Attack of the Sunday School Zombies Tech Support!

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Zombies Tech Support:

This CD is brand new and we've only had one tech question about it so far, so this support page is guessing at a couple of things you may encounter. Please email me with DETAILS of any problem you have encountered. neil@sundaysoftware.com

If you encounter a problem, please check your system specs and minimums to make sure your hardware is up to snuff. You can do this by clicking START, then RUN, and typing "DXDIAG" to open Windows' DirectX Diagnostics. Click the 'save as text' option and email me that information, or, click the DISPLAY tab and write down the videochip brand/model, videodriver date, and amount of videoram and send it to me. I'll need complete details.

Make sure your video chip is good enough. Some Windows Me -era computers may have inferior video/3d capabilities. See my notes above about DXDIAG to learn more about your system. You can also learn more about videochips/ram at www.sundaysoftware.com/videocard.htm

Make sure your video chip's DRIVER is the latest version from the manufacturer. They update video drivers to solve problems. If your computer is more than 6 months old, odds are they have improved the driver. Go to the computer manufacturer's website and look up your computer in their drivers/download area. This is true EVEN FOR NEW COMPUTERS. It's not uncommon to receive a brand new computer which the manufacturer has ALREADY released a video driver update. Happened to me twice!

Reported Problems and their solutions:

After installation, the program crashes at the opening...

The opening is a video clip. It uses the Windows Media Player format (wmv). Crashing could be a sign of not enough video ram on your system. Or it could be that your version of Windows Media Player is way out of date. Make sure you have a recent version of Media Player loaded on your computer. It's free from www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer

One way to test and see if this really is the wmv videoclip crashing is to try and run the wmv clip APART FROM the game itself. To do this: "Explore" the Zombies files where they have installed on your harddrive (the default location is c:\zombies or c:\program files\zombies).   Locate a file with the extension ".wmv" and double click it. It should run. If not, upgrade your version as Windows Media Player as described above.

Windows Vista Notes for Zombies:

If you let the Zombies installer run in Vista -without reading our readme-vista.txt file as instructed- odds are the game won't work in Vista.

This CD requires two Vista tweaks to get it to run in Vista. They are fully documented in the Readme-Vista.txt file located on the Zombies CD. Read and follow those instructions!

To find the Readme-Vista.txt file on the CD:

  1. Put the Zombies CD in the drive. If it attempts to install, click CANCEL.

  2. Click the circular Windows "Start" button on the lower left portion of your Windows screen

  3. Click "Computer"

  4. RIGHT click the Zombies CD icon and select "EXPLORE"

  5. Double click the Readme-Vista.txt file and follow the instructions.

It is really important to follow those instructions TO THE LETTER.

System Requirements:

Minimum: Windows Me*/XP/Vista*, 800 mhz, 128 mb Ram, 16mb videoram minimum.

Even if you have Windows Me, the computer still needs to come with a decent video chip and video driver. In some cases, people upgraded their old Win98 computers to Me without upgrading the hardware. To discover your system's full specs, run DirectX Diagnostics. See my note above about how to do that.

If you have Vista... see my Vista tweaks above.

Questions?  Email neil@sundaysoftware.com
The Story Behind the Zombies CD
 
I've been teaching Sunday School and youth groups for nearly three decades. And in nearly every class or group, I've found it important to ANSWER "WHY" kids should want to come to church and Sunday School.  ...Because let's face it: worship and lessons aren't exactly fun things to do in the minds of our kids.
 
Our kids (and some adults) have a lot of complaints. They say "it's boring" or "I don't need to come in order to be a Christian." (see the list of zombie complaints above)  The typical answer of "because it's important" or "because I said so" isn't good enough. The answer needs to be grounded in scripture and delivered with creative insight. The answer also needs to come with suggestions kids can implement to make their experience come alive. Zombies CD does this.

I hope this game will begin to answer their complaints and give you plenty of opportunity to discuss "answers" to their important questions.

See my Zombies Study Guide for a list of all the verses and narrations used in the game. It will help you carry on the discussion after the game is over.

Why "Zombies" ?  
First... they're fun and make the game exciting.
Second... they are a metaphor for the way people sometimes mindlessly and boringly GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS at church and Sunday School. They also give Super Kenz the Bible Kid something to FLING AT. Kids love to shoot stuff in video games. In our Zombies CD, our hero flings donuts to get the Zombies to pay attention, and in doing so, your kids pay more attention too.
<>< Neil MacQueen, Sunday Software
 
Pictures from the Game...
  


The church looks nice, but some of the people there have been taken over by some bad attitudes and wrong-headed thinking.

Stopping Zombies from being Zombies takes a lot of donuts. Fortunately, the "Super Kenz Donut Flinger" is up to the task.



Super Kenz' is a kid of the 21st Century. When she needs some Bible verses to share with the Zombies, she whips out her "iTell-TheTruth" Bible computer, Model 7x70.

See all iTell verses in our study guide:
The Study Guide & Worksheet (3mb pdf)