2013 Student Competition Entrants

by DigiPen Wired Productions
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Redemption is a co-op multiplayer FPS in which the player plays as a robot sent to destroy a menacing goo monster, "Sample 17", a man-made experiment gone wrong that has already destroyed the entirety of humanity. The player must advance through various parts of the world that have been infested with Sample 17 to cleanse the Earth and redeem mankind. Players can play by themselves or with a friend through a networked LAN connection.

by Team Reveal
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Reveal is an experimental first-person game about the ways in which
we perceive the human body. In it, the player is tasked with deconstructing
a small room, one layer at a time. Each layer acts as an analogy
for a different way of thinking about the body. Ultimately, Reveal
directs players to see the body in its purest form: as an impartial collection
of systems, working in union to promote life.

The game is designed to be, above all, an immersive experience. Special
attention has been paid to keep the interface minimal, the controls intuitive,
and the action visceral.

by Ladace
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A Platform/Puzzle game about dreams.
Do you ever feel you're trapped in the reality?
Do you ever wanna runaway but still can't make a move?
In this game, your dreams will come true.
With your dreams, you are able to cross all the obstacles you encounter.
Solve the puzzles, and get out of here!

by Triple-B-Titles
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Nearly five years in the making, Ring Runner combines the deep customization and rich story of an RPG with the fast-paced action of a space shooter. The over 300 abilities, which are attached to pieces of gear, can be equipped by the 65 playable ships, each presenting a unique template for customization. None of the gear you acquire is ever made obsolete and every ability can change the way you play the game.

The 20-hour long story-driven campaign is an extension of a full-length Sci Fi novel, giving us a deep, fertile universe. Players will awaken from (un)elective brain surgery with no prior memories. Fortunately, they've just had a Neuro-HUD implanted into their brains that will guide them through the universe. Unfortunately, this device's personality, Nero, is a bit of a smart alec. Players will become embroiled in a feud between two trash-moguls in The Litter Glitter Galaxy. If they survive King Kruegler's gladiatorial arena, they'll find themselves hunted for the price of (not "on") their head. Bounty hunters and prospectors alike will be after the 42 molecules of precious duril that are wedged into a wrinkle in their brain, the very same duril that grants them the power of the Sages. They must dive into the colorful Subrostrum, the space beneath atoms, and master the ways of a Sage if they are to survive.

The four Scenario Modes, Spire (Base) Battle, Deathmatch, Wave Survival, and Gladiator (Boss) Mode, can be challenged either through local two-player coop in a "Duo" ship, alone, cooperatively online, or competitively online. The backgrounds, level layouts, and AI in these modes are all procedurally generated, offering potentially hundreds of hours of entertainment.

Ring Runner takes action-RPG game play to the next level -- and space!

by My Electrical Romance
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Robota : Lost game is open world adventure game for PC platform, with first person camera, about the robot that have lost in some unknown landscape, you suddenly wake up, alone and just don't know anything. One thing that you should do is to know where you are and find a way to back home. In the searching of the answer you will feel the experience of the natural landscape. Exploring quite nice nature filled by trees, grass, and pond with awesome graphic. Firstly built by Syauqy Nurul Aziz in 7 days for the 7DFPS(7 Days First Person Shooter) challenge, now the game is in development for better version with more member of team called My Electrical Romance that focused worked on developing its graphic, feature and remaking of its game design.

by Hurricane
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"Dear Goddess of Happiness! Please make my town happy!"
'Roly Polar' is a brand new puzzle game rotating planet to solve problems. With 'the Goddess of Happiness', Player helps making towns happy and put a end thier suffer.

In many puzzle genre, It's too common and iterative use type that match pairs as many ways to solve a puzzle, but in this game, Roly Polar, It's little bit different. All We have to do is just spining around planet to match object from surface of planet to sky. It's not only intuitive and good usability but, really fun.

by Vorpal Games
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Rotation Station is a 2D puzzle game made by 1 man studio Vorpal Games AKA Alex Rose, slated to soon be released for iOS and Android.

Drop your blob, Gnambles, into the Rotation Station and spin the level to get him to the warp-pads! Collect powerups and wrack your brain to switch, shift, slice, slide and sculpt your way through 7 different worlds and 124 levels! Its original rotating mechanism brings a new element to an old genre, while throwing back to classic games like Chu Chu Rocket and Zelda.

Use what you've learned with 16 powerups and 10 obstacle types to solve increasingly complex puzzles!

