Urban Dead

The city is dying. A month on from the first reported outbreak, military quarantine units have closed Malton's borders, and are moving in to eliminate the looters, to forcibly evacuate those civilians who still refuse to leave their homes.

The city is dying, and the urban dead are filling its streets.

Urban Dead is a browser-based, grid-mapped multi-player game where you play the survivor or victim of a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city centre. (Here's a screenshot.)

You're a citizen of Malton, a city that's in the process of being evacuated and quarantined to contain an unspecified contagion - you play as either a trapped civilian, a member of the evacuating military, or a scientist working in the background.

Malton is a grid of 100x100 city blocks, each of which is either a nondescript street, or a particular type of building - you move around the map by clicking on the names of the blocks. Certain buildings can be entered; while you're inside, you can't see out into the adjoining streets, and other citizens can't see in unless they actually enter the building.

Other citizens of Malton appear on the map as names in coloured boxes (the colour matching their class; green for Military, blue for Science, red for Civilian and grey for Zombie); they also appear in the location's description.

Some character classes start with equipment, and all characters can search to find further objects during the course of the game - some are weapons, some are one-use items, others have subtler or more permanent effects.