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Inaris: The Cloud Temple is a tale of discovery about a lonely soul wandering in a set of empty, yet familiar temples. A simple yet beautiful 3D puzzle platformer where the player has only one power: Growing and shrinking columns. Your connection with this mysterious world will allow you to manipulate the environment in order to discover what you were always looking for.
Infernus is an experimental first-person experience developed to create a creepy and uncomfortable atmosphere through the use of level design, art, audio, and lighting. The goal was to deliver a short, but engaging set of interconnected levels that would immerse the player in the environment and encourage them to keep moving forward without using explicit game mechanics or systems to accomplish this. Players that are interested in games like Amnesia, Gone Home, Dear Esther, or even Dark Souls, would be most likely to find Infernus the most engaging and immersive.
Ink Quest is an adventure game where player leads Inky, a character which can draw and leave trail of ink. Fight enemies and unlock puzzles using the different coloured ink that are discovered as Inky explore the world.
Intergalactic Space princess is a game about mistaken identity and roaming accross the galaxy. Think Space Dandy mixed with Adventure time - but instead you play s a sassy 14 yr old girl on a mission to find her family. While a comic adventure game at heart,space princess features minigames instead of puzzles.
Interloper is a real-time strategy game with matches that only take 5 minutes. The result is an intense, fast-paced, micro-focused experience with surprising strategic depth. The world of Interloper is divided in 3 war-hungry tribes that battle for control of a newly discovered world. You fight by claiming domain for your tribe of allegiance in maze-like battlegrounds designed with spatial tactics in mind. The units and structures at your disposal were created to deliver ample opportunity for spatial reasoning and strategic advantage, allowing players to grow indefinitely.
The game pits you against competitive online players or a clever AI of varying difficulty. Furthermore the game houses an extensive campaign and a collection of challenge levels to boost your skills and explore the full depth of Interloper.
A puzzle platformer about the exploration of negative space in level design; each level is the inverse of the other level. [http://www.squidi.net/three/entry.php?id=1]. Collect all the coins, and use the portals to switch between the inverted worlds!
The game was developed during Ludum Dare 30, and has since been deployed on the Mocs Arcade Cabinet, where it was expo'd at Makerfaire Chattanooga and CodeDay Atlanta. [http://imgur.com/PIcWjhT]. The game is built using PhaserJS and NodeWebkit.
Iona: Coded Will is a fast paced first person parkour game where you play as a Iona, a female cyborg who gained consciousness and who is trying to escape the factory where she was built.
Iris is a 2D side scrolling adventure platformer that tells a story about Iris traveling to an exquisite world to save her sister, Siri. She will defeat the otherworldly creatures and overcome obstacles using the ancient bow and arrow that was summoned from the magical bracelet that Siri had picked up long ago while exploring the Forbidden Forest.
It Takes Two is a co-op puzzle platformer for 2 players. It is a journey about two characters tied together with a rope. Whether they want to compete or cooperate, they have to complete the journey together.
It's My Story is a puzzle game arising from the realm of stories and legends. The goal of the game is to manipulate objects found in each level, placing them strategically in the environment so that Bruno, the hero of the story, overcomes obstacles he faces and completes each story.
Ithir is an enchanting 'rogue-lite' about Celtic mythology and terrain manipulation. The player is Niamh (pronounced "neev"), a human girl saving a landscape, and its creatures, from the corruption of evil underworld forces. She must restore the creatures to their natural state with her companion fairy, while moving the surrounding terrain to defend herself.
Jelly Polo is a 3-on-3 sports game that uses small-scale exertion. There are no set positions and movement is impulse-based rather than rate-based. This means you have to constantly flick the movement stick in order to move. The faster you flick the stick the faster you move. Precision throwing is also used, where the other thumbstick controls exactly where and how hard you throw the ball.
Backed by research, including multiple publications, Jelly Polo could be the next best thing to happen to the sports video game genre. Winner of the CHI Play 2014 Audience Choice Award for best game, Jelly Polo is enjoyed by everyone. There are three main improvements of Jelly Polo over existing sports video games: it allows for an increased opportunity for expertise development (i.e., you can actually get faster at moving and better at passing at a physical level); it enables individual differentiation in the skillsets of different players like no other sports game before it; and finally, the control scheme causes some fatigue which changes the way players play over the course of a game. These factors make Jelly Polo a truly competitive and sport-like video game that is based on player skill rather than statistical simulations of the game.
