The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
Maere is a 3D isometric single-player survival horror game. Assume the role of Maksim, a man plunged into darkness as his wife mysteriously vanished into a forest shrouded in sinister legends. Navigate through haunting landscapes and uncover the chilling secrets lurking within. Can you confront the old evil and unravel the mystery before it’s too late?
Levels of Attraction is a puzzle platformer, designed to be a couch co-op game. You play as two lovers, Dip and Dop. They belong together as they are trying to combine into one robot again. They are disconnected in two opposite worlds unable to combine together anymore, One dark world above the other displayed in a 3D-style art and a bright world below displayed in a 2D vector-style art. They are not capable of combining, even though they are still connected to each other by a magnetic field that pulls them together. Utilize this magnetism in different ways like slinging each other over far distances or bouncing each other far into the sky. Try to get through the level in each of your worlds and to find a world you’ll be able to reach and reconnect with your long lost other half.
Experience a new kind of jousting in Joust Royale! Battle up to four players locally on your couch in this comically twisted version of medieval jousting. Shields up, lance up and mount a gastropod to become victorious. Royal Features: – Charge at your opponents, aim, and strike them with your lance! – Precisely time a powerful swing of your shield to SHATTER your opponent’s lance! – Fabulously customize your mighty gastropod riding knight to your heart’s content! – Explore different game modes with special rules. Find the game mode that you enjoy the most. Could it be stealing plumes from each other, playing until the last man standing, or maybe capturing the golden plume? You joust, you decide! – Saddle up! Not on horses! Riding horses in games is for the common people and we true knights will go riding on speedy-shelled gastropods or snails as you can also call them.
The thesis is available on DiVA: Optimizing Player Engagement Through Iterative Level Design in a Melee-Driven Competitive Party Game
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.
