Games I Want To Play #1

First in a series of posts describing games I want to play. Not necessarily any particular medium - could be incarnated as a board, card, or video game.

"Survival Horror meets Civilization-style Resource Management"

SETTING: Zombie apocalypse

OBJECTIVE: Survive, maybe even rebuild civilization

GAME PLAY:
- Turn based, or maybe "X-Com" style where a clock is always running, tasks are allotted a certain amount of time to complete, and events interrupt.
- "Scouting party" skirmishes where armed parties search for survivors, resources, or make offensives against zombies; in a video game, this could be a squad-level FPS simulation.
- Could be multi-player; people could cooperate or compete for resources.
- The exploration of the world area reveals things over time: zombie hordes, cities in various states of disarray, military groups, warlords, places to move into and take over (like prisons or Wal-Marts).
- Typical tasks in a turn: Build onto your existing fortifications, defend areas, watch/police your population for infections, locate resources/weapons/survivors.


I'm thinking Puerto Rico meets ZOMBIES!!! in terms of board games... other inspirations include "The Walking Dead" comic and "World War Z" novel.

Oh Greenspan, You Sneak!

Greenspan foresaw all of this years and years ago! He started preparing to leave his office in 2004 by raising the rate as fast as he could over his last two years... so that the next guy to come in would have enough slack to drop the rate when needed.

I think the problem though may be that Big Ben is blowing his wad a little too fast. Alan didn't leave him THAT many karma points... he's got two left now. When the bubble deflates some more, he's going to have to blow it all again. I figure he's got about six quarters left.