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Just an Experiment…

I get a lot of requests to add multiplayer to SCZ. While I’m not going to get to work on the code base of that old thing, I was giving some thought to creating an XNA/XBLA version with couch and live co-op and team games, based on smaller scenarios.

Well, long story short, thought gave way to coding, and after a little bit of work, here’s what I came up with:

Brilliant, no?

If you want to play with the old SCZ (warning: won’t work on Vista, won’t work on displays that don’t support 640 x 480, may just not work in general), here’s the zip.

I’m not guaranteeing this game (let’s call it Survival Crisis X for now) will get off the ground, and if it does, everyone will have to wait at least a year for it to see the light of day, but hey, I just love posting screenies!

March 31, 2008 posted by James

Filed under: Crazy Ideas,Projects,SCZ

10 Comments Comment away!

1. Jake | March 31, 2008 at 1:08 PM

They’re playng Duck Duck Goose right?!
2. alehkhs | April 21, 2008 at 4:04 PM

Well shit… If the world ended right now, I think I would actually be most pissed off about the fact I never got to see this finished.

Please, keep us all updated on this project! I have been waiting for this since first playing SCZ. (godsdamn Vista! but I have it on a thumb-drive and play it on my friends’ comps when I can).

I will be watching… *_*
3. Ian | May 24, 2008 at 4:49 AM

Anyone have any luck getting SCZ to run on a Mac under Parallels? All I get when I run it is a grey screen. When I hit Enter, it closes and kicks me back to the desktop.
4. The Independent Gaming So&hellip | July 10, 2008 at 6:50 AM

[...] Also, although this version of SCZ doesn’t have multiplayer, who knows what lies around the corner…? [...]
5. kreiger | July 23, 2008 at 8:38 PM

Ohhh please do come out wiht a multiplayer version. I have been playing SCZ for about two years and its an amazing game! But I always said to myself it would be so great to play with friends who could be on my team or who could rival each other. I thought it would even be better if in hardcore mode players that died could become zombies or stronger baddies who tried to end the lives of the other players. I hope to see it soon *fingers crossed*
6. marczazuki | November 4, 2008 at 8:39 PM

Could you at least release the source code for SCZ if there is one? Maybe us fans could create our own version to make it multiplayer. Or would that be a bad thing because then some one could claim that they stole your idea?
7. marczazuki | November 4, 2008 at 8:41 PM

Sorry about the angry face, I’m new here, didn’t know that was a replacement for : X
8. Survival Crisis Z «&hellip | February 8, 2009 at 8:36 AM

[...] Also, although this version of SCZ doesn’t have multiplayer, who knows what lies around the corner…? [...]
9. MadSickHowitzer | March 26, 2010 at 4:15 AM

There is an unofficial vista fix for SCZ, google it.
10. Michael | February 20, 2011 at 11:38 AM

>Could you at least release the source code for SCZ if there is one?

Seconded (and thirded by my roommate)