2013 Student Competition Entrants

by Team Gravity
Links
Video

Gravity is a physics puzzle in which players help the adorable-but-immobile Gus escape disposal. Space is a dangerous place, but with your help, our cube-shaped hero can find his way to freedom.

by Pawel Mogila
Links
Website Video

Grimind is a 2D physics based adventure, platform game in horror/creepy theme that casts you into forgotten caves and ancient crypts, without memories. While being there you must to demonstrate big manual skills to pass obstacles and solve non trivial puzzles to get out of scary environment and additionally remind yourself or even discover who you really are and what are doing there alone - but is it sure... that you are there... alone?

by The Skykings (Sarah Caughey, Pete Gioldios, Candy Goodison, Alexander Johnson, Chris Rees and Shaun Stevenson)
Links
Website Video

GRIN And Bear It is a third person puzzle adventure game set in a derelict carnival amidst the eerie swamps of the Louisiana bayou. Sealed inside of a bear suit with no knowledge of who or what brought you here, you can utilize our unique charades based conversation system to solve the mysteries surrounding your grizzly situation.

by DGE4
Links
Website Video

Do you hate your job?
Is your boss a jerk?
Are you an elephant?

Funkify your Mundane Monday workplace in Groovy Tuesday!
Lob musical plugmen in this 3rd person office-adventure.
Depart on a spirit journey and feed your coworkers the funk they deserve.

by Team Grow
Links
Video

Grow is an online multiplayer game for the PC. Play as cute and quirky critters and fight to become the dominant side!

Don't stop eating! Munching on fruit, meat or candy helps the critters grow into more wild and powerful species. You are what you eat, so try different foods to become different classes with unique abilities and skills. Use the distinctive characters to fight back the enemy and assist your team.

Steal eggs! Each team has a set of eggs which must be protected. Players can steal the enemy team's eggs and carry them back to their base. Every time a player dies they must also hatch out of one of the eggs, decreasing their team's points. Work hard to defend your nest and fight, dodge or sneak your way into the enemy's!

Grow presents a refreshing and exciting take on online multiplayer games, extending themes, mechanics and appeal to encompass a wide demographic of players. The entertaining levels, colourful characters and wide array of abilities allow for casual yet addictive online battles. Grow is playable over the internet with up to 32 players.

by Aquasheep
Links
Website Video

Welcome to Go the Fuck to Sleep the (not) Game based on the best-seller "children's book" Go the Fuck to Sleep.

You are a parent stuck at home one day to take care of the new baby. See how long you can get the baby to go to sleep for. See if you go insane. See if the baby will never go to sleep. It's different every time! Experience the life of a parent where order and chaos, happiness and insanity are only a click away.

by Submachine Factory
Links
Website Video

GYRO is an easy to play, but hard to master arcade game with intuitive touch controls, addictive gameplay, cool minimalistic graphics and gazillions of points to collect!

by section 9 games ( Student team Games Academy)
Links
Website Video

Hadron is a P400 Project for iPad Devices developed by Students at the Games Academy.

"Take control over your avatar and get ready to be thrown in a virtual world full of surprises in this highspeed 2,5D racer.
Adapt to the track color with your avatar to gain speed!
Collect tons of loot and push your scare!
Look out for speedboosts and dashgates to push your score even more!"

On a trip through a Cyberspace the player has to train his reflexes to race the stages in best possible time and in the right player colours.

by Team Hebi
Links
Website Video

HebiHanabi is a PC game where 2 players each controls a snake made of firework bombs and tries to bomb each other in order to win over the princess's heart. The game is 2d versus shooter with a big twist since your bombs also serves as your life point so the player need to find their own strategy to defeat the other player. With Hebi Hanabi, we wanted to capture the spirit of Japanese art.Trying to reference Japanese culture, the setting of our game takes place in a japanese Spring festival at night, and the main attraction is the firework show. We use the idea of a firework show and turn it into a dueling event where two people use fireworks as their weapon.

by DADIU
Links
Website Video

You play as Blake Damon – an outlaw road rager who has driven himself to hell. Your V8 muscle car is your weapon as you drive to survive on Hell's Highway. Crush hell spawned imps to drain their bodies for the powerful Hell Juice and destroy the demon truck chasing you.

