Rapid Prototype Production (2009)
Part of my Graduate Studies at FIEA involved working on small teams, making games very quickly. The following are some of my favorites. Each game was built with a team of 5-6 people, in 2 weeks.
Mutactics
Gameplay Designer, Combat System Designer
Mutactics is a 2-player game of tactical strategy based on Conway’s Game of Life. Each player takes turns placing colonies of life onto a spherical game board. After each team’s colonies have been placed, the game runs through a series of growth/combat/death algorithms, and the players place new colonies. The players also have three ‘bombs’ they can use to destroy their opponent’s colonies. The game continues until one side takes over a requisite portion of the sphere. Mutactics was using Panda3D.
Swine Flu
Gameplay & Level Designer, Producer
Swine Flu is an experiment in dualistic control schemes, meaning the player is forced to control two different characters at the same time. The two protagonists are a mother pig and baby piglet. The two are the targets of Swine Flu crazed humans who are trying to take them away.
The baby pig defensively maneuvers through the environment and must collect the vaccine syringes scattered throughout the level. The mother pig must use her spit to keep the enemies away from her and from her baby. Swine Flu was developed in Flash.
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Spectroids
Power-up Designer, Producer
Spectroids is a colors-based game about a little alien who must gather fuel to return home. The player uses the mouse to guide the alien’s ship around an asteroid filed collecting minerals. The colored force field surrounding the space ship indicates which colored mineral the player must collect next. After each successful collection, the force field grows and changes color. A very addictive game that’s fun for all ages, its quick to learn, but challenging, Spectroids was built using Flash
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Use Your Imagination
Gameplay Designer, Level Designer, Producer
Use Your Imagination is a 2D platformer that is set on a rotating world. Unlike traditional platformers that move left to right, Use Your Imagination takes place in a round world, where the player walks along the top of a ‘level wheel.’ The player has the ability to "use their imagination" in the form creating physics blocks. Several different types of blocks can be created to solve a variety of problems. Spring blocks allow the player to reach higher places, where as Floater blocks allow him to build bridges in the sky. The game also takes place in two different worlds, one of pleasant daydreams, and the other of dark anxieties. Use Your Imagination was built in Two weeks using XNA, and was awared "Most Innovated Controls" for our incorporation of the Wii-Mote.