Infection Free Zone News

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[h2]Greetings, Survivor! [/h2]

We have the incredible pleasure to announce that the Infection Free Zone demo is coming to the upcoming Steam Next Fest! The event will take place February 6-13, 2023 @10AM Pacific. If you don't want to miss the Steam Next Event even by a minute, feel free to set a reminder HERE.

[h2]Infection Free Zone Demo[/h2]

Infection Free Zone comes to the Steam Next Fest with around an hour of content! If you always wanted to give this game a try, this is your best chance! In the demo version, you will have a chance to:

• Play on three different, recommended real-life maps:
  - Crofton, USA
  - Dijon, France
  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
  
• Go through the first 7 days of gameplay
  
• Solve several dilemmas and answer transmissions from unknown strangers
  
• Extend your Zone through building adaptation, place defensive towers and walls,
  
• Scavenge structures in the abandoned post-apocalyptic world
  
• Fight against the merciless hordes of infected
  

And what's most important - prove that you have what it takes to lead your own Infection Free Zone!

[h2]Live-Stream[/h2]

We plan to live-stream some Infection Free Zone on Friday, February 10 at 8:00 PM CET! Join us to talk a little bit about the Infection Free Zone development and ask us all the questions that you have always wanted to ask!

[h2]Other demos from Games Operators[/h2]

Games Operators, the publisher behind Infection Free Zone, plans to appear with a few other games on the upcoming Steam Demo Fest. Other than your beloved infected-filled city-builder, you will have a chance to play the demos for the following games:

• Delivery INC. - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793260/Delivery_INC/
• King's Orders - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369690/Kings_Orders/
• Sorted! - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1999290/SORTED/

We truly hope that you're going to have a lot of fun with all those games! And remember - your feedback is super important to us. We extremely appreciate playing our demos and filling out the surveys at the end. Thanks to your remarks, we know which areas require improvements and where we have to put in some additional work. Thank you for your ongoing support!

Best regards,
Jutsu Games

[h2]Greetings, Survivors![/h2]

A new update is now available! There is a number of significant graphical improvements, but you will also be able to use cars, machine guns, walls, and a few more things.



What you might find the most interesting is that the map download now works and you can play on a region of your choice ;) Please mind that this is still a pre-alpha, so some errors can be expected:
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- sometimes units get stuck inside the buildings. Just send them to another building to unlock them.
- some maps might not be playable due to lack of data. Check with www.openstreetmap.org if the buildings of your region are well mapped.
- some maps might be hardly playable due to high density of buildings. The gates inside of the buildings are not yet implemented.
- some maps might crash the game on load. If this happens, we will get notified, but please choose another region.
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Once you try it, please follow the in-game feedback form link and answer a few questions. We wonder how you like the progress!

[h2]Kickstarter and BackerKit Pledges[/h2]
If you missed the Kickstarter campaign, there is still an option to make a late-pledge on BackerKit. Bakcerkit late-pledges will be closed on Jan 8th.
A new batch of backers will get access by the end of January.

[h2]Greetings, Survivors! [/h2]

As some of you might have already noticed, we updated the screenshots on Steam, as the game has changed a lot visually since we uploaded them. If you want to see them all, we recommend visiting our main Store Page on Steam! A quick overview of the new screenshots from the game:







[h2]Crowdfunding continues![/h2]

Other than that, we are happy to announce that the crowdfunding for Infection Free Zone continues! If you have missed the last opportunity to obtain your pre-alpha access to the game, visit our community discussions on Steam and check the pinned thread to learn more about it!

Best regards,
Jutsu Games Team

[h2]Greetings, Survivors! [/h2]

Is it snowing in your hometown area yet? Or maybe there's no snow at all for the whole year?
It is no coincidence that we are asking these questions right now! We have been recently working hard on improving the way that the game looks throughout all the seasons and today we want to give you a little sneak peek!

[h2]Visual changes[/h2]

What has been changed:

• New tree assets have been added. These trees can move in the wind and we spawn the types that fit the selected geographical location.
  
• New grasses and bushes have been added. We are doing our best to make the environment have this wild and post-apocalyptic feeling to it while keeping the optimization in check!
  
• New clouds (visible through shadows on the ground) have been added.
  
• New props on the map have been added to make the environment look more varied - wooden logs, debris, trash containers, and others!
  
• New weather effects have been added. Storm, rain, snow - new sound effects are also on the way!
  
• New season effects have been added. The new trees will not only lose their leaves in the Winter but also have this great golden color in the Autumn now!
  

Of course, our work here is not over yet! But we thought that you might appreciate us sharing those new visuals for the weather and environment with you!

[h2]Timelapse Video[/h2]

Check all of these newest changes in our short time-lapse video!

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How do you like the changes to weather and environment from this update? Do you like them? Or maybe something's missing? Let us know how you feel about all these latest visual changes in Infection Free Zone!

Best regards,
Jutsu Games Team