10/14/2025
HAPPY SAD ZOMBIE GAME DAY
The Time We Have is a tragic storytelling game by Elliot Davis about brothers in the zombie apocalypse. One of you has been infected, the other will survive, and you spend your last few days together talking on opposite sides of a closed door.
I am so, so lucky to have been able to watch this game come to life up close.
Last year, Rowan and I played the printable playtest version, while I was locked inside my bathroom in my old apartment. I started crying about 30 minutes into the game and after it was done, we sat on the couch and had one of those conversations that changes a friendship forever.
Then I got to play the game with Elliot, on One Shot (which we re-released today, remastered by Shaghik) and we found a story centered on our shared anxiety about being creatives during troubling times, one of the many things we still connect on and work through together to this day.
Later, in the house we all now share, I got to use this game with my best friend Robin, to revisit a story we both still miss terribly, adding a heartbreaking context to the start of The Atomless that only we get to know.
Elliot very graciously let me contribute a door card to this game, beautifully illustrated by West Cahall, and I could not be more proud to be a part of something I genuinely believe to be very special.
If you trust my judgement at all, grab a copy of this beautiful game for yourself (at sadzombiegame dot com). If you need more convincing, check out the One Shot podcast feed today, and listen to our playthrough (and/or one of the many Iโve linked in todayโs shownotes in playlist form)
Congratulations and on release day