{"id":8200,"date":"2026-04-07T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/no-zombie-deer-state-of-decay-3-2020-announcement-trailer-was-a-concept-dev-says-made-at-a-time-when-the-game-was-only-in-a-word-document\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:08:50","slug":"no-zombie-deer-state-of-decay-3-2020-announcement-trailer-was-a-concept-dev-says-made-at-a-time-when-the-game-was-only-in-a-word-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/no-zombie-deer-state-of-decay-3-2020-announcement-trailer-was-a-concept-dev-says-made-at-a-time-when-the-game-was-only-in-a-word-document\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No Zombie Deer’ \u2014 State of Decay 3 2020 Announcement Trailer Was ‘A Concept,’ Dev Says, Made at a Time When the Game Was Only ‘In a Word Document’"},"content":{"rendered":"

State of Decay 3 was announced back in 2020 with an eye-catching debut trailer that showed a zombie deer eating the remains of a wolf. It got fans of the survival series excited that they would not only have to context with your typical zombie menace when the game eventually came out, but zombie animals, too. Unfortunately, State of Decay 3 will launch without<\/em> zombie animals of any kind, and that trailer was little more than a \u201cconcept\u201d built at a time when there was essentially no game to speak of.<\/p>\n

Six years after State of Decay 3\u2019s announcement, developer Undead Labs is readying the game for an alpha test. It is finally ready, then, for the public to give it a shot, having come a long way since that trailer helped get Xbox fans for the upcoming Xbox Series X and S. So what happened to those zombie animals, then? In an interview with Sunny Games, Head of Undead Labs, Philip Holt, said that as the developers got to work making State of Decay 3 a reality, they realized some things they\u2019d initially thought were cool ideas simply weren\u2019t going to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo zombie deer,\u201d Holt said. \u201cSo that trailer, there really wasn’t a game or a game team when we were working on that trailer. It was so early. There were like four or five people. The game was in a Word document. There was really like the very beginnings of software.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trailer was done by Blur. It was all pre-rendered. It represented, I think, a concept, our thoughts at the time of what might be cool to explore in State of Decay 3. And as we’ve had a chance to build the team and get going on the game, some of those elements, I think, are going to persist in the game that we deliver. And some of those things, we’re just like, yeah, we’re not doing zombie animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, well, you guys heard it,\u201d Sunny said in response. \u201cThere’s no zombie animals. I got to say I’m a little bummed about that, but either way, I thought it was kind of an interesting concept, but it makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

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