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42-480: (Redirected from Dayz ) DayZ or Dayz may refer to: DayZ (mod) , a mod for the 2009 video game ARMA 2 DayZ (video game) , a standalone game derived from the aforementioned mod Dayz (Nissan) , a rebadged version of the Mitsubishi eK car Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

84-462: A de facto minigame , such as the "Green Demon Challenge" in Super Mario 64 , where the object is to avoid collecting a 1-up which chases the player, even passing through terrain, while the player attempts to collect all red coins on a level. Other challenges have been built around reaching normally unreachable areas or items, sometimes using glitches or gameplaying tools , or by completing

126-700: A standalone game based on the mod. The mod itself remains in continued development by its community. During the alpha, designer Dean Hall became part of Bohemia Interactive . The mod, renamed Arma II: DayZ Mod , was officially released on February 21, 2013. DayZ attempts to portray a realistic scenario within the gameplay, with the environment having different effects on the player. A character may receive bone fractures from damage to their legs, go into shock from bullet wounds or zombie bites, receive infections from zombies or diseased players, or faint due to low blood pressure . Thirst and hunger must be kept under control by finding sustenance in either cities or

168-580: A consistent and rule-based world. These games will often present the player with tutorials of what they could do within the game. From this, players may follow the intended way to play the game, or can veer in completely different directions, such as extravagant simulated machines within Minecraft . Certain classes of open-ended puzzle games can also support emergent gameplay. The line of games produced by Zachtronics , such as Spacechem and Infinifactory , are broadly considered programming puzzles, where

210-515: A level without using an important game control, such as the 'jump' button or joystick . Machinima , the use of computer animation from video game engines to create films, began in 1996. The practice of recording deathmatches in id Software 's 1996 computer game Quake was extended by adding a narrative, thus changing the objective from winning to creating a film. Later, game developers provided increased support for creating machinima; for example, Lionhead Studios ' 2005 game The Movies ,

252-565: A player who described it as "the story of people". The mod has been compared by Kotaku to The Walking Dead and its focus on interactions between the characters when faced with desperate situations. The players in DayZ are forced to deal with dilemmas in similar ways as portrayed in both the comics and TV series for The Walking Dead . It has been proposed that DayZ provides some insight into people's motivations and behaviors when reacting to real crisis events, mirroring controlled experiments of

294-512: A sense of narrative. Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress also have emergent narrative features due to the abstraction of how elements are represented in game, allowing system-wide features to apply across multiple objects without the need to develop specialized assets for each different state; this can create more realistic behavior for non-player controlled entities that aid in the emergent narrative. For example, in Dwarf Fortress , any of

336-400: A similar nature. However, some critics of this theory argue that participants do not react as they would in a real world situation in which their life is truly threatened. Despite the game being biased towards self-interested, hostile competition, many players enter the game with their own perceptions and priorities. These varied approaches and experiences within the game suggest that even in

378-545: A survivor with limited resources, the player must scavenge the world for supplies such as food, water, weapons and medicine, while killing or avoiding both zombies and other players, and sometimes non-player characters , in an effort to survive the zombie apocalypse . DayZ has been praised for its innovative design elements. The mod reached one million players in its first four months on August 6, 2012, with hundreds of thousands of people purchasing Arma 2 just to play it. In response to its popularity, Bohemia Interactive made

420-528: A system that should theoretically promote rational behaviour, people act in unexpected ways. It has been proposed that this dispels the idea that chaos is an objective and defining feature of the system, rather it is what players make of it. Dean Hall created the concept while he was a soldier in the New Zealand Army , as a suggestion for training soldiers through exposure to situations provoking emotion and relevant thought processes. He has stated he

462-402: Is a multiplayer open world survival third-person shooter modification designed by Dean Hall for the 2009 tactical shooter video game Arma 2 and its 2010 expansion pack, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead . The mod places the player in the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, where a mysterious plague has infected most of the population, turning people into violent zombies . As

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504-505: Is tailored for it. Traders in MMOs with economic systems play purely to acquire virtual game objects or avatars which they then sell for real-world money on auction websites or game currency exchange sites. This results in the trader's play objective to make real money regardless of the original game designer's objectives. Many games prohibit currency trading in the EULA , but it is still

546-547: The Metroid game series and has developed into a community devoted to speedruns . NetHack has over time codified many such challenges as " conduct " and acknowledges players who manage to finish characters with unbroken pacifist or vegetarian disciplines, for example. A comparable form of restricted gameplay has been implemented within World of Warcraft , known as "Iron Man" leveling. A change in gameplay can be used to create

588-506: The 1970s and 1980s board games and role playing games such as Cosmic Encounter or Dungeons & Dragons have featured intentional emergence as a primary game function by supplying players with relatively simple rules or frameworks for play that intentionally encouraged them to explore creative strategies or interactions and exploit them toward victory or goal achievement. Immersive sims , such as Deus Ex and System Shock , are games built around emergent gameplay. These games give

