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As a member of an ambitious spacefaring rock band, after mysteriously having crashed, you find yourself marooned on a faraway planet. Your tourbus, having been damaged during the landing, is in dire need of repairs. After collecting your collective wits, your bandmates and yourself set off to look for the missing engine parts in order to repair your craft. Naturally, the planets' inhabitants aren't too happy about your presence....
As each bandmember's instrument is linked to his gun, an ever-changing blend of sounds and unique tracks come together as every player levels up individually.
MicroVentures is a casual roguelike for Android (and soon for iOS). Each session consists of a short procedurally-generated adventure, providing a bite-sized heroic experience on your mobile device. Bridging these short adventures is a procedural story generator that not only gives hilarious insight to your world and the many characters involved in the game, but also shifts the story depending on each adventure's outcome.
You play as either a Knight, Wizard, or Rogue, each with different play-styles and personalities. Venture in six different locations, using over fifty different items and fighting over forty different types of enemies. Though MicroVentures started as a student project, we hope to continue expanding the game through frequent updates with new (and free) content and development tools for fans to create their own specialized adventures.
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Platform-puzzle 2.5D game where the player will interact with the world energy fields and its elements.
Playing as a brave hero called Minitomic, he will free his comrades from the evil Dr. Von Mark and his robo-henchmen.
A non-linear puzzle game where the concentration lies on its simple yet exciting logic. The game's understanding is left for the users to explore and experience.
You find yourself washed up on the beach of an island that's completely surrounded by mist. Attached to your arm is a gauntlet that reacts to certain crystals and becomes a weapon to ward off enemies as you try to discover the mystery surrounding the islands and the evils that lurk below.
Explore the beautiful open world and find the doors that lead Moebii to a extrange Möbius-shaped world with even weirdest creatures (jetpacked peas) and help him resolve each puzzle: group the pieces of the same colour and make them disappear. There are 6 game modes to enjoy and bosses to defeat!
A short musical experience based in dynamic generation music and the artist Kandinsky.
Four friends explore an old mansion to see if the rumors of horror are really true. But what they encounter, they are not prepared for. They must now fight wave after wave of monsters with makeshift weapons to make it out of the mansion together and in one piece.
Mothership is a party game on tablet. One to four players can play on a tablet versus each other. They can create autonomous ships and have to choose to boost capacities. Only the last survivor will be victorious.
The The Movers & Shakers is a two-player tablet serious game created as a research tool to explore how players communicate based on conflicting perspectives within the game. The aim of The Movers & Shakers is to create a meaningful conflict between its players and to facilitate a controversy beyond the screens.
When players start the game, they are informed that the earth has slowed down and they are in charge of managing lava sprites in the center of the earth to get the planet back on track. They are each tasked with individual goals, met by arranging the lava sprites using a boardgame-like interface, but in real-time like a strategy game. The players need to cooperate to prevent catastrophe but are given no in-game elements to do so. Only by communicating with each other across the game will the world be saved.
The gameplay experience is unique to each pair of players, as the intention of the game is to explore issues of modern office environments and leadership dynamics through asymmetrical gameplay and subversive elements.
Movmote is a single-player game where the player controls a moving object by slowing it down and changing its movement paths. The simple control mechanics allow new players to pick up the game easily. Instructions were deliberately excluded from the game to encourage exploration from the players.
In addition, the visual and sound feedback are carefully designed to provide different experiences for players during different play-throughs.
Play the game, Imagine every possibility and let your mind Explore the world of Movmote.
Research Statement
In addition to being a game, Movmote is a tool designed to help us understand how players interpret games. Drawing on theories of simulation and semiotics, Movmote is based on a real-world system but does not make explicit reference to that system. The goal of this project is to study how players interpret the game, and the extent to which the rules and (near lack of) fiction shape those interpretations.
"Mr.Boxman" is a 2D one-button platformer where the titular Mr.Boxman is touring the countryside of Funtime Adventureland. Using the Space Bar, Mr.Boxman jumps over nails and attempt to survive until he/she reaches the end-of-level flag. If the player is confident in his/her abilities, they can also try to collect the 30 coins in each level to unlock costumes. There are 50 levels and 70 unlockable costumes.
