Survival Horror Board Game Story Ending Cliche

Sorry for taking so long to respond

Q1: What is the story of this game?
A1: Professor losing his wife from a rare disease so he decides to freeze her to find a cure. During the years; the professor and his team work around the clock, but finding the cure and porjects were mismanaged, storaged wrong, thrown out, dumped in the ground in the mountains and surrounding districts on the island. It causes the dead to rise. The government does their best to clear out the island for the safety of the citizens, but 100 of them stay. These 100 citizens have their own stories that tie into the professor and the team and some don't. (Yes I was concidering this as a cliche storyline from Mr. Freeze in the Batman Stories. Which i Liked but I went with for the time being or meaning way to similar)

Q2: What are the mechanics in this game?
A2: Players use dice and campaign booklets.

Q3: How do players experience this world?
A3: Players will use pewter figurines on the world map and their upclose building maps and other locales as the story progresses. There will also be a storyteller or narrator to help the players discover the world? (This is what I had thought of back in 99 Similar to what D&D has as a DM)

Q4: You seem to favour simulationist play: are there different mechanics to handle different situations (similar to D&D) or are there more streamlined mechanics to determine success/failure (more of a karma or scene resolution system) that emphasizes the narrative aspects?

A4: Audio Sound and Dice System.

Q5: how are you dealing with player choice if there's going to be one big ending? Is there some kind of mechanic to railroad them into this?
A5: This is my current problem in the game.

Q6: What is the time frame for the game.
A6: 1 HOUR TO 2 HOURS

Q7: If you're including over a thousand premade elements is that for replay value or is this supposed to be a full campaign?
A7: Full campaign

Q8: What kind of investment is required in money and time before people start playing?
A8: Price to pay for the game is $40 to $50 dollars. About the same price of a D&D campaign booklet.

For the board itself: When I drew the first area out it became as large as 10 pages across and 6 pages down (6 rows) 60 pages for the city scape and 60 pages under neath for the sewer system in the city areas, subway system, and hidden areas. In the mountain in the middle of the map, there are caves and caverns and hidden cemeteries and etc. There is a railroad system that traverses. When buying the board game part itself, it will be sold in 6 parts.

And yes this game may never be made due to the shear size of the board but the experience of coming up with the game since 1999 is still there. I might just play it as a filler, um well, when ever it gets completed. haha.

The monsters will have a point sheet for players to roll dice attack.
See this game is such a mess. But I really never have played D&D back in the day. So I was going from what I liked in the zombie movie franchises and paranormal experiences and being a security officer where my posts were two different cemetery locations.

Interesting analogy Orangebeard. I laughed, never thought of it that way. I do have one ending that does incorporate a bomb to the main land (not the ending to the first island. That ends up on a vessel). The ending to the conclusion is the Raptor Project.

I had this idea when I started designing the game is to have a night and day dice mechanic. Players would start for example the first chapter by rolling the sun and moon dice (which I protoytyped with a small piece of cardboard and added 3 suns and 3 moons). First example:

Narrator rolls the sun / moon dice. The Die lands on a sun marker.
Narrator rolls the 1d12 white. This die is the hours within a day. The white 1d12 lands on a 3. This means that the first chapter starts at 3pm. This function also happens if the sun / moon die lands on a moon and the narrator rolls the 1d12 black for the night time hours.

I am using this feature to reinforce that in this game world that the narrator doesn't have to tell or explain the start of the game is 3 pm or 3 am and the players have to think or imagine those hours. The dice shows them that certain details arrive during at these hours.

Anything can be a weapon, items can be used by any character and also accessories and transportations can be driven by any character. All locations in the game have access points, some locked, some have to be broken into or places needs keycards or keys or climbed into or through.

Mechanics / electricians have the keys to certain locations. Police officers can access the weapon storage area at the police station. These are just small examples what each player character can do within the survival horror board game. There are doctors players can choose from. Pilots, Martial Artists, Ex military, Military Officers, Construction workers. Students, teachers, lawyers, and many other occupations that are found in the real world can be found in the game also have their own attributes and storyline. Oh and security officers have keys. Blue collar and white collar workers have tasks and objectives within the storyline to gain a promotion and aquire new skills and equipment to access new areas.