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Final Projects Spring 2024
Death Lives, Life Dies
Group: Farah Kamleh, Julian Mackenzie, Sebastian Ho
A two-player capture, chase and rescue game for the CAVE2 in which both
players share all 88 screens but do not see the same image. This is
achieved by taking advantage of the stereoscopic shader and giving Player
#1, Death, a 2D-R configuration and Player #2, Life, a 2D-L configuration.
Potato vs Chef
Group: Siyuan Zhao, Oscar Franco, Md Anisur Rahman
Potato vs Chef is a multiplayer PC game that revolves around a culinary
chase where players take on the roles of Chef and Potato. The Chef's goal
is to catch the elusive Potato within a specified time frame, while the
Potato aims to evade capture until the time expires.
Mask Mayhem
Group: Isaac Sanchez, Victor Savage, Ahmed Ruyyashi
A magician doesn't like the tone you and your friends give them when
criticizing their mask collection, and he turns you all into
personality-less masks! Now, you must toss yourselves on the faces of
humans to steal their personality and hopefully become human yourself, or
fail to collect enough personality by midnight and remain a mask forever!
(D:) Drive
Group: Hal Brynteson, Nevin Garduno, Orlando Ortiz
Rhythm-racing game that challenges the player to complete the track
quickly, accurately, and with the highest score.
Wizard School: Cheating is Magic
Group: Zachary Robbins, Fatin Abdelrahim, Joshua J. Williams
You are a group of wizard students taking a big exam after spending the
entire night before at a wizard party. Therefore, you need to resort to
using the fraudulentus and collabrotorio spells to pass without getting
caught.
NeonBites
Group: Bianca Jankiewicz, Alexa Osuna, Pranav Mishra
NeonBites is a thrilling cyberpunk food delivery game where players take
on the role of a delivery boy / robot navigating the neon-lit streets of a
futuristic city.
Maze3
Group: Peter Pacholarz, Dylen Greenenwald, Hossein Fathollahian
Rogue AI is building robots to take over the world. You are a hacker that
can control an avatar inside the computer. Your role is to sabotage the
robot's production by sending packets / parts to the wrong destinations.
There are enemy workers and antivirus avatars working inside the computer
as well.
Escape the Faerie Court
Group: Sam Hann, Tony Cao, Tom Roller
You awaken from a dream and find yourself in the Faery Court. Use your
combat skills to fight your way out as you escape.
Fast Food Frenzy!!
Group: Michelle Zhou, Ceasar Attar, Kevin Cheung
You are an up and coming new hire at the busiest fast food joint in town,
and your job is to keep up with customers' peculiar orders and cook them
to perfection!
Dream Explorer
Group: Miguel Cortez, Sebastian Lorenzo, Keegan Miller
A low-polygon, single-player, dungeon crawler, where the player is a
fighter that works their way through a dungeon in an unknown-fantasy
world, solving puzzles and fighting off bosses.
Architect Arena
Group: Angel Carbajal, Filip Kuzma
A team of players called Challengers try to escape a level built by one
player called the Architect. The Architect builds the level with Level
Blocks, components that contain traps and items for the Challengers.
Challengers must make it to the end to win.
Rotten Reality
Group: Jacob Mielczarek, Michael Johnson, Sean James
Rotten Reality is a Zelda Dungeon-style puzzle game where the player must
solve a set of traversal-based puzzles using a set of abilities they can
control.
Cook Simulator
Group: Carlos Saldana, Nasibeh Heshmati, Xavier Skinner
The game takes place in a single kitchen environment. Players navigate
this familiar space, using obstacles strategically to avoid snakes and
dragons to collect food items and cook them.
Power Surge: The Escape
Group: Peter Siegler, Sergio Ambelis Diaz, Aschynt Parimal Pajankar
In "Power Surge: The Escape," players control a power strip, awakened by a
lightning strike, navigating through an office building filled with
puzzles, obstacles, and enemies, aiming to escape and explore the outside
world.
