Binary Space
Purists may argue that South Australia is not in WA, but one half of the Binary Space team is here in Westralia, and the game they made is so cool it counts.
Class 3 Outbreak is the game, and you can find it embedded below for your consideration.
Who are you and what are you doing in my house?
Jay Weston, creative dude and Saxon Druce, coder. We are old work colleagues from Ratbag, which was an Adelaide game developer who made some pretty sweet racing games back in the day.
What was the inspiration for the Zombie Outbreak Simulator?
Jay: Pretty much any and every zombie film and game made up until this point. My favorite zombie game would have to be Left 4 Dead, and my fave zombie movie would be Dawn of the Dead (the remake). In terms of the whole Google Maps thing, I think it came up when I used a screenshot of a Google Map to explain a game design concept to Saxon.
Could you explain the difference between Zombie Outbreak Simulator and Class 3 Outbreak?
Jay: ZOS is essentially a sandbox game where you just watch the chaos unfold. C3O is the playable version, where you can control the police to fight the zombies. Both were coded using Flash/ActionScript. The art and animations were drawn pixel by pixel.
What are you working on now?
Jay: We are currently working on upgrading C3O. Saxon is coding up an Editor that will allow you to enter your home address, paint down a collision map, and then try and survive a zombie outbreak wherever you please.
Where can we find you?
Our sites are:
Class 3 Outbreak: Zombie RTS on Facebook
How good is the Perth indy game scene…..why is that?
Jay: I’ll leave that to Saxon to answer!
Saxon: I’m relatively new to the Perth indie game scene – it was already good before I got here, so I don’t know how it got this way. But I do think we owe a lot to the many people who put in their spare time to help promote the local scene, like:
- Nick, Minh, Anthony and Dan from letsmakegames.org, who organise events throughout the year
- Chris from www.pigmi.org, an indie game dev mailing list
- Simon from gamejam.org (weekend game dev events) and planet.pigmi.org (perth game dev blog aggregator)
How’s it in Radelaide?
Jay: Pretty… Rad?
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