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Movement is something it’s fair to say that most gamers take for granted. For most, it goes without saying that the movement mechanics in modern video gaming work intuitively and efficiently. In fact, I’m willing to bet that the majority of gamers wouldn’t even give movement mechanics much thought at all, despite a select few high profile titles making some big strides over the past couple of years. Titles like Titanfall, with its carefully considered verticality and wall-running, and Assassin’s Creed: Unity, with its new parkour-down abilities, as well as others have collectively made movement more complete and fluid than ever for gaming. Movement is a key focus too in Dying Light, a first-person zombie survival game with a difference; the ability to move around the post-apocalyptic landscape using parkour to traverse the environment in an attempt to escape, flee and outwit the zombies pursuing you. Parkour in games isn’t particularly new; the aforementioned Assassin’s Creed franchise was built upon its free-running mechanics, and parkour has been seen in first-person