Brainwave Apocalypse
Group: Harrison Vu, Jakub Pekala, Al Kaleshi
This is a 3D survival, capture & rescue first-person shooter game in a
futuristic zombie apocalyptic world. You, as the survivor, will face many
series of challenges in saving people and fighting off cybernetic zombies.
Ricochet Rogue
Group: Ethan Ng, Dhruvraj Tondanoorthy, Rohit Reddy Kesireddy
Tired of having their museum stolen from, a historian decides to go rogue
and recover historical artifacts from the thieves that stole them, armed
only with their trusty slingshot.
From The Shadows
Group: Jamil Salman, Lisset Rico, Ethan Pekkarinen
Infiltrate the shogun's castle and assassinate him without being caught by
guards. Player has a special skill called shadow.
Gourmet Kitchen
Group: Ash Kandari, Yamaan Nandolia, Brandon Gonzalez
You are a famous chef & restaurant owner who passed away and are reborn in
a world that is food driven. The stage is set for your grand comeback, and
you are determined to leave a mark in this deliciously different world.
Final Projects Spring 2021
Cold Feet
Group: Kent Paglomotan, Raimundas Juravicius, Tomasz Hulka (CS)
A barefoot runner gets lost at Glacier National Park and must avoid
snow before being completely stranded in the dark and catching
frostbite.
Ghostibles
Group: Yazmin Reyes, Omar Flores, Sofia Landeta (CS)
A young and eager ghost hunter must fight her way into a haunted mansion using her magical weapons of choice, a gun, and lyre, in order to destroy the gems corrupting the spirits.
Say 'Cheese'!
Group: Jessica Borowy, Qasim Mir (CS), Jonathan Garcia(Design)
A dungeon crawler game about a rat reporter who decides to brave the NYC sewer system in order to track down enough evidence to expose the notorious sewer alligator mafia and put a stop to their dastardly deeds
Sir Metronome
Group: John Laughton, Victor Fong, Zain Aamer (CS)
You're a bard who is falsely accused of Loitering and you must take up the sword and fight off the royal guard in order to prove your innocence lest you face execution.
Tower Climber: Ball Edition
Group: Yuming Qiu, Jia Kuang, Eric Ablang (CS)
A ball falls from the top and wants to go back with the other balls. In order to reunite with the other balls, the ball needs to climb the tower via platforms.
Jasmine's Escape
Group: Danie Johnston, Alex Andrew, Joey Voorhees (CS)
This game is an interactive VR single-player game where the player is trying to escape the inner workings of their own mind.
Bonfire
Group: Andrew Wentzel, Sanjana Srabanti (CS), Abinash Mallick (Design)
A cooperative puzzle/adventure game that emphasizes cooperation between players in order to decipher puzzles as they progress through the environment.
I am Human Too!!
Group: Jasmine Gutierrez, Amy Ngo, Xinyu Wu (CS)
While trying to find the lab that contains the cure for an outbreak, a Zombie must go on a journey to avoid the humans and avoid dying while not killing a human themselves.
Terraphoria
Group: John Cervantes, Jiajun Mo, Michael Chau (CS)
Terraphoria
is a single-player platformer for PC where the player controls an 8-year-old boy named Koi and an accompanying blue spirit using a mouse and keyboard to help Koi reunite with his family.
ALTE
Group: Shalin Patel, Ansar Khan (CS), Quentin Bu(Design)
ALTE is an escape room game where you need to find objects to trigger alternative identities and see things from their perspective in order to find the key to escape and understand what happened in the past
Decader
Group: Arda Erdeniz (Design), Akash Pillai, Shehab Zalloum (CS)
You need to collect the necessary objects and defeat enemies from each decade to travel back to your own time.
The Girl in Striped Pajamas
Group: Jake Campbell, Nishant Chudasama, Syed Hassan (CS)
6-year-old Noa doesn't like her new home and the pajamas she has to wear. She decides to escape but must hide her plan from the 'bullies'.
