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Funding Successful

This project successfully raised its funding goal on October 10, 2011.

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102 Backers

The dead can’t donate: Get your name in the SURVIVOR’S Register in the game’s credits! You’ll also receive our heartfelt thanks for not being a soulless corpse.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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Help rebuild civilization by becoming a RECRUIT and receiving the game before anyone else! It’s dangerous to go alone, so we’ll also provide some extra in-game protection and all the Season 1 content (worth $20+), plus a place on the Survivor’s Register.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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207 Backers

Prefer eating brains? Become a ZOMBIE in the game by calling up our hotline and giving us your best “help, my trachea is falling out of my rotten neck” impression. For science. Plus the game and your name in the credits!

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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Promoted to LOOKOUT, eh? Show off your new status to the folks in the shattered remains of your local bar with a snazzy T-SHIRT or POSTER. That’ll let everyone know you’re into the beta test and on the Survivor’s Register as well, you badass.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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SCOUT: Looks like someone’s flagged you for the roll of honour. Your donation means we’ll NAME SOMETHING IN THE GAME after you, like a park or a street or a dead guy. It’s just like being president but without the sex scandals. You’re even important enough to get a T-Shirt AND a poster, plus the rest. We are not worthy.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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BACKSTAGE PASS: There's more going on than meets the eye here, so we're going to welcome you back to where the magic happens. Hang out with us in online chats, get your questions answered and give feedback. Plus, you'll be invited to a mission-brainstorming session - we guarantee to make at least one of the ideas from that session, and if it's your idea, your name will be in it as a character of your choice! You also get the RUNNERS' FIELD GUIDE and all the above.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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RANGER: OK. Now you’ve proved yourself worth some proper training, we just can’t afford to lose you. That means you get a copy of the RUNNERS’ FIELD GUIDE containing top-secret survival techniques we reserve for our elite runners. And all the above rewards.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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Be a RUNNER and save the world! Name and create your own in-game character with our writers, receive personalised dog tags, running swag, and all the awesome equipment listed above. It's like being 006 or 008! Without you, we’d all be eating stone soup before the end of the week.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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[EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT] Serious support receives serious rewards. All the supplies our intrepid Runners are out collecting - the food, the canned drinks, the medicine? We’ll work with you to NAME A BRAND or item in Zombies, Run!

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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Serious support receives serious rewards. All the supplies our intrepid Runners are out collecting - the food, the canned drinks, the medicine? We’ll work with you to NAME A BRAND or item in Zombies, Run!

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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Organising a charity race? We’ll add zombies. Regular training group? Make them into zombies. How about a marathon-themed wedding? Time for zombies. We’ll create a CUSTOM MISSION that turns your run into a bespoke, action-packed, zombie-infested spectacular.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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Six to Start and Naomi Alderman

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Six to Start is a multiple award-winning company in London that makes storylike games and game-like stories. We’ve made worldwide treasure hunts involving hundreds of thousands of people for Muse and the BBC, we’ve created cutting edge web-native fiction that’s won Best of Show at SXSW and is exhibited at MOMA, and we do R&D for companies like Disney Imagineering and Microsoft.

Naomi Alderman is the lead writer for Zombies, Run! She was the lead writer on Perplex City, and has worked on other games with Six to Start, the BBC, and Wieden+Kennedy. Naomi's written a Doctor Who novel, Borrowed Time, and writes about games and technology for The Guardian and elsewhere. She's also written literary fiction novels and short stories that have have been published in 10 countries and recognised with awards in four of them (including the Orange Prize for New Writers).

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