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21 CommentsSurviving High School: It's not easy being young
By Tracey Lien on Nov 20, 2012 11.20.12
Birth before iPhone Birth before iPhone In a market saturated with platformers, puzzlers and bite-sized action games, one would think that a game that hangs its hat on writing about teenagers at a high school would find it hard to succeed. Surviving High School has no bells or whistles, no novel mechanic and its art is far from groundbreaking. But Surviving High School has been succeeding for years. "When people remember [high school], they remember it with a sense of nostalgia." The choose-your-own-adventure game launched on feature phones in 2004 — long before the words "iPhone" and "Android" meant anything to anyone — with a text-heavy story about students at Centerscore High. The game's creators at Centerscore Games had to focus on the writing because the...