Aliens in Fashion
Group: Elaine Guan (Design), Juan Camacho, Zainab Mohammad (CS)
Aliens in Fashion
is a turn-based collecting computer game where players manage aliens and fashion items, dress up aliens, and host fashion shows.
W.A.P Weaponized Assault Penguins
Group: Christopher Brandt , Emily Kamleh, Jacob Lawson (CS)
In a world where there is a shortage of the most flavorful fish found in the arctic. Two groups of penguins are locked, loaded, and hungry. With their slippery bellies, rocket launchers, and jetpacks-nothing stands in the way of perfect chaos... and these penguins are flipped off. One group will rise; the other shall fall.
Sundown Bootleg
Group: Bhuvana Sridhara, Jordan Chen (CS), Grace Spee (Design)
An ordinary girl who works during the last month of the last video store in her small rural town, discovers certain videotapes are portals to other worlds, where she must fight shadowy entities to retrieve objects that may or may not help her family store and her home.
unBEARable
Group: Jared Manusig, Jigar Patel, Darius Alasu (CS)
UnBEARable
is a single-player turn-based puzzle game that follows a polar bear traversing through icebergs trying to reach the ice caps.
BMXTREME!!!
Group: Bryan Emer, Oscar Devora, Alejandro Cabral (CS)
You have decided to sign up for the new BMXTREME!!! race circuit to try and win the massive reward and claim the glory of the title. Of course, in order to do that, you must survive the race.
Brain-Temp 300°
Group: Ellie Spearman (Design). Abel Abraham, Lloyd Morris, Patrick Gundry (CS)
The player plays as the boss of the office within their designated floor. They must find all of their employees and check their wellbeing under 40 seconds by finding the workers in their cubicles and taking their temperature.
Final Projects Spring 2020
Skoglendi Academy
Group: Ronny Recinos, Shin Imai, Jon-Michael Hoang (CS)
A young wizard must escape an abandoned magic academy set in the woodlands in medieval Iceland.
The Creator
Group: Jeff Guo, Anthony Venturella, Sean Ennis (CS)
The higher being who created the original universe is now passing away. You, the descendant of the higher being, is now tasked to continue its legacy.
Vacation Nightmare
Group: Zakee Jabbar, Kaylyn Egyarto, Hao Phan (CS)
A couple has checked into their Airbnb. while they are freshening up, they get locked inside some bedrooms. They must now escape!
Trust Me
Group: William Ocampo, Gina Gerace, Darrel Escofe (CS)
A young computer programmer induced with depression and a surprising gift for hacking must collect polaroids to recover his memories.
Project 151
Group: Diana Villanueva, Latrell Thomas, Abram Gorgis (CS)
A tower climbing game where the goal is to rescue villagers and defeat bad guys on your way up to the top where the boss awaits.
CAVE2 Airport Control Simulator
Group: Ruby Salazar, Carla Floricel, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu (CS)
Traffic control simulator for the CAVE2 virtual reality threater. Route arriving and departing aircraft safely and swiftly.
Shadow Ninjas
Group: Kevin Kowalski, Marcin Perkowski, Jonathan Vega (CS)
Small team of shadow ninjas want to protect their village from foreign occupation. As the ninjas are no match for the enemy army in typical fighting conditions, they need to use their greatest strength of stealth to defeat them.
10 Days Away
Group: Jim Li, Angel Naranjo, Michael Wiszowaty (CS)
A Soviet Union spy has only 10 days to obtain intel from a german military base.
Animal Scouts
Group: Zeke Thornburgh, Angela Cuevas, Michael Ybarra (CS)
Board game where a group of animals search for the elusive enemy flag.
Ants vs The World
Group: Cynthia Lopez, Patricia Guerra, Lucas Rong (CS)
Live and survive as an ant.
Color Run
Group: Kevin Andrews, Trishla Shah, Fernando Martinez (CS)
Gather colors to traverse level obstacles.
Gravity Valley
Group: Frederick Dempsey, Griselda Guzman, Jiajie Lin (CS)
In a mountainus alien planet, gravity depends on the time of the day. Venture from the safety of your base to collect food to eat and find resources to repair your spacecraft.
