Fitness App: Zombies Give You Incentive to Run
- Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:51am by
Liz Klimas
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Is your running playlist getting stale? Or do you just need motivation to run in general? Running from zombies should be incentive enough.
The Zombie, Run! app, which will be available in early 2012 for iPhone and Android, is not only a soundtrack of zombies chasing you, but its an actual story, a game that will keep you running with a sense of accomplishment.
Watch the creators explain:
App users will hear instructions and “the story” through headphones on their run. According to the app creators, the game has two parts. One the run, you “collect” items for the base. After your run, you download the items you’ve “collected” to the base, helping it grow.
Wired reported Zombies, Run! writer Naomi Alderman saying she got inspiration for the game from a running group she joined:
During an introductory session, one of the organizers asked the group why they wanted to run.
“To outrun the zombie horde,” said one of the participants. Everybody laughed — except for Alderman. Her mind was busy running races of its own.
Wired continues stating that the runner in the game — called Runner 5 — will increase their likelihood of survival the more he or she runs:
“There’ll definitely be a deeper mystery to uncover — after all, where did those zombies come from in the first place? — and plenty of intrigue and double-dealing between the self-interested people in your base,” Alderman said in an email.
“Like the hero of any video game, Runner 5 is going to survive, but perhaps not everyone else will,” she said.
Not sure if this app would be for you? Check out your state’s theorized survivability ranking to see if you should start building up your endurance.
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westernmass
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:32pmOk, normally I find “apps” for phones annoying and a stupid industry but this is amazing, LOL. I wish I owned a cell phone, just for this. Talk about a great excuse to go out running, hahahaha.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:26pmJust downloaded this. Going to try it this weekend!
Yay!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:50amNEXT APP: you are an emplyee of a bank on Wall Street. Hordes of stinky yeasty communist hippies are chasing you down demanding you pay for their brocolli, and their student loans. Run banker, Run!
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:20pmTake it a step further, have a setting where you chase down the stinky hippies with soap, scrub-brush and deodorant. That a guaranteed hard run right there! LOL
Report Post »SquishyBear
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:15pmare these the slow zombies that are only really threatening in large groups, or the kind that run after you at full speed like on “dawn of the dead”? its important to know.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:27pmThere are three settings;
Report Post »Slow: Dawn of the Dead
Medium: Resident evil
Fast: 28 days
FoxholeAtheist
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 10:22amSince most of the pee party members would rather sit in front of the television watching Faux News stuffing their face full of McDonald’s all day, I doubt this will be a big hit with them.
Report Post »InversionTheory
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 10:57amThe Pee Party? Is that where we get together, drink a six pack of light beer and see how many people is takes to completely soak all 2400 odd pages of the Obamacare monstrosity?
This sounds like an awesome idea. Anyone else in for this one?
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:04amYou get your exercise by outrunning God I suppose? You cant do it…Hell will catch you eventually…Turn ot burn atheist.
Report Post »caleejr
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:18amtime to burn ‘eh -atheist? try contributing to society instead. no one’s forcing their agenda on you – you however feel quite comfortable doing the very thing you accuse others of. the very epitome of a hypocrite ….
Report Post »Skee
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:52pmAnd socialists sit in front of their TV’s watching Olberman, with bacon strips in their underwear and stains under their armpits. While loading a syringe and complaining how mom doesn’t do their laundry anymore.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:04pmI’m a cross country runner, a tea party sympathizer and I totally want this app!
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:22pmI prefer Subway. cold cut trio is the bomb!
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:28amMe and my beagle already play this one when we go out for walks. I guess I’d download it to see if it helps. My favorite version of this is when I’m driving late at night or real early in morning. “I swear that jogger was a zombie officer!”
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:17am“Brains…….”
Report Post »Sy Kosys
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:04amWhich rules the population of lib-tardia from buying this app……
Report Post »Sy Kosys
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:18amrules ‘out’ even lol
DOH!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 7:21amI would never run from a zombie..I carry.
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:33amRule #1 cardio. Always be able to run if there are more zombies than you have bullets.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:37amConserve your ammo! Can your food! They are already crawling around NY and the virus is rapidly spreading. Romero himself could not have prepared us for this. Oh god, NO!
Report Post »behindthejab
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 3:57pmYou never have enough ammo for all the zombies my friend. A gun is a wonderful thing, but an understanding of tactics makes it useful.
Report Post »diablosho
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 7:01amHow cool! I wish my legs worked, so I could play this game! Very creative, and I’ll bet this is going to be a new wave of exercise tools.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:17amI agree very creative. anything that gets them off the couch and away from the video games.
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:34amWell, it might get them off the couch.
Report Post »Theswerd
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:44amBased on your comment, I presume you are in a wheelchair? Well, As I understand it, the phone doesn’t not the vibrations of running, it would just measure your movemnt via the internal GPS. So… you can go rolling through a park for a bit, or if you have a dog, let Rover pull you around! If I had a smart phone, I would surely get this and be biking around. Running isn’t for me, the much weight with that kind of impact on the knees.. pass. Biking, heck yeah! Save the world (or my base, at least) from zombies? Yeah….. ooooh yeah….
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:42amI’ll listen to it irresponsibly in my car around large groups of people carrying Marxist propaganda signage. See ya tomorrow in Cleveland zombies! J/k
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