I really enjoyed this - I like how it how that community (alone/together) feel, picking up notes from previous players to guide what to do. It'd be a lot of work, but if the city could be randomly-generated (or, at least, a bunch of different cities so a single player wouldn't get the same one twice) then that could really bump up the awesomeness of leaving notes. Either way, that concept was really cool. It was cool to see how much of the town was mapped before I got there, and the joy of finding a building that no-one had mapped before (but then dying because there were zombies inside and from the other buildings I'd been in I didn't think zombies could enter them, ha...)

I spent much of it updating the map to be pixel perfect, but in the end I died of hunger without commiting my map so I played again updated the map again by walking around but ensured I got back sleep and left extra items for the next player. I like the concept alot and I could see myself binging this just by myself to explore the world, though you'd need to have some way to instance the game I suppose.

Though fighting zombies is hard with knifes in previous versions I tried I never really managed to do it without dieing and there are a lot of zombies in areas lol

I like this! I feel like I came to it pretty late as there were already quite a lot of useful notes, but not so much in the way of supplies. I hope my journal helps future players as I think I may have stumbled across something important.

This is kind of picky for something that was made for a game jam, but I'm not a fan of the "click on a weapon item to use it" style of interaction: at one point I ended up guzzling a whole bunch of energy pills instead of stabbing a zombie because I hovered over the wrong thing while looking somewhere else. I think it would be better to drag weapons to a left hand or right hand slot and then left or right click to use the relevant attack.

The tutorial also feels like overkill. I wanted a quick look just to check the controls, but ended up locked into a lengthy (and as far as I could tell unskippable) sequence that went into way more detail than I found necessary - especially as much of what it explained seemed apparent just from poking around in the game. The whole thing feels pretty intuitive! Because of that, I think you could get away with just a little "cheat sheet" - perhaps with more detail available behind a "next" button for anyone who wants it.

Those are trivial complaints, though. All in all, this is a pretty spectacular result for two weeks of work!

I liked the character selection and instructions, though I felt there was a lot of information thrown at you very quickly. If I hadn't seen the development of this it would have felt like information overload. Perhaps the user could have clicked to continue through each part? I loved the zombies in the town at the beggining of the instructions though!

The journal entries and map updates are excellent and I found myself really engaged with what others had written. The map was good also, although I didn't initially see where on the map was meant to be my character so marked something on the map a bit further north than intended.  Perhaps an undo button in case - like me - you manage to screw it up?

The zombies themselves didn't seem to cause much bother except I couldn't get into one area so went somewhere else. I can imagine that to fully explore someone will have to sort these out.

I didn't use the crafting (successfully) at all but I'd love to see what could be made. Future play-throughs of this would probably yield better results on the crafting front I imagine.

I love that all of these small pieces paint a bigger, more intriguing picture!

Really great concept, similar to the leaving of notes in dark souls but taking that collaboration and running with it. Makes you feel like your actions have a persistent effect on the community of players

Really cool idea. Found a few things in the world that seemed to hint towards an overall progression which i made a note of. kind of hard to figure out how to use the items. Liked that the character apearaces were diverse. Maybe a slightly wider range of colours for the map would be useful. Very interested to see the sorts of notes people leave for each other.

Innovative idea! I like the fact that other players indirectly impact your experience. Do food and items respawn over time? Otherwise it could eventually become difficult to leave the area you spawn in