We’re currently having a little pool on our Facebook page:

If you could play Suicider as any model in the new version, what would you choose and what would be the most fun?

Head on over to our Facebook page and vote for your favorit ideas or add your own to the pool. All silly and crazy ideas are welcome 🙂 Thanks,
The shrub-management

Hi fans of explosions!

I’ve got some updates for you. While we’re still working as much as we can on version 1.2, Derek got the new survival game mode almost ready for testing. While Clément made some desert related assets and is currently working on a new map. Check out the following screenshots:

And I’m in the process of ironing out the last bugs of the new tool that will allow mappers to set the model for the suiciders. Which reminds me that we’re still looking for help with some new maps for version 1.2. So if you’re still unsure whether to help us out or not. Now is the time!

Additionally we now also joined the social media bandwagon and created an official Facebook page ready for your likes. We’ll use this to post updates and also to answer questions. Not that you guys ever ask me anything but just in case. Hit it up at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suicide-Survival/217394808394119

Last but not least we would like to announce that we’re trying to finish up version 1.2 by the end of the year. Hopefully we’ll make some per-christmas release date 🙂

Thats it for now. Thank you for reading!

Ok everything has been moved to the new server and I hopefully removed all the nasty hacker stuff. If you notice anything strange give, let me know.

Oh and the forums are back online as well! 🙂

On another note we’re making some progress with version 1.2 and we also have a new team member: Clément from France! He’s helping us out with some cool new models. On a final note: we’re still looking for help with making new maps for version 1.2. So if you always wanted to have your work released in a mod then let me know. It would be nice to have a few more people on the team. 🙂

So you’ll probably thought this mod is dead and slowly sinking into the great abyss of the intertubes. Guess who’s wrong?

Remember when I started searching for someone with more experience in C++ coding then me? Well I finally found someone to help me out! Let me introduce Derek Brown, aka FingerFactor!

We secretly started developing on Suicide Survival 1.2 a few months ago and the good news is we already got one feature working. The bad news is, well actually there are no bad news because you’ll will get to play version 1.2 in the not so distant future. You lucky bastards! So let me introduce the planned features for the next release:

• Make the suicider character model map-dependent
  This means that the mapper can decided what model the suiciders should have. Meaning you could design all sort of crazy map ideas like exploding office chairs in the meeting room, exploding rocks in the desert or exploding overweight WW2 pilots that battle against book-throwing bushes (wait what?). The sky is the limit.
  Eventually we will also make the survivor model map-dependent.
• A new game mode: Survival
  Blatantly stolen from other mods in this game mode everyone except one player starts as survivor. If you die as a survivor you’ll respawn as a suicider until there are no more survivors left.
• A few new sounds
• Some gameplay balancing
• And of course a few new maps

Here’s where all you mappers get your chance. We’re looking for a few talented people who would like to do some crazy maps for Suicide Survival 1.2. Send me an e-mail with your map idea and if we like it you’ll get access to the development build. The idea is to have a few nice maps with different suicider models for the next release. Think we can do that? I sure think we can!

We currently don’t have an release date set for 1.2. but I can say with 96.54% certainty that it won’t be released on a Monday. So sit tight and hold on to your bushes, or maybe better don’t. I don’t care.

Oh, and on a final note: If you’re interested in the development history and design choices behind Suicide Survival then check out this blog post on my personal development blog.

I’ve decided to start development on Suicide Survival again. But for this I’ll need help so I’m looking for an experienced c++ coder to be part of the core development team. The ideal candidate would’ve the following features:

1. at least a year of experience coding with C++
2. familiar with the source engine and how it works
3. at least 20 hours or more free time per week
4. a dedicated worker and a fast learner

In return I can offer you the following:

• A professional and experienced game designer to work with.
• Work on a under-developed game that – with a little help – will sky rocket.
• A large and established fan base.
• The potential outlook to release the mod as a standalone game on Steam.

If this sounds exciting to you then send me an e-mail with some information about yourself, your coding experience and why you want to work on Suicide Survival. You can reach me at: hello at tobiasbaumann.net

Thank you and I’m looking forward to meeting you.

Hey everyone, After a longer-then-expected downtime due to the site having been hacked, everything is back to normal now. I re-installed the blog and the forum and it all should work again as before the hack. If you notice anything strange or if something isn’t working please let me know.

Also apparently due to digg and reddit the mod got a lot of attention in the last 48 hours. Last time I checked there were two servers online with 10 people playing. So if you wan’t to jump in for some good ‘ol rounds of exploding now would be a good time 🙂

The youtube user “brudda985” made a pretty nice bird-eye-view video that captures the gameplay of Suicide Survival pretty well 🙂 Check it out:

Thanks brudda985!