630-463: The 2004 edition of the FIFA series featured a selection of new attacking skills like off the ball running and touch sensitive passing, all of which were designed for analog controller use. Particularly skilled players had been artificially manipulating these features into the game series since at least the 1999 edition by deft and rapid manipulation of the original non-analogue stick PS controllers. The game

672-470: The developers had never anticipated. Unintentional emergence occurs when creative uses of the video game were not intended by the game designers. Emergent gameplay can arise from a game's AI performing actions or creating effects unexpected by even the software developers. This may be by either a software glitch , the game working normally but producing unexpected results when played in an abnormal way or software that allows for AI development; for example

714-457: The emotional impact of linear storytelling. Left 4 Dead features a dynamic system for game dramatics, pacing, and difficulty called the Director. The way the Director works is called "Procedural narrative": instead of having a difficulty which increases to a constant level, the A.I. analyzes how the players fared in the game so far, and tries to add subsequent events that would give them

756-424: The envisioned route. Some games do not use a pre-planned story structure, even non-linear. In The Sims , a story may emerge from the actions of the player. But the player is given so much control that they are more creating a story than interacting with a story. Emergent narrative would only partially be created by the player. Warren Spector , the designer of Deus Ex , has argued that emergent narrative lacks

798-460: The future of gaming, commenting on what the title achieved without having a driving narrative. The mod received widespread media acclaim. Edge called DayZ the mod of the year. Wired UK ' s Quitin Smith said it could be the most terrifying game of 2012, and Rock Paper Shotgun 's Jim Rossignol called it the best game he had played so far in 2012. PC Gamer stated the game was one of

840-769: The game designers did not foresee; for example in Deus Ex , designers were surprised to find players using wall-mounted mines as pitons for climbing walls. A similar concept exists for roguelike games, where emergent gameplay is considered a high-value factor by the 2008 Berlin Interpretation for roguelikes. Such emergence may also occur in games through open-ended gameplay and sheer weight of simulated content, like in Minecraft , Dwarf Fortress or Space Station 13 . These games do not have any endgame criteria though they do, similarly to immersive sims, present

882-457: The game engine (such as in Eve Online , The Matrix Online ), providing XML integration tools and programming languages ( Second Life ), fixing exchange rates ( Entropia Universe ), and allowing a player to spawn any object they desire to solve a puzzle ( Scribblenauts ). Intentional emergence occurs when some creative uses of the game are intended by the game designers. Since

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924-415: The game's development blog that the mod was going to be made into its own game, with Bohemia Interactive as the developer, and himself as the project leader. On October 29, 2012, development of the mod officially transferred to a largely community driven effort with the release of version 1.7.3. DayZ acquired a large user base due to its unique gameplay. By August 2012, three months after release,

966-476: The gameplay, supplanting the vehicles that had been originally envisioned by the designers as the primary means of traversing large maps. Thanks to a programming oversight by Capcom , the combo (or 2-1 combo ) notion was introduced with the fighting game Street Fighter II , when skilled players learned that they could combine several attacks that left no time for their opponents to recover, as long as they were timed correctly. The PlayStation 1 version of

1008-712: The genre has offered so compelling take on a zombie apocalypse and its impact of the mod on the industry might be similar to that of Defense of the Ancients and Counter-Strike . The standalone title, also called DayZ , carries over many of the core gameplay mechanisms of the Arma 2 mod. DayZ has enhanced graphics, enhanced UI, and AI compared to the mod. DayZ launched on 8th generation consoles ( PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ) in 2019. Emergent gameplay Designers have attempted to encourage emergent play by providing tools to players such as placing web browsers within

1050-430: The greatest zombie game of all time and the most interesting PC game of 2012. PC PowerPlay said DayZ was the most important thing to happen to PC gaming in 2012. Eurogamer's Stace Harman suggested that the mod's designer Dean Hall might be responsible for some of the most emotive stories to come from playing a video game. Chris Pereiraa of 1UP.com called it a "shining example of PC gaming at its finest", stating

1092-411: The living creatures in the game could gain the state of being intoxicated from alcohol, creating random behavior in their movement from the intoxication but not requiring them to display anything uniquely different, in contrast to a more representational game that would need new assets and models for a drunk creature. Because these are abstract and interacting systems, this can then create emergent behavior

1134-463: The mod had registered more than one million unique users. IGN called it one of the most popular PC games in the world "right now" four months after release. It was credited for over 300,000 unit sales of Arma 2 within two months of the mod's release, putting this three-year-old title in the top seller charts on Steam for over seven weeks, much of this time as the top selling game. Marek Španěl, CEO of Arma 2 developer Bohemia Interactive, said

1176-419: The mod has spawned the first photojournalist in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game , creating articles that are not only about a game world but journalism told from within it. Brandom claimed that DayZ is a unique example of the massively multiplayer online game genre in giving players the freedom to harm or murder each other, whilst adding no restrictions on how or why they may do it, quoting

