Mr. Tired Media Kick-Off Kickstarter Campaign for Undead Darlings

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The team at Mr. Tired Media have recently begun a new crowdfunding campaign for Undead Darlings. Being run through Kickstarter, the game seeks to raise $45,000 by Sunday June 18 2016. As of writing, a total of $15,414 has been raised from 425 backers. There are still 28 days to go however, meaning they have a decent chance of reaching their target at this rate.

Undead Darlings will see players exploring a number of post-apocalyptic dungeons, with a total of 20 floors to explore. During your ventures, it will be possible to discover loot, secret event scenes based on your current battle party and more. It also seeks to provide a “novel-sized epic adventure”, with a script of over 300,000 words and a lot of branching dialogue opportunities. The goal is to deliver an adventure which is filled with comedy and slices of romantic life, intertwined with a zombie apocalypse setting. A story synopsis can be found at the bottom of this post.

Pledge tiers for this crowdfunding campaign begin at $1 and go all the way up to $400 (All gone as of writing). The lowest amount you will need to pledge to receive a digital copy of Undead Darlings is $13.00, which comes with a copy of the game plus a “certificate of undeath”. There are also a number of other goodies available to those who pledge more, including tear-resistant posters, the game’s OST, an artbook and much more. To learn more about Undead Darlings and to pledge towards the game, visit its Kickstarter campaign page.

Mr. Tired Media will be receiving support from the team at international visual novel publisher MangaGamer for this project. They will be publishing the PC version on Steam, their website and physical disc. Of course, this is all dependent on the success of this campaign.

Should it be successful, Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love will be available on the PC and PlayStation 4. They are currently looking at an April 2017 release, although this could very well change in the future.

Story Synopsis

The story of Undead Darlings ~no cure for love~ revolves around Reginald “Reggie” P. Happenstahnce and his journey to take the cure for the zombie plague someplace safe; somewhere it can be mass-produced. His father—one of the scientists purported to be involved in the outbreak’s inception—created this cure and left it behind before leaving on his own for the same purpose.

The game opens with Reggie waking up from an alcohol-related coma (courtesy of his own father, no less) and being told by his childhood friend Pearl that society had crumbled due to a virus outbreak that turned most everyone into zombies while he was sleeping. This includes Pearl herself. However, Pearl has managed to hold onto her human conscience, and she relates that she is not the only one this has happened to. As with every half-zombie Reggie will run into, she may be undead, but her heart is still human.

Players, through the eyes of Reggie, will meet several more undead girls who have held onto their human hearts, along with a fellow human named Buck who has abandoned his. Buck also takes on the duty of driving the party around in his big hybrid truck, which serves as a storage facility for the loot you acquire in the game’s dungeons.

Your role as Reggie is to be the girls’ loot donkey and carry the things they find in dungeons. Since Reggie is a human, the girls will prevent him from getting infected by fighting in the front lines! Go them!

While on this adventure, you will learn more about the undead girls’ lives from before the outbreak, but whose tale you will hear is based on the choices you make during the visual novel scenes. Perhaps one of them will connect with you, open up about their hardships, and maybe even develop romantic feelings… The ultimate result of these interactions will determine whether or not any of these girls trust you enough to take the biggest risk of their undead lives—volunteer to be the first test subject for your father’s cure!

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