If you are signed up for our newsletter, you’ve already seen the newest way you can get into SOD2: The Halloween Costume Contest. The grand prize? We’ll turn your costume into an outfit in the game.

The Rules:

1. We’re looking for survivors, not zombies. Feel free to enter as a zombie (see below), just know you’re not eligible for the grand prize.
2. To avoid licensing problems and pesky lawsuits, please don’t use (or strategically cover) any brands or logos that are not State of Decay or Undead Labs.
3. These pictures need to be PG by the standards of the USA. That means weapons are fine, but nudity is not.
4. Entering means you are giving the Lab permission to share the photos.
5. The deadline for you to email me a full-length picture of yourself in your costume is October 25th. We will be choosing winners first thing in the morning on October 26. Send your submission (one per person) to sanya at undeadlabs dot com
6. Winners, plural? Why, yes. In addition to the grand prize winner selected by the judges, I’ll send a t-shirt to the Community Choice poll winner, and decals to three randomly chosen people who enter any costume picture, survivor or zombie.
7. Our community is global, so even if you live somewhere without Halloween, we’d love for you to enter the contest anyway!

Get dressed up, and get in the game!

It started casually, as every completely bonkers thing does. One of the players (who’d been part of the community for another game I worked on, many years ago) asked if my tattoo policy was still in place.

“Of course it is,” I said.

Another player asked what that policy was. I replied, “Oh, if you’re crazy enough to get a tattoo related to the game, I’m crazy enough to give you a free copy of each game we do.”

And here we are. That’s really all there is to it, but for those of you asking, here are some guidelines:

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