How to play:
- The car accelerates on its own!
- You steer the car right and left by using the arrows, or A and D on your keyboard
- You can look around the car with the mouse
- Left click the mouse to boost
- Right click to open the ability menu
- The goal of the game is to destroy the truck chasing you
- If you run over Imps you get Hell Juice
- Hell Juice can be used to boost, repair or attack the truck
- If you get an Imp on the hood, boost it to death
- If they hang onto your door, kick it open
- And remember … drive fast

by Pretentious Games
Links
Website Video

Go back to the arcade to explore planets, flip some switches, and bring light to the universe.

Take on the role of the Cosmonaut and adventure through the galaxy in your quest to illuminate the universe. The player must travel to various planets, navigate internal mazes to reach each planet's core, flip the switch at the center of each planet, and then escape before it turns into a star. Each planet you light up allows you to push further into deep space and progress on your mission to bring light to the universe.

From a technical standpoint, Hello World is set in a procedural universe of near infinite scale and scope. Every planet, every platform, every object is placed according to a difficulty controlling director, that works to slowly raise the challenge of the game the further the player travels into the universe.

by Tsatsiki Games
Links
Website Video

Hexarush is a musical runner in which you constantly interact with music. Your actions, choices and performance on the track modify what you hear.

Music is what drives this game's concept, everything is designed around it to reflect its rythm and pace throughout the level. Every little thing on the track is in rythm with the audio to enhance the experience and let you be driven by the song.

And yeah, don't forget the spirit of the runner : Give your best and hit the highest scores !

by Jason Meisel
Links
Website Video

A helicopter-like game.

Created for the DigiPen Game Jam with the theme "Change of Plans."

by Last Stand
Links
Video

Our game is about directing a slightly thick hero through a maze to rescue a princess.
But you don't control the hero, you control the maze, and you have to switch the tiles of the maze to guide him to safety!
It was meant for mobile platforms, but works great on computer and mouse as well.

We hope you enjoy!

by funky monkey studios
Links
Website Video

Take control of an amazing ice cube champion, and go on a quest to beat the world highest score!
Feel the speed, the hotness and the coldness of the Ice World.

by Team IKB
Links
Website Video

Ikarubattle is a head-to-head mobile shooter where 2 players confront on the same device. Each one has to dodge the bullet hell generated by the other player while trying to destroy her ship. The bullets bounce on each others, so the screen quickly becomes messy - and dodging is thus made harder…

by Benjamin Poynter
Links
Website Video

[ SYNOPSIS BEFORE THE REMOVAL ]

A cerebral, fantasy driven application about events that are true and currently exist. In a Permanent Save State is a game that falls into the evolving category of 'serious games' or if you will 'games for change'. The interconnected narrative it tells sheds nameless perspective upon the Western spectacle vs. the Eastern dream. Furthermore, has a root in cultural truisms which define the aesthetic and faith for those involved. There is an effort to deconstruct the idea of where the games we cherish 'come from' and an effort to deconstruct the video game form itself. Those who assemble the dreams of this world now have their own at a devastating cost.

[ SYNOPSIS AT THE CURRENT MOMENT ]

I am being very critical of the human rights and socially irresponsible practices of Apple and Foxconn through the fantasy it packages to the world.

by Super Uber Mega Ultra
Links
Website Video

When the goddess of spring is killed, you must take her place. Endowed with the powers of spring, you must push back the forces of winter.

A five week project undertaken by Team Super Uber Mega Ultra who was given the theme of "Spring". Play as Iris, an aspiring God, and bring spring back to the land of Greece! Solve puzzles, witness epic fights and battle the god Boreas as you attempt to save the land and become the goddess Persephone.

by Red Cap Games
Links
Website Video

Iron Soul : Awakening is a 3rd person Action-Platformer. The enemies in the game are man-made robots known as NROs and use a unique AI system to challenge any player used to other 3rd person shooters. They are meant to engage player in a way that FPS games like Quake 3 and original UT did.

- H25 is our silent protagonist. He is a machine that was specifically made by a brilliant professor in order to stop an impending robot menace. The more ironic part is that most enemies are also his creations that got hacked and stolen.

