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Dean Hall on DayZ: "today it feels like we actually have a game"

We catch up with Dean "Rocket" Hall for the latest on the standalone DayZ game.

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We catch up with project lead Dean "Rocket" Hall to discuss how DayZ has been evolving and how the teams grows as we're approaching alpha.

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We asked Hall how the game was progressing and what was being showen at Gamescom.

"We showed a build at E3," said Hall. "It was very, very rough. That's a polite way of putting it. This is a lot less rough than it was.

"We've been crunching fully. I've basically worked just the last three weeks. No weekends, no nothing. I think I took one day off to play... I was going to play EUIV the new Paradox game, but I started playing Crusader Kings II cause you can transfer your save game so then I just totally lost all time. So that was one day, but other than that it's just been fully working. No towards Gamescom, towards the alpha. It just so happened that Gamescom was along."

Transitioning from creating a mod to full scale game development is not always easy, and sometimes you take on too much. Hall described the how things are starting to come together.

"At the end of last year I'd made all these bold ideas about moving from a string oriented inventory system to an object oriented inventory system. Which just seemed really bold and we had nothing to show for it. We decided that we had to completely change our approach and go to kind of basically revising the engine from the ground up. And it just seemed like we'd gone way too bold. But then things started to come together. Sort of around January things just started to work and I mean we're 8 months later, but I think we've really reached the point now today it feels like we actually have a game."

No word on when we'll see the standalone DayZ released, but as you will have gathered it is starting to come together...

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REVIEW. Written by Mike Holmes

"While fun is there to be had and DayZ is still able to offer up uniquely intense flashes of quality, it's not enough to make this an essential survival experience in 2019."



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