Not for a project with this scenario in Duke Nukem time. And: Not for a game that is almost completed.
Trying nothing means lost of chances. If you`re just thinking of worry and pain, you`ll never succeed. And: You`re in the wrong industry.

Ron, you are surely right, but never forget that you are this time in a very greatful position to speak. In your neck is the success of your deal with jcl, your very, very good promo video for the A8-engine and I can feel the positive vitality in your words. If you just finished a project and your bank account gets an update... you truly feel good.
But don´t loose to much the view for reality. If you work months with a clear financial target, money you need for your life... and you come to this no go point, your kind of words / your push c o u l d go the negative route.

Of course it`s hard to self-publish a game and have commercial success with it, but that doesn`t mean that it`s impossible and a no go.

A possible and not unrealistic scenario for self-publishing:
Crew51 creates an attractive website of the game. They talk to JCL about bringing a video of the game (+gameplay) on the Gamestudio website along with a demo. If it`s fun to play, it will attract some Gamestudio users and some enthusiastic beginners. They go to the official website, post questions in the forums, build the foundation of the community and maybe buy the full game. They tell their friends and push the Facebook "I like" button.
Parallely Zapan ask the guys from Gamesglobal if they want to bring an interview about independant developers, commisional work in the gaming industry (Stromberg) and their new game, Call of Death. That article will be read from about 5000+ people (like the article about Maniac Mansion 3D and several other indie game dev interviews). Also, he can post a video report about "how to create a game like COD - an inside look to Crew51" on that website. It will also be watched by about 1000+ people. If the game is really good, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube will help him to spread the game info wider.
Also, forum posts and podcasts can help to bring the message to the customers.

You are absolute right. I don't understand most zombie games. Has anyone ever watched Romero's movies? Or The Walking Dead?? The "entities" in 28 days later for example are NOT zombies, they are infected people, so it is OK that they run stupidly around, but not for so called "zombies". They are dead. It is absolutely amazing that they even walk around. So how are they supposed to RUN or JUMP?? So sad.

But, also interesting: I thought today about making such a game. Working title would be simply "Slow." Haha, that would be awesome ^^

I like what i saw of this game but i keep asking myself will any publisher
go with a game (no matter how good it looks) that could lead to legal issues because there to many and obvious similarities. This game is a clone of and does not hide it

just my 2 cents.

But don't give up you can do that allways after you explored all the hundreds of possibilities.

i havent read like the last 5 posts so forgive me if someone already stated this pretty obvious point. if someone is willing to finish it other than zapan/crew51 3run is just saying they should let finish it/distribute it. it doesnt mean that they get all the credit, or the money, just a portion for their part in distributing it.. anyone who doesnt get that right away... well the adjective "dull" comes to mind.

you obviously missed the quote then...

there's a huge difference between finding someone to complete it and making a project open source, so no, noone has already said it as it isn't what was said. (as a recommendation, try reading the other posts )

no, im replying about when they were saying 3run was asking to let someone else dev it privately. they were acting like that somehow meant that zapan/crew51 wouldnt get there fair share for the work. open source would be even more generous of course, but i would opt the first route. find someone who is willing to advertise it (press releases etc,) on commission. Im sure there would be people (myself included) who would be interested in that.

Dude, if you are really interested and can offer something to Zapan, you better contact directly him, cause here you'll face opinion of some idiots (alpha_strike for example). So better don't waste your time. I don't really care how people are interpretating my words, my point was clear. MrGuest, there is no much differences between finishing and publishing projects, both of then on the last step of development, and one comes from another one (publishing after finishing), and if project is unfinished after making it open source (or atleast letting someone to get it's source) before publishing it person which will be interested in it will need to finish it first! And I've never meant that Zapan just need to throw this open source and let it be for free, I meant that he need to let someone to finish/publish this (if he can't or don't want to do that himself, as a recommendation, read carefully my previous posts, and don't let your personal attitude to me affect here).

It would be interesting to hear an opinion of Zapan longer than one sentence, because people are discussing not only about, but also for supporting him.