1218-642: The mod was directly driving sales of the game and applauded it for an addictive and thrilling experience, saying that it could stand as a gaming experience on its own. The mod was also praised by video game developers not involved with the series. Kristoffer Touborg from CCP ( EVE-Online ) said it was the best game he has played in several months and called it particularly innovative given the first-person shooter genre, which he considered to be one of gaming's least innovative genres. Game designers Erik Wolpaw and Tim Schafer stated at PAX Prime 2012 that they believe that player-driven experiences such as DayZ are

1260-463: The mod was largely due to social media and consumers' desire for games that provided significant challenge. Hall has described the mod as something of an "anti-game" as it broke what he felt were generally considered to be basic rules of game design such as balance and not frustrating users. Originally requiring manual download and installation, DayZ has since been released for download, for free, from Steam . On August 7, 2012, Dean Hall announced on

1302-426: The most important things to happen to PC gaming in 2012 and included it in their 2012 list of the top five scariest PC games of all time. Metro called it one of the best games to ever to come out of PC modding and one of the single most impressive experiences available on the system. Eurogamer called it the best zombie game ever made and the break out phenomenon of PC gaming in 2012. Kotaku called it possibly

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1344-533: The mouse, and their goal is to have their slow car cross the finish line first. Thus the team members in faster cars aim to push their slow car into the lead and ram their opposing teams' slow cars off the road. Completing games without getting certain items or by skipping seemingly required portions of gameplay results in sequence breaking , a technique that has developed its own dedicated community. Often, speed of completion and/or minimalist use of items are respectable achievements. This technique has long been used in

1386-551: The player must assemble pieces of a mechanism to produce a specific product from various inputs. The games otherwise have no limits in how many components can be used and how long the process needs to complete, though through in-game leaderboards, players are encouraged to make more efficient solutions than their online friends. While each puzzle is crafted to assure at least one possible solution exists, players frequently find emergent solutions that may be more elegant, use components in unexpected fashions, or otherwise diverge greatly from

1428-460: The player with greater creativity from the opposition teams and an apparent learning intelligence in selecting off the ball players and shot direction, things that were supposed to be impossible with the non-analog controller. In online car racing games , particularly Project Gotham Racing , players came up with an alternative objective known as "Cat and Mouse". The racers play on teams of at least two cars. Each team picks one very slow car as

1470-571: The player-character a range of abilities and tools, and a consistent game world established by rules, but do not enforce any specific solution onto the player, though the player may be guided into suggested solutions. To move past a guard blocking a door, the player could opt to directly attack the guard, sneak up and knock the guard unconscious, distract the guard to move away from their post, or use parkour to reach an alternative opening well out of sight, among other solutions. In such games, it may be possible to complete in-game problems using solutions that

1512-456: The reload button (X) and the primary fire button (R trigger) would result in the player not having to wait for the gun to be back in position to shoot after a melee attack. Doing this has become known as "BXR-ing". Starsiege: Tribes had a glitch in the physics engine which allowed players to "ski" up and down steep slopes by rapidly pressing the jump key, gaining substantial speed in the process. The exploitation of this glitch became central to

1554-460: The tension from interacting with other players leads to an experience unlike anything else he had experienced in gaming apart from making love in Heavy Rain , and cited the game as an example that PC gaming is not in decline, as the creation of such a mod is something that is only possible on a computer (as opposed to video game consoles ). According to bit-tech 's Joe Martin, no other game in

1596-444: The title DayZ . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DayZ&oldid=1153529633 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages DayZ (mod) DayZ

1638-464: The unplanned genetic diseases that can occur in the Creatures series. In several games, especially first-person shooters , game glitches or physics quirks can become viable strategies, or even spawn their own game types. In id Software 's Quake series, rocket jumping and strafe-jumping are two such examples. In the game Halo 2 , pressing the melee attack button (B) quickly followed by

1680-470: The wilderness, with body temperature playing a key part in the character's survival. The game focuses on surviving and the human elements of a zombie apocalypse by forcing the player to acknowledge basic human needs like thirst, hunger and shelter. These mechanics require the player to focus on immediate goals before they can consider long-term strategies. DayZ is praised for its level of emergent gameplay . BuzzFeed author Russell Brandom suggested that

1722-548: Was inspired by experiences during jungle training while on exchange with the Singapore Armed Forces in Brunei , where he was badly injured in a survival skills exercise. Hall has stated that what he had endured then directly affected the development of DayZ , and the creation of immersion through forcing the player to experience emotion and tension as part of gameplay. Hall believed that early rapid success of

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1764-455: Was relatively easy to beat on the hardest level on single player, using a series of tricks from the instruction manual which the AI could not replicate consistently or defend against, but long-term players found that in trying to make the game attain to a more realistic football simulation by playing without using these tricks, the simplistic in-game AI would seem to respond by learning osmotically from

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