Comments on: Humans vs. Zombies plus Your Campus Ministry: Students are Dying to Get Involved

By: snippets of interest from the cmu workshop « Exploring College Ministry blog (daily notes about our field)

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:58:21 +0000

[...] ministries have seen benefit from it, too, apparently! I blogged about it back in March, linking to Wes Woodell’s article about it. (I ran into RUF using it at OU this past semester, [...]

By: WesWoodell

WesWoodell — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:03:42 +0000

Aww … that stinks man

By: Cary

Cary — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:05:19 +0000

HvZ: Now against the law at Kansas State Univeristy.

http://www.k-state.edu/policies/ppm/8590.html

By: weekly review, mini-exploration edition « Exploring College Ministry blog (daily notes about our field)

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:21:19 +0000

[...] engaging students in play: Wes Woodell gives detailed instructions for playing “Humans vs. Zombies” – an interesting way to draw people to your group and have a good time, [...]

By: Benson Hines

Benson Hines — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:35:25 +0000

We did an interesting take on this back when I was in school, in a Christian fraternity that (at the time) was running about 400 members and pledges. (This game has old roots, I believe, and may “officially” be called “Assassins” or something like that. Can’t remember.) We called it “Termination.”

Instead of having 2 teams, it was every man for himself. At the start, each player got the name of another player (and each name was used only once). Your “job” was to “kill” that person (hit ‘em with a sock), at which point you got their target (and they were out of the game for good).

Ultimately, you’d only have 2 guys, each with each other’s names.

And we built in a “Grace and Peace to you” clause – if you saw a fellow frat brother and said that, and they returned it, nobody could kill each other. Because, of course, it would be a bummer if nobody in our fraternity ever wanted to talk to each other.

The differences from HvZ point to different purposes – the main one being that we did it to get to know some of the other guys in our humongous campus ministry. Often you would receive the name of someone you didn’t know, so you had to “get to know them” by name and sight (and class schedule or any other move that gave you their location).

Thanks a bunch for sharing this game, though, and for pointing to its fruitfulness.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:22:53 +0000

Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama played a very similar game from 98-01…soooo much fun…but your students will fail to win the game.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:42:23 +0000

We had 463 play and it lasted 5 days. Ended with a “Root Beer Kegger/Sumo Wrestling” event where we held a giant war at the end. We put the remaining “Humans” in the middle of the field and the “Zombies” surrounded them and had at it for 10 min. This is the best thing we have ever done on campus.