Games

Team: Josh Green, Phillip Gregorchuk, Uel McMahan, Nayan Savla, Mariantonieta Madrid, Emmanuel J. Mitsinikos, Mike Rodgers, Jamie Green, Rob Livingston

Advisor(s): Peter Brinson, Erik Loyer, Andreas Kratky

In his thesis project, Barfly, MFA candidate Josh Green meditates on a real-world theme rarely addressed on in digital games; the search for love. Barfly is an original PC role-playing... »

Team: Brad Newman, Noah Keating, Erik Nelson, Aaron Meyers, Jess Rosenblatt, Herb Yang, Vincent Diamante, Doo-Yul Park, Mihai Peteu, Yuechuan Ke, Josh Green, Justin Hall

Advisor(s): Bernie DeKoven and Tracy Fullerton

The Big Game is a massively multiplayer offline game using giant cards in public spaces, conceived by the students of CTIN 534 in Fall 2005. The course was taught by... »

Team: Jenova Chen, John DeWeese, Vincent Diamante, Erin Dinehart, Aaron Meyers, Erik Nelson, Kellee Santiago, Glenn Song

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton

Cloud combines an experimental game mechanic with a moody, surreal environment. The player is Yun, a "cloud boy," who can soar through the sky gathering and shaping the clouds. Clouds... »

Team: Jason Poss, Danita Ng-Poss, Ben Moise, Glenn Song, Mac Phair, Garen Torikian, William Khoe, Andrew MacNamee, Taylor Fort, Erin Reynolds, Yoom Thawilvejakul, Mihai Peteau, Scott Arnold, Brad Newman, Brian Coffee

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Chris Swain, Jeff Lander, Scott Fisher

Clownerstrike is a multiplayer team game played from the first person perspective. Playing as a circus clown, it is your job to entertain the audience and make them laugh. In... »

Team: Bradley Newman, Rick Nelson

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Perry Hoberman, Jarrell Pair

Bradley Newman's MFA thesis project, Communio, is a 3 person cooperative game / art installation designed to combine the socially transformative power of play, and the perceptual manipulative powers of... »

Team: Susana Ruiz, Ashley York, Huy Truong, Alexander Tarr, Noah Keating, Mike Stein, Kellee Santiago

Advisor(s): Steve Anderson, Peter Brinson, Adrianne Wortzel

In the Darfur region of western Sudan in Africa, a genocide is occurring. Hundreds of thousands of Darfurians have perished and approximately 2.5 million have been displaced. Each day, more... »

Team: Mike Brinker, Jenova Chen, Vincent Diamante, Todd Furmanski, Erik Nelson, Glenn Song

Advisor(s): Chris Swain

Dyadin is an action game that explores the potential of cooperative play mechanics in a 2-player puzzle environment. The story of Dyadin involves two parallel worlds and two characters occupying... »

Team: Noah Keating, Jessica Rosenblatt, Kellee Santiago, Jesse Vigil

Advisor(s): Chris Swain and Peggy Weil

E.L.E.C.T. Enhanced Learning Environment with Creative Technology This project aims to design an application to assist U.S. Army training in cultural awareness and bi-lateral engagement skills within a compelling scenario... »

Team: Mihai Peteu, Marc Tuters, Paul Bellezza, Noah Keating

Advisor(s): Perry Hoberman

Food Chain is a two-person mixed reality experience currently in development in collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. SnapShotMapPlot is an early prototype... »

Team: Mike Brazil, Vincent Diamante, Matthew Korba, RJ Layton, Ken Leung, Martin Middleton, Bradley Newman, Jess Rosenblatt, Mike Rossmassler

Advisor(s): Peter Brinson, Tracy Fullerton, Chris Swain

Team GD3 presents Good Night Elysium, an ambitious and experimental game built on the student-developed Bushido Engine and BitTorrent technology. In this game, players control Ben, a middle-aged man who... »

Team: Todd Furmanski

Advisor(s): Peggy Weil, Tracy Fullerton, Bruce Damer

Here Be Dragons is an experiment in using emergent and genetic algorithms in generating virtual spaces. Through use of digital “genes”, Lindenmeyer (“L”) Systems, cellular automata and other procedural methods,... »

