CPSC 427 Video Game Programming

Vertigo is a 3D puzzle game where you must think in multiple dimensions to solve intricate puzzles. Discover new maps and mazes as you explore the unique atmosphere of vertigo's world.

Ascent is a 2d sidescrolling roguelike platformer. The Evil Sorcerer Izual has opened a portal to an otherworldly realm, bringing monsters into the world. Utilizing a variety of weapons and powerful mutations, the player aims to ascend to the peak of the mountain and close the portal by defeating the Evil Sorcerer Izual.

Lighthouse is a tower defense game where you must defend the shore against waves of mosnters that are trying to reach the land. Use the power of the lighthouse to mark enemies as targets for your towers, use strategy and cunning to place your defensenes and protect the land from the vicious monsters.

That time I got reincarnated as a doctor.

Dollhouse is a turn based adventure and survival game, from a top-down perspective. The player wakes up in an unfamiliar environment resembling a dollhouse. The player has to escape each room by finding the key, the ultimate goal is to escape the dollhouse.

Strange tremors shook the kingdom, time and space warped and split beneath our feet. The Paladin, armed with the Amulet of Shifting, ventured into the Depths of the World to put a stop to whatever is causing this chaos.

This game is heavily inspired by the mechanics of the Mario Party series. The goal is to take the fundamental ideas, but simplify them in order to facilitate making a game in a timely manner, but still keep it fun to play.

You have just been elected chieftain for your village. As a chieftain, you need to keep your village members safe from attacks and also maintain a stable foodsource. In order for the village to survive, the player must build food resources to support the workers, and defend against monsters and the elements that threaten the village. The game will start in the spring. Over time the season will change such that the player must accumulate resources and build defences in preparation for the next season and new challenges.

You are an agent hired by the Galaxy Transportation Bureau. Your duty is to manage the traffic and routes inside the galaxy. With the exploitation and development of various galaxies in the universe, you are required to build convenient and automatic routes for spacecraft in some “rural” area. With limited budgets, you can’t build concrete roads in space. Instead, the government provides you with facilities/items like acceleration or deceleration matrix. Use gravity and orbits to set up a path between the stars to navigate the spacecraft to their destination.

A 2D platformer game where you play as Theseus and have been transported into a digital Greek labyrinth hounded by the infamous Minotaur from Greek mythology. With the help of the power to rotate the labyrinth, you must escape the various levels of the maze before the Minotaur catches you!

Lumin is a light-based puzzle platformer game. Utilize light to interact with the environment and complete all 20 levels!

It is 3019, and with the fatal global food crisis, overpopulation, and unsustainable habits, humans have laid waste to both themselves, and the planet.
In retaliation, Mother Nature has granted its babies — its vegetables from vast valleys — sentience. That’s right! These legumes and roots have gained intelligence, and this time, they are back with a vengeance! With humans down for the count, it’s time to establish a new world order. There is only room for one vegetable at the top of this food chain, and those who can’t take the heat must get out of the kitchen! Which vegetable will prevail among the seeds? Play to find out!
The game supports multiple fighters and provides selection for multiple stages. Players fight as vegetable characters, each with their own set of unique abilities. Veggie Vengeance is a recipe for trouble.

An ancient magic-using planet was invaded by high-tech aliens. The ancient heroes fight back for their homeland using old, powerful magics. For the majority of our gameplay, our heros fight with increasingly difficult enemies until they die. Then a new hero stands out, with the option to upgrade their hometown with the coins gained from the dead heroes. The hero will be more and more powerful as well as the player will become more and more skillful. Where is the ending? They (hero & player) will find out.

In our game, you play as a panda, trying to find the other last remaining member of his species to avoid extinction. It will be a side scrolling runner that alternates between horizontal running sections and vertical jumping sections, which would resemble a platformer. In each of these sections there will be a hazard to outrun such as lava. As well at the end of each level there will be a boss character that you have to defeat in order to move on to the next level. As the game progresses the speed of the running character (a panda) will increase and there will be more enemies and objects that you will need to avoid or kill.