Island Survivor
Group: Mindaugas Varaska, Daniel Kahl, Himanshu Dhamija (CS)
You and a bunch of criminals have been abandoned on a remote island. Gather resources during the day and escape from zombies at night.
Mushrooms Need to Eat to Live
Group: Katherine Misyutina, Dylan Ou, Ali Baig (CS)
Collect food for your mushroom community using a net; the net is difficult to control though.
Paranormal Mansion
Group: Brian de Villa, Jay Patel, Ali Saleh (CS)
You are an investigator trying to rescue your cat friend by solving intricate puzzles in the abandoned mansion; you are also a cat.
Selective Detective
Group: Justin MacDonald, Stephen Lambert, Parikshit Solunke (CS)
Massive multiplayer game where everybody is a detective trying to find a thief that is stealing hearts. Designed for the CAVE2 VR theater.
UniRPG
Group: Kyle Soliva, Marcos Gonzalez, Saumaun Vahedipour (CS)
Singleplayer life simulator role-plating game taking place in a modern/fantasy college setting. Find your role to play in a statistics-drive society.
The Great Race
Group: Rahul Chaterjee, Allen Breyer, Aakash Kotak (CS)
COVID-19 has spread around the world and turned humans into zombies. A war for resources is leaving those without supplied vulnerable, fight over the remaining resources.
Wizard's Last Stand
Group: Osama Ahmad, Frank Buttafuoco (CS)
Protect a magical gem from waves of hostile monsters.
Work Life Balance
Group: Michael Tran, Spancer Guo, Justin Donayre (CS)
Healthcare awareness serious game targeted for individual that have experienced hospital admission. Players perform specific actions under restrictions to achieve one goal: prevent hospital readmission.
Final Projects Spring 2018
Baja
Group: Azam Jamal, Iqra Memon, Joseph Borowicz (CS)
The inspiration behind BAJA was the Society of Automotive engineers UIC chapter called UIC motorsports, specifically our SAE collegiate baja series team.
Barge Etat
Group: Emily Kief, Patrick Welch, Mark Haynie (CS), Salvador Quiroz (Art)
Each night with the setting sun, the solar deity Ra travels through the
underworld aboard his magical barge, Atet, braving the insatiable
hunger of the serpent Apep, to be reborn anew with the dawn.
Cats and Robbers
Group: Jim Mei, Michael Mei, Ryan Chan (CS)
You play as a cat called Jerry and you are trying to destroy the valuables in the house before a home intruder has a chance to take them.
Coop Ghost
Group: Peter Bengston, Stephen Walden, Sidorela Lulaj (CS)
The ghost had passed away in the house. Upon the human finding an item that
had belonged to the ghost, the ghost becomes empowered and can now interact
with certain things. The ghost wants to lead the human through the story of their
life and death.
For Queen and Country
Group: Jean-Philippe Douailly-Backman, Hillary Bartman, Shruthi Kumar (CS)
A decree is issued from her majesty offering an extravagant reward for those who discover new shipping routes leading back to her kingdom. Hearing this, several ships set off on an unknown path leading to the kingdom, despite hearing terrible omens for any sailor traversing these unknown waters.
Metalbound
Group: Noemi Dolnik, Jeff Kaleshi, Dimitar Kirilov (CS)
The story and magic system are heavily inspired by the Mistborn book series by Brandon
Sanderson. The game's story is centered around a character named Vin who, due to certain
events, has obtained a special ability. She is trying to overthrow the tyrant ruler of the
empire.
Mobius
Group: Chandler Bachman, Ken Wu, Nicholas Abbasi (CS)
A speedrunning puzzle game taking into consideration the aspects of some of the most famous speedrunning games like Super Mario.
The objective of the game is to escape the time bubble before the town is destroyed. 
