Massive Black and Rival Theory Team Up To Deliver Zombie Playground

Gear up.

Fill your water guns, sharpen your pencils, feed your Tamagotchi, and figure out another word for thesaurus because summer’s over. That’s right.. we’re going back to school, except this time we’re going to learn something we can actually use. I’m not talking about that Reading Rainbow crap, I’m talking about surviving the zombie apocalypse! In this school, math class is counting bodies and the only physics involved is how hard you can swing a baseball bat through previously-living tissue- remember kids, swing through the zombie skull. Not even Hot Wheels roll this hard. Massive Black’s vision will be centered around childlike themes, deep engaging gameplay, and worthy reward systems. Generally speaking, Zombie Playground will be an online, team-based, 3D action game, played in the third person. Rival Theory’s newest technology, Sentio, will be featuring the industry’s best AI character behavior, pathfinding and braaaains…(see what I did there?). So when a zombie is hurling pieces of its rotted corpse across the room in an attempt to kill you, think of us. Even though the game is set in a school, the gameplay will feature plenty of guts, gore, and mature themes. Players will enjoy Zombie Playground’s delicate balance of humor and horror. Although the Kickstarter is over you can still follow the game’s frequent updates: including character profiles, weapons, levels, gameplay goodies, and AI developments.

Check it out and let us know what you’re the most excited about.
Zombie Playground Website
Kickstarter Project

Thanks to Massive Black, we’re excited to go back to school and so is our AI. See you in class.

-Rival Theory Team

If you have questions about Sentio and would like to know if your project would benefit, please contact jester@rivaltheory.com



About Massive Black: Massive Black is a digital artwork and animation studio servicing the Game, Film, Entertainment and Advertising Industry. We help companies visualize their properties with artwork. Our work is typically geared towards the consumer market, with our role as specialists that ‘facelift’ existing or aide in the creation of new intellectual properties to make them more interesting, accessible and marketable. Over the last 8 years Massive Black has worked on some of the largest franchises in games and movies. We’ve worked on over 400 games for all the major publishers - Companies like Electronic Arts, Blizzard, THQ, Capcom, Activision, Sony, 2K, Microsoft. Our artists have also contributed to some of the biggest movies including the Transformers and GI Joe series and Prometheus.