It's EnGee's first day as a Muffin Factory Engineer and chaos has already broken out in the experimental wing of the Factory! The muffin shipping boxes are being spit out in every direction at excessive rates. His boss, the Muffin Man, has tasked EnGee to fix it all. He must find the main electrical panels on each floor of the factory before it is overrun with rampant boxes. In this puzzle-platformer, the player navigates through each level while boxes are flying about, building the path to completion in real time. As the level is being constructed, EnGee must react accordingly by way of jumping, dodging, and climbing to avoid being crushed or pushed off an edge. With a very simple control set up, the player will be able to focus their energy on solving the puzzle at hand by making quick and risky decisions. Featuring cute and stylized art, Muffin Factory is reminiscent of popular 8-bit games which will be easy to play yet difficult to master. Help EnGee restore order to the Factory in this fun-filled, jocular, and exciting experience.
The game introduces players to the behind-the-scenes workings of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis by showing them how artifacts are chosen to create exhibits. The player is a volunteer at the Museum, and has been asked by the Exhibition Manager to help her create four different, digital exhibits. The player has the ability to explore the various storerooms in the Museum and take pictures of the artifacts in the American Collection and the World Culture Collections. The pictures of the artifacts have additional information about them, such as where they are from, where they were created, and what type of object the artifact is. By matching and comparing this information, the player must successfully create exhibits that meet the curators' specifications.
Music of the Spheres is a puzzle game about bouncing bullets, Islamic art and sound. It is meant as a vision of heaven. Environments are constructed to express a variety of tactics with conciseness and elegance, and to encourage thoughtfulness and a certain kind of creativity.
The game is almost entirely the work of Hamish Todd, a game journalist and playwright whose work has appeared on Kotaku, Destructoid, and Insertcredit. He made it while studying maths and philosophy at the University of York. Its main influences are the games of Kim Swift and Jon Blow, the writings of anna anthropy, and the research of Peter Lu.
Narcosis is a first person survival horror, taking place in the gloomy and cold abyss of the Pacific Ocean. After a disaster, all your crew is dead. Equiped with your atmospheric diving suit (ADS), your knife and your torch light, you'll have to find your way through an hostile and gloomy environment.
Nevermind is a psychological horror game set within the minds of psychological trauma patients that uses biofeedback sensor technology to help the player learn how to better manage his or her stress levels. Nevermind is more than just a game – it's an ongoing challenge to become stronger and braver than you ever thought you could be.
Take on Nightmare Duel, a frantic, fast-paced local multiplayer duel that will test both reflex & control! The only way to win is to overrun your opponent!
FURIOUSLY FRANTIC FUN. 6 battle lanes. Send forth your minions & defend against opponent's. Tap on approaching minions to rebound attack!
8 ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS with unique powers. Play it in your style.
DUKE IT OUT WITH YOUR FRIENDS for moments of maniacal fun with our magical Local Multiplayer experience!
Watch the Nightmare Duel game trailer: bit.ly/NightmareDuel
Visit the Nightmare Duel Fanpage: facebook.com/NightmareDuel
NiteLite is a Kinect-based tower defense game where players must explore a cave wall in search of mysterious luminescent runes that are being attacked by shadowy creature runes. As the player, you must use the power of light that emanates from your lanterns to wash away these dangerous runes. Try out awesome combinations of abilities like the Snake Trail, Mine Hands, and Link and make sure you use your towers to protect the light source runes from the dangerous creatures.
Nocturnissa is a game about a little girl who was blind from the day she was born. Her world has always been full of sounds that brought her joy. Even in her dreams Nocturnissa often heard wonderful music, but this one time she had a dream like no other. Her favorite toy bear was there to guide her along her journey in this amazing place. What lays ahead? Discover the cute and touching story of Nocturnissa with every ring of her tiny steps.
Nocturnissa has been designed as an accessible game for the blind. Players who are visually impaired can play along side others who are not with neither player having an advantage over the other. Players must use their sense of hearing instead of sight to navigate through the worlds and avoid obstacles.
Note Pad Wars
Please enjoy our game, and we urge you to be a part of Note Pad Wars as well.
Thank you, Bryan O'Neil & Aaron Hacker
UPDATE: Note Pad Wars is available on the iTunes app store Now.
Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/note-pad-wars/id575015075?ls=1&mt=8
Game Description
Imagine if all those drawings you made in school came to life. What would they do? Blow each other up of course! In notepad wars we encourage doodlers, sketchers, and everyone else with the ability to create on paper to induct your art into the global maelstrom. That's right, ANYONE ON THIS PLANET can add to this game!!! Create Enemies, Projectiles, Player Characters, Scenery, or even an ENTIRE LEVEL!!! Young or old, Talented artists or n00bs, Rocket Scientists or Grade-schoolers, doesn't matter what language you speak, or if you can speak at all! Everyone in the entire world Has a Chance.