Or you can play multiplayer with your friends in a fully customisable powerup-fueled, rotating blob connecting frenzy.

by Turtle Games
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We, Turtle Games would like to bring the genre of strategy games back to life with our game, Rum Run. Unlike currently available games which try to make the keyboard and mouse controls work on touch screens, we have designed the game with great touch experience in mind.

In Rum Run, the player controls ships by drawing their path, much like in Fight Control. The goal is to trade resources and make profit.

by DigiPen Scrap Metal Games
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Salvage Youth is a 2.5D laned puzzle platformer. The player can take control of Jenny, Stu and Dustin to solve puzzles. Each of the kids has a unique ability that helps them to explore and traverse the world. Jenny can interact, Stu can pickup and throw, and Dustin can sprint and double jump. Their goal is to rebuild their rocketship to catch up to their parents.

by Split Pixel Studios LLC
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Sarah is on a mission to go on the grandest shopping spree of her life! You must help her get past the evil debt collecting banks, dreary weather, and jealous harpies to gather up all the cash and credit cards you can so she can fulfill her dream.

by RFX developer
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Sarinande angklung is a simulation game that simulates traditional angklung musical instrument from West Java, Indonesia.
★ Players can play angklung using the accelerometer like the real one.
★ Players can compose songs which are then stored in external memory.
★ Players can play songs that have been composed before.
★Get the high score for every songs that played in mode lesson

by Team Dodos
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Save the Dodos is a frantic puzzle game for iPad and Android tablets where you are tasked with saving a flock of dim-witted dodos from an untimely demise!

by We are still in the process of founding a company. The name will be announced shortly.
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Schein is an exciting puzzle jump 'n' run set in the depths of a creepy swamp. A young man is lost in this hostile environment and entrusts his life to a magical little creature named "Irrlicht". This witty little will-o'-the-wisp encountered the disoriented human sitting in the darkness, as it was lonesomely roaming the swamp. It offers him its help to light up a path through the muddy land in search for a magical place where legend tells that wishes come true. It is the young man's last hope to revive his only son, who had recently been found dead.
Slip into the young man's soggy shoes, delve into the eerie darkness and discover the Irrlicht's powers. Defeat ancient creatures of the swamp to gain new abilities and learn to use different lights to uncover new dimensions and change your reality. The truth is only what you see and turning off the light will also make certain elements in your environment cease to exist.

by Jane Friedhoff
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Are you a bad enough dude to run around screaming? Scream 'Em Up is a 2-player Space Invaders-style game, where your ship is controlled by the way you move your body, and your bullets are shaped by the way you scream, yell, squeak, or bellow. Grab a partner and scream your way to victory!

by Connor Ullmann
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Seedling builds an expansive and inter-connected world—one of forests, waterfalls, snowy wastelands, magma, and the unexpected. In this world, you play through the life of a simple, magically-spawned creature who will build a legacy of good or evil. Gameplay is part exploration, part hack-and-slash, and part puzzles, which builds an experience that remains challenging throughout, yet not over-punishing. Through this gameplay, Seedling unveils a storyline that questions the nature of adventure games and the immorality inherent in the actions of protagonists.

by MichaelArts
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You are a special creature, and you have a purpose; but are you capable of holding on to it? Sententia is an "art game" that explores the challenges we face to keep our imagination alive as we grow. Start your journey through life's forest as a young creature and build your way through it by solving puzzles, interacting with your fellow creatures, and defending your ideas with your own sententia.

by Team SerpenteS
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SerpenteS is a game where the player controls a 2-headed snake. Each head is controlled independently. The player has to synchronize both of his hands to make the snake move and overcome the obstacles scattered across the levels. Serpentes is a game based on manipulation and player dexterity.

Each head is controlled by a stick and a gamepad trigger (Xbox 360-like). The stick is used to move the head (using movement amplitude, as the stick is analogic) while the trigger allows to bite/boost the snake (in this case, the input is binary).
The snake can crawl, get over steps, bite pivots and swing, pull objects or even propel himself thanks to his elasticity. But this unusual gameplay needs many manipulations, and while bypassing an obstacle is very, the opposite could become frustrating. A great effort has been made to improve the usability aspect of the game in order to avoid frustration, using several playtest sessions as well as using Sound Design and Visuals to help the player.

