By Karissa Erven
Computers and phones have trending games and software, and now a new one is available, and it was created by two Coronado seniors. Zack Goldstein and Adam Cassell created Surgeshock, a new game released September 19 on the Mac app store.
“It’s $2.00 on the Mac, but when it does come out on the iPhone, it’s either going to be a dollar or free with ads,” Cassell said.
Surgeshock challenges your luck, skill, and patience as you attempt to survive the Surge.
“It’s really addicting and fun. I suggest people try it out,” Goldstein said.
In the game, there are two different modes you can play to defeat the virtual monster: randomized gameplay and challenge mode. No zone is ever played the same way twice.
“I think it helps to show real life examples, and it’s not just like a textbook problem,” Cassell said.
There are Blocks and Power-Ups to discover as you progress through each zone, along with new objects that will either help or make things more difficult. Challenge mode must be unlocked by earning a specific amount of points, but once unlocked, there are new beasts to conquer and tasks to complete, and this is just the beginning. More zones, new items, and new features are coming.
Putting an app on the Apple Mac Store isn’t as easy as one might think it is.
“We had to start making it with some of the software we learned in class,” Cassell said. “So even though we had an app that worked, we had to create a business [GoldenCastle Studios] so we got a little bit of experience.”
After the business is made, the submitting process starts. The game gets submitted to apple and the waiting begins, but rejection sometimes comes along with it.
“The first time we sent it, it got rejected, and they said it wouldn’t open. So we messed around with it and resent it,” Goldstein said.
One of the goals of the computer science program is to have students take their new found skills and use them in an applied practice.
“[I was] excited and proud of them. They used their computer science and all the things that they learned at school to make an app and maybe make money,” Mr. Winn, the computer science teacher, said.
