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[Imp]

Pretty new game, just finished a successful Kickstarter, alpha access opened for around 20,000 or so people who wanted in.  I decided that I wanted to do a lets play about my character's (characters'?) stories, assuming one even lives long enough to really have a story. 

Failing that, ignominious deaths are always the most fun, aren't they?

http://7daystodie.com/

Spoiler: About 7 Days to Die, Story and Premise (click to show/hide)

 7 Days to Die is an open world, voxel-based, sandbox game that is a unique mash up of First Person Shooter, Survival Horror, Tower Defense and Role Playing Games combining combat, crafting, looting, mining, exploration, and character growth.

In the near future where the a third world war leaves the Earth in ruins but the worst was yet to come. Nobody knows for sure if it was the radiation, the biochemical weapons or an act of god but an unknown virus soon transforms the surviving humans into an army of the animated dead, acting as a single-minded being.

You play a survivor trapped in the savage zombie infested world of Navezgane County Arizona one of the last true Eden’s on Earth. Ironically Navezgane means “Killer of Monsters” to the Apache who have inhabited the land for centuries, and that’s pretty much what you’ll do as you fight to survive and search for the truth behind what really happened.

Spoiler: About 7 Days to Die, Core Features (click to show/hide)

•The World - Explore a  beautiful, hand crafted, voxel world with a multitude of biomes including: wastelands, forests, snowy mountains, pine forests, plains, deserts, burn forests and radiation zones.
•Points of Interest - Discover hundreds of great Points of Interests ranging from caves, campsites to cities and skyscrapers. Each and every building can be explored inside and out.
•Dynamic Story Generation - The story unfolds through our “Dynamic Story Generation System” which guides the player to other survivors, better loot and undiscovered Points of Interests through story note quests.
•Basic Survival - Scavenge the world for food and water maintaining and boosting health, food, stamina and hydration levels. Grow and harvest a variety of crops and hunt, track or domesticate a multitude of wildlife to live off the land.
•Day and Night Game Play - Spend the day looting, mining, crafting and building up your forts defenses as light slows down and weakens the zombies. Hold up somewhere safe at night as the lunar cycle speeds up and strengthens the zombies.
•Looting, Mining and Crafting - Loot and mine a multitude of items and ingredients to create hundreds of items including melee weapons, guns, traps, generators, motorized tools, motion detectors, landmines, auto-turrets, salves, potions  and more using our 5×5 grid Crafting System.
•Relentless and Special Enemies - Enemies will claw, jump, climb and break their way through the world in order to get to you. They can see, smell and hear the player and can work in a group. And watch out for the unique special infected enemies like the Acid Puking Hulk whose acidic vomit can melt blocks.
•Block Physics and Stability - Our Physics System simulates real-time structural integrity, durability and mass. Blocks don’t float in the air nor can you build an unsound unsupported structure. Build it right or watch it come crumbling down. Weak blocks can even fall from the weight of the player or zombies.
•Item Quality and Food & Water Purity - Every item in the game has a quality level and degrades with use and combine items to create better items. All Food and water items have a purity level the higher the purity level. The higher the health and stamina benefits. Improve crafting to make better items. Improve cooking to make purer food and water.
•Stealth and Distraction System - Crouch and sneak your way past enemies or throw objects to distract them. Find or craft sight, sound or smell deterrents and attractor recipes and items to exploit the sight, hearing or smell of the zombies to throw them off track.
•XP and Skill Trees - Earn XP and upgrade your skills to become the ultimate Bruiser, Gun Nut, Gadget Man, Chemist or Stealth Agent. Upgrade your melee skill learning to craft better melee weapons and swing them harder & faster and even learn special finishing moves.
•Solo, Cooperative and Multiplayer - Play solo, coop or multiplayer in our unique Zombie Nomad Mode be a human, a bandit or a zombie for a no rules experience. Watch the leader boards and fight to be the Big Clan of the Wasteland or the Duke of Navezgane.
•Creative User Tools - Build your own worlds and play them with friends using the Creative Mode Tools featuring hundreds of block shapes, prefabs and random generation tools. Create dedicated servers with your own unique game rules and settings.

Spoiler: Joan's story begins (click to show/hide)

I can't believe I'm talking to myself.  But I'm so scared and there's no one to talk to and I don't know what to do or even where I am.

I think it was aliens.

Something happened to me.  Something horrible.  I'm lost and I'm scared and I'm in a horrible place.  Some sort of wasteland and all the people.  All the people are zombies or something and there's trash all over, everything's broken.

I can't remember how I got here.  My name is Joan Alboren.  I live at 1314 Crenshaw drive, Altadena, California.  My Mom's name is Alice and my Father's name is Paul.  Our home phone number is 626-183-9271.  I'm seventeen years old and I really need help.  Somebody help me, please.

