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Zafehouse: Diaries is a tactical game of survival, planning, resource management and problem-solving. Manage your survivors’ needs, prejudices and motivations and you might stay around long enough to be rescued.

Tell your story
A unique, diary-based interface records your actions, reveals the state of the world and provides hints and clues to help you.

Pick your battles
A sophisticated combat engine models all battles in the game, from a zombie slipping in through a bathroom window, to a swarm flooding into the hospital you thought was secure.

Know your survivors
Survivors have unique personalities and skills – use them wisely and the group will work efficiently. Left idle, they’ll explore, socialise, play games and tinker.

Relationships matter
Make sure you check in on your survivors and see how they’re getting along. Poor relationships mean they won’t work well together, and may even end up fighting.

Customisable
Add yourself and friends to the game and create mods using C#.

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0 comments by ScrewflyStudios on May 17th, 2013

Zafehouse: Diaries has been updated to v1.1.9. For this patch, we've focused on user interface and performance enhancements that should make playing the game a much smoother experience.

The biggest change is the addition of map annotations. This means you can now mark and add notes to any location on the map, just by right-clicking on it. Can't remember which locations you left supply caches? Now you can leave yourself little reminders.

Tired of moving survivor tokens individually? We've added in a mass-selection feature, which you can use by holding down the left-mouse button over the map and dragging. Include the tokens you wish to select inside the rectangle, release the mouse button and then just left-click on the location you want to move those tokens to. It works pretty much like it would in a real-time strategy game.


UI improvements and performance tweaks headline patch v1.1.9 for Zafehouse: Diaries.

For the diary, it's now possible to bookmark pages. Above the left-hand page of the diary you'll notice four small paper tabs. Hover near these and they'll drop down, after which you can click on one to bookmark the current open pages. By default, the bookmark name is the page numbers, but you can type in your own title if you want. To delete a bookmark, just right-click it.

The Movement screen has also seen several improvements. You can sort items based on type, and they'll be ranked from best to worst. Order selection has also been revamped with new graphics.

Finally, game performance and memory utilisation has been improved across the board. Saving and loading is now much faster, text rendering is incredibly quick and late-game turn resolution should be a lot snappier. Those are just the big-ticket tweaks; we've nipped and tucked a great many parts of the codebase.

As usual, all the patch notes can be found on the forums.

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Zafehouse: Diaries - Demo

Zafehouse: Diaries - Demo

Nov 22, 2012 Demo 0 comments

This is the demo version of Zafehouse: Diaries. Its stability and performance may not reflect the full version. If you notice any issues, please let us...

Zafehouse: Diaries - Demo

Zafehouse: Diaries - Demo

Sep 26, 2012 Demo 0 comments

This is the demo version of Zafehouse: Diaries. Its stability and performance may not reflect the full version. If you notice any issues, please let us...

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Tranceheart264
Tranceheart264 Dec 18 2012, 6:38pm says:

Soo tempted to do a lets play

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Biogame
Biogame Dec 16 2012, 2:04pm says:

uhh, ive been trying to play this game (demo) but it keeps crashing out, saying that "Game Executable" couldnt run it after starting a new game. Any help?

This must be a great game since it reminds me of game where you use day time to search for weapons, survivors, and food to travel to different locations to get to Union City: the evac area. But you must fight and protect your self and survivors (who help), from zombies who attack where your hiding till morning.

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ScrewflyStudios
ScrewflyStudios Dec 16 2012, 7:35pm replied:

Hey Biogame,

Can you make sure to follow the FAQ on our forums: Forums.screwflystudios.com

The key points are:

1) You must be running Windows XP SP2 with .NET 2.0 SP2 or later
2) You must have DX9 installed (DX10 or DX11 is not sufficient)
3) Your graphics card must support DX9.0c

But be sure to check out the link above, as it contains more detailed steps to resolving startup issues.

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Grey0ne
Grey0ne Dec 7 2012, 5:29am says:

lots of question!!
did somebody ever manage to get to helicopter?
are zombies limited on level or not?

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ScrewflyStudios
ScrewflyStudios Dec 8 2012, 9:14pm replied:

Hey Grey0ne, I'm not sure if this answers your question, but there is an internal limit on the number of zombies in the game, but this is mainly for performance reasons and to keep things sane from a balance perspective.

Zombies move in and out of buildings, move between rooms and are attracted to loud noises, so you'll never quite know just how many zombies are around, until they're swarming you. :)

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Grey0ne
Grey0ne Dec 9 2012, 10:59am replied:

So basically there is a small chance to kill them all out? )

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ScrewflyStudios
ScrewflyStudios Dec 9 2012, 6:19pm replied:

It's possible, but highly unlikely. :) You'd probably die of starvation first.

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spartacus7
spartacus7 Dec 7 2012, 2:58pm replied:

Yes, it's possible to get to the helicopter. Not sure what your second question is though.

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strategy5280
strategy5280 Dec 5 2012, 1:17am says:

Great game, highly recommended. Really an interesting implementation of a zombie survival game. I'm enjoying it a lot. I have a play-through of it on YouTube if you are interested in some gameplay.

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Tranceheart264
Tranceheart264 Dec 6 2012, 1:51am replied:

Cool thanks for the info man ^.^ love the game by the way i feel really bad for one of my people my whole tema pretty muchly got wiped out *freaking lynch mobs >.>* and she ended up in the exact place to be rescued by the chopper..and yet she did not have anything to contact em with love how i always end up dying haha would not last with a group in a zombie outbreak this game has taught me that much

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a bit expensive for what it is, good indy small game

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