Mutex
Group: Michael Koutsostamatis, Mario Betancourt, Jake TerHark (CS)
The game, Mutex, it's going to be a two players game, one in the VIVE and the other one in the computer, in where you need the help of a general, the one playing in the computer, to guide the soldier, the one playing in the VIVE, to complete different levels based on different eras of time.
Office Thief
Group: David Fulmer, Manuela Tchobalieva, Zaynab Almoujahed (CS)
You are a kleptomaniac in an office full of weirdos. In order to satisfy your thieving
needs, you need to steal more than just pens and staplers so you decide to start taking
from your coworker’s desks.
QWOPBO
Group: Abdulaziz Malik, Sarah Ather, Edward Reyes (CS)
Players play as boxers in a special league for people who are recovering quadriplegics and the player want to be number one in the league because he used to be a pro. Using QWOP style mechanics, players must control the movement of the boxer’s arms and legs to make the character move around and make moves. At the same time, they have to avoid falling over or getting hit.
Rock 'n' Roll Ducky
Group: Allan Casallo, Kimberly Huynh, Michael Ordower (CS)
Music-hating robots have kidnapped your
band’s singer. You must defeat the robots by playing
awesome music until they explode.
Shadow of One
Group: Philip Wasala, Sarah Kazi, Alex Lopez (CS)
Shadow Of One is a two player game. Where one player must follow the other across a dreamy plane. To unite with the other player, both players must explore the surrounding, collect powerups, and avoid the enemies.
Final Projects Fall 2017
A Slime's Tale
Group: Simone Amico, David Jozefczak, Nikhil Shankar (CS)
Once upon a time, there was a hero destined for glory. This is not his tale. This is the tale of Sam the slime, a underdog who's only crime was running into the hero. This is a slime's tale!
Chimes
Group: Hibah Alam, Ayush Goyal, Vinay Kumar Valluru (CS)
Rumi would hear stories about wind chimes that would play songs to keep evil spirits away from peoples' homes. These chimes were stolen and strewn across the land when the sorcerress took over. Accompanied by his dog, Kalto, Rumi must go on a quest to find all the lost windchimes in order to put them together and defeat the sorceress to bring the winds back to his land.
CyberEscape
Group: Adhokshith Datta, Ramnarayanan Vannia Samy, Suleiman Suleiman (CS)
You're sucked into your computer and trapped inside your poorly written computer program, trapped in an area with portals that take you to different parts of this Cyber World. In order to escape, you must make your way through this treacherous world by exploiting and glitching your way to freedom!
Dark Echo II
Group: Yao Chen (Art), Shawn Kim, Arbaaz Meghani, Giovanni Valencia (CS)
First person horror game for the HTC Vive. Use sound waves to guide your path through darkness.
Flanders Fields
Group: Anas Ahmad, Mohammed Hasan, Sidney Smith (CS)
Flanders field is set immediately after the first world war. On November 11, 1918 at 11:00 am, Germany capitulated and agreed to the Armistice of Compiegne. This brought an end to the fighting in Europe. Celebrations broke out across the world. But for the soldiers in the trenches, fighting continued. The sound of both german and allied batteries could be heard well past the 11:00 am ceasefire, and thousands would be killed or wounded. The terrain of the battlefields would remain barren for years, with the only poppies to populate the area.
Gorilla Escape
Group: Jay Patel, Raul Soto, Talha Taj (CS)
You play as the world's smartest gorilla (but no one aside from you and your human friend knows you are smart) and want to break out of the zoo and pretend to live a normal gorilla life in the city.
Harambe
Group: Will Camacho, Zachary Jones, Diego Vega(CS)
It was a normal day at the zoo when a child falls into Harambe's enclosure.
Zoo keepers burst in with guns to try and take down Harambe and steal back the child.
Harambe must scale the habitat and protect the child from being hurt bringing them to safety.
Hurling Beetles
Group: Stephanie Melo, Christopher Lee, David Liang (CS)
The Player is a beetle in search of a mate, however a rival beetle is also searching for a mate.
Photography Simulator VR
Group: Siddarth Basu, Joseph Sayekh, Jonathan Squibb (CS)
Learn photography with VR.