- We all have little voices inside our heads. Iron Soul's main campaign with the small bonus section take full advantage of that. After all, even a silent robot like H25 is not immune to an inner voice. The questions is whether or not he listens to it.

- The camera and control design for moving and non-aim mode abandons the more popular method of modern titles and instead goes for the more platformer friendly look / move scheme of classics like MDK.

- There are unique 3 difficulty levels which are not just changes in enemy health. Each level, each platform and each combat situation has been carefully designed based on either of 3 difficulty levels.

- The defeated enemies usually explode a few seconds after death. Not only this method is used for removing / hiding enemy bodies, it can be a rather twisted punishment for impatient and careless players.

by team-iso
Links
Website Video

IsoChronous is a 2 players strategy action game with a mechanic based on time traveling made in 2 months for the student competition Dare to be Digital 2012

The game features a battle of only 30 seconds between two armies, each one controlled by one player. The main point of the game is that when the 30 seconds run out, the time rewinds so all the units go back to their starting point. This conforms a time layer. Each battle has 4 time layers, and in each one a new unit is added to the battle. The player only has control over the unit of the current time layer, while the other units repeat exactly the same they did on the time layers where they were played. So, IsoChronous features a big 4 vs 4 battle where the units are added one by one, changing the course of the events in each time layer

by Cathartic Games
Links
Website Video

Guide this curious, lonely character through desolate lands and pensive atmospheres searching for a means to continue and for answers.

Use puzzle solving skills in this 2d sidescroll point and click adventure.

by OricalCo Studios
Links
Website Video

JB The Jelly is a side scroller platform game for the Ipad, The Candy World is being invaded by the Vegealiens, aliens who happen to be vegetables. JB, a young gelatin with a dream of being a hero and Heromellow, the hero of the Candy Doces, but before hand, he must rescue The Princess Truffle and save Candy World!

by Orest Nazarewycz, Robert Post
Links
Website Video

The story of a jetpack equipped kitten, inadvertently shifting between alternate dimensions, while carelessly chasing a ball of yarn.

Jetpack Kitty is a super difficult platform game with controls tailored to the iPhone! You won't find any silly virtual D pads here, just two buttons located on the left and right sides of the screen. Focusing on twitch platforming with a phasing mechanic. Players can phase blocks in and out while dodging and avoiding deathtraps to reach the goal of an ever elusive ball of yarn.

FEATURES:

- 48 levels of platforming and phasing action!

- Tons challenging Achievements to unlock

- Multiple world locations

- An awesome Chiptune soundtrack!

- Exciting mechanics including hovering, phasing, portals, gravity
swapping, and more!

by Max Baraitsr Smith
Links
Video

In this game you play as a juggler trying to keep the balls in the air. You can throw in two different ways, crossing and straight. Your aim is to find as many different tricks as you can.

Controlls: A and D to do a cross throw. K and L to do a straight throw.

by Alec Thomson, Alison Malouf
Links
Video

Part roguelike, part stealth game, part puzzler, Jungle.com is a game about robbing Silicon Forest's hottest new "World Wide Web" startup while simultaneously being its best customer. Explore a vast procedurally generated rain-office as you use only your wits (and any loose cash) to climb the corporate vine, tamper with shareholder dollars, and avoid carnivorous middle-managers.

by Those Awesome Guys
Links
Website Video

Featuring 5 new levels, new game modes, more skins and hats tan you can dream of, an amazing soundtrack and oh yeah, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER, Kawairun 2 is possibly one of the best online running game out there. It also lets you wear an octopuss as a hat :D

by Patrick Kain
Links
Video

You play keys A, S, D, F, G, H, J. Those play individual notes and create these radiating shapes.

by Michael T. Astolfi
Links
Website Video

Kifted is a game about survival, cooperation, and making a good impression. Two players work together to impress a judgmental scientist by balancing two competing activities: gathering berries and hunting hornets. The scientist is only impressed by the number of hornets that players hit. Each spear players throw while hunting costs energy from a shared pool - players can replenish their energy by foraging and collecting berries. Players must work together to develop a strategy that will allow them to make a good impression on the scientist, while ensuring that they don't run out of energy.

