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State of Decay had “a ridiculous amount of genitalia” hidden in the background

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State of Decay’s remastered edition is coming along nicely. It’s getting bumped up to 1080p with a whole bunch of new textures to match and give the game that beautiful new generation gloss. However, as the studio began work on the upgrade, they made a rather unexpected discover in the backgrounds.

Speaking to XBLA Fans at PAX East, Undead Labs Senior Designer Geoffrey Card explained the discovery. According to Card, since the studio was a small indie with a vision for an open-world game, it turned to outside contractors to complete development on the original State of Decay. However, some of those hired guns were making the backgrounds a bit more interesting than expected.

Some of our contractors worked a ridiculous amount of genitalia into the background.

The plethora of Phalluses weren’t visible in the original release due to its lower resolution and lower quality textures. But thanks to the enhanced resolutions and textures in the remake, all of a sudden they became highly visible. The game has come a long way since then, though, with all new textures eradicating the crude backgrounds.

It reminds me of all those things about hidden sexual images in Disney movies and the like. It may be an urban legend, or totally true, but either way it’s sort of what we expect from developers. It may be immature and crude, but it’s not particularly surprising. Give people tools to make things, and they will give you dicks. Still, I would have liked to be a fly on the wall in the studio when they took their first look at the high res images only to find more genitalia on show than normally seen in men’s locker rooms at the gym.

Last Updated: March 11, 2015

19 Comments

  1. Admiral Chief

    March 11, 2015 at 08:09

    “The plethora of Phalluses”

    I see the internet has already been escalated, and it is only 08h09

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    • HvR

      March 11, 2015 at 08:35

      That is some beautiful wordsmithing by Zoe.

      Bet the other gaming sites are only writing “bunch of dicks”.

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      • Admiral Chief

        March 11, 2015 at 08:38

        Total terrible tottie takeover today

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        • HvR

          March 11, 2015 at 08:39

          Should erect a palisade of penises to stop it

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          • Admiral Chief

            March 11, 2015 at 08:57

            Erect + palisade of penises = so funny and so gross

        • HvR

          March 11, 2015 at 08:53

          Wacky wiener wrangling wednesdays

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  2. Admiral Chief

    March 11, 2015 at 08:11

    Has anyone played this?

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    • Skyblue

      March 11, 2015 at 16:04

      I did for a while. Is/was very rough around the edges and had some awful scripted sections forcing you to talk to fellow survivors in your camp, terribad I tell you. Otherwise it wasn’t bad even though the repetition gets too much eventually. I’s difficult to wholeheartedly recommend but at the same time not a terrible game. Feels almost like a decent B-movie produced by a top notch producer but directed and edited by Uwe Boll.

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  3. Xcalibersa

    March 11, 2015 at 08:11

    I really disliked this game. It had so much promise but got bored very quickly.

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    • Admiral Chief

      March 11, 2015 at 08:14

      Care to elaborate?

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      • Xcalibersa

        March 11, 2015 at 09:15

        Just very repetitive.

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  4. Blood Emperor Trevor

    March 11, 2015 at 08:14

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  5. Pieter Kruger

    March 11, 2015 at 08:16

    I played the demo and rather liked it, will give it a bash again I guess…

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  6. Hammersteyn

    March 11, 2015 at 08:17

    Oh Disney you so silly….
    http://i.imgur.com/Wzz5pC6.gif

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    • Admiral Chief

      March 11, 2015 at 08:35

      What the actual flipping flip?

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      • Hammersteyn

        March 11, 2015 at 08:42

        Inorite?

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  7. Milesh Bhana

    March 11, 2015 at 08:55

    So… it’s more like State of Dick-A, amiright?

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  8. Matthew Holliday

    March 11, 2015 at 09:50

    Whats more realistic than thugs drawing penises on sign boards etc?
    seems 100% legit, they did the studio a favour.

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  9. Abigail Williams

    March 11, 2015 at 13:29

    Everybody loves a bit of widescreen wingwang.

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