Christian Allen is the new design director for Project Zomboid and has previously worked as the lead designer on Halo: Reach and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. He has played over 5,000 hours of Project Zomboid and is known in the modding community as 'Serellan', where he has created custom modes for the game. His appointment is part of a strategy by The Indie Stone to bring in new talent, alongside other new team members including Max Nuttall, Matt Sullivan, Daniel Heelan, and Matthew Harber. The community around Project Zomboid is active, with many mods available and a Discord server for player discussions.