Surviving High School

Surviving High School
Developer(s)Centerscore[1] (mobile)
EA Mobile
Platform(s)iOS, Android
Release
April 30, 2005
  • iPhone/iPod Touch
    • WW: November 16, 2009
    (discontinued) iPad
    • WW: July 12, 2011
    (discontinued) Android
    • WW: December 22, 2011
    Mobile phone
    • WW: April 30, 2005 (discontinued)
    Windows Mobile
    • WW: January 28, 2009 (discontinued)
    Nintendo DS
    • NA: April 19, 2010
    • PAL: April 30, 2010 (discontinued)
Genre(s)Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

Surviving High School was a visual novel game developed and published by Electronic Arts. It was originally released for mobile phones in 2005, later being made available for iPhone and iPod Touch in 2009[2] and for iPad and Android OS in 2011. New episodes were released and available for download on a weekly basis. It shared many similarities in terms of gameplay mechanics and visuals to its sister game, Cause of Death, which is also developed by EA Games. Some of the characters from Surviving High School now feature in the sister game High School Story by Pixelberry Studios. The character Autumn Brooks transferred out of the Surviving High School after being bullied, and now features heavily in High School Story, alongside other characters with minor roles such as Owen, Wes and Kimi. This ties in with a bullying theme carried through High School story and their partnership with The Cybersmile Foundation. Autumn's bullying storyline from Surviving High School enables her to help a student called Hope in High School Story, who is being cyberbullied; this storyline helps to raise awareness of the issue of bullying and cyberbullying in high school age students.

On April 30, 2014, it was announced during one of the episodes that the game would be ending soon. The final episode was released in July 12, 2014.

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