Introduction to Game Design

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Agent Octo

by Braden WILKES, Jesica NIKOLOVSKA, Georgia ATHANASOPOULOS, Ausama YOSHINAKA ZAFAR, Lachlan COOK

What do you do when your home needs redecorating? Steal the world's greatest treasures of course! The stealthiest cephalopod under the sea is on a mission to revamp the Octocave with some priceless pieces from around the globe, and it's up to you to help him. Enter a world of Ridiculous Robberies and Barmy Buccaneers as you become...Agent Octo!

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Cyber Drone

by Son/JuhyungKim/kyungwan Pan Zac

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate a corrupt government’s headquarters. You must control a drone to stealth through the base, collectong documents, opening safes for information and passing through five floors.

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Hyde and Seek

by Zena STANBOULI, Donna Eve TANNER, Patrick BALILO , Hoang (Tommy) DANG, Emily KINDER

Thrust into a mirrored world, can you trust what reflects back? Waking up in their room, by their mirror, our main protagonist notices something is deeply wrong - their reflection isn't them, instead some strange blurred silhouette. As they place their hand on the mirror, they fall through it to realise that they have fallen into the mirror world, and likewise, their reflection has fallen into reality.​ The objective of the game is to progress through these mirrored rooms, solving puzzles as you go and making it back to the real world. Can you figure out a way back home?

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Coffee Mania

by Jack DONALDSON, Brandon CRAMER, Jetin JACOB, Zhirui LIU

The Brew is Not Enough. Coffee Mania is a tycoon game that will have the player running & improving their own caféoperations. Improve coffee making times, add menu options and blaze through orders. Learn the ropes as you expand your business, become fast, skill up, your café, your rules!

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Epic Detective Game

by Marell Bito, Amren Gill, Daniel Kagan, Jessie Mancer, Kevin Phu

Title says it all! A fun game where you play as a detective, solving the wacky crimes of Metro City and using your power of interacting with Spirits! Talk to funny citizens and get down to business with 5 levels, and find out who the culprit is! Oh, and everyone T-poses. Yeah, it's pretty darn cool.

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Clockwork Conundrum

by Todd Barton, Natasha Lee, Alastair Lu, Andy Luu, Allan Thang

Clockwork Conundrum is a time-looping topdown 2D puzzle game, where you must use your past selves to help you escape. Make sure they don't see you, lest the timeline collapse into a paradox! Trapped in a realm beyond time, the only way forward is.. backward? No wait, forward again, and again, and again...

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That time I got reincarnated as a botanist and forgot to study for my botanical assignment (x7)

by Jansen Chandra, O’Neil Rangiuira, Thaw Zin, Benny Lin, Jingbin Wang, Lin Kyaw

That time I got reincarnated as a botanist and forgot to study for my botanical assignment (x7) " is an point and click puzzle game where you try to grow "plants" for your botany assignment without any direct instructions. Set in another world you've been reincarnated into, the goal of the game is to grow 6 unique plants by seeking the correct solution to growing each of them obtained from looking at other student's work

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Castle: Arcane of Time

by Andres Felipe Gonzalez, Sudipta Chakraborty, Piti Pichedpan

There is an attack from a fearsome group of pirates called Khan that try to conquer the castle of a King named Roosevelt, your master. You are a powerful sorcerer that has been stuck in a spell that hibernated you for a century. After you awake the entire castle is ruined. However, you are a sorcerer that is also a time manipulator but you are not strong enough to fight Khan alone and to save the castle from the antagonist - Khan, you need to use a magical spell to bring a mysterious man from the "Books of Magic" that only going to appear in the secret chamber of the deepest of the castle 100 years from now to fight alongside king Roosevelt in the past, that means you need to go to the future simultaneously with the past to prevent this calamity event. But your resource and magic power are limited and the environment in the castle after a century has passed is not the same and it is going to be more distinct in the future. Thus you need to be prepared and use your head to save the king.

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The Great and Elusive James Ball

by Tam Duong, Quang Duong, Khang Duong, Marcus Ly, Kit Ho Leung

The Great and Elusive James Ball' is a top-down stealth game where you have to click-and-drag your mouse to launch your bouncy spy character around. Avoid detection from guards and other obstacles, use power-ups to avoid detection, collect the secret document, and escape to your getaway car. Be careful to not let your unreliable bounciness get you detected.

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3D Animation

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Back to Life

by Ash Wu, Nick Komin

"Back to Life" is a collaborative short animation project by Ash Wu & Nick Komin. It is created via Unity, and follows the story of a galactic warrior’s attempt to escape an enemy base alive after having obtained a strange device, which may be of help to him… The animation also features the song "Stronger" by The Score.

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Obscurio

by Jiangshan Xu, Ziyu Ma, Jingyi Zhao, Nadeen Da'na

Obscurio is an animation that showcases a person’s journey and struggles to manage their mental health. This journey is often characterised by internal battles, isolation, and a realisation of inner strength. We hope this animation can metaphorically and visually convey the impact mental illnesses may have on a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Whilst the road to recovery maybe difficult by taking simple steps, though; being mindful, developing new skills by challenging oneself and connecting with others, this animation offers a message of hope to any person struggling with mental illnesses that they can improve their mental health and wellbeing.

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Crazi Taxi

by Christian Burgio, Bennett Chung, David Schutte, Tanju Terzi

A business woman is running late for a job interview which is on the other side of the city, with only five minutes to spare. Luckily, Cass, the best taxi driver in the city is nearby and offers to take her to the interview. Putting the pedal to the metal, Cass takes some interesting shortcuts and races rival driver, Bruce, who is driving her client’s rival to the same job interview.

