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There has been a lot of different types of Zombies throughout fiction, from the original walkers, to the rage virus ones, floaters, vomit-spewing ones, ones that climb walls, ones with long tongues, intelligent ones, voodoo ones, etc. I want to create a new, original type of flesh-eater for my story-game. Any help would be appreciated. I want to know what ideas have already been used to create Zombies.

Pod People Zombies and Fungus Zombies have both been done.

Seriously though, if you do manage to come up with a whole new type of zombie, you better keep it secret or hollywood will steal the idea from you haha!

Ha, I was actually thinking that would happen to be honest.

Zombies that are entirely sentient, that seem completely unaffected, zombies in the perfect guise of humans who lie in wait for sometimes years, one million Tyler Dirdens waiting for their host to call them in that phone booth.

Every subconscious thing you've learned, every Manswers episode you've ever watched, if you so much as looked up napalm's composition on wikipedia, read a book about martial arts, or read about sensitive points on the human body, the zombie will know, the zombie will remember, even if you don't. That zombie will be better than you at using any weapon you've ever used, they'll talk and manipulate humans better than you ever thought you had in you. That zombie will be a darkness within the pit of your stomach that you can't fight, a homicidal psychopath just underneath the folds of your concious brain, scratching, biting, struggling to get out, until one day you wake up and you're not the same person anymore. Anyone you know could be a zombie, and you would never know. Not until it's too late.

You'll alternate between personalities, you'll try to stop yourself, you'll scream and fight yourself, argue with thin air, and never, EVER be able to stop it. Because there's only one answer to that bite of yours, only one way to stop the infection before the cure's been invented. Be you a shambling undead or slowly going insane, the only answer is death.

Sorry for spoiling that movie, everyone.

That's deep. But it sounds like you were describing more of a phobia.

Just watch Fight Club. Imagine a million iterations of that suffering protagonist until you've got an apocalypse on your hands that has nothing to do with credit cards.

So a million people with dissociated personality disorders?.

Yep. And it's contagious.

Thanks. I think I know just where to put that in my story, I appreciate it.

Talking zombies. Not fully sentient, but fast, intelligent. They should say things like: "Kill. Hungry. Eat"

Its been done in Return of the Living Dead.

That's not dissociative personality disorder, that's closer to MPD. >_>

Hive mind hyper intelligent x-parasite style hacker zombies.

If that's too hardcore, you may also like:

Zen zombie- an infected who was able to maintain his humanity through meditation and sheer force of will. He can't talk or do certain things because it would distract him and facilitate his transition into a full zombie, but he can kick ass and not feel pain.

Nano zombies- the government created a special nano-thingy that blocks out a soldier's ability to feel pain and automatically cauterizes wounds from the inside, preventing bleed-out. Of course, it gets glitchy and attacks the brain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK_wwQCkKaw

Watch this. It's hilarious. 

Far,,,,far away from being funny xD

You have no sense of humor. xD

Do they have to be actual human zombies or can they be something else?

Not actual human zombies, just a brand new type of zombie with new side effects and symptoms that the virus creates. I want to add at least five new different types. I was thinking on giving one type of zombie mutated stomach acid that could melt flesh, has that been done before?.

Yes.

What about a chimpanzee zombie?

I think that has been done in the movie 28 days later.

What about fish zombies? Or a Zombsharknado?

Okay, I should have said it sooner, but, the whole story-game takes place from inside a sealed-off hospital. I can't add sea creatures, but good idea though. I might add it in the sequel depending on how good my game does on ratings.

Hospitals should always have fish tanks.

Haha. It's a serious Story-game, it would seem kind of humorous to have someone stick their hand inside a fish tank and then get infected from a bite caused by a goldfish. 

Hospitals still use leeches for certain medical practices. You could have the zombie disease spawn due to some weird parasite from the leeches.

Though there have been movies using leeches or leech like creatures to create zombies before.

Parasitic-type zombies were already used in the Resident Evil series. I was thinking on originating the zombie virus from the flu. Having someone take the A, B, and C type Flu virus and chemically enhancing/altering all three to form a much more serious strain. 

Isn't that sort of what happened in Resident Evil as well? Someone took the Progenerator virus and mutated it into the deadlier G and T virus?

Damn. Yes, It was Ozwell. E Spencer. What idea hasn't been used?, I want to be at least 50% original.

I'm not sure if this was what James had in mind when he proposed the hive idea, but you could go with the premise that the zombies actually get smarter the more of them there are.

Basically if you've got one or two of them, they're slow and dumb, but when you start getting 100 or more (or whatever number you come up with) they get quicker and more intelligent like a hive mind. They're capable of more complex strategy and tool manipulation and are a much bigger threat. This also can explain the reason why they are able to overwhelm humanity since they get just as intelligent as a human if they're in a group.

Now the idea itself isn't completely original, since there is a creature from a D&D setting called the Cranium Rat which works in a similar way (they can even cast spells) and there have been hive type zombies before usually being controlled by a single entity, but I don't think they've ever been used in the way I've mentioned.

Okay, I'll definitely include that. I'll call them Hive Minds. Thanks.

Spitting zombies with toxic saliva/vomit has been done. Really though I wouldn't excessively worry about being 100% original. Just about every idea here has either been done or a variation of it has been done, but as long as you can make the story good, people shouldn't care too much about it.

I'm going to list the types I've thought of, and if anyone could tell me if they have been used or not it would be greatly appreciated.