JellyHopp is a 2.5D puzzle game, inspired by "Cut the Rope" and "Where's My Water?"
In JellyHopp, the jellyfish--Mr. JellyHopp and his children--need to be safely escorted back to their home, all the while evading the dangers of the deep sea, like electric eels and spiky sea urchins. However, you can only use the currents to help them...will you be able to save them all?
There are 30 exciting levels to play and a special level builder feature, which allows you to build your very own JellyHopp levels!
How To Play: Activate the currents by pressing the number keys on your keyboard or clicking the currents with your mouse.
Customize your car with new weapons, paint jobs, and trinkets then go and fight for your life in this intense combat racer. Featuring 8 unique levels and advanced AI, it's a wild ride and winner of the 2014 Media Sandbox Student Game Showcase People's Choice Award.
Kawiteros is the 2D puzzle-platformer game that will make you discover the dreamy world of Huichol Shamanism. During your pilgrimage as a shaman, you create links between you and various objects of the environment, so that one object runs every motion of another item.
Kawiteros is currently developed with Unity3D (we mostly aim for a PC release) and plays with mouse and keyboard.
This game has been selected for various other contests, such as the NovaPlay Contest (for French students) or the Unity Awards.
In a home somewhere in some distant land, there is a mysterious kitchen, where weird things happen all the time, salt and pepper shaker both have a desire to be the superior seasoning!
Kitchen Kerfuffle is a student project that was developed by six students in ten weeks for a Video Game Production class at the University of Central Florida. The game is a shared screen screen competitive multiplayer experience inspired by titles like Mario Party and Sonic Shuffle. The game is based on an Italian kitchen aesthetic and features a salt and pepper shaker doing battle in kitchen themed challenges to prove once and for all who the best seasoning really is. The game won the "Best in Show" award at the 2014 UCF School of Visual Arts and Design Annual Student Showcase.
It's all about the circle! "KittyJumpr" is not as easy as it looks. As it gets more and more challenging throughout the stages it's up to you to save the kitties with a well-timed rescue jump.
· Universal App
· Random Generated Backgrounds
· Different Kitties
· Easter Eggs
With bright colorful graphics and animations, Labyss is both a challenging maze and puzzle game. Users play as Roklyss, the little creature who must collect the stars within each world in as few moves and as little time as possible.
Each level of Labyss displays three stars that must be collected by Roklyss. These stars are situated in different labyrinth locations. What makes Labyss more challenging is that Roklyss only stops moving when he hits a wall. Therefore, players must choose their movements wisely to solve the puzzle as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Roklyss also has an evil twin who appears on certain levels and blocks Roklyss' ability to collect the stars. Roklyss must navigate around the evil twin without touching him to achieve his goals. If Roklyss touches his evil twin, the game is over.
Feature Highlights:
* Beautifully complex and addictive puzzle game
* 3 different worlds
* 45 challenging levels
* Unlock bonus levels by collecting all stars
* Progressively becomes more challenging
* Compete against the clock
* Choice of swiping or tapping to control movements
* Retina display support
* Game Center support
You are Remi. A depressed existentialist earthworm contemplating the meaning of his life. Navigate the oppressive darkness that surrounds you to learn more about the world and about yourself.
Lie to the Devil is a single player game where the player is left alone in a room to have a conversation with a strange computer AI that eventually wants to hurt him. Not For Children.
A game set in a procedurally generated prison where your only hope for escape is by bed sheet rope. With no way to fight the inmates and wardens that inhabit the prison, you must utilize the environment to help you evade your pursuers.
LiPorest is a compounding word that combines "lips" and "forest". It is intended to deliver the basic concept of this game, where a player raises magical singing ringing trees somewhere in a far-away forest, while playing the game with his/her mouth only. Internally, the game uses computer vision techniques (OpenCV) to recognize the motion of one's lips as illustrated in Figure 1.
Lisa is a game about friendship, relationships, change and herding sheep. It was made for my friend Lisa's birthday over the course of two months with me as sole developer. In it, you control both Lisa and her trusty blue dog. It's a relatively short game that focusses on surroundings, vibe and curiosity.
Little Wing is a simple game that is played on the iPad. The game utilizes the gyroscope as a means of directional input while the orthosis is connected via Bluetooth providing the rehabilitation input. Patients can perform exercises in comfort with little restriction on location by using the iPad.
