Comments on: Interview with Undead Labs’ Jeff Strain

By: Undead Labs Ticking Along | Kill Ten Rats

Undead Labs Ticking Along | Kill Ten Rats — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:15:22 +0000

[...] been some recent activity at Undead Labs. You might recall they are the newest MMO hotshots in town going to create a console-based zombie MMO. The best [...]

By: James

James — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:53:55 +0000

I met Jeff and his family a while back and wish him and his new venture the absolute best. May great things happen to such good people.

By: Undead Labs « Aim for the Head

Undead Labs « Aim for the Head — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:58:36 +0000

[...] week, Ravious over at Kill Ten Rats posted an interview with Jeff Strain that is worth reading if you are into that sort of thing. December 23rd, 2009 | Category: Zombie [...]

By: Ravious

Ravious — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:48:41 +0000

Thanks! I appreciate all the thanks. I enjoy bringing them all to you. I do have a… boon in that KTR readers are, IMHO, intelligent enough to research unanswered questions on their own. IOW, KTR readers don’t rely on me for ALL their information, and I can ask more interesting questions (that might require more effort on the reader’s part).

By: jocogi

jocogi — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:52:59 +0000

Ravious, your interviews with the big names are second to none. I really enjoy reading them. Every idiot out there seems to ask the same questions over and over, my personal most hated, ‘Will Guild Wars 2 be subscription?’. You however, ask interesting but not overly presumptuous or nosey questions. The devs always seem to like you too. It’s great how Mr. Strain thanks you for your question about where he would hole up in a zombie invastion. I love games that have love put into them, and these sorts of questions display the passion that some developers have for their creations. In the long run, it helps me pick games I want to invest my time and love into as well.

A massive fan of your work,
jocogi.

By: GregT

GregT — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:10:17 +0000

That is a great interview; thanks and good work.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:12:20 +0000

Jeff: “you can watch an excellent movie like Land of the Lost and leave the theater thinking, “Man, that could really happen!” whereas with mediocre, unrealistic movies like 28 Days Later you leave thinking, “Bioengineered viruses that don’t work exactly as planned. What a complete joke.””

I am an absolute sucker for game programmers who are clever with language. I believe someone who transcends the stereotype of good with numbers = bad with words is always going to make interesting stuff.

I’m also amused to see a guy who made WoW complain that mmodom is all trying to make WoW nowadays. If you didn’t want everyone to do that Jeff you should have done a worse job on WoW!

I expect this to be a highly enjoyable game with a lot of hidden depth.

By the way your icebreaker question was a masterful piece of interviewing, Ravious.

By: Ravious

Ravious — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:24:53 +0000

Yeah, I avoided those questions because Eurogamer already got stonewalled by them. Jeff gives some pretty good hints though. :)

By: Bronte

Bronte — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:51:21 +0000

Great interview dude!

Unfortunately not a lot of details on a rough timeline or any gameplay elements, but its a start! :D

By: Rog

Rog — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:52:54 +0000

Jeff Strain really knows how to handle an interview and turns out you’re pretty good at conducting one too Rav. Kudos. =)

I love the response to “MMO” especially.