It was first design as a single player game but it is possible to play with another player. We highly encourage to play the game with a second controller or with 2 players on the same controller. It's a lot funnier to play with a friend !

by SD Team
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Who has never dreamed to fly as a bird … On Mars! Shadow diver is the revisited myth of Icarus, a crossover between extreme sport and science fiction. A free fall dive game in a futuristic urban environment.

Shadow Diver is an ambitious project, carried out by a team of 17 students who aim to develop a game demo in only 3 months.

by kimhodoo
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You will be cupid on the JYP ST.

Find the each each gender person
on the slotboard

and gotta love shot

by TEAM 1
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Shoot your cute little hero panda, Shu, into zero gravity with a cannon to reach each goal and eventually send him back to Panda Planet!
Each level is a physics puzzle, uniquely addictive and challenging.
With a handful of tools at your fingertips, solve these puzzles to earn stars to unlock customizations for Shu.

by inpla.net
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This is an adventure game that also has a lot of other element such as maze, act, feeling, puzzle. The music and the enviroment will change by player's action.
And the player must find how to play and feel the game all by himeself. There is an end, the only End. If the end appear, game ends. There are many dead area that will make player cannot approach the End. And if you get there, you have no choice but restart. But the you can get back to sometime before at any time.
This game now contain a main mission and one hided area.

by Stuart Culbertson
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This is a program to help teach children the eating needs and life cycle of a silk worm.

by Kent Pasquino
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Sky Writing is an action-puzzle game set in the mysterious skies over New Jersey. Professor BellBottom was in the process of conducting his seemingly harmless experiments when his arch rival, the wicked Professor Peppers, decided that it was his time to shine. On a whim, he decided that if he couldn't create the next big thing in cloud technology, then no one can! Defend Professor BellBottom from the evil Professor's evil inventions of malicious intent using Professor BellBottom's latest invention, physical clouds. Don't ask how they work, because he isn't quite sure either.

by Dopamine Shot
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Skylands it's a platforming relaxing game based on a unique air gliding mechanic. Help Ura find his brother in this weird beautiful world.

by SINAU
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Educational Games to learn English. Offers game using natural interaction techniques using Kinect Xbox device with voice command feature.

by Cogswell Game Studio
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Sleep Cannon is a game made by Cogswell's Game Studio. 8 Students and an adviser got together with the goal of training for the world of game development by creating several games in short periods of time.

This is one of them.

This is Sleep Cannon

There is a little girl, fast asleep. Traveling through stages of her imagination, it's your job to keep her that way! Bounce your sheep off of good dreams to get them across the finish line--but beware of nightmares! They can only end in tragedy.

by Cloister Studio
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Smell my Pot is a light hearted game for the young and old. You play as a chef holding a pot of delicious food roaming around town trying to capture the hearts of the townsfolk.
Be sure to bring them back to your portable restaurant before it gets dark!

Explore different locations, increase different townsfolk happiness by knowing their food preference. Build your reputation to become the greatest chef!

Learn to time manage, and avoid rival chefs stealing your followers. Be sure to earn enough profit at the end of the day to meet your expenses.

by Delta Creatures
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SmileWars is a Fast Paced, Easy to play Multiplayer Real Time Strategy Game, focused on casual gamers with little time to play games.

In Smile Wars you can choose every single part of your units: Body, Feet, Hands, Head accessory and Special ability. Give your units the best stats for every situation!

by Team Sneak
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SneakSneak is a 2 player, offline, co-op only, sneaking platformer. How's that for a genre? You and a friend play as two native Indians and the object of each level is to reach the exit. But before you can enter it, you must unearth three buried totems in each level. The only problem is that there are Spanish Conquistador robots with deadly laser sight walking around!

The game has many co-op mechanics but the main one is a tossing mechanic, where one player can aim and toss another player to high and far places. Then the tossed player acts as a ladder for the tosser. You can even toss each-other through brittle walls and create your own route! There are quite a few sneaking mechanics as well, ducking, hiding in crates and pulling your legs up all help to avoid detection. There is even a co-op hiding mechanic in the form of crates hanging on the ceiling..

The end result is a fluid, hardcore and totally addicting co-op experience that will leave a big grin on your face.

by Andrew Nack (DigiPen)
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Snowfall is an experimental narrative game that explores alternate forms of player engagement. Instead of giving the player a fun experience, the game focuses on making the player as frustrated, angry, and depressed as possible while still maintaining a quality game experience.

by Brain Connected
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Somyeol is a 2D Puzzle Platformer, in which you have to rescue the almost extinct species of the Somyeols. Guide them home while controlling multiple Somyeols at once.