I don't know how I got here or who dumped me here and I'm way off from any road.  There's no tire tracks - there's not even any foot prints.  It's like a helicopter set me down here.  Or a spaceship.  But I don't know where here is and my cell phone's gone and I don't think anyone would hear me scream, even.  I can hear them moaning and I can't hear anyone else screaming and oh god, don't let me be the only person alive, oh god please god don't let me be the only person alive.

It's mid morning now, I think.  The air's not too hot and it would be if it was afternoon.  If I'm right I know where east is, but if I'm wrong then I have everything backwards.  But I don't know which way people are or home is or where I can go for help so I don't know where I want to go even.  But I'm going to die if I stay here.  I swear to god I see zombies.  If this is a joke then stop it, it isn't funny!  They're green and walking and stumbling, attacking trees and cut open and not bleeding.

Oh god, I'm going to be sick.  Someone!  Anyone!  Somebody help me please!

Spoiler: Joan's first view of her personal hell (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: My first impressions (click to show/hide)

This is pretty polished for an early Alpha.  I maxed video quality and view distance settings, still turning smoothly and running well.

The audio's great, both the initial music and the zombie sounds are menacing.  It really sounds like I'm surrounded by zombies.

The game does not appear to have a way to pause it.  This is terrifying for me;  I'm the sort of player who likes to pause and recheck commands, options, scribble a few notes, make a few plans.  This game is not going to let me do that, in fact even all my snapshots will have to be snap and quit moments.  Pressing escape brings up a quit/suicide choice, but it does nothing to slow or stop the action.

Joan started in the middle of nowhere.  A pond on one side, wasteland otherwise all around.  No sense that she'd been there long, no sense of where she came from, not much to make an obvious difference as to which way to turn.  Some cinderblocks right by her feet, no clear way to pick them up in commands or through messing with them.  Punched them a few times; no doubt about it, Joan was not a blackbelt before ending up in this game.

A quick look around showed three zombies close enough to see, two fairly close to each other east of the pond (shown in the photo), the third west of the pond and a bit further back.  However, the sounds of moaning, groaning, and thumping suggested a lot more than three, Joan really sounds like she's surrounded.

And she is, a few more minutes of slow turning and careful watching; there's actually around 25 or so zombies visible from where she stands, in every direction except the pond, and now I expect there's more across the pond too.  The minimap shows the pond in teal, and there's a low rise of ground and a broken tree blocking the view of whatever the brown thing is directly behind her in the minimap.  If that brown thing is a building, it's quite small and built very low to the ground.

Spoiler: Help Joan out, guys! (click to show/hide)

I plan to run this lets play under your suggestions, your words will be voices in her head.  She'll probably think you're aliens; she'll certain think she's gone mad, and she may or may not do what you as a whole or individually suggest to her, but she will hear you, and she probably would follow any good-sounding advice, the poor scared child.

Turns will be variable in length of game time played; I plan to update once a day, starting about 18 hours from this post.  I expect most turns will be a good bit heavier on the images than this one was, and a lot less heavy on text-block style writing.

Hope people have fun with this!  Looks like a neat game so far.

[Iceblaster]

Find shelter.

Hole up in the attic.

Figure out which houses will be the safest and will most likely have food. Also. Make sure there aren't any deadly things in your area.

[MonkeyHead]

Find a weapon - even if its a big stick. There is no point having somewhere to hole up if you cannot defend yourself.

[hostergaard]

Find a weapon - even if its a big stick. There is no point having somewhere to hole up if you cannot defend yourself.

I thought one of the prime reason for holing up was because you lacked the ability to defend yourself properly? 

Anyway, I support looking for a weapon, a big stick seems most realistic. But I also suggest go check out that brown thing on the minimap, if its a house/shack it may work as a temporary base and possibly have a weapon of shorts or other supplies.

And keep an eye out for berries or other easy food, apparently we got easy access to water at the moment, so that is good (unless its irradiated or something?), but we need food.

And stay away from the zombies. You probably don't want to tangle with them bare handed. Sneak around if you can, run if you can't, fight if you must. 

[The Coffee God]

-a faint voice echos in your head-

Sanity?
What is sanity without a Godly voice of reason?

Look around us.
Does this really look like a place we want to "live"?  Shambling lifeless corpses as our only neighbors?  Surviving (if we wish to refer to it as that) in an environment best suited for the dead?


Here is my proposal...

If our answer is "No", then why not come to the "other side" and let the dead "live" in peace.

If our answer is "Yes", then I suggest we take a serious internal look at what we are, where we are, and what can be accomplished with the materials at hand.
And try to find a way to co-exist in this environment without taking too many endangering risks, while opportunisticly surveying our surrounding area to get some inkling as to which direction we should travel.