Storm Saviors
Group: Frank Lubek, Matthew Kim, Alan Tran (CS)
People invaded your forest and started fires. For some odd reason you and your friends are living clouds and have this competition to stop forest fires whenever there are wildfires spreading. Winner becomes the proverbial king of the clouds, and gets bragging rights until the next wildfire.
Tail Boy
Group: Zak Hammerman, Matt Jensen, James Bendoraitis, Aaron Struck (CS)
Our titular character mysteriously wakes up with an extra limb: a tail! With the vaguest of knowledge about his new abilities granted by his tail and new and strange mutations, he must track down and defeat The Dawktah to get revenge for the bizarre experiment, avoiding traps, completing puzzles and pummeling foes to get to the evil doctor.
Technodungeon
Group: Shanil Lobanwala, Anthony Nedumgottil, Andrew Podgorski (CS)
You the 1st player, take control of a brave adventurer who is seeking out the Technoshards that have popped up in the dungeons.
You & Me
Group: Isabel Lindmae, Kevin Tsao, Ardian Amiti (CS)
The main character is a young boy who becomes lost in a fantasy world. He summons his imaginary friend, who then helps him get through the dangerous environments through the use of special abilities. The boy must find a way to return home, but may encounter unexpected threats.
7:47AM
Group: Kevin Castilla, David Kay, Guillermo Rojas Hernandez (CS)
You board the bus on a Tuesday at 7:45 AM, and at 7:47 AM, a bomb explodes on the bus, killing you and several others. You wake up, but you're not in the afterlife or a void of nothingness. It's the same day again, and it's 7:30 AM. You know exactly what's going to happen and you now have a chance to change the future and save lives.
Final Projects Spring 2017
Erebus
Group: Krassimir Manolov, Edward Hughes, Zixuan Zeng (CS)
The player must escape from an abandoned space station that is overrun by
hostile alien
enemies, while utilizing light and darkness to their advantage.
Anesthesiology
Simulation
Group: Kyle Wong, Vincent Pham, Akhil Thuthika, Deven Patel (CS)
You are stepping into the shoes of an anesthesiologist and will be taking
care of your patients. The simulation encompasses real world
conflicts that can happen in the life of an anesthesiologist.
Gem Knights
Group: Arnav Dahal, Harsha Dodda, Jae Rim Choi (CS)
In this RPG game, a mining town is wiped out by monsters. A young boy survives with the help
of the ruby of wrath, but must battle next the necromancer who brought the
monsters upon the town. Very nice use of shaders.
Escape Nazism as a Deaf
Citizen
Group: Vijayraj Mahida, Cameron Reuss, Michael Irizarry (CS)
A German Deaf man has become the last human with a disability in the Nazi
Empire. He wants to escape Nazism and execution. To do this, he has to
abscond into the society as a hearing person 'till he escapes the empire.
Luke Holmes
Group: Dennis Leancu, Janelle Cueto, Daia Elsalaymeh (CS)
Leukocyte "Luke" Holmes, private investigator, is tasked with discovering
the source of an infection in his city.
Luke and his companions must decipher various clues and cryptic messages to
stop the virus.
Mailman: War Times
Group: Bartosz Kupiec, Konrad Biegaj, Louis Ludkowksi (CS)
You are Walter, a mailman in the early 1900's. War has broken out in
your village.
Walter finds out about a battle which will cause much bloodshed if he
doesn't intervene.
Realm
Group: Weiheng Ruan, Rohit Nambiar, Tran Dao (CS)
The player wakes up in a barren wasteland where only portals light up. Throughout the game
the player finds hints in each level that create a picture of the player's life, showcasing the important
dates and events that happened throughout the player's life.
Broken
Group: Lawrence Chu, Grieldo Lulaj, Matthew McCormack (CS)
Broken is a multiplayer cooperative journey through a treacherous and mysterious junkyard wasteland.
You and your partner must pool your abilities and resources to overcome the obstacles.
