How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a cancelled “horror” action game that was in development by Santa Cruz Games for the Nintendo DS and PC. As we can read on Gamasutra, players would have took the role of a little girl named Joanne, armed with a chainsaw to take down zombies that invaded her summer place.
It’s like a survival horror game for kids,” said Neuse. “This is the one we usually show when we’re pitching new game ideas. I think it’s every developer’s dream to eventually be doing our own ideas. [...]“
Sadly only a playable demo was created before “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” was canned, maybe because they did not find any publisher interested in the project. Some screens are archived in the gallery below, to preserve the existence of this lost game.
Thanks to Gerro for the contribution!
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U64 is an archive with articles, screens and videos for cancelled, beta & unseen videogames. Every change & cut creates a different gaming experience: we would like to save some documents about this evolution for curiosity, historic and artistic preservation.
4 Responses to How I Spent My Summer Vacation [DS PC - Cancelled]
Jigu
January 12th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Neuse = Alex Neuse = Gaijin Games, makers of the Bit.Trip series. Hm!
Rob Cypher
March 18th, 2011 at 1:28 am
Hmmm…a “survival horror” game for children. Yeah, I can see why it nobody picked it up. ;)
LuIgI tHe SaTuRn
March 28th, 2011 at 7:14 am
There was also a movie of the same name. Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent my Summer Vacation.
Vetus
November 8th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Looks so ugly from the screenshots. Good thing they cancelled it.