Website for the Humans vs. Zombies Game

Website for the Humans vs. Zombies Game

January 14th, 2009  |  Published in Web Design

View the site: http://www.HumansVsZombies.org

As one of the national organizers of the Humans vs. Zombies game, my responsibilities include the design and maintenance of our online community of tens of thousands of players.

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Scalability

I created the first website for the game in 2006 and rapidly went through five different versions of the site as the Humans vs. Zombies game exploded in popularity.

Our current site is able to scale to meet the demands of a growing community. It has a modular designs so that we can add or remove items as necessary.

The Website

The fifth generation of our site uses WordPress with some AJAX fanciness which can scale to the size of our growing community.

There’s a lot going on behind the scenes on this site – integration with SMF forums, applications from the Google Maps API, a web store, JavaScript, dynamic content, and user-generated pages and posts.

Branding

As Humans vs. Zombies has grown in popularity, there has been increased demand for merchandise and other HvZ brand extensions.

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I am currently the New Media Director of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation.

2/4/10 - We're using Obama-style fundraising to keep Humans vs. Zombies free. Give us some grassroots support!

1/14/10 - I'm organizing an online Gödel, Escher, Bach book group - not too late to join.

4/28/09 - I got to introduce David Plouffe speaking at Goucher!

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10/13/09 - Consulting and web design for Dan Seals for Congress.

6/12/09 - Humans vs. Zombies is on NPR, and in the Boston Globe, the AP, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Globe and Mail the Chronicle of Higher Education, SlashDot and the Colbert Report.

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