Snorwhal

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Snorwhal was created during the Great Canadian Appathon(GCA) 2014. It was designed to be used on a mobile device. I don’t remember many details about the development but I was part of a small team. It was a weekend-jam which we produced this game straight through the whole thing. The prize was to get the app developed further with the help of a professional software development company. We didn’t win in the end but it was fun nonetheless.

Snorwhal is a game where you play a dreaming narwhal where you have to reach the end of path, dodging urchin mines and collecting balloons to stay afloat. Get hit too many times and you’ll fall. Collect balloons and you can keep yourself afloat. You used the motion sensor within your mobile device to control the dreaming narwhal.

Faded Memories

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PLAY HERE!

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Landscape of the memory

Faded Memories is the culmination of my final year thesis project from OCAD University.

Faded Memories is a first-person exploration game where you visit your grandfather in a nursing home to learn more about their past. You experience the memory from the grandfather’s eyes.

In addition to the game itself, a full written report was produced as part of the requirements of the project. It covers research, inspirations and projected paths that the game can take. I have included a link to download this report here: Faded Memories Thesis Report.

This project is close to my heart as I never got to know my grandfathers’ pasts due to them suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. In creating and playing this game, I felt that I got to connect with them in a way I wasn’t able to when they were alive. Countless tears were shed over the game and I hope that anyone else who has dealt with a similar situation will feel open to discuss it with others.

I’m hoping to continue developing the game in the future. If you are interested in following it’s progress, let me know on Twitter.

To play the game, download a copy here:

Mac Version

PC Version

The controls are WASD to move, mouse to look, and left mouse click to interact when prompted.

Good Will Haunting

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Good Will Haunting is a game created between the University of Toronto and OCAD University students. In the game, you control a ghost who must get everyone else out of a burning building so that you can live in the afterlife in peace. You want them out because you do not like sharing your haunting ground and want to stay as the solitary ghost in the region.

You can scare people, possess objects and dead humans, all the while dodging enemy ghosts! Solve the puzzles to get the humans out of the house dead or alive because as long as they aren’t there, their ghosts can’t haunt the same space.

Good Will Haunting was shown at the Level Up! Student Showcase 2015.

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UofT students: Timothy Chu, Lingfei Gao, Cio Tang, Amy Yang

OCADu students: Corey Dean, Tiffany (Tee) Ng, Jungjoo (JJ) Yang

Try it for yourself HERE

TGGJ 2015 – God Complex

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This game was made during the Global Game Jam 2015 in Toronto with Jord Farrell and Marishka Zachariah. As it was done for the Global Game Jam 2015, it was completed over a weekend of coding, art making and jamming.

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In this game you play a character who has multiple gods vying for your devotion and attention. It is up to the player to choose which to follow and worship.

Play it online HERE

Second Chance – LARP

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Second Chance is a Live-Action Role-Playing Game (LARP) that was created to be a follow up to another LARP called The Prison. In class, we played a game of The Prison and during it those who got eliminated had nothing to do after the fact. Therefore we were tasked with a making a LARP that worked opposite a game of elimination and could deal with a steady increase in players.

Second Chance is a game where you are asked to take a pill that may or may not take your prior memory, leaving you only with your personality. You are then placed in a room with others and must gain trust to become a model citizen within the society. Those who were opportunists in the original game will have trouble finding favour in Second Chance and will create new dynamics between characters.

Check out the write up here: Second Chance LARP

Second Chance was created with Emma Burkeitt and Saffron Bolduc-Chiong.

Blind Games Bundle

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In Second Year, I worked in a group with Siyun (Sisley) Hu, Yanzi (Cindy) Xin, and Yuan Ting (Stephy) Chang for our Inclusive Design class. We went through a series of iterations before our final iteration (Work Together).

At first we tried to make a game which people who were blind could play – so a sound based game. We went through a few iterations and versions of games to play but the main problem was that it was hard for us to tell if the game worked or not.

At this point we asked Steve Engels, a professor at the University of Toronto, who is also a game designer and has worked on Accessible Games before for help. He got us in contact with Daniel Zingaro, a colleague of Steve’s who is blind himself. They helped us tremendously throughout the process.