Age of Hoops
Group: Alan Fan, Jae Jeon, Daniel Pulley(CS)
You play as a basketball team manager with big dreams but humble beginnings, with
nothing but your perseverance and wit to help you attempt to defeat the greatest fantasy basketball player ever: Michael
J'chosen.
Escape Elusion
Group: Vitaliya Leonova, Ishta Bhagat, Zalak Patel (CS)
Escape Elusion is a first person escape game where the player is trapped inside a high-tech, advanced A.I house surrounded by danger and must use equipments they acquire within the house to escape alive.
Satellites
Group: Lei Di, Yue Yu, Abdulrahman Hussein (CS)
Satellites is a strategy game based on a hexagon map. It tells a story of a planet travelling around the space to collect satellites.
Imprisoned
Group: Richard Kim, Krunal Patel, Andy Cervantes (CS)
Prisoners have been imprisoned for life and many of them were falsely accused of crimes they
didn't commit. The prisoners find out that they can switch spots with the prison guards for an hour a day.
Plagued Memories
Group: Cang Le, Michael Walsh, Luis Hernandez (CS)
You awaken in the forbidden ruins of a mine lost to time. The only way out is an elevator stuck at the bottom.
Final Projects 2016
Coldre
Group: Juan Trelles, Manu Thomas, Carlos Uribe (CS) and Jessica Marcano (Writer)
A little girl suffering from her parents divorce finds help in her two best friends, who try to recover the color of her world.
CaveChef
Group: Krishna Bharadwaj, Filippo Pellolio, Andrea Rottigni (CS) and Marinko Kuljanin (Writer)
CAVEChef is a serious game for legs rehabilitation in post-stroke patients using a 3rd person perspective.
The Paladin[s]
Group: Kamil Piekutowski, Maciej Szpakowski, Shi Yin (CS) and Olga Ziminska (Writer)
Paladin[s] is a puzzle+stealth game running in CAVE2 for players who like to cooperate, supports two players sitting back to back, controlling the same character in two different but similar worlds at the same time.
The Fear Engine
Group: Andrew Burks, Eric Williams, Brandon Davis (CS) and Laura Kaczmarczyk (Writer)
“The Fear Engine†is a story based journey through a hyper-realistic virtual reality game within the game.
You need to confront your fears and bad memories in order to beat and escape the game.
Unfinished Tales
Group: Nick Bashqawi, Saumya Solanki (CS) and Mitchel Ko (Art) and Nick Bashqawi (Writer)
The idea of Unfinished Tales is to help the storybook complete each of three stories by playing as characters in the book and gathering a party as you progress.
Teddy: Midnight Defender
Group: Thomas Misiaszek, Ryan Mak and Sneha Tuteja (CS) and Cristina Romagnolo (Writer)
Young child complains to parents each night that there are monsters in the closet. As the child drifts away into a deep slumber, the monsters emerge from the closet!
Dungeon Master
Group: Dennis McNamara, Tyrone Harris (CS) and Megan Wood (Art) and Mykah Williams (Writer)
Dungeon Master is a competitive dungeon building and exploring game for 2+ players. The titular Dungeon Master - will place enemies, traps, and treasures throughout a dungeon in order to stop the heroes from reaching and defeating him/her.
Pizza Delivery
Group: Saeed Baeshen, Abhishek Tripathi, Quan Zheng (CS) and Alonzo Zamarron (Art)
Joey is really into skateboarding and needs to deliver pizza on a skateboard in the Nuclear City, in order to buy better, cooler skateboards.
Spectralmancer
Group: Garret Felker, Bresia Prudente and Muhammad Khan (CS)
Spectralmancer is a first person game where you must play as a grumpy, old necromancer who is defending his graveyard from encroaching townsfolk with malicious intentions of disrespecting his graveyard.
Spiritual Awakening
Group: Jong Gu Chang, Alfred Joseph (CS) and Omar Juarez (Artist) and Melissa Alva (Writer)
A spiritual journey of a blind monk seeking to change himself to the very roots of his being and remove everything that would stand in the way of his dedication to God.