The patient plays as Little Wing, a small pterodactyl who is unable to physically fly. However, determined to fly it uses a giant slingshot to launch itself into the sky. When Little Wing is launched, patients face a linear level design which they navigate using the tilt control of the iPad. Additionally patients are encouraged to keep up the exercises as they play. Every 10-15 second hold they perform after the initial launch will give Little Wing a small increase in speed and altitude which can potentially gives them the boost they need to reach the next checkpoint. The aim of the game is to navigate the level using these orthosis lifts to glide as far as possible from the original launch location. Patient progression can be easily mapped to how far they get on each run, the time they can hold their foot up for and how many times they produce a boost before the exercise becomes too much.
Lucha or Lose It is a chaotic action platformer where the players are Mexican Wrestlers with extraordinary strength who must defeat hordes of enemies only through throwing objects in the environment. The game is aimed at a younger audience and has very simple aesthetics and design that suit this purpose. Though the levels follow a linear purpose the multiplayer element allows for repeated playthroughs to remain entertaining as well as dynamic gameplay to emerge through interactions with the various objects scattered around the level. The narrative of the game is very simple, an evil wrestler has stolen the championship belt and you have to get it back. Overall Lucha or Lose It delivers a quick, exciting, cooperative experience that should result in many laughs.
Lumini is a relaxing flow adventure game. In Lumini you control a swarm of creatures instead of just one character. It's your task to guide the swarm to safety on their journey to save their home planet. To accomplish this you can split up your swarm into two different groups that you'll control simultaneously, to solve puzzles, engage or outsmart enemies and help the lumini survive.
During your journey you collect energy from plants that you find on your way. You can convert this energy to new lumini at big crystals you find scattered across the world, to replace your fallen comrades. During the game your intuitive play style will be registered. Based on your choices during enemy encounters the new lumini you get at crystals will be evolved into more powerful members for your swarm. Each of these evolved lumini have their own special ability, tailored to enhance your preferred style of play.
Let the swarm take you away on a relaxing, zenlike adventure, incorporating elements from traditional adventure games, with atmosphere and flow experienced in games such as Flow and Flower.
Lunazoa is a 2.5D action-puzzle platformer that combines underwater, tentacle-based physics with exciting, dynamic, action-adventure gameplay. You play as Kit, a creature in a Diving Bell submarine who must brave the challenges and solve the mysteries hidden deep down on the ocean floor. He will face daunting foes as he maneuvers through an aquatic environment that will require a deft control of the object-grabbing tentacles attached to his ship. Before he can escape his submerged fate, he will be forced to engage in battle against a mighty foe: one who has been carefully watching him his entire journey...
Lurking is a survival thriller game where sound is the only way you see, and they hear your fears. Lurking supports microphone input which detects the sounds you make and converts them into gameplay visuals in the form of pulses, creating a secondary level of immersion.
Lux is a side-scrolling puzzle platformer with heavy emphasis on light. You play the role of a light bulb named "Lux". The light from "Lux" will affect the different elements in the level. The energy (HP) from "Lux" directly influence the amount of light. You have to manage your energy well to solve puzzles. Be careful, if you have too little or too much energy, you will die!
Title: Lynn - A girl into puzzles
Platform: Android Smartphone
Genre: Puzzle
Using Engine: Unity3D
A game titled "Lynn - A girl into puzzles" is optimized for Android system. A simple sliding puzzle game with Grid method is suitable for touch screen in smart phone. It will introduce a novel way of enjoyment by combining a new idea and a creative rule for puzzle. This brand new game will beloved by devotees of puzzle and smart phone users. Eventually it will extend its sphere of influence.
In this game you can find new rule for puzzle game in which not a character is supposed to move but rooms are moving in order to move a character. The rule is really simple but to solve each puzzle game players are required to use their brain. A concept and graphic of this game is based on a character getting into oriental paintings. Therefore, it makes players feel different visual stimulus and it is one of our strategies that our game offer brand new happiness while users are playing.
This proposal is offered from a student of Ajou University who wants to make a fun sliding puzzle game with Grid method which is practical in touch screen. This idea is encouraged from the professor and students.
Magna Polaris, an immense and strange mountain. Delve into its depths, uncover its secrets and share them with the world; For the time IS at hand.
