I started playing Zombies, Run this month
And managed to convince one of my house mates that I was using it as genuine training for the inevitable zombie apocalypse, using this article: io9.com/5916048/how-a-zombie-outbreak-could-happen-in-real-life and the insistence that I would never, ever run under normal circumstances. They're getting the app now. Ahhh, fitness converts... one paranoid, gullible maniac at a time...

Slightly OT: Anyone else playing it? :D

EDIT: Link to the official one: www.zombiesrungame.com with iPod/Android links. :-)
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 9:23, 6 replies)

No, it's not on Android yet - but
that's exactly how and why I train: long distances, with intervals of sprinting.
It's the sort of fitness ability you want for when you need to run.
( Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 9:39, closed)

A quick Google found this:
Zombie, Run!

*downloads it*
( snee held his breath since, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:03, closed)

It is on Android.
I downloaded it to my Galaxy a couple weeks ago. I play it with my 3yo daughter. I can't push the pushchair one handed and watch the phone, so I havd the phone to my little girl and she keeps an eye on the zombies while I run!

I up the density and speed if we're in the car too. She loves playing it.
( user_names_suck, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 12:06, closed)

It was officially released (in a 0.9 beta) on Android yesterday
& there are a fair few mockups of it, too.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 14:58, closed)

That's good, but doesn't explain why zombies won't eat each other just to keep going, if the fungus will eat the host's own body in the absence of other food

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:40, closed)

I guess because it will detect the presence of other organisms?
Dunno really.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 14:58, closed)

When I was running regularly I used to imagine that I was being chased, a la 'The 39 Steps'...but this looks even better. Time to hit the phys!
(isaac_octavius loves you but he's chosen disco, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 12:04, closed)

\o/

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:01, closed)

I want it, but i don't want to exercise!
(baldpig pee'd in your pool on, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 14:06, closed)

You can play it walking ;)
I realise I sound like a commercial in this thread though. :P Fucking run!
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 17:24, closed)