And some have tried to stop this innocent fun…
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education , the craze that is the Humans versus Zombies game does continue on campuses, despite the efforts of “killjoys” to prevent it:
Napa Valley College officials are the latest to interfere with a popular campus-based game of tag called Humans vs. Zombies. More than 600 campuses in the United States play some version of the game, which originated at Goucher College.
To win, zombie players try to “infect” or tag the humans, thereby turning them into zombies, and the humans must protect one another from being tagged. Sometimes the teams also have missions to complete. In some iterations, the tags are tracked with person-specific ID cards, and then uploaded to a Web site. In others, as soon as you get hit with a Nerf dart, you’re dead. Well, undead. A game can last days or weeks, or merely until there are no “humans” left.
Must say it all sounds very exciting indeed. It also offers an entertaining analogy for the state of higher education more generally.
LOL! It’s happening further down the age range in the UK too: http://iwantmarbles.com/2013/02/26/purple-zombie-smoke/
I’m not so old that I can’t see the appeal in this game 🙂