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You’ll Need to be Clever to ‘Survive the Nights’
Another combatant is preparing to enter the zombie survival game arena, and despite my general disinterest in this genre — and more specifically, the type of people games like DayZ and Rust tend to attract — I can’t help but be intrigued by what Survive the Nights has to offer. It looks to be more about surviving against its undead denizens, rather than other players. As the title would suggest, the world gets more dangerous when the sun goes down.
Thankfully, you’re resourceful, or at least you’ll need to be in order to survive the nights.
You can scavenge for supplies, including parts for traps that can be laid to ambush unsuspecting passersby. The extra level of strategy that’s been added to each encounter is what has me most interested in what largely looks like another game that’s trying to take a bite out of the tasty pie DayZ has been enjoying for some time now. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, competition is healthy, and with so many similarly themed games on the way (H1Z1, Miscreated) a simple copy/paste won’t do.
The debut trailer for Survive the Nights introduces a few neat ideas, though I do hope there’s even more to it that the developer either isn’t ready to show off yet or wants to save for later.
For more on Survive the Nights, feel free to follow it on Steam Greenlight.
We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Ray Garton was 61 years old.
Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”
Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.
Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.
Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.
You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.
He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”
“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.
Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.
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