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Directed Study 1

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An Exploration in Applications of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment

by Padraic Heaton

I'm really interested in Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) and this project has been used as a tool to facilitate my learning. Research has been conducted surrounding this topic, to be used as direct reference in the development of a gameplay prototype that features a DDA system as a core mechanic. This has then been play-tested by a range of people to prove that it functions as intended, and that I’ve learnt something!

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Games Research Project

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Little Red

by Ryan LY

An experimental game demo that attempts to adapt the Grimm Brothers' Little Red Cap fairytale into a video game. There are two versions of the game, one following the story as closely as possible and the other gamifying and altering the story slightly.

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Discrimination and Abuse within Gaming Media: Where are we at?

by Elle MA

A report that included focus groups, which consisted of minority groups, in finding answers on whether they thought the online/offline gamging spaces were inclusive or otherwise. Results suggested that there is still much to work on in the space.

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Computer Graphics

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Interactive space simulator

by Owen.Balnaves-James, Hongyuan Fan, Yueqing Tian, Nuo Chen

An interactive universe simulation containing a number of user generated planets, randomized stars and other objects. Users can interact with and customize the simulator through a GUI as well as moving through the simulation and interacting with planets by clicking on them.

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Turtle

by Peter De Vroom, Melisson Vu, Evan Phoon

Experience an underwater environment through the lens of a sea turtle. All graphics are rendered using WebGL with the Three.JS framework.

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Marching Cubes Cave Exploration

by Todd Barton, Marell Bito, Jessie Mancer, Jiaming Zhang

Explore an infinitely generated cave system, fire orbs of light into the darkness, squeeze through tight spaces and collect the faintly glowing gems that line the cave walls. This project uses the marching cubes algorithm to turn simplex noise into an endless maze of large caverns. In this project we experimented with Three.js to see what we could create, learning about shaders, lighting, post-processing and procedural mesh generation along the way.

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Game Design Studio 1

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Wistful

by Cheuk (Jeffrey) Chung, Joshua Saad, Nina Gao, Allegra Lonard, Andy Chau, Nuo Chen

You are an astronaut dying in space. As you slowly drift away in the empty void, you relive and reflect upon the moments that have led up to your mission- attempting to find humanity a new home after it is discovered that the earth is collapsing. Wistful is a 3D exploration puzzle game featuring the suffocating voids of space, and the hopeless struggle to find salvation.

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Abyssal's Call

by Jia Xin PANG, Zihui LU, Yu CHENG, Quang NHAT LE, Andrew Wagstaffe

An adventure rogue-lite action game, where you explore the depths of the ocean in an upgradable submarine. You need to go deeper to get to the more valuable resources, but in those dark places lurk enormous Abyssal Crystal infused beasts. You’ll need precision shooting and thoughtful decisions over how to upgrade your submarine if you are going to survive.

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Gambit

by Baxter Dulieu, Ethan Fitzgerald, Christian Burgio, David Schutte, Declan Carveth, Bennett Chung

Gambit is an isometric, voxel styled turn-based strategy game with a medieval theme. Gambit is Player vs. A.I., with each participant taking turns using their troops to overthrow each-other’s stronghold and claim the levels crown.

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Round Robbin

by Edward CHAPMAN, Christa ZHANG, Jack COGGINS, Habibullah SALEEM, Francisco CASTRO

On blackest night, a small group of cloaked figures scale the castle walls with a single goal in mind: to relieve the castle of all its treasures. Alas, there is no honour among thieves, and soon they'll find it's every animal for themselves… Round Robbin’ is a medieval heist-em-up where up to four players compete to see who can nab the most treasure before time runs out.

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Kirby Gone Rogue

by Alyssa Liang, Ayush Bilash, Richard Kim, Ryan Ly, Winston Yeung

Story: Kirby gets trapped in the machinations of a damned wizard named Rubik and is now stuck in his cube. Fight through rooms of enemies and loot weapons as you try and find an escape. Genre: Roguelike, Action

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Antipede

by Dyer David, Hestelow David, Wu Michael, Gottardi Maximilian, Wang Yingfa

Play as a centipede who has become trapped in an ant hill. Grow your centipede, take down hordes of ants and equip weapons to strengthen your centipede into the ultimate fighter. Use your weapon strategy wisely to eventually defeat the only thing standing between you and freedom, the unforgiving tarantula bosses.

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Expedition No. 3

by Suheng Tan, Han Tang, Zhaoqi Xu, Huijian Zhong, Tianyu Zhu

A simple 3D Third-person Roleplay Game with resource collecting in a open space large map.

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Commander: Renowned

by Hugo Adamietz, Cassandra Deeves, Mateen Mahmood, William Major, Tristan Tran

In a land torn by war between the forces of magic and science, you are a renowned, a wielder of both. However, a new mysterious force has emerged! You must unite the two factions to overcome this new threat. Commander: Renowned is a turn-based SRPG with Quick Time Events. Strategically position your units and use unique abilities to overcome your foes!

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TD Explorer

by Yizhou Cao, Zhenbiao Duan, Chengxin Liu, Yu Qian, Qingyao Wang

Our plan is to make a sandbox tower defense game. This game will be similar to exploring wild areas during the day and tower defense survival at night. Due to time and our skills constraints, we did not implement this game. But that still doesn't stop it being a good idea.

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