Startup developer Proletariat announces World Zombination, a faction-based strategy game coming to Windows and mobiles next year. Proletariat was recently formed by veterans of Harmonix, Insomniac, Turbine, 38 Studios, and Zynga Boston, and they say they will be attending PAX Prime at the end of this month to show the game off to the press. In the meantime, they offer an "infected" teaser trailer and promise a "survivor" trailer in the fall. Here's word on the game:

In World Zombination, players choose between The Infected and The Survivors and fight with (and against!) their friends to control cities around the world. With compelling and asymmetrical moment-to-moment gameplay, the choice of faction gives a totally different experience and is a new take on real-time strategy combat. The Infected players control a horde of hundreds of zombies while The Survivors control a band of heroes trying to hold off the onslaught.

Proletariat Design Director Jesse Kurlancheek says, "The most fun and memorable moments in games come when you're playing with your friends, whether it's team death-match in an FPS, raiding in MMOs, or just sitting around playing cards. We're hoping to provide those experiences, distilled down, with World Zombination." The game features a constantly changing world map that allows guilds and players to team up and work together to control the world in real-time and on a massive scale.

Proletariat's CEO, Seth Sivak , adds, "We are focused on bringing cutting-edge multiplayer games to tablets. This is the sort of game we love to play. With World Zombination, we've come up with fun and unique gameplay that real-time strategy gamers will find refreshing."

"We are creating a world that is both beautiful and utterly devastated," says CTO Dan Ogles. "Quality keeps going up on tablets and we're pushing ourselves from both a technical and a design perspective to take advantage of what these devices can do."