Dead Age Walkthrough Discussion

Please use this thread to discuss the Dead Age walkthrough.

Hey all,

As per usual with my guides, I'll be posting weekly (or semi-weekly) updates to this thread as I work on this guide, both to keep you informed of its progress, but mostly to keep me motivated (since if I do an update, I'll feel compelled to make progress beforehand. Good work trick).

I took over the guide on February 7th (per someone's request), though at the time of the request, I hadn't finished the game yet. Therein, I've been plowing through a big chunk of the content for the past few weeks (I had already started the game before picking up this guide, so I was well on my way to finishing the game already, though work and a week of vacation stalled my progress). While I'm not completely done yet (working on the last playthroughs), I now have enough notes set aside to write the majority of the guide.

Here's the planned (simplified) layout of the guide:

1 Walkthrough Overview
2 Hints, Tips, and Navigating the Menus
3 Building Characters
4 Zombie Types and Locations
5 Day 1 through Day 42 (All Endings)

By next week, I'm hoping to have the Overview and possible the Zombie Types and Locations pages done. I'll keep everyone informed of progress.

My goal is to complete the writing of this guide by end of March, with a publication sometime in April (this depends on the schedule of TA Walkthrough crew of course, since this is a low priority guide). As always, life may interfere with this plan but that's our target...

Weekly Update,

Here's the current state of the guide:

1 Walkthrough Overview Rough Draft Done
2 Hints, Tips, and Navigating the Menus In Progress
3 Building Characters
4 Enemy Types and Locations Rough Draft Done
5 Day 1 through Day 42 (All Endings)

We're right on track -- overview and the extensive enemy type pages are all done, and I've taken all the screenshots for the hints, tips, and menu navigation page. I'm hoping to finish the navigation page by next week and have cracked into Building Characters. By the following week I'm hoping to be done the rough draft (although this is a tight deadline as I'll be away for a week in the latter half of March).

Still on schedule for early April submission (which is rare).

Weekly Update,

I had to split Day1 - Day 42 into two parts as it was getting pretty long. Decided Day 33 was a natural cutoff point (for obvious reasons if you've played the story before). Here's the current state of the guide:

1.) Walkthrough Overview Rough Draft Done
2.) Hints, Tips, and Navigating the Menus In Progress
3.) Building Characters
4.) Enemy Types and Locations Rough Draft Done
5.) Day 1 through Day 33 Rough Draft Done
6.) Day 34 through Day 42 Rough Draft Done

Doing the menus page was a real drag, so I decided to work on the actually playthrough of the game for awhile, and wound up finishing that rough draft (both pages).

This week I'll start the Building Characters page and bounce between that and the Menus page. Hopefully I'll have one or the other done by next week.

NOTE: I'll be on vacation starting mid-next week, so it'll be two weeks before my next update (in theory). Even with this vacation though, we're still on track for a March rough draft completion and an early April submission.

"Weekly" Update,

Here's the current state of the guide:

1.) Walkthrough Overview Rough Draft Done
2.) Hints, Tips, and Navigating the Menus In Progress Rough Draft Done
3.) Building Characters In Progress
4.) Enemy Types and Locations Rough Draft Done
5.) Day 1 through Day 33 Rough Draft Done
6.) Day 34 through Day 42 Rough Draft Done

Apologies for the delay -- I got back from vacation and got flooded with responsibilities (work, home, taxes, etc), so it was more of a three week delay than a two week. The good news is we're in the final stretch of the rough draft -- I'm currently working on the Building Characters section, which should be fun to write, and thus not take a long.

Expect the rough draft to be done by next week and the final submittal the following.

Late on this but ... rough draft done! This weekend I'll do the final round of editing, and submission hopefully will be early next week!

Editing complete, submission aweigh!

The walkthrough has now been published.

You can find it here: Dead Age Walkthrough