Kifted's design draws on principles of evolutionary psychology; its hunting and gathering mechanics model activities for which humans retain adaptive instincts. Further, the players' showcasing of their survival abilities is reminiscent of mating displays. Kifted encourages cooperation, and simulates one important facet of the hunter gatherer lifestyle. Wiimote controllers are used to simulate realistic throwing motions, and enhance the appeal of these behaviors.

by Behold Studios
Links
Website Video

Manager of a pen and paper RPG table with turn based battles!
Knights of Pen&Paper is an indie turn-based retro style pixel-art RPG. Inspired by the great titles of the 90's, play this game feels like you are playing a traditional pen and paper RPG.
The player gets to control the playing characters AND the dungeon master, and you choose what battles to fight. Put together a bunch of monsters to make it a challenging fight and your rewards will be equally great!
With 12 different classes (6 unlockables) and 17 characters (5 unlockables) to choose from, more than 100 quests, 50 monsters, 100 items and equipment, blacksmith, enchanter, mining, gathering, hidden treasures and a lot more. Knights of Pen&Paper gives the player lots of room to personalize your gameplay experience.
Launching with 2 whole campaigns and many more are coming up! Each time a new game is created you can choose a different campaign and have a brand new game experience.

- Turn Based battles
- Retro Pixel Art
- Pen & Paper RPG references
- Simple to play, very rich gameplay experience
- Challenging quests and monsters
- Entertaining story line

by Zach Kehs
Links
Website Video

Koya Rift is an action-packed platform shooter that is built around circular gameplay; which emphasizes a huge replay value by feeding the player a stream of short term goals that don't end. In Koya Rift, the player must enter a hostile planet and destroy an alien race so the planet can be colonized. Each round, the player is dropped off at the surface and must venture into procedurally generated caves, earning upgrades and buying units as he goes along. The difficulty adjusts precisely to the skill of the player over time, providing them with a consistent challenge. The goal of the game is to provide a challenging, yet casual experience that's easy to pick up and put down.

by C.O.R.E. Team
Links
Website Video

LabRATory is an action puzzlegame for iOs & android devices with thousands of rats desperatly trying to reach the cheese. All rats move like "lemmings" and need your help to find their way through different test scenarios. To clear the way, you can manipulate lasers, force fields, portals, magic boxes, stompers and much more!
Even the change of gravity lies in your hands...

by Budgie Games
Links
Website Video

With Lander there will be more than just take-off and landing, there will be real skill required in the full 3D environments as the game will take you to different areas with vast changes to the style and layout of previous environments, Caves&Caverns, Freezing cold ice planets with falling shards to Boiling hot lava planets with lava geysers and magma pools, Unexplored asteroids to fully built mining stations.

by Emoak
Links
Website Video

Landspotting is a multiplayer online real-time strategy game played on Google Maps! You can play it completely for free here: apps.facebook.com/Landspotting

It is the year 3000 B.C. Are you able to build an empire to stand the test of time!? Explore new land, build new villages, research, trade and fight with and against other players to conquer the earth!

By playing you help to improve global landcover data which is very important for many sciences and fundamental for many important questions like how fast does the climate change or how much cropland can be planted in Africa!

For more information about the Landspotting project please visit http://www.landspotting.org.

by AGOWAI STUDIOS
Links
Website Video

Larnin is a 3D side-scrolling action-racing platformer for the Xbox 360. It will primarily be a multiplayer game with players battling each other to reach the finish line first. Players navigate obstacles semi-realistically using elements of parkour and freerunning, and attempt to hinder each other's progress with anything they can conjure using the four elements.

Game Objectives
• Free flowing free running with spectacular stunts!
• All-action PvP racing with intense speed spell casting
• Fulfilling multiplayer experience
• Dazzling visual effects
• Fluid movement with artistic flair

by Naturally Selected Studios
Links
Website Video

It's politically incorrect Dodo extinction fun!

Combine traps and environmental hazards to destroy masses of Dodos before they escape! Watch them bounce around between the traps you strategically position before they explode in a poof of feathers. Earn in-game currency to purchase new traps and unlock new levels...

