Author: Adrian Hon

Step Buy Step Out Now on iPhone!

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Once You Step, You Just Can’t Stop

It’s that time of the week again, everyone. Time for a brand new release in our Winter of Workouts and it’s a real doozy this time: Step Buy Step: A Pedometer Adventure is now available on iOS.

What’s Step Buy Step? Only the greatest Pedometer Adventure Game in history. Only the cutest collection of animal walking companions this side of The Animals of Farthing Wood. Only the perfect symbiosis of Cookie-Clicker style gameplay, fitness and story.

Step Buy Step turns all your everyday walking into an adventure. We track your steps and turn them into Stepps – our magical currency. You’ll use this currency to expand your caravan of cute and cuddly companions.

Every animal adventurer who joins you on your quest will increase how many Stepps you earn for every step you take, until you’re crossing entire countries in a single stride!

With five exciting challenges, gorgeous graphics by artist Estee Chan and more zoological puns than you can shake a stick insect at, Step Buy Step is the only pedometer you need and the greatest ambulatory adventure you’ll ever have.

Step Buy Step is out now for iPhone at $1.99 / €1.79 / £1.49

Give the Gift (Certificate) of Zombies, Run!

Like the ravening undead hordes, the holiday season is once again rapidly approaching. A time for coming together with your loved ones, decapitating those of you who have already gone grey and giving lovely presents to the rest. 

The problem being, of course, that most presents are replete with issues that make them basically useless and terrible.

  1. You have to leave your house to get them
  2. They’re heavy and difficult to carry from place to place
  3. They don’t have kickass pictures of zombie elves all over the place

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…Until Now

Introducing the Zombies, Run! Christmas Gift Certificate. Here’s how it works:

  1. Go over to the iTunes App Store and buy a gift code for your favourite Zombie-themed running app. Unfortunately, Google Play don’t let you gift apps so this step’s just for iOS users. 
  2. Download our gift certificate – it’s free! 
  3. Print that thing out. 
  4. Do your best impression of the world’s top bureaucrat and fill in all the boxes (including the gift code you got from Apple!)
  5. Deliver the love like a postal worker on Valentine’s Day. 

It could not be easier. Well, it could be but we can’t do everything for you. 

Merry Christmas, Runners!

7 Minute Superhero Workout Now on Android – plus 40% off!

Our sister app, 7 Minute Superhero Workout, is out now on Android! (Yes, we have a new name, as well!). We’re really thrilled that we get to bring the adventures of AEGIS One to Android phones and tablets, and we think the app will give players a fantastic workout.

We’ve also updated our iOS app to version 1.1, adding seven all-new challenges alongside our existing thrill-a-minute motion-tracking gameplay.

And to celebrate the release, we’ve dropped the price to $2.99 on both platforms! There’s never been a better time to sign up with the ODC and join the fight to defend the Earth.

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New Features for iOS and Android

We’ve added a new Challenge mode for iPhones and iPads that’ll push you to your limits: how many ski jumps can you complete in 100 seconds? How long can you maintain 25 pushups per minute?

We’ve also introduced a Checkpoint system for both platforms, allowing you to split the longer missions into shorter 8-9 minute chunks so you can catch your breath or simply try out even more rapid workouts. Finally, on iOS you can now choose your own music to play during Workouts!

You can grab Superhero Workout right now from the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store for $2.99!

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Find out more on our website and follow @superherogame on Twitter.

Nice words about Zombies, Run!, Six to Start, and our games

We’ve been busy bees recently. Between Zombies, Run! 3, Superhero Workout and Dungeon Runner we’ve released three games this year. But we’re not stopping there! We’ve got three more releases for you as part of our Winter of Workouts event.

With so much going on, we thought we’d take a look back and see what the media has been saying about us recently. Luckily, it’s all good! Here’s our round-up of our favourite Six to Start articles. Otherwise known as Six to Starticles.