So if you want to see your drawings come to life and obliterate others from around the world, just send us a copy of your art! It doesn't matter what you doodle, just about anything can be in this game. Don't forget to leave your name, as all contributing artists will be honored on the credits page. When the list is long enough, we will make the credits page its own level! Complete with every enemy in the game!
So get out there and start Drawing!
Links
To view trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u66nWq0TZlc
to view website: http://www.metalsgames.com/index.html
To view tutorial and submission info please visit: http://www.metalsgames.com/note-pad-wars.html
NRG is single player platformer puzzle action game which revolves around the idea of "energy" where the player possesses a weapon which has the ability to "drain" energy from or "infuse" energy to objects around the world. The effects of draining and infusing energy varies as there are many different types of energy such as "kinetic or electricity".
"Ode To Pixel Days" is a puzzle platfromer with pixel-art graphics. It's about a teenage boy, Hans, having a crush on a cheerleader. Hans gets rejected by the cheerleader, because he is ugly, and not charismatic. Hans tries to change this by building a machine that will make everyone look the same. When everyone looks the same, he can have the girl of his dreams! But of course, in reality, things don't work that way; and Hans is about to get into some bitter experiences.
The game is played in a castle, that represents the world created by Hans' mind. The game's artistic goal is to put the players in Hans' mind, to make them play through his emotional experiences, hopes and dreams. The core experience of the game is the feelings a boy goes through when he gets into puberty; loneliness, sadness, low self-esteem, the desire to change things about you.
There's an abstract third character, the narrator, who accompanies Hans by telling the story and even directly speaking to Hans in some parts of the game.
This game is made completely by one person, and that is me.
First you are young, then you are old! Now you are a man. This is a videogame.
Oneironauts is an action packed arcade style beat-em-up game. You play as one of two boys whose friends got pulled into a mysterious book. You must journey in to save them from the evil god Hypnos with only your pillow by your side. Collect power-ups to fill your pillows with a variety of different materials and aid you in battle. Fight your way to the end and rescue your friends!
Oswald is a 2D side scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a surreal spooky underground world that challenges players to triumph over simple to intense platforming puzzles by swinging on a Needle and Thread that will bend and wrap around the environment. Oswald's core gameplay is movement, you can climb up almost any wall, shoot the Needle and Thread into almost any surface to swing across giant chasms, and dash down steep corridors avoiding the various objects rushing towards you and crushing down on you. Keep on moving, never stop swinging, leaping, and climbing, or the evil shadows of the cave will overrun you!
Meet Oswald, our purple protagonist, the goofy little Voodoo doll who has found himself in a most unfortunate situation. He has awoken one night to find that everyone in the little underground Voodoo doll village he lives in, has been kidnapped, including his sister! The only Voodoo doll left in the town is the witch doctor Razzle. Turns out one night the evil spirits swooped into the town and stole everyone away, according to Razzle. And so the adventure begins! Using his trusty Needle and Thread, Oswald dives into the mysterious and treacherous depths of the Maldarian caves searching for his town's people and his sister. Swinging over the bubbling lava rivers, discovering the lush bio-luminescent forests, using his Voodoo powers to blast away the evil spirits, and saving the people of his village. As he delves deeper though, it becomes clear that something much bigger and darker is behind all this bad fortune, but who, or what?
Oxymous Prime is a hybrid between a shot'em up and a platform game, developed with RPG Maker VX and released with a freeware license.
The player controls Oxy, a famous bounty hunter. Oxy's current mission is to save a rare bird kidnapped by the groulen poacher Borden. Borden is hidden in a groulen Mothership and Oxy must break into the ship and fight an army of robots and soldiers to complete his mission. After the third mission, the story moves into a unknown planet where Oxy must pursue Borden among dangerous creatures. The story mode has nine different missions.
The game is a nostalgic platformer which is designed to force the player to think and use strategies to get through the levels. By touching the screen the player has the ability to create platforms. And different platforms grant the player different power boost.
"Blow at and keep a Paper-Plane in the air for as long as possible while traversing a little boy's World of Dreams."
In Paperplane Dream, players play as a little boy blowing at a paper-plane through his various dreams. Dream after dream; explore the little boy's dreamscape whilst escaping from the Nightmare clock to prevent it from waking the boy up.
Maximize your score by performing various stunts with the paper plane or entering the psychedelic Frenzy Mode and score crazy points.