Can you obliterate every single harebrained, loony bird using fewer traps and less money than your friends?

Gameplay Features
• Tower Defense re-invented
• Strategic resource management
• Rube-Goldberg-esque trap setup & interaction
• AI ingenuity
• Visual rewards for gameplay risks
• Guilt-free mayhem

by Team Buttfighters
Links
Website Video

4 ULTRANOBLE WARRIORZ FROM THE TECHNOFUTURE MEET ON A FIELD OF MINDBLOWING HYPERCOMBAT TO DECIDE THE FATE OF ALL POSSIBLE FUTURES!!

LAZA KNITEZ!! distills the thrilling gameplay of deathmatch classics like Quake and Unreal Tournament into the humble shell of an 80s arcade cabinet. It takes one of the most exhilarating genres of gaming and makes it radically accessible. You don't have to be a dual-stick wizard or mouse & keyboard master to have a blast in LAZA KNITEZ!! Even your grandma can pick it up in under ten seconds! Every single kill and power-up in the game makes the action go faster and faster until everyone is screaming and shouting with a deathgrip on their controller!

LAZA KNITEZ!! has a minimalist design and maximum awesome. Not only does it come stock with a custom soundtrack of space horse techno, every sound in the game is tuned to a pentatonic scale. That means you can turn the sounds of splattering your foes into a harmonious symphony of slaughter!

If you can handle LAZA KNITEZ normal gameplay, steel yourself for CRAZINESS! With a working mic, LAZA KNITEZ can take the shouts and howls of players in the throes of combat to make the game even wilder— which makes the players shout and howl louder, which makes the game crazier and crazier in a positive feedback loop of fun!!

CHIVALRY ISN'T DEAD. IT'S JUST RESPAWNING!!

by LizardSky
Links
Website Video

Levitate Bomb will make you feel a little pressure and a lot of Fun in playing
cause you need some skills to read Bombs(not just only normal Bombs) way,
calculate which way you should go and when you should go down or fly.

One more challenge of this game is to hold on your Rank to be 1st.

Can you hold it?

by Jane Friedhoff
Links
Website Video

LIMiNAL is a game prototype about going to get your groceries. Sort of.

The majority of people, in general, do not consider their gender. When your gender matches up to the way society thinks you should present yourself, you are--even if you don't realize it--rewarded with the ability to move freely and without harassment. But for many people, gender and gender presentation is far larger than just society's definition of 'male' and 'female.' Looking a way that the binary doesn't recognize can open a person up to taunts, assaults, violence, and worse, just for walking down the street--making getting from point A to point B a much more complicated issue than most people recognize.

LIMiNAL puts the player in this role, in order to reveal privilege and create empathy. The player--naturally a purple star--must accomplish their goals in a world of pink and blue squares, which turn hostile if they see the player in their natural form. The player has the ability to "pass" as a member of the gender binary, but will always tend to revert back to their shape. Whichever way the player decides to play the game, they must exert much more work and feel much more anxiety about their decisions than anyone else on screen, just for looking different.

by Birnam Wood Games
Links
Website Video

Loc is a 3D puzzle game in which you have been taken prisoner by the last queen of the faeries, who wishes to keep you in her now empty kingdom as punishment caused by man on natures balance.

You must escape by solving "Loc" puzzles that lie between you and freedom.

Can you escape?

by inpla.net
Links
Website Video

LonganTree:Dimocarpus longan, commonly known as the longan, is a tropical tree native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone. It produces edible fruit. Forth under the dawn's light, you arrive in the mist. Taking a little breath, you scent the thick growth. Birds are tweeting, you perceive something. Is it a longan wood over there? You can't see it through the air. Is it the aim for which you have come here?

by Team Lotic
Links
Website Video

Lost Faith is a 3D side-scrolling physics puzzle game that takes place in scenic but unstable Venice which has sunken into the Mediterranean Sea. St. Mark's Basilica was also lost, and with it the Holy Grail. The Vatican brings you, a submarine captain, in to retrieve it. You must puzzle through the submerged and partially demolished cityscape armed with only a vacuum and physics in order to rescue the relic.

by The Cornered Badgers
Links
Website Video

Nightmares put us in worlds filled with our worst fears with little to fight back with. But what if you had some control over your dream… what if you were lucid dreaming during a nightmare? Would you be able to put your fears aside and fight back?