1. The Reaper = Hunts only recently infected people and eats them before they turn.

2. Leapers= Able to leap high distances. Cardio can also outlast a horses.

3. Burners= A rare type from pyromaniacs that have been turned, but still keep their mental condition. 

4. The Dog= Runs on all fours like a dog, nothing special.

5. The immortals= A bullet to the head won't stop these zombies, nearly impossible to kill without decapitation.

Reaper- reminds me of a regular zombie just with a focus on infected people. Other than World War Z, I can't think of a movie where zombies were actively avoiding infected or sick people. Most of the time the zombies just eat anything still living, infected or not.

Leaper- Reminds me slightly of the Hunter type zombie from Left4Dead.

Burners- I can't think of any fire based zombies, or at least none that last very long.

The Dog- This one reminds me of when in movies or games they have "feral" zombies and the zombie (or rabid human) is loping about in an animalistic manner in an attempt to make it seem crazier and wild looking.

The immortals- I'm reminded of Return of the Living Dead again, where you could completely destroy their heads and it still wouldn't kill them. You had to completely destroy the body. Still I think this type would be sort of funny to put in with the "normal" zombies. You'd get someone trying to head shot the thing and to their surprise it doesn't stop it.

Okay, those ideas are trashed, I think I'll keep the burners though. I just need four more types to add into my story.

How about zombies that fuses together into one large, horrendously ugly s.o.a.b, similar to the Rotten from Dark Souls II:

Um. Well that's a idea.

 . . . I tried   

What the-

That's the zombie in the Eight Deaths game play! 

The zombie from what? I googled "Eight Deaths game" and didn't get anything similar to the Rotten.

@nmelssx

http://chooseyourstory.com/forums/forum-games/message/12792

Whelp, that explains why I couldn't google it.

Ugly mo' fo'. It was kind of awesome.

Overlords: zombies that control other zombies. Have advanced intelligence but no individual sentience.

Defiers: zombies with specialized nerve centers that developed after infection. These specialized nerve centers mean that they can't be killed in normal manner.

Specialists: zombies with a specialized skill developed during life. They have high intelligence and slightly more individual sentience than normal zombies. 

     Weapons specialist: zombie that has enough intelligence to use basic weapons and fire arms.

     Computer specialist: zombie hackers!!!

     Combat specialist: zombie that was at one time a kickboxer or professional grappler.

Some zombie ideas that i think havent been used in movies or games (Correct me if wrong)

Hunter: A humanoid bat-like zombie with wings and a small tail. 

Crawler Spiderlike zombie with eight legs and can trap the enemy by spitting webs at them

What about seekers? Zombies who have mental connections so strong that they carry along into death? The zombies are obsessed by looking for them. It could be their child, a necklace from a lover, a picture of their parents; they are forced to look for it by how strong the connection is.

Or if you want to get supernatural you could have zombie-ghosts: undead bodies possessed by the original owners vengeful soul, complete with ghosty powers.

Clackers are remaining pieces of bone trying to get back to the rest of the body. Could be a pinkie finger, could be the whole upper torso. Not much of a threat but add some meat to the story. (Ironic much?)

and what would we do without Actors? Zombies who don't stop talking and relive scenes in life again and again. You better hope that they don't have a violent past or you may get caught up in their reenactments.

Hopefully these are coherent. I'm a bit tired. Hope this helps!

Human-Zombie. These are humans that are capable of resisting the infection through sheer power of will, but are known to fall to their more feral side. These people can gain the ability to consciously become a zombie at will and even revert back to their old selves.

Shark zombies. Zombies that are able to swim without issue.

Partial Zombie. Humans that have a part of them infected and is no longer under control of that particular part (eg. hand)

Cannibal Zombie. A zombie that's brain is unable to tell friend from foe, and thus it feasts on zombies as well as humans.

I would have said rampaging zombies that rape/pillage/murder/eat and partake in glorious orgies.

But that's been done (In the Crossed comics)...

Giving them intelligence could push them over into Vampire territory...

I suppose, you could do a Zombie that shows no external symptoms whatsoever. They're immortal (or long living anyway), can only be killed via shots to the head, can communicate, fit in, do every day things. But revert to flesh-eating in order to survive and have such a high hunger-drive that they need to kill/eat every few hours... (But that's also been done, a movie already did this I think.)

Um... I don't know really, I think almost everything has been done. I suppose you could add variation to the infection process and behavior process. Something like, everyone who carries the original virus are completely unaffected but when they have children the virus lies dormant in the children until they hit puberty and THAT is when they 'turn'? You'd be able to have a relatively normal world, government hush-hushing and downplaying the virus impact on the human race, then the next generation everything literally goes to hell in a handcart. And then you have to deal with how to keep the human race going, finding those who don't have the carrier to procreate for the human race and so on and so forth.

Looking at 'Piggeh Town' and not automatically busting out in an uncontrollable fit of laugher - what about Animal Zombies?

An infection that sweeps through the world and somehow enables animals to rise up over mankind (Planet of the Apes-Style)?

Oh fuck. I was planning on doing something like that and calling it "Dire Wolves" or the like. The concept would be essentially a canid apocalypse. No zombies. No necrosis of any kind in the wolves, just giant wolves who go after major cities.

I think a type of zombie that coverts others by sex...

so it only effects men, cuss were the dumb gender, and it takes over our primal need to repuduce, making the male zombies fuck women and make the women a "hive", a sticky substance would stick the women to the ground, and baby zombies would climb out of the girls twat, forever, becouse the baby zombies are mails that spurted cum inside of them, but baby zombies cant bite till 1 hour later, and normal male cum will free women and if you fuck a women, they will stop making zombies!

...my minds weird....

Here's a concept I haven't seen used that much. Zombies who don't even know that they're even dead or refusing to believe they are.

Not sure if it can be used for an entire CYOA, but I always liked how it was used here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpVnEVr-60