In Magnesia, player will control the little robot to explore this beautiful but dangerous planet.Using the robot's laser or convert robot's property to solve the puzzles.
The whole game mechanics is based on one element, "same polarity repel each other, different polarity attract each other". Not only object will be affected by polarity, but also the robot. This polarity elements make the game more variety.
Mangia is a game about Nina Freeman's personal experience being diagnosed with a chronic illness.
Are you ready for bite-sized games and wacky humor, all at the swipe of your hand? Many Mini Things is a game about just that: many little capsule toys that you win by completing many mini games. Using the motion control capabilities of the Leap Motion controller, you have to move, grab, swipe, and more to complete the series of quick challenges. You'll experience amazing success – or hilarious failure.
This game was created by a team of students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Becker College, Smith College, and Berklee College of Music through the MassDiGI Summer Internship Program.
This is a game inspired by my own marshmallow roasting excursions that explores storytelling methods in games while being wrapped up in a cutesy, quirky exterior.
Take a twisted version of "Hot Potato," a bunch of lovable robots, hilarious commentary, and what do you get? MASHBALL! It's the chaotic, arena combat sports broadcast you never knew you loved! Mashball features FREE4ALL and 2V2 game modes, two unique level sets, and a plethora of power-ups. Choose your favorite "tater-bot" and challenge your friends. With support for up to four players, it's fun for everyone! Mashball is the greatest potato sport ever created...because it's the only one.
Mecha Trigger is a first person shooter with a twist: you type all of your commands to control your skyscraper-sized mech in a command line interface. Combat against opponents in online multiplayer or against AI opponents. Fully deck out your mech to take on your foes. Or spectate the battles from above in a helicopter. Mecha Trigger takes advantage of the Oculus Rift to immerse you in the action.
Made in 15 weeks in the Michigan State University Game Design and Development Specialization.
Mendel's Farm is a quirky life/farm sim game that tasks you with assisting the crazy scientist Mendel in running and managing a farm of mutated livestock and crops. There are many tactics that the player can use to do this, with a goal of ours being that each player is able to have a unique story when playing the game. With many tactics, and millions of variations of mutated animals to pick from, the player can personalize their farm to suit their requirements. Annoyed by that fox that keeps stealing your chickens? Well, it wouldn't steal a chicken that could breath fire now, would it?
Meowchine Mayhem is side scrolling shoot 'em up game with one unique feature: you get to create your own tank! Create any tank shape you want, then mount a whole variety of guns onto your shape to help our little kitty heroine as she embarks on a dangerous search for a mysterious someone! What are you waiting for? Go forth onto the battlefield and wreak Meowchine Mayhem! PS: Your monitor must support 1377 x 768 resolution for the game to run properly.
Merge is a a Sidescrolling Action Adventure. Playing a tiny being of the forest, the player has to chase the thief which has stolen the creature's special light. On its way are various dangers and it encounters an enormous blob which is attracted by the small character's light. Is it a friend or foe?
A semester project by Dominik Haas and Martina Hugentobler at the Zurich University of the Arts.
In Midnight Terrors, you must protect a little kid named Casey from an onslaught of bedtime monsters that hinder him from getting any kind of peaceful slumber. How? With Casey's toys! Whether you use the windup robot that shoots electricity from its arms or the toy soldiers who use their plastic rifles – it's up to you to keep the monsters from reaching Casey. During the game all types of nightmarish monsters will challenge you and you must use a combination of toys to build a strong defense. Midnight Terrors is a tower defense game that focuses on mazing and tower combinations as the main strategy of the game.
There are two sides to every puzzle; it's a shame you can only see one at a time. Mirrored is a puzzle/maze game where you control 2 squares and try to navigate them through a maze. The twist is that the squares movement is mirrored and each square has their own maze to navigate. Will navigating the maze the player can only see 1/2 of each squares maze at a time. Players must get both squares to cross over the center line of the screen at the same time to see the other half of the maze. There are 86 levels spanning multiple difficulties. Mirrored is a game of memory and problem solving.
"Best Original Idea" award (hoPLAY 2014), "Best Sound" and "Best Art" finalist (hoPLAY 2014)
"Missing Translation", initially conceived as a small project, was a game we started to experiment and attempt to create something personal. However, press and players got interested on it and we decided to take it one step further.
We did a tiny crowdfunding campaign to showcase the game at a huge gaming event, and it was an incredible experience. We were recently also nominated as finalists in hoPLAY (International Festival of Independent Games) for best art and best audio.