'Part of Me' is an action-puzzle game based on iOS platform. The main character is a girl whose grandpa died recently. She found a diary of her grandpa by accident and followed the instruction on it entering a mysterious building, in which she encountered an amazing adventure.
Players need to use the doors in the building and utilize items to guide the girl to avoid enemies, to reach the destination and to collect the Golden Cards as many as possible.
'Part of Me' is trying to give players a new experience of action game with the pleasure of solving puzzles at the same time.
Penned is a 3D action-adventure game in which the player uses vocabulary words to change the game world and gameplay. It is a quasi-educational game that seeks to teach upper-level vocabulary to players in an intuitive, contextual way. The goal of Penned is to expose players to words through association and repetition, allowing player choice to influence the learning process on a more impactful level than mere memorization.
You play as Finley, an intern in the Library of Realities, a cosmic library where every book is its own world. As the overseer of the Classics section, Finley notices that a malevolent force known as the Family has begun to invade each title, eliminating free thought. It's up to her to find out the source of the corruption and return each book to its rightful state. The first world to free of the Family? The somewhat twisted works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Perspective is an experimental first person puzzle game.
In Perspective, the player has two modes of control: a first person camera moving in 3D space, and an avatar that is constrained to the 2D world. In order to get the 2D avatar to the goal at the end of the level, the 3D player needs to move around in 3D space to create paths for the 2D avatar.
Unlike other puzzle games that make use of 2D/3D such as Crush or Fez, Perspective allows the player to move around in 3D space freely. This opens up a lot of new ways to use perception as a puzzle mechanic to create new paths in 2D.
Download Perspective for free at www.seewithperspective.com
Phantasmaburbia is an adventure-roleplaying title that mixes old and new RPG ideas. In the year 201X, ghosts and evil spirits invade an American suburban community. A group of teens, armed with weapons found in their homes and assisted by friendly spirits, set out to prevent the rise of a great evil in their small town. It's got a crazy and original story with fast gameplay, clever puzzles, and fun secrets!
This is a game that's made to be a bit different. There's no currency or "fetch quests" and even NPCs are exceedingly sparse. You gain levels in a way such that you're never forced to grind, and the battles themselves are made to go quickly and succinctly (this game doesn't waste your time). The decisions you make over the course of the game have little effect on the story, but have ramifications for your characters' abilities and what dungeons you play. The puzzles are based on spatial manipulation, and require logical thinking beyond memorization or basic lock-and-key archetypes. While I still clung onto some of the superficial bits of old RPGs that I loved like combat menus and inventories, I also worked at every turn to personalize those things or optimize them to make something that's both classic and new.
In the haunted world of Phantomation you play as a phantom trying to use your powers to save someone in an abandoned mansion. Evil spirits inside the mansion are waiting to scare the unwelcome visitor to death. The animation tools allow you to possess objects and scare the living safely through the mansion and away from the spirits lurking behind dangerous doors. Throughout the sixteen levels of the game, you will learn different animation techniques such as key framing and real time animation in order to possess objects. In the main levels, it is entirely up to the player whether they animate with key frames or real time animation techniques based on their preferences. Each level becomes more complicated, putting players animation and timing skills to the test.
Research Statement
Phantomation sets out to teach players how to use animation tools in the animation program Play Sketch. Play Sketch is an animation tool that allows the user to create quick, simple animations. It also introduces a new animation feature called real time, which allows the user to record animations demonstratively without having to manually set keyframes. Throughout the sixteen levels of the game, you will learn different animation techniques such as key framing and real time animation in order to possess objects. In the main levels,it is entirely up to the player whether they animate with key frames or real time animation techniques based on their preferences. The research from this game will answer if these new animation techniques make animation more accessible and easier to learn.
Photon Bunny is a 2D side scrolling platformer where you solve light based puzzles by avoiding lasers and bouncing off of mirrors. The game is made to look like an old SNES style of game. You play as Cera a smart girl who has her parents kidnapped while she is working in her laboratory underground in her house. Her goal is to escape her lab that has become a death trap for her because of all the experiments that have been knocked loose. In order to get out of her lab Cera must avoid the lasers and try to get to the exit of each room.
Pinstripe is a 2D exploration/puzzle platformer about a dead guy looking for his wife.
Pixel Story is a 2D puzzle platformer primarily developed for PC, the concept behind the game is a look at the development of video games throughout time. The main character begins his life as the ball in a game of pong, but when an error occurs and the computer upgrades he is forced into a new world of vibrant colour and monophonic sound.