Final Projects 2014 (Mark Tulewicz class)
Final Projects 2013
reBIRTH
Group: Julie De Lorenzo, Alex Stiegel, Joe Manzella (CS), and Meg Ziegler (Art), and Lexi Miller-Golub (Writer)
You are a phoenix that can grow, but can never really die (neat!). reBIRTH is a puzzle game that challenges you to save a magical
forest from evil shadow-foxes.
A Sandbox of Sound
Group: Corrigan Farley, Ben Isenberg (CS), and Scott Whipkey (Art), and Wesley Davis (Writer)
The Sandbox is a platforming game whose content is dynamically generated to match your music library.
Theseus
Group: Ryan Lonergan, Ronald Rollins (CS), and Scott Whipkey (Art), and Wesley Davis (Writer)
A horrible half-man, half-bull Minotaur has taken residence in a labyrinth sewer and has been kidnapping and eating children from
the city above. You, the hero Theseus, need to locate and kill this foul beast.
Trans-Verse
Group: Chris Zalaznik, Chris Matysik (CS), and Coaxum Khalif (Art), and Mahmoud Yacoub (Write)
Help a cute detective complete movement puzzles and defeat the enemy faction as you save two parallel universes from eminent (sic! :-)
destruction.
Spirits Up
Group: Megan Ziegler (Art), and Francis Ng, Tyler Hand (CS), and John Simons (Writer)
A small but fierce doll has been forgotten in the basement by its owner. Now the toy has to fight her way back up to light -- using a pen!
Coded_reality
Group: Zach Sadler, Sean Myers, Matthew Gould (CS), and Coaxum Khalif (Art), and Lexi Miller-Golub (Writer)
Coded_reality() is a serious game that uses a modifiable game world to teach players how to program through a series of puzzles.
Final Projects 2011
Victor Powell and Tim Luciani (CS), and Nina Musser (Art) showcase Cloud
Factory. Try to generate 3D clouds that match the pattern
shown ("pants", "turtle", "Justin Bieber"? Just kidding :-). Under the hood, some quite impressive work: a marching-cubes
algorithm to merge individual floating blobs on the fly.
Brian Dicks, Patrick Hogg, and Tom Kierzkowski (CS), Lawrence Plofker
(Writer), Elizabeth Martin and Ami Saroka (Art) created Heist, a dark and stylish Cops and Thieves cooperative game featuring motion capture
animation from the CMU MoCap database.
Jay Sawyer, Luke Weng, and Eric Greif (CS), Elizabeth Shawn (Art) and
Laura Belluomini (Writer) put together Hey Diddle Diddle, a nursery-rhyme game in
which the Cow attemps to get enough points to buy itself a space
shuttle and then jump over the Moon. Very nice 3D physics, and a lot of
fun.
Mike Lew, Gabe de Forest and Tim Pittman (CS), Clayton Chowaniek
(Writer), Will Francis and Dave Szyilagi (Art) go the full nine yards
with Petri Wars, a real time strategy networked game on the smallest scale. Divide
bacteria to Conquer!
Wen Xu, Andrew Yin, James Weaver (CS), Meredith Moriarty and Evan Gooding (Art), and
Jake Robbins (Writer) created Warrior Rabbits and
Squirrels, a serious cooperative game to teach diversity youngsters resilience
skills against bullying. The team worked with the Pitt Graduate School of
Public Health specialists to design the dialogs and actions for the
game. What an awesome mission!
John Fetterholf (Writer and CS), Adam Bartos and Daniel Carr (CS), and
Meredith Moriarty (Art) showcase their brainchild Lazlow
and Dead Poet Spells, a game with a truly spellbinding
story. Orphaned Lazlow needs to rescue his grandpa and cat on a stormy
Halloween. He can only rely on magic spells from his dear friends, all dead poets -- there's
Bukowski and Sartre and much more... By the way, you're a torus, and
you play with a PS3 controller!