We're currently working on the game, which we want to release for free during Christmas. Here are some of its features:
- FREE!
-No text at all in the game. "Missing Translation" can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of their language...
-...but you'll find a drawn language in the game which you can learn and use.
- No tutorials, tips or big arrows pointing you where to go. Don't be afraid, it isn't a hardcore game, we just want everyone to experience the feeling of discovering how things work on their own.
-Beautiful pixelart with its own personality.
-Amazing soundtrack composed for the game.
-Different puzzle mechanics and some extra challenges for advanced players.
Global Warfare (formally called, Modern Warfare TDS) is a action packed Top down shooter inspired by the Call of Duty Series. The game is currently in the public beta stage and all critiquing is requested. The game currently features weapons like the powerful ACR, the M4A1, the Ump45 and much more! . Take to the battlefield as you play as the memorable Task force 141, Opfor, the Spetsnez, Rangers and the Navy Seals. Play on over 5+ fast paced maps, one which is capture the flag and one being a snowy map. Built with an intense engine, the game never felt so real, so alive including beautiful sound effects, AI and more!
Do you feel like calling in a warthog into level the place? Why not call in an airstrike! Wanna call in a harrier? Go ahead, what's stopping you?! It's GLOBAL WARFARE! You're probably wondering, "Where's the multiplayer", we'll that will be coming soon. I'll have to see where my fellow gamer stand to make a decision like that.
*This game is not affiliated with infinity ward or Activision. Song Tracks by Hans Zimmer*
"Monster Tim" is an oniric adventure-puzzle game full of mystery and monsters in the magic world of dreams.
Tim is a lonely and shy boy who has a very special friends only.... the monsters that live in his dreams. In that oniric place, he feels truly safe and happy in the company of those fantastic creatures. But suddenly, one night, the monsters disappear!
Help Tim in his adventure to find his friends, explore with him fantastic worlds in this funny puzzle game and discover the mystery behind Tim's dreams!
Monster Tim includes:
5 cute worlds to explore and complete!
4 nice monsters with unique skills!
A mysterious story about... discover it!
And puzzles everywhere!
Movement Study 1 is a New Realist movement simulator and short adventure game about youth in Melbourne. You experience a night out as Darcey, a teenage girl who wants to get out of the home and the life she is in. Get a glimpse into her desires and anxieties through feeling out the environment and having conversations. A story about exploring the liminal space of youth.
Harvey Johnson joined my game development crew at SeeminglyPointless.com and was to prove his talent by participating in the GameBoyJam. About halfway through the jam, he decided to take a break from games and do some urban exploration of an abandoned facility a few hours away from his apartment.
Harvey found a CD and a note addressed to him in one of the abandoned buildings. I know this because he later tweeted a picture of it at me accusing me of planting it as a joke: https://twitter.com/HarveyHJohnson/status/355525592726257666/photo/1
A day later, I heard he wasn't responding to people, so I went to see if he was doing alright. His apartment appeared untouched when I arrived, sans a glitched game screen and a sheet of paper saying "James upload this game." I didn't want to upload it, but I couldn't shake off the whispering I heard in the dark and the feeling that I was being watched. This went on for a full day until I finally caved in and uploaded it. I don't feel as afraid in the dark anymore, but I will never open this game.
I uploaded some footage I got from his phone, and a few relevant pictures here. I just want to make sure people know what they're getting into. I'm afraid that if I try to hide the game, the shadows will come back, and I don't want to end up like Harvey.
It's the nuts season and Mr. Wiggle needs your help to get them all! Use the wood cannon to launch Mr. Wiggle on its journey to capture all the nuts scattered on the screen during missions in the summer, in the winter, in the autumn and in the spring !
Muju Juju is a 2D strategy defense game. Muju must defend his shrine from an onslaught of forest creatures by summoning and upgrading an army of his own. The game features a unique death mechanic where you temporarily enter the spirit world on death to gather "juju" — the source of Muju's power and immortality — before being resurrected again.
Upcoming Features:
- Campaign to unlock minions with differing abilities
- Manage your juju to summon and upgrade your minions in the heat of battle
- Choose your strategic upgrade path each game
- Story, Survival, Co-op, Versus modes
- Discover and select unique Rune builds to enhance your set of minions
- Online multiplayer