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Based on the tragic play "Faust" by Goethe, Soul Gambler is a visual novel where the story is affected by your choices.
Faust is the main character. A common guy who one day receives a tempting purposal: a contract to sell his soul in exchange for any wish.
You have the power to make this and every decision in the game and see how it can impact this tale of mistery and discovery.

by Dojo Arcade
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Soulfinity is a 3rd person puzzle/action game featuring characters from Ancient Greek mythology but set in the distant future. In the year 2394 Odysseus has been awoken by the Fates to embark on an epic journey to rid the world of the Titans. The Fates have also granted Odysseus a unique ability which will give him the power to overcome death itself.

The theme of the game is about self sacrifice. The game's sacrifice mechanic allows players to create copies of their soul, and these souls can help the player if they have used their past life wisely. Instead of being punished for dying, Soulfinity encourages you to cleverly sacrifice yourself in order to help your future self upon resurrection.

Soulfinity was created by four Masters students from the University of Glamorgan. The game is currently in development with the final release scheduled for 2013.

by Codaweb Interactive
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Use the unique powers of energy cells to save Earth from total chaos!

It is the year 2312. Mankind is almost at its end - all natural resources have expired. It's up to you to create energy for the world of tomorrow with the unique elements of outer space! But watch out: Explosive particles, asteroids and aliens are just a few of the obstacles that you'll encounter! Space Keeper features challenging physics-based gameplay and hours of replay value. Each level will put your logic, speed and dexterity to the test!

Are you ready to be a Space Keeper?

★★ Features ★★
✔ 38 exciting levels!
✔ High replayability!
✔ Physics-based gameplay!
✔ Dynamic sound design!
✔ Detailed backgrounds!
✔ Gameplay optimised for smartphones and tablets!
✔ Countless hours of fun!
✔ Online rankings!
✔ Many achievements!
✔ Atmospheric soundtrack!
✔ Regular updates!

*** MORE ***
Google Play Store:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.codaweb.spacekeeper

Original Soundtrack at:
http://codaweb.bandcamp.com

Online Leaderboards:
http://www.space-keeper.com/leaderboards

Like Space Keeper on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/SpaceKeeper

Follow @codaweb on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/Codaweb

by Mercurial
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A psychedelic explosion of colour, fish and meta-galactic mammals.

Swing through space using the gravity of planets, growing bigger as you eat, until you can devour entire galaxies. Orbiting different planets causes different instruments to blend into the music and chomping planetoids plays musical notes into the cosmic cacophony.

by Team SPHERE
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Sphere is a First Person Puzzler about Trajectory Transmission : the player have a ball that he can launch to create trajectories, and then apply them on his own body!

by Enterra, Inc.
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Splash! is a catching casual game showing a tough life of a white ball.
- Maneuver your white ball. Do not let the rest balls color it!
- Pop color balls with fingertips to get score!
- Be careful with black balls! You can pop them after a while!
- Use bombs to explode all color balls!

And more:
- At first the game is easy. It gets more difficult with each level. Never relax!
- You can leave the game at any moment and resume it from this moment later.
- Send your score to social gaming network OpenFeint. Spread a word about your success to your friends!
- Warning! The game is highly addictive!

by Team : Triangle (Written by : Yeo Sung-Min
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Game Requirements
OS : Window XP
DirectX 9.0 More than

Action shooting game in which a player adjusts the locations of urinating and paints on the wall.
When the game starts, a player colors the pictures on the wall by urinating.
If a players completes the painting while avoiding the attacking objects appearing during the game, the stage is cleared.
When all the urines are consumed from the body of the character, in which is indicated the amount of urines, the game is over.

by heArtless: Mike Achten (Programmer), Fabian Op den Camp (Programmer), Sander Swinkels (Programmer), Alexander van Dam (Industrial Designer), Martijn Prins (Gamedesigner)
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sTail is a game in which the people within the playing field all get a virtual tail projected behind them which follows them around as they physically walk across the field. The goal of the game is to get the largest tail by walking over the one of others, recieving part of their tail.
The game is meant to be played in public spaces like for example town squares, train stations and shopping malls where people walk around. People who don't actively participate still influence the game just by the presence of their tail and hopefully will be seduced to join the fun.

by Wanderlands
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Stickets is an elegantly brutal puzzle game designed to melt your mind and soothe your soul.

by Alan Zucconi
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"Still Time" is a minimalist indie game based on time travel and temporal physics.
It features a unique and experiment gameplay that enables players to move back in time, interacting with the previous yourselves. Change the past, if you want to choose your future.

