Ground control to Runner 5: new missions day is upon us once more. This week we’ve got Space Oddity and Our House.
You can download these missions right now from the ‘Missions’ tab. If you’re a Pro Member, you can download and play both missions immediately. Otherwise, you can use your free weekly unlock to play either one.
As always, please let us know what you think!
It’s time – two new Season 6 missions are primed and ready to run! This week, we’ve got King of Dreams and Road to Nowhere.
You can download these missions right now from the ‘Missions’ tab. If you’re a Pro Member, you can download and play both missions immediately. Otherwise, you can use your free weekly unlock to play either one.
As always, please let us know what you think!
After a recent recording session at Zombies, Run! headquarters, actor Philip Nightingale (Sam Yao) kindly agreed to a rapid fire Q&A session. Matt wants to know:
Two new missions are here, Runner 5! Lessons in Love and Runaway have been deployed and are ready to run.
You can download these missions right now from the ‘Missions’ tab in app. If you’re a Pro Member, you can download and play both missions immediately. Otherwise, you can use your free weekly unlock to play either one.
As always, please let us know what you think!
SPOILER WARNING: Contains spoilers for Season 6 Mission 5
Here’s another look at the recording of a Zombies, Run! mission, once again featuring Philip Nightingale (Sam) and Jennifer Tan (Jody) on vocals, Mark Pittam on keyboards, and Matt Wieteska as bandleader.
Matt here – Lead Designer of the Zombies, Run! Board Game!:
We’ve had an exciting couple of weeks here, as we’ve started receiving the first sets of materials from our manufacturing partner, and we’re getting ready to run demos of the game at the UK Games Expo in early June.
I could write a lot about the new card designs, the dummy box, the story artefacts, and everything, but a) it’s early b) I haven’t had my coffee yet and c) Adrian filmed me talking about it all for like 20 minutes yesterday so you should probably just watch the video instead.
Check it out to see new card designs, a sneak peek at secret puzzles, and my hair, which has discovered how to escape the earth’s gravitational pull. Then pre-order the game, if you haven’t already – it’s only $36, which is frankly criminally low-priced!
A new Wednesday means two new missions! This week, get moving with Your Woman and Bridge Over Troubled Water.
You can download these missions right now from the ‘Missions’ tab in app. If you’re a Pro Member, you can download and play both missions immediately. Otherwise, you can use your free weekly unlock to play either one.
As always, please let us know what you think!
SPOILER WARNING: Contains spoilers for Season 6 Mission 3
Over the years, many have wondered: where do Zombies, Run! missions come from?
All is revealed in this clip from the recording of Season 6, starring Philip Nightingale (Sam) and Jennifer Tan (Jody), with appearances from sound designer Mark Pittam (Pensive) and director Matt Wieteska (Strong Eye Contact).
We’re very excited to let you know that we’ve partnered with the charity Stand Up to Cancer (part of Cancer Research UK) to create an all new Virtual Race! It’s called the Celeb Chase Virtual Race and runs from 29 June – 9 July.
Entries are available now for £30 + £3 worldwide shipping, and £22 of that is a donation to Stand Up to Cancer. This will fund translational research specifically designed to turn breakthroughs in the lab into treatments and tests that help people with cancer.
All entries come with a t-shirt, medal, and of course, audio-based training and race missions through our Racelink app. Perfect to tide you over ‘til the next ZR race, and all in support of a fantastic cause.
Zombies, Run! doesn’t need an expensive phone to run. We know, because we always test our latest builds on cheap and slower phones! It’s fun to have fast phones but we know some players can’t afford them.
Even so, we still get the occasional support email from people using old phones that, even when they were new, were sadly underpowered and running ancient versions of Android. It’s always frustrating because it’s not expensive at all to get a phone that will run ZR perfectly well!
So if you’re looking to buy a new cheap phone, or want a dedicated ZR phone, this guide is for you!
It’s obviously cheapest to get an unlocked phone – in fact, you don’t even need cellular data at all to use Zombies, Run! GPS works fine without it, and you can rely on your home wifi to download missions and sync your run logs to ZombieLink – or use a PAYG SIM. Android 6.0+ is ideal for future-proofing and features such as built-in step tracking. All the phones below, except for the Vodafone, run on Android 6.0+.
It isn’t particularly fast, and has a small screen (3.5″), but it is really cheap and has a handy MicroSD slot for your music. It’ll fit in your pocket and is very lightweight. It’s locked to Vodafone, but you can use their Pay-As-You-Go instead. We wouldn’t recommend this as a main phone, but it’s good if you just want one to run with.
These are relatively faster phones, with dual SIM capabilities. You can even use this as your main phone if you aren’t too demanding! It has a bigger screen than the Vodafone (5″), and while the processing power isn’t fantastic, it’s good for the price.
The G4 Play is a good phone, with a decent screen and uses Android 6.0. However, it does include adverts if you buy it from Amazon, who offer it at the lowest price. But it isn’t full of the usual bloatware on cheaper phones, meaning it runs relatively quickly as long as you don’t open all your apps at once!
The G4 uses Android 6.0. It has a bigger screen than the G4 Play and is a faster, more reliable option. It’s usable as main phone, and you can run Runkeeper/Strava at the same time. Android 7.0 is also rolling out to the Moto G4, which makes it more future-proof. It’s water-resistant (not waterproof!) and has a great battery life for a phone of this price.
The G5 will launch with Android 7.0, so it’s even more future-proof, and faster than the G4 models. This has a fingerprint scanner, which is pretty snazzy for a phone at this price, and a crisp HD screen display of 5″.
Bluetooth headphones have come a long way in the past few years, improving their price, battery life, range, reliability, and sound quality. You won’t get tangled up in wires or have to thread them through your T-shirt – instead, you can keep your phone safely in a pocket or belt. The one downside is that you’ll have to remember to recharge them!
These are comfortable, stable in-ear headphones. The sound quality is decent enough, and they’re small and lightweight, making them so easy to bundle into your bag or pocket. They have the basic controls for music volume, call/music and track-skipping.
These earbuds have a comfortable collar design and come with the same basic controls as the Anker Soundbuds. These really push a lot bass, so if you like a heavy beat to run to, these may be a good choice. But they are less ideal for those who like a more placid playlist when running from zombies.
These have decent sound quality for their price, comfortable design that stays put no matter how much you move and has an in-built mic as well as basic controls. They aren’t waterproof, but they can withstand sweat!
These earphones have really good sound quality for their price bracket. They’re also very comfortable, and won’t budge during your workout. They let in a good amount of ambient sound and have a reflective cable, which is great for road runners!
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