File 99 — colophon · with thanks
Who held the line.
Svera Defense is a co-op zombie-survival shooter built in Unreal Engine 5. It stands on two earlier codebases and a stack of open tools. Everyone below did a shift on the wall.
Garrison — the team
- Direction & designSVERA Defense Team
- Gameplay & systems programmingSVERA Defense Team
- Levels, art & encounter designSVERA Defense Team
- Backend, website & live servicesSVERA Defense Team
Foundations — what it's built on
HGT
The base game. Svera Defense grows directly out of the HGT project — its core loop, characters, weapons and arenas are the ground floor of everything here.
ZSD
The special-zombie playbook. ZSD's roster of elite infected and its combat feel were grafted onto the HGT base to make the horde what it is now.
Toolshed — what made it
- EngineUnreal Engine 5
- Live services & APINode.js · Express · SQLite
- Edge & deliverynginx · Let's Encrypt
- SiteHand-rolled HTML · CSS · vanilla JS — no frameworks
- TypeOswald · Courier · system script faces
Last word
And to every operator who filed a bug, held a wave, or posted a run to the board — thank you. Pre-release means sharp edges; you helped us find them.