Lucid puts you in control of Ralphy during one of the worst nightmares of his life. You must help Ralphy wake up by fighting through rooms filled with creatures from his subconscious. By discovering new upgrades and weapons, Ralphy can make himself stronger and better suited for the dreams ahead.

Lucid is a 15 week project being developed in one of Michigan State University's Game Design and Development classes. The goal of the project is to give students who are accustomed to 5 week development cycles in previous classes a chance at creating a more expansive and polished game. Students are required to create game design documents, give pitches, alpha/beta presentations, submit to IGF 2013, and to present a post-mortem.

Lucid Feature Set:
- Randomized Dungeons & Drops
- 8 Unique Weapons Including a Weapon Select
- 25+ Upgrade Drops
- 8+ Unique Enemies
- 3 Levels
- Xbox Controller Integration

Lucid really pulls away from the competition in its combat system. Lucid will keep the addictive mechanics of the roguelike genre, but will innovate by implementing a more gratifying combat system like the one seen in Bastion. With these two mechanics working in complete harmony, Lucid will offer a whole new experience to the roguelike audience.

by Luciombres Team
Links
Website Video

Luciombres is a Facebook Darwinian social game. In a 3D underwater world, you manage the reproduction of your creatures to evolve and to conquer new territories. You mate your Luciombres to get new powerful creatures and to win real-time challenges.

by Project Dead Light
Links
Website Video

Luminosity is a fast paced RTS where you gain control of a planet by capturing the ring that surrounds the planet.

by 42 Inc.
Links
Website Video

M.E.C.H.A. Bots is a fast paced multiplayer robot battle and customization game built for use on iOS devices.

Players control the Mechanized Expendable Customizable and Heavily Armed Bots in order to defeat opponents in 3D arenas. Whilst battling, players can obtain the parts of their opponents and later use them to customize their own bots.

The game features:
-6 Standard Bots
-12 Weapons
-Hundreds of Bot combinations
-2 Battle Arenas

by BiBoBox Studio
Links
Website Video

"Magic seeds" is a fully interactive app for children. It including a lovely story, beautiful illustrations, cute characters and fun games. It is a wonderful app to encourage children's imagination and creativity. Kids can interactive with each page, keep finding and collecting surprises alone the way. In the end, a magic seed will be given out, kids will have a chance to create their own flowers and plants by imagination, save it into portfolios and share with others. Great for the whole family!

by The Magnet Ballers
Links
Website Video

Featuring local multiplayer, Magnet Ball is, at its heart, a sports game. Your objective is to get the brightly colored blocks into your opponent's goal, scoring as many points as possible. However, in order to do so, you must use your character's innate ability to magnetically attract and repel these blocks. You can use these powers in an enormous variety of ways to score points. But beware: Your opponent can do the same, so be prepared to deal with their own outrageous maneuvers.

by DigiPen Mike's Plumbing and Tile: Media Arts Division
Links
Website Video

Man Vs. The World isn't your ordinary side-scrolling shoot-em-up. You play as Mann Lee Gunns,a super soldier for whom too much firepower is never enough. Run out of ammo? Simply leap out of your plane and commandeer another one. Light up the sky with explosions as you wind your way through missiles, mines, and wave after wave of hostile ships.

by John Gregory
Links
Video

Matter of Seconds is a game about time. The player is essentially an hourglass and needs to jump and flip time while traversing each level. You want to gain the highest score possible; the player gets points for having time pass 50% mark, from picking up normal point bubble and from picking up stars. If the player dies, the score is reset and they are sent to the last checkpoint. You have unlimited lives and all levels are open from the start. A level editor is still in development but all current levels were built with the editor in development. Your trails also represents you're current score and how much time is left.

by Sonic Baboon
Links
Video

Mattereus is a 3D Physics-Based Puzzle Platformer. The gameplay requires the player to move a sphere through levels from a starting position to an end point (the goal). The player collects different elemental forms as they progress through the game. The forms allow them to convert the sphere into different types/states of matter to complete progressively difficult or complex game levels.