Our professor, Jorge Silva, gave us critical insight and said our design was not helping anyone. It was safe and would do what we designed it to but how was it changing anything? This got us thinking that what we were doing was trying to solve a problem as opposed to looking at the problem itself and offering a new way to look at it.

Our final iteration was Work Together which let a sighted and non-sighted person play simultaneously together to beat a level within a time limit. You can check out user reviews and suggestions of Work Together here.

The exercise of designing for the differently abled was in all honestly extremely stressful but very rewarding. I don’t think I would do it again any time soon by myself but I would like working on something like this with a group who has greater insight than me. Working on something like this helps you to expand your view of the world and try to think more out of the box when you are designing something.

Downloads:

Final Write-Up: MDP FINAL REPORT

Blind Pac-Man: PC / Mac

Cube Dodging: PC / Mac

Test Walls: PC / Mac

Work Together: PC / Mac

Loneliness

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Loneliness was created when I was feeling melancholic and distanced from people. I felt lonely and alone and thought creating a game to express myself might help.

I had originally started the game as a search for collecting friends but they would constantly disappear. When they were all gone, the game would end.

This was the original character design: character

However, I changed the goal and made it a game where you tried to escape from being lonely and alone. Neither game had a win state as I felt nihilistic and wanted people to experience the helplessness I felt.

The newer character design: idleF5

How to Play: Arrows = Movement

Download:

Both are PC only.

Loneliness (Game): Download Here

Loneliness (Assets): Download Here

Alone (Old version): Download Here

X-Mas Gift 2013

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This was done as a gift for three of my friends for Christmas 2013. I, however, got very sidetracked and did not complete it until the summer of 2014. I showed them the gift at our yearly cottage trip and while there were a lot of bugs it was well received.

I had started this game using GameMaker before I learned Unity so I think that attributed to a lot of the bugs but it was also a good refresher on how to use the program.

As I was side-tracked a lot, I ran out of time to finish my original vision, therefore I had to reuse sprites and rush things. All in all, I would not make a game for friends for Christmas again.

I wanted to make each level unique to the person it was to represent (minus myself) and they are as follows:

Steve_idle1 Steve: Platformer where you have to use a compass to find the item in the level.

Adam_idle1 Adam: Sneak and infiltrate your way through the lasers to unlock the doors.

Greg_idle1 Greg: Shoot-em-up.

Corey_idle1 Corey (me): The game creator and only appears in the intro/outro.

How to Play:

All: Arrows = move/jump

Steve: no other controls

Adam: Space = move slower, C = push button

Greg: Q = hold to aim up, C = shoot

Download:

PC only: Download Here

End Game+

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You must save the world like many before you….but perhaps this time, it’s not the best idea!

End Game+ was made for TOJam 9 with the theme of “After YOU!”.

When I heard the theme, I wanted to do a different take on the classic RPG trope of you vs. evil. I thought, what if after killing the end boss, everything went to hell? I think in classic RPGs the reliance on a good vs. evil dynamic is tantamount and so I didn’t feel like sticking to that dynamic so closely. I tried to keep it light however and I hope people who play it enjoy the experience.

Since I made the game by myself (minus the sound and a bit of programming work), I was heavily strapped for time during the whole jam and therefore couldn’t bring the final project as far as I had hoped. However, I focused on making the main idea come through and while it might not be completely transparent due to the lack of story arc, I think it still works well.

I have a usb classic Nintendo controller so I mapped the controls to it for another layer of presentation, however, if you don’t want to deal with that the controls are listed with the download information.

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Special thanks:

Programming help: Jord Farrell

Sound: Lucas Branco

How to Play: Arrow keys = move, Space = jump/select

Download:

PC Only: Download Here

RGBeats

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RGBeats was done for the Global Game Jam 2014 (completed in Toronto). I completed it in a team with Jord Farrell, Alanna Predko, Saffron Bolduc-Chiong, Emma Burkeitt, Marishka Zachariah, Lucas Branco, & Brenner Pacelli.

The theme for the year was “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” With this theme, we immediately decided that we wanted to use colours. So we tried to make it that the little TV guy could only interact with the colour they see.

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Game:

PC: Download Here

Mac: Download Here