3D games

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1st year master, GGC 2024, thesis project

Up the Mountain

The game features 3 puzzles, each with unique mechanics and at least two solutions. These solutions are representative of one of the two factions that are competing to win the favour of their god. The player will randomly become part of one faction at the start of the game, but otherwise retain the same abilites. This will be used to evaluate whether the player’s faction has any effect on their approach to solving the puzzles. The project will most likely be mechanically complete, but not visually impressive. The aim is to test the playability of the project and collect data for our thesis.

Thesis on DiVA:

Analysing the impact of the Proteus effect in a first person puzzle game

Team Three Peaks:

Márton Bodrog
Kenan Muhamedagic
Ziwei Wang

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3D games
3rd year, GGC 2024, thesis project

Checkout Showdown

In our five-member degree project, we aim to explore how to digitally emulating claymation using 3D animation and programming within the realm of 3D game development. Our project experimented with techniques for creating digital claymation assets and animations while investigating how gameplay mechanics can be adapted to complement and amplify the claymation visuals. We also aim to uncover methods to explore how gameplay mechanics can be adapted and optimized to complement and enhance the claymation visuals, ultimately delivering a cohesive and immersive gaming experience.

Thesis on DiVA:

Digital Emulation of Claymation for Video Games

Team Rolley Trolley

Pham Hoang An Le
Elnara Biekirova
Yijun Huang
To Nhi Hoang

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3D games
2nd year, GGC 2024

Jazz of the Underground

Jazz of the Underground is a 2.5D game, where you will travel through the sewers of a big city set in the 1920’s, solving puzzles using the power of jazz. The core mechanic of the game is the ability to play different songs that you can use to control the environment, such as rats and alligators which will play a crucial role in solving the puzzle and progressing through the sewers. Sporting a black & white art style inspired by cartoons from the 1920’s mixing a both a 3D environment and with 2D assets. Utilising camera work remenising of old style puzzle games seperating rooms into distinct areas. Using music we hope to illuminate a journey through an eery old sewer into a relaxing and jazzy experience.

Team The Fellows:

Love Fried
Napat Ussawajaruwan
Levi Hammeleff
Kryštof Hadrousek

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3rd year, GGC 2024

R:EON

R:EON was made by 4 people for a production thesis that researches the communication of narrative through environment and architecture in a fast-paced first-person game. Developed in Unreal Engine 5, it features a fast-paced chase where the player must escape the ever-present threat of an abstract creature. The gameplay revolves around precision-based platforming and quick thinking. Visually, it relies heavily on post-processing and particles to create a unique visual style. The environment draws inspiration from brutalist architecture and its design philosophy centered around a lack of individualism. The narrative centers on escaping a world previously inhabited by a society controlled by a totalitarian government and retrieving a powerful artifact to open a gate to freedom. The design goal of the game is to induce anxiety and stress through semi-distorted visuals and a sense of insignificance and melancholy through the scale and connotation of the environment.