Team: Steve Prust, Joni Cheng, Peter Van Dyke, John Lund, Todd Caranto, John Banayan, Sola Aiyegbusi, Justin Perez, James Miao, Mike Brazil, Max Geiger

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Peter Brinson

These game projects were created in the intermediate game design and development course, which introduces students to concepts in game design and development such as ideation, digital prototyping, interface design,... »

Team: Jamie Antonisse, Nic Bellerophon, Andre Clark, Andrew Corpuz, Ryan Dumouchelle, Dan Howard, Diana Hughes, Jeff Jew, Devon Johnson, RJ Layton, Michaela Morris, Logan Olson, Mike Rossmassler, Nic Sager, Lauren Schneider, Jamie Vann, Al Yang, Jonathan Zabel

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Peter Brinson

These game projects were created in the intermediate game design and development course, which introduces students to concepts in game design and development such as ideation, digital prototyping, interface design,... »

Team: Bryan Haskell, Matt Dabrowski, Tomer Mor-Barak, Shon-Ting Fu, Garrett Rodrigue, Jacob Thompson, Jen Hollcroft, Jesse Vigil, Jay Thornhill, Charles Mallison, Jared Sain, Waylond Fong, Eric Spoerner, Rob Finney

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Peter Brinson

These game projects were created in the intermediate game design and development course, which introduces students to concepts in game design and development such as ideation, digital prototyping, interface design,... »

Team: Mike Caloz, Erik Gieszelmann, Katie Johnson, Ethan Kennerly, Justin Lin, Ben Sherman, Sharan Volin, John Theodore, Tim Jones, Chris Hui, Hans Vancol

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Peter Brinson

These game projects were created in the intermediate game design and development course, which introduces students to concepts in game design and development such as ideation, digital prototyping, interface... »

Team: David Villatoro, Claire Tenscher, Brennan Roberts, Henry Liu, David Welch, Torin Kampa, Robert Yang, Quinn Riddle, Gary Deeth, Joe Spradley, Andrew Moxon, Kendall Davis, Keith Co, Jeremy Jung, David Slagle, Warren Post, Ryan Hedden, and Pete Zavala

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Peter Brinson

These game projects were created in the intermediate game design and development course, which introduces students to concepts in game design and development such as ideation, digital prototyping, interface design,... »

Team: Herb Yang

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Chris Swain, (USC IMD), Jim Tso (Pandemic Studios)

Traditionally, computer and video games have put players in control of tough, simple, action-oriented characters. Kingpin, a new Massively Multiplayer Online game designed by Herb Yang, attempts to change that... »

Team: Justin Hall, Duncan Gough, Alice Taylor, Merci Hammon, Phil Gyford

Advisor(s): Scott Fisher, Tracy Fullerton, Julian Bleecker

Funded by a grant from the BBC, Justin Hall's thesis project, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, is a vast social meta-game that can be played simply by surfing the Web.... »

Team: Doo Yul (Doox) Park

Advisor(s): Chris Swain, Mar Elpano, Tracy Fullerton

Doo Yul Park's MFA thesis, SONANOS, combines musical and ludological ideas into a unique interactive landscape. The project is a prototype for Park's concept of "Interactive Visual Music", in which... »

Team: Michael Bedernik, Chris Berber, Paul Brobst, Robert Buerkle, Paul Carpenter, Lawson Deming, Robert Donovan, Shon Fu, Scott Gillies, Melissa Harrison, Benjamin Johns, Jon Kondrath, Charles Mallison, Tomer Mor Barak, Garrett Rodrigue, Andrew Sacher, Kellee Santiago, Glenn Song, Ted Stanley, Jacob Thompson, Josh Traywick, Nathaniel Yun

Advisor(s): Chris Swain, Peter Brinson, Bing Gordon, Mike Lawson, Tim LeTourneau, Charles London, Sinjin Bain

Strange things are afoot in your Sims’ household. Mom doesn’t quite seem herself today. Junior’s been fiddling with the occult. Grandpa’s building something strange in his basement laboratory. And Dad’s... »

Team: Erik Nelson, Mike Rossmassler, Brad Newman, Martin Middleton, Vincent Diamante, Robert Layton

Advisor(s): Peter Brinson, Tracy Fullerton, Erik Loyer

In most Real-Time Strategy games, music is