated to giving Hall’s team some breathing space as it crunches on the game’s development. Hall has also added that he was – at one point – considered calling time on his involvement with the project.

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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 Bounty is a new, unofficial mod for Dean Hall and Bohemia Interactive’s sandbox survival title. It pays players via PayPal for scoring kills, but they must first buy-in to the mod’s server, creating something of a gambling slant. The developers of the original DayZ mod aren’t happy, stating that the monetisation angle ‘undermines’ Hall’s original vision, and is calling for the creators to cease development.

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DayZ standalone creator Dean Hall has posted another round of interior and exterior shots, showing a greater range of buildings from hospitals to small cottages.

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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’s Dean Hall gave a superb talk at Eurogamer Expo a couple of weeks ago. Eurogamer has now released the full recorded session into the wild. Watch it 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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DayZ creator Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall has shared his own thoughts on the arrest of two ArmA 3 developers arrested on the Greek island of Lemnos on suspicion of espionage. The developer – whose game is a mod of ArmA 2 – just wants to see the developers returned home safely.

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