Most games are playable on both Mac or PC, while some can be played in the browser. A couple of the games are multi-player and at least one requires external controllers. Click on links for specific instructions.

Be advised that some games include mature content.

Rock Paper Scissors, a VR Experience

Wesley McWhorter, Programming, Art, Design, Senior

This project was created from an independent study I took this semester. The independent study was in hand tracking and was a way for me to explore and learn about the new VR hand-tracking capabilities of the Oculus Quest 2. For this project, I focused on gesture recognition and essentially created a game of Rock Paper Scissors in VR! In this game, you will be facing an AI opponent in rock paper scissors and at the end of each round, you will give them a thumbs up to start the next round. It plays to the first player to reach 3 points.

A Statue Of Time

Lucas Ackman, Programmer, Sophomore; Ethan Kirkpatrick, Artist, Sophomore

Both of us share a career goal in game development. I (Lucas Ackman) plan on going into programming, hoping to work in VR games since those are the games I get the most joy from playing, and I already have a few projects within which I’ve started. Unfortunately, none of my VR projects are at a point where I feel comfortable sharing them as most of them are simply for learning the main mechanics of VR development.

Cloud-9

Joe St. Louis, Programmer, Sophomore; Aidan Howe, Programmer, Senior; Jacob Mckenney 3D artist, Senior

This project was our final for Comm 496, we were asked to develop a game for the second half of the semester. When we first started we all wanted to show off what we have learned so far but also to try out news things and learn new things along the way. Jacob made his first 3D character with this game, this is Aidan’s first 3D game, and this is first time Joey worked with third person camera, movement, and animations. Cloud-9 is a space themed collect-a-thon, you are a passenger of a vacation spaceship when suddenly you feel a rumble. The spaceship is under attack and your goal is to find parts to help you escape. For the demo level you are finding gun pieces to destroy the drone and move onto the next room.

p5 Turn Based Battle

Phoenix Grasser, Junior

My name is Phoenix Grasser, I use they/them pronouns. I’m interested in making video games like the ones I enjoy, in the hopes that I inspire others in the future to also love video games enough to want to study them or make more. I also like to involve my queer perspective in my games when the opportunity arises, as a unique way to express myself and my experiences, and in an attempt to make gaming a safer place for queer people and other minorities. This game specifically is inspired by the RPG genre of games, which I grew up on and continue to enjoy to this day.

Geonocturn: The Boiler

Aidan Howe, Game Developer, Senior

As a senior about to graduate, I wanted a project I could see fitting the boots of everything I’ve learned thus far about coding, game development, art, and more. Geonocturn: The Boiler has been a work-in-progress game since February and it took up the role as my Capstone project in my MAGD minor this semester. With a semester of Unity practice, but years of coding experience and self-taught doodling, I decided I would go head first into making a tile-based exploration and combat game built around a narrative. In the future, I hope I can continue, make, or lead projects just like this in an indie environment to tell stories and make fun experiences.

“Natural” Selection

Adam Weber, Programmer, Senior; Dylan Oelke, Programmer, Senior; Jake Sefranek, Artist, Senior; Andrew Mason, Programmer, Alumni;

“Natural” Selection was created during a 48-hour game jam with the theme “Chain Reaction.” The group decided to create a game with a genetic algorithm where bunnies will populate the map over time and evolve through various traits, such as intelligence, how fast they are, how many carrots they can eat, fertility rate, etc. You play as the predator. This connects to our career goals as all of us want to be involved in the game development field. All of us are very proud to have made this small game in a short amount of time, especially since we all learned a lot of lessons during its creation.

Requiem: The Lost Voices

Jake Klein, Programmer, Alumni; Dylan Oelke, Programmer, Senior; Adam Weber, Programmer, Senior; Levon Swenson, Programmer, Alumni; Dayne Farris, Programmer, Junior; James Zajkowski, Programmer, Sophomore;

Requiem is a horror game made around Halloween 2021 during a 48-hour game jam with the theme “Projection.” It is a level-based game where each level has a unique threat that the player must avoid. The game also follows the story of the past with several characters who fell victim to the dark and mysterious mansion. For a couple of us in the group, this was one of their first games, so not only was it a fun project to make, but it was also a great learning experience for everyone.

Elf Re-packing Simulator

Adam Weber, Programmer, Senior; 

I made a game last year for a Christmas game jam, and so I decided to make a new one for this year’s Christmas jam! This was a fun game to make, with not too many difficult mechanics. The project was not meant to be too difficult to make or improve my skills; rather it was made out of pure fun for making games.

Dungeon Man

Navnit Venkatesh, lead designer, Sophomore

This is my first game that I have ever created on Unity, as part of MAGD 272. This work to me is the start of my pursuit of game design and the start of bigger projects that I want to create in the future.