You work as an engineer for Pear, the world-famous developer of the EyePad. To continue releasing top quality products, Pear sends out engineers to invade alien planets, and “negotiate” to use their technology in their products. On your way to invade another planet, your ship stops working for some reason, and you crash land onto the planet, which does not bode well for you. Aliens, aware of Pear’s rampant piracy, prepare to attack you and your ship. Luckily, you downloaded a few of Pear’s self-defense schematics before you crash landed. You prepare to defend yourself.
Unfortunately, your ship isn’t the only piece of buggy technology. Your EyePad only gives you a few schematics at a time at a random order. And all your self-defense schematics have some sort of flaw in them, whether its being prone to overheating or being initialized incorrectly, thus requiring some sort of outside user input to use properly...
A 2D tower defense / platformer hybrid where your platforming skills directly impact how you defend the base.

The game is a mixture of tower defense and RPG survival with a main character that is capable of casting elemental spells or creating towers to defeat enemies. The main player finds themselves with only a set of spells and defense tower schematics to help defeat approaching enemies. The enemies get progressively stronger as the game goes forward, requiring the dwarf to increase the number of spells at his or her disposal, build more towers, and also explore the map to collect more powerful spells. Exploring an unknown and vastly dangerous setting will be key as it provides new resources and unlocks hidden knowledge for the best chances of survival.

It is the distant future. You work for Celestial Industries, the galactic megacorp that runs civilization. Your task is to build out robotic colonies on alien worlds. Your fleet will harvest resources to supply the company's ever-expanding ambitions. Be vigilant, for the most bountiful planets may already be claimed by other civilizations that won't go down without a fight.

Inspired by classics like Starcraft and Pharaoh, Celestial Industries is a 2.5D real-time strategy game with city-builder influences.

You were enjoying your days as a zombie when the Necromancers attacked, casting spells that allow them to control zombies. To escape their wrath, you must be in possession of an antidote before time runs out and the spells is cast.
A local two-player game where you have to fight for the antidote by using the available items to either protect yourself or attack the opponent so they drop the antidote. Zombie arms will give you item slots, while zombie legs will give you speed. However, if enough limbs cluster together, they will form enemy zombies that will attack you.

Beat-coin is a musical rhythm-based 2D top down shooter. The game is level based with a separate song for each level. Enemies spawn within the room and shoot towards the player, whose goal is to not die or be shot. There is backing music with a musical pulse and the game is affected, through various mechanisms, by how well each event aligns with the time window described by the music's pulse. For example, adversaries can move to the beat or become stronger and more damaging when the player acts, moves, or attacks off-beat.

An alien army is determined to destroy Vancouver. As the chosen, you must shoot down the aliens while also dodging their attacks. As the levels proceed, the challenge increases with increasing number of enemies and different kinds of attacks. Shooting aliens will earn a lot of points and collecting power-ups will help your performance in the game. The goal is to defend the city and your aircraft from the aliens as long as possible. Keys: Use W, A, S, D to move. The movement is according to the orientation of the player. Use the mouse to aim and shoot.

In Dungeon Janitor, you play as a Janitor who has to clean up the mess left by a Hero. However, a new Hero is coming to the dungeon, so you have to clean quickly, because the Hero is going to make a mess when they start fighting the Dungeon's Boss. Keep the dungeon clean enough while the Hero and Boss fight, and you'll win! Chase your high score, and don't let the Dungeon get too dirty!

To move, use the arrow keys, and to clean press the space bar.

Help Roy the Traffic Cop direct cars through a crowded intersection as efficiently as possible. Score points for each car that successfully gets through without crashing, but you have to make sure to reach a certain threshold for each in-game year, or Roy will lose his job! If you wait too long to let a car through the intersection, then they will get impatient and go on their own. Watch out for pile-ups and rogue ambulances!

Controls:
Arrow keys: Tell the first car in the corresponding lane to advance. Spacebar (tap repeatedly): Clear crashed cars from the intersection. P: Pause. R: Reset.

You are a slime, lowliest of monsters, crawling the dungeon for survival. Defeat enemies, find items, improve your own abilities, and raise minions to get the chance to challenge the boss for supremacy over this dungeon. The "Slime Revolution" is a traditional dungeon crawler with a smattering of RTS elements thrown in.