Infected! is the first RPG from Immersion Studios and Holocaust Survivor Stories: Georgina author Oliver Shead. Zombies are infected humans – fast, deadly and cunning. Mankind is winning, though, and civilisation is beginning to recover which gives the PCs options… this twist on the post-apocalyptic story is Kickstarter that’s doing well, needing just a nudge […]
Short film: Last Light
Does he have what it takes to survive? This is a zombie post apocalyptic short in which one hopeless man has to wrestle with his past in order to have any sort of future. Last Light was a submission for the My Rode Reel 2015, International Short Film Competition and was directed by Michael Lubin. […]
5 ways to end the world without being boring about it
I’m a big fan of post-apocalyptic RPG settings and as a result I must have ended the world in two dozen ways already. There are some common ways of bringing about the apocalypse and some of them are a touch cliché. Let’s just say you wanted to try something different to challenge your group of […]
Short film: The OceanMaker
One of my favourite short films of the year. Here we have a post-apocalyptic world that’s run dry. A single pilot fights bravely against sky pirates who are out to steal the last remaining source of water – the clouds themselves. The film was made by laptops and a 7 week long retreat to a […]
It looks scarily good, no wonder Blackout is winning on Kickstarter
The board game is an post-apocalyptic dungeon crawl that supports GM-led play, solo and co-op for up to 5 players. Kickstarter has taken to the game from Nevermore Toys and it funded within 7 hours. You can still back via the Campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1336904045/blackout-journey-into-darkness [Back the Campaign] This is a game that lets characters level […]
Short film: Death and the Robot
A stop-motion animation in which a bored robot and an equally bored Death are the last two people left on the world. There are plants, here and there, but Death has the habit of killing them off. Fate brings the two together. Death and the Robot was directed and animated by Austin Taylor, written and […]
Short film: Hold
A post-apocalyptic story of survival. One man drags his worldly goods behind him as he continues his lonely trek. What happens should he meet someone else? More detaios about Eric Kolelas’ film are found over on Hold Short Film.com. Use this teleport link to discover a randomly selected new video.
Competition: Win Wastelands 2 from George R.R. Martin, Cory Doctorow, et al
Wastelands 2 is a series of post-apocalyptic short stories from authors such as Game of Thrones’ George R.R. Martin, Cory Doctorow, Junot Diaz, Rudy Rucker, Hugh Howey, Ann Aguirre and others. The 528-paged book is a feast for fans and is the follow up from the critically acclaimed Wastelands collection. The compilation, from Titan Books, […]
Project New World: The first global, interactive, post-apocalytpic comic and novel
Project New World is an attempt to create a transmedia work of fiction – a novel written by multiple authors at once and a comic book – set in a bleak post-apocalytpic setting. It’s a flexible funding (funds are collected whether the goal is met or not) over at Indiegogo. [Back this Campaign] Project New […]
Short film: Skyborn
Jamie Stone’s Skyborn is set in a foggy post-apocalyptic world. It begins with some great animation and then cuts to a surprisingly emotional film. Gideon is determined that his son will escape the fog but Blue doesn’t have faith in the flying machine they’ve built. So Blue, the son, sets about a dangerous attempt to […]