Upon discovery of this computational error the computer attempts to delete him, and the the player must begin a adventure of survival, delving deeper and deeper into the computer as it continues to develop through the ages of 16-bit and true colour video games.
Using the primary mechanic of saving a location to return to at any time, the player must advance through areas of puzzles of increasing difficulty and supplementary mechanics to avoid deletion and grow powerful enough to no longer be held down by the strictures of their digital world.
Plushy Knight is an emotionally-epic, story-driven, video game created completely by graduate students at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy in Orlando, Florida. The game tells the story of a twelve year old girl, named Gemma, who is struggling to deal with the death of her father. Play as Plushy Knight - her teddy bear in-shining-armor - tasked with protecting and nurturing Gemma on her journey through a mindscape of memory and loss.
Break stuff!
LOTS of stuff!
Poltergeist is a light hearted game which allows you to explore an endearing, detailed environment whilst at the same time indulging your doily-destroying needs.
Nanna left the house to go down to the shops, and this leaves you with just enough time to let all hell loose!
Potawatomi is a 3D isometric action-puzzle game which will singe your hair and burn your brain!
Play Potawatomi, a guardian of a sacred flame who wakes up one day realizing that your flame has been stolen. Using your wits and divine power over fire, go through obstacles, overcome malevolent and tricky enemies and even the very elements of the nature to retrieve the sacred flame in the name of your deity, before the world collapses!
Primary is a game about restoring order to a magical world. Play as a fox and explore the lush and unique environment. Players must use different colors of paint in order to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
Project Albatross is a first-person puzzle game that places the player in the shoes... no, feet... no, wait, TREADS of a janitorial robot aboard an abandoned spaceship, the USS Albatross. Due to an unexpected radioactive spill, our hero has been called to clean up areas affected by this unforeseen disaster. Flip gravity, avoid hazards, jump carefully, and collect purple radioactive cubes to save the ship!
Stealth and action third person shooter. Play as Didrik, from the Coalition's Advanced Security Squad, and protect the Biotech Research Labs from Resistance's undercover soldiers. Fire, take cover, get invisible, move and throw heavy objects, avoid hacked security cameras, or flank the enemy. You choose.
In a world where we have finally learned how to rid people of their worst fears, you play as a PsychoSurgeon - a specialist given the task of going into a patient's mind to fight the deepest, darkest enemies of their psyche.
Pulse is a first person, suspense/survival game in which you play as a young blind girl named Eva.
First person? Blind? What's the catch? Eva uses a process similar to echolocation to "see" her environment.
Sounds in the world allow her to imagine what the area looks like, and in turn allows the player to navigate.
With the aid of cute, fuzzy, although stupid creatures called Mokos, Eva must create enough sound to solve the challenges of the world, while being careful not to alert the more dangerous forest creatures.
• Core Mechanic: Spatial Awareness
• Objective: Reach the exits to complete the levels
- PUSH helps propel/push objects/himself
- Use: Boxes and interactable platforms
- Avoid: Electric fields, pistons and chasms
• Unique method to traverse obstacles with a futuristic technology
• Puzzles are challenging with a moderate learning curve
• Realistic character: Dark past, cool personality, sad, and accused
Puzzle Defenders is a 2D competitive puzzle game where the orbs become your attacks and shields! Play as one of the three mythical races and gain the ultimate power of the fairies!
Play locally against a friend or the computer! Play online against the world!
Quark Storm's a non-traditional platform game where you won't walk and jump to move around. Rather, you'll have to create explosions to propel yourself over walls, accross chasms and into the goal at the end of each level.
Credits:
Game designed, developed and programmed by Julian Impelluso, using the Unity engine.
Airstrip Four font courtesy of Vic Fieger.
Background particle texture and goal texture courtesy of Tomas Glasman.
Quicksilver: Infinite Story is an action game inspired by Saturday morning cartoon adventures. Every time you play, a new episode is written just for you by a magical screenwriter dragon. The game makes up stories on the fly, and you determine how they unfold by playing through exciting action scenes and helping the heroes make important decisions. There's never any game overs or retrying – the story simply adapts to even the most unexpected successes and failures, dynamically crafting plotlines and dialogue around them. Quicksilver isn't about winning or losing – it's about the magic of a neverending adventure where you never know what will happen next, but you're ultimately in control of your destiny.
The flowers need rain! Water the flowers to gain evaporation and cause a life giving thunderstorm!
