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    Zombies, Run!

    Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Feb 24, 2012

    A zombie survival strategy game meets jogging companion app for iOS and Android, featuring an ongoing audio story to go along with your running from hordes of the living dead.

    Does Zombies, Run work on a bicycle?

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    #1  Edited By psylah

    I was going to get a bike to help me get out of the house more, and I was wondering if this game would work while riding a bike.

    Are the "zombies" fast enough to chase me down at bicycle speeds?

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    #2  Edited By Morrow

    @psylah:

    So instead of gaming inside you'll game outside? You think that's the point of going out more? :D

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    #3  Edited By eroticfishcake

    Doesn't the game work like a pedometer in the sense that rough up and down movements are registered as actually travelling? If it's in your pocket where it's relatively secure I'm not sure if it'll work. I don't know the answer myself though I'm just throwing this out. I suppose the only way to find out is to do it yourself?

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    #4  Edited By VierasTalo

    If it just uses the accelerometer, there's hardly any reason as to why it wouldn't work. If it uses gyros or something to detect movement as well, then it probably won't. I don't think all the phones it supports have gyros (or if any phones have them for that matter) so it probably does use an accelerometer.

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    #5  Edited By psylah

    @VierasTalo said:

    If it just uses the accelerometer, there's hardly any reason as to why it wouldn't work. If it uses gyros or something to detect movement as well, then it probably won't. I don't think all the phones it supports have gyros (or if any phones have them for that matter) so it probably does use an accelerometer.

    My phone has everything including a flux capacitor, so it should be able to handle any sensor requirements it has.

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    #6  Edited By kindgineer

    @Morrow said:

    @psylah:

    So instead of gaming inside you'll game outside? You think that's the point of going out more? :D

    This seems more productive then meeting random strangers and getting HEP A.

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    #7  Edited By SexyToad

    Oh wow $7.99. Well I looked around and people said they biked while using it. So maybe the difficulty of the zombies increase with your speed? Also do you have an iPhone and not a iPod touch? Because from what I read the zombies mobs are activated without an Internet connection.

    I posted late...

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    #8  Edited By Morrow

    @ck1nd said:

    @Morrow said:

    @psylah:

    So instead of gaming inside you'll game outside? You think that's the point of going out more? :D

    This seems more productive then meeting random strangers and getting HEP A.

    You don't get sick by meeting new people. Except you like to sleep with them without protection, which is stupid anyway.

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    #9  Edited By kindgineer

    @Morrow said:

    @ck1nd said:

    @Morrow said:

    @psylah:

    So instead of gaming inside you'll game outside? You think that's the point of going out more? :D

    This seems more productive then meeting random strangers and getting HEP A.

    You don't get sick by meeting new people. Except you like to sleep with them without protection, which is stupid anyway.

    Generally the people that say "you need to get out more often" are the ones that come home with HEP A :P

    This was slathered with morning sarcasm, by the way. Not to mention it's 2012 and meeting people in public is just a nostalgic art that we like to use as a ballast for our normalcy in our peer's eyes.

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    #10  Edited By Morrow

    @ck1nd said:

    @Morrow said:

    @ck1nd said:

    @Morrow said:

    @psylah:

    So instead of gaming inside you'll game outside? You think that's the point of going out more? :D

    This seems more productive then meeting random strangers and getting HEP A.

    You don't get sick by meeting new people. Except you like to sleep with them without protection, which is stupid anyway.

    Generally the people that say "you need to get out more often" are the ones that come home with HEP A :P

    This was slathered with morning sarcasm, by the way. Not to mention it's 2012 and meeting people in public is just a nostalgic art that we like to use as a ballast for our normalcy in our peer's eyes.

    Err, no, those are the ones with a life. But nevermind :D

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    #11  Edited By psylah

    @SexyToad:

    I have a Galaxy SII (Skyrocket), so I'll have a connection without wi-fi.

    @Morrow:

    I always have unprotected sex with strangers while riding my bike down the street.

    Come on, man, get with the times.

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    #12  Edited By Morrow

    @psylah said:

    @Morrow:

    I always have unprotected sex with strangers while riding my bike down the street.

    Come on, man, get with the times.

    Well I'm not a man and I'm curious to hear what positions you use.

    :D

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    #13  Edited By psylah

    @Morrow said:

    @psylah said:

    @Morrow:

    I always have unprotected sex with strangers while riding my bike down the street.

    Come on, man, get with the times.

    Well I'm not a man and I'm curious to hear what positions you use.

    :D

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    Use one of these bad boys!

    I am still working on my Unicycle technique...

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    #14  Edited By Morrow

    @psylah:

    lol xD

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    #15  Edited By TheSouthernDandy
    @psylah

    I was going to get a bike to help me get out of the house more, and I was wondering if this game would work while riding a bike.

    Are the "zombies" fast enough to chase me down at bicycle speeds?

    It does indeed. You can use GPS track your position as well as the accelerometer. Being on a bike should help with the zombie mobs those are no joke.

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