-as the voice trails off into the deep dark recesses-

And who knows, we may even find out we are not alone and that there's others of like mind in this barren corpse-ridden landscape. 

[wer6]

Squawk, get weapons squawk

[birdy51]

I don't see any nearby attics. Get out of the area. Fast. Find some kind of isolated point, where we have some kind of respite!

[Imp]

Find shelter...

why not come to the "other side"...

And stay away from the zombies...

What is sanity...

Find a weapon...

Get out of the area. Fast...

Here is my proposal...

Squawk...

And keep an eye out for berries...

We may even find out we are not alone...

Find some kind of isolated point...

Sneak around if you can, run if you can't, fight if you must.

Joan drops to her knees, then vomits, clenching her hands to the sides of her head, choking as she tries to scream.

Your voices continue to roll through her mind.  Some of you taunting, some comforting, some discussing the value of hiding in an attic, if only there was an attic to be found.  One voice may be advocating suicide, but the remainder seem to offer suggestions for survival, though how to survive seems to be openly debated.

Perhaps growing used to the sound of your voices in her head, Joan stirs, then wipes her mouth and moans, "How do I go home.  I want to go home!"

I also suggest go check out that brown thing on the minimap, if its a house/shack it may work as a temporary base and possibly have a weapon of shorts or other supplies.

Joan seems to decide to focus on this advice the most.  She brushes herself off then starts to carefully cross the rise of ground that prevents her from seeing that place.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A ruined cluster of walls distracts her, and she veers from the straight path towards that brown area.  To her eyes, there's nothing unusual due west.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As she moves, she finds a map half pinned under a cinderblock.  (You start the game with this map, but I didn't know the command to see it when I prepped the OP)

There is only one lake, so Joan marks where she thinks she is, just south of it.  She starts moving more truly towards the 'shack', though there's nothing for her to see as she approaches it.  Half the distance across the pond from her, but there's nothing to see.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

She notices things sticking out of some piles of trash, and grabs them.  Blank paper, a short length of cloth, she barely pays attention to them except to note that they are not weapons or a way to call for help as she tries to see that shack, anywhere.  There's just more bad ground, more dirt and cinderblocks, stones, and weeds.  She's almost standing on the 'shack' now, but not even broken walls mark the place where it had been, nor any area of smooth floor.  Maybe a shack used to be here?  But someone's home, even if this isn't a house.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The closest she's been to one of them yet, and she doesn't want to get any closer.  It moves perhaps 1/3 her speed if she runs, but it's loud.  And there's others, a bit further away, mostly to her left.  She passed at least a dozen getting here, and at least one of those seemed to be aware of her and following.

Where that 'shack' should be, there's some trash there, and some debris that look different from the other mess she's seen around the area.  She skirts the zombie, trying to get a closer look, and maybe find a weapon.  Food?  There's no sign of anything like food anywhere yet.  Course, she really wants to find a phone, a way home, any way home.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As Joan tries to skirt around the nearby zombie, she spots another one nearby to her right, about as close as the other.  Their sounds are louder, seeming to come from all sides and she's really feeling surrounded.  She tries not to look, just to rush to the debris.

It's a tent, with a couple of sleeping bags and a chair, lots of trash, but though she searches she doesn't find anything even as useful as a blank piece of paper.  She grabs for one of the sleeping bags and tries to find anything else she can take and get away with.  But from the sounds of it, some of the zombies are really close, so she takes a few sprinting steps ahead, then spins to stare behind herself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yeah, really close.  Closer than she knew.  One's just jumped on the chair she was right next to seconds before.  After this desperate glance behind herself, she turns and sprints to the northwest, certainly faster than these zombies, and with none visible yet ahead of her.

"Help me, please help me," she pants as she runs.

[Stworca]

There's still just the one world of Alpha 1, right?

[Imp]

There's still just the one world of Alpha 1, right?

I believe so.  When I start a game, I can try to select a world, but Navezgane is the only option to select for now.  Likewise, that map appears to be the limit of the playable area for now.

[stabbymcstabstab]

Joan should chop down some trees with her awesome karate skills and build a tower to wait out the night.

[Stworca]

Joan should chop down some trees with her awesome karate skills and build a tower to wait out the night.

The zombies will headbutt the tower until it collapses. They have destroyed and collapsed a house i was spending the night in.

The only place on Navezgane that i've found so far to be completely safe, is that single brick house in village X.

[CognitiveDissonance]

Hey, this looks cool! PTW.

[wer6]

Squawk, get some wood on the ground, make sticks, make club, ,run for loot, then get to house, or make A torch, using sticks and paper, SQUAWK!

[stabbymcstabstab]

could we build under ground some where they can't get to?