Zombies, Run! creator Six to Start releases Dungeon Runner: Fitness Quest for iOS (AppAdvice.com)

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Dungeon Runner: Fitness Quest Turns Exercise Into An Old-School RPG (Lifehacker.com)

Developer Six to Start on fitness, zombies, and embracing the Apple Watch (Macworld.com)

Superhero Workout Review (148apps.com)

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Superhero Workout app: Get fit by fighting aliens (CNET.com)

Zombies, Run! and four other smartphone apps to reenergize your First Light Half Marathon training (AL.com)

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Behind the App: The Story of Zombies, Run! (Lifehacker.com)

Apptitude: ‘Zombies, Run!’ might scare you into healthy habits (Washingtonpost.com)

10 apps we want to see on the Apple Watch: Zombies, Run!, Shazam, transport alerts & more (Macworld.com)

If you happen to come across any interesting Six to Start related articles on your travels around the internet, be sure to let us know by emailing us at hello@sixtostart.com. Don’t forget to keep an eye on the Winter of Workouts website to discover each new game as it gets released!

Winter (Of Workouts) is coming…

At Six to Start, we like to keep things moving. Partly because it’s starting to get a little chilly here in London, but mostly because nothing makes us happier than bringing brand new experiences to players around the world. Zombies, Run!, The Walk, and Superhero Workout have inspired over a million of you to challenge yourselves and improve your fitness… but there’s plenty more fun to be had.

So, we’re doing something a little different this Winter. Over the next month, we’ll be marking the holiday season with not one, but four new releases! We’re calling this event the Winter of Workouts.

For now, it’s time to dust off your best suit of armour and meet our first new game: Dungeon Runner. 

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Enemies gathering, magic crackling, health points dwindling. A tense battle in any adventure game can get the heart racing, but we’ll do it literally. To make it through the levels in Dungeon Runner, you’ll have to move. For real.

Dungeon Runner uses the same advanced motion-tracking technology as Superhero Workout. Instead of an alien-smashing supersuit though, this hero carries a sword and shield into battle with the evil Dungeon Lord. In this 8-bit adventure you’ll fight fiends, smash urns, and surmount bottomless pits – all using bodyweight exercises tracked by your phone or tablet’s camera!

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Here’s the coolest part – Dungeon Runner is out on iOS right now, and it’s available for free! 

Supply Pack Detected!

Have you ever been evading zombies like a boss, gone to wipe your brow and said to yourself “I wish I had an awesome Runner 5 sweatband”? Or got back from a great run, made yourself a cup of tea and thought “you know, there’s just something cooler my mug could be sitting on”?

Well, look no further – we’ve listened to your requests and have come up with something a little different: the Runner 5 Supply Pack, for $27.49!

These Supply Packs are a perfect way to plunge yourself even deeper into the universe of Zombies, Run! as well as complete your Runner 5 look! Each pack contains:

  • Runner 5 sweatband to keep your brow dry as you run for your life
  • Reversible silicone wristband – ‘Abel Runner 5’ on one side, ‘If Grey Destroy Brain’ on the other. Just in case…
  • Official Abel Township fabric patch, so you can literally wear your heart on your sleeve. Or your rucksack.
  • 32 page Official Runner’s Notebook for serious field research. Definitely no doodling.
  • Radio Abel mug coaster
  • 2 vinyl stickers (‘Semper Currens’ and ‘Radio Abel’)
  • 3 cool pin badges (‘Runner 5’, ‘Raise The Gates’ and ‘Abel Radio’)
  • 4 item-pickup magnets (Ammo, Antibiotics, Batteries, & Sports Bra)

These packs are on a very short run and there’s no guarantee we will be offering them up again, so we expect them to sell out!

*Which is probably yourself – and that’s totally cool! Also: use code ZRBLOG3 to get $3 off the pack, for a limited time only!


Beta test our new personalised newsletter!

Now that there are over 150 missions in Zombies, Run! to sink your shoes into, how about a weekly update to keep you (and your runs) up to speed?

We’re opening beta access to our new, personalised newsletter, and you can add your name to the list here! This is a trial run for something we’re looking to launch in the the next few weeks, so we’re keen to get feedback about how we can make it as awesome as possible.

You’ll receive a report of your weekly Zombies, Run! activity delivered straight to your inbox, including all the essentials about your week’s missions, as well as cumulative running stats and a report from Abel Township – plus some extras!

On top of this, it will also recap the missions you have completed that week, offering stats for each run at a glance, as well as links to the full mission and run log pages if you want to check them out in more detail.

iOS 8 In-App Purchases

Hello! We’re aware that many iOS 8 users aren’t able to complete in-app purchases in Zombies, Run! We’re sorry for the inconvenience – we’re just as annoyed ourselves! – and we’re taking every action available to us to fix this.

We expect to have in-app purchases working again soon, and as soon as they’re ready, we’ll let you know.