Shae Wofford and Table Top Tirade, a board game club at Point Park, saw an opportunity to unite the student community.

The club is hosting a game of Humans vs. Zombies within the next few weeks. The game will officially begin when it receives the bandanas that are used to tell the humans apart from the zombies.

“We wanted to try something to bring a little bit more community, and break the barriers between the different majors within [the University],” Wofford, one of the moderators for the event, said.

Humans vs. Zombies is a tag team game where humans try to avoid getting tagged by zombies by using rolled up socks or Nerf guns to “stun” them, rendering them unable to tag any human for 15 minutes. 

If the zombie player does not “feed” or tag a human within 48 hours, he or she is eliminated from the game. The game is over when the zombies fail to tag anyone or when all humans are turned into zombies.

The game was created in 2005 at Groucher College in Towson, Md. and has since gained popularity in college campuses across the United States. Locally, the University of Pittsburgh participates every spring.

The game is also played in schools, neighborhoods, libraries, conventions and even military bases around the world.

“Other people at Point Park played a similar game called Assassins last year,” Wofford said. “We tried to do it last year, but another group snatched it up.”

Despite the popularity of the game, this will be the first time it has been played at Point Park and will be the first for both the moderators and participants of the game.

“I have played similar games in high school like Jason Bourne tag, but I haven’t played the official Humans vs. Zombies game until now,” Emily Bowen, a junior mass communications major and President of Table Top Tirade, said.

The club was interested in the game because it is a fun way to celebrate Halloween, and it represents what Table Top Tirade was created for.

Table Top Tirade explores the culture of gaming through board games, collectable trading card games and role playing games.

The club even has other ideas for gaming that go beyond board games.

“We’re trying to plan this 24 hour gaming marathon with board games and console games. It might become 12 hours, but we are trying to work it out right now,” Luis Ortiz, a freshman cinema major, said.

The club plans to start another game of Humans vs. Zombies in the future.

“We might plan to do this for years to come, but we’re using this first session…to see what we need to improve for future games,” Bowen said.

There are currently 15 humans registered for the game but no one has yet chosen to be a zombie.

For more information on the rules of the game and to sign up, log onto hvzsource.com/pointpark.