Hey everyone,

We’ve just uploaded a new version of C3O with the results of our first three days of full-time work.

Play it here: http://www.class3outbreak.com

The main gameplay feature that we’ve added is the ability to search buildings. You now start the game with a limited amount of ammo for your 3 civs to use. However they can enter buildings and search for more ammo.

There’s also a bunch of smaller changes that we’ve made:

• Smaller minimap, so it doesn’t cover so much of the game area.
• Civs show up as dots on the minimap, when there are less than 50 of them left.
• The ability to delete maps from the editor which you don’t want any more (as long as they haven’t been published).
• Previously all published maps would be submitted to Jay to be moderated. With over 30 maps being published a day, this was starting to take a lot of time. We’ve now changed this so that you can choose to nominate your map for inclusion on the world map.

We hope you like the changes!

Saxon

UPDATE 20th July: We are no longer looking for people for this position. Thankyou to everyone who applied.

We have just begun full time work on our zombie game, Class 3 Outbreak! Part of the upcoming development involves writing up a compelling game-world and backstory that we can use to give our game some character. Story will be used throughout the game in the background to give the game context, through dialog, game objectives, an in-game journal, and potentially even for missions.

Jay is currently writing the dialog, but we require an experienced writer to help us create a detailed game world, backstory and to advise on already completed dialog.

Effectively, we need a “creative writer advisor”. The position will be a short contract period (~20 hrs) to develop all of the above. Ideally you will have one or all of the following:

• Experience in writing for games and/or interactive storytelling
• Experience in writing novels or screen plays
• Specific background or interest in apocalyptic tales, sci fi, horror and drama
• Credits in completed projects
• Knowledge of the zombie and horror genres in games, film or novels

Please apply to jobs@www.binaryspacegames.com and include your resume and writing samples that are relevant to this position and target audience.

We’re excited to announce that following our search for programmers, we’ve now hired Luke Mitchell and David Coen!

Both Luke and David will be joining us in just over a week, from the 13th of June – the same day that Jay and I are going to start full time development on Class 3 Outbreak.

Our team is now even more geographically distributed than before! I am in Perth Australia, and Jay is in Adelaide Australia. David joins us from Melbourne Australia, and Luke is all the way over in the United Kingdom.

Over the next week we’ll likely be busy on preparation for the transition into full time work. We’re looking forward to getting lots of game features developed starting from the 13th!

Saxon