It challenges the traditional way in which traditional platform games evolved, adding a completely new dimension in which you can dive: the time. The gameplay has been compared to "Braid" and "The Company of Myself", although "Still Time" uses different mechanics that often result in long and persistent headaches.

In addition, "Still Time" is a small masterpiece of Pixel Art Deco: each level is uniquely designed with its own noir, disturbing symmetry. After all, there is no need for space, when you still have time.

by DigiPen Improbability Drive
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subduction follows the journey of a girl through her own thoughts, confronting the twisting corridors of the psyche through their manifestations in a world both familiar and bizarre. Using a set of challenging spatial mechanics, subduction's gameplay serves as metaphor for the character's mental journey, forcing the player to grapple with the main character's psyche in the physical world. subduction offers the player the chance to explore the complexities and challenges of memory through gameplay, using their mastery over the mechanics to parallel the character's mastery over her own mind.

by Aesir Interactive
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"Submerge" is a fast paced and tactical multiplayer game. Up to 16 players try to stand their ground and ensure the survival of their swarm.
At the beginning of the game the player will form a swarm of specialized underwater creatures. With these, the player will explore the game world and look for other players, whose units are used as prey. The player will lose life over lifetime and therefore has to collect booty, which will add life. Booty can be gained by killing enemy units. The main goal is to survive as long as possible against the time and at the same time collect as many "Evolution Points" as possible.
Using these "Evolution Points" the player can afterwards customize and improve his swarm for the next game.

by Dim De Facto
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Submor is a puzzle\platformer game with an experimental controlling and visual art. This is a game about illusionary unstable world. It's about the darkness and a hero.

by Simian Softwerks
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In a land ravaged by the sun, the Sugarbabies need your help! Play as their Guardian, the mysterious force that guides them from danger. Solve puzzles in a physics driven environment, with beautiful graphics and visual effects. Explore the amazing world and collect all the exotic golden beans.

Can you save the Sugarbabies?

by David Scamehorn & Alexander Baard (DigiPen USA)
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Super Space ____ is a couch co-op arcade shooter about competition, cooperation, communication and the democracy of physics. Players control turrets attached to a blocky, misshapen space ship and earn points by shooting a never-ending onslaught of asteroids. Thanks to Newton's Third Law, the recoil from shooting propels the ship. Players must cooperate to avoid hazards and ensure survival, but also compete for weapons and high scores. Super Space ____ was developed by Alexander Baard and David Scamehorn at DigiPen.

by Romain Pedra & Jordan Dos Santos
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SuperEspace is a space conquest game. You have to take the control of all the planets to win. Play with your friends on the same device or against the computer.
This game is a student project from ISART Digital Paris.

by French Rice Games
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Survivors of Ragnarök is a city-building-management-survival game about chickens. Lead your company of dwarfs into high mountain passes, deep into dangerous forests, scorching deserts, and into the dark underbelly of the earth and back. Encounter Bizarre and dangerous creatures from dwarf-eating-tiger-snails, flying pigs, bishop-fishes, and Chickthulhu.


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Briefing – "Life Simulator" where it's possible to control a robot in a semi-abandoned space station where there is no more human life. The controls are point and click, where the robot can perform everyday tasks as if it were a member of a human society.

Plot - In the fourth millennium, the Earth is in serious trouble such as natural disasters, problems with contaminated soil and rivers and so on.it was believed that the Earth had its days numbered. So there was only one solution. The humans created a series of space stations for the evacuation of Earth.

The goal was to find a "New Earth" for the humans to inhabit.

by Tales from the Minus Lab
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Tales from the Minus lab is an open-world action-adventure game that allows players to freely shrink and grow between normal human size and the size of an ant. The entire game takes place in one room, Isaac's lab, but by shrinking players discover the fantastical worlds within worlds hidden throughout the lab.

Moment-to-moment gameplay consists of exploration and environmental physics puzzles, both of which heavily rely on the player's differing abilities at various sizes. At larger sizes, players can pick up and manipulate objects in the environment, while at smaller sizes they can dive in and explore those objects. For example, some puzzles require players to grow big enough to rotate the entire level in order to open up a new path at a smaller size. Other puzzles incorporate the player's weight (which scales with size), size-dependent environmental hazards, and surface tension (which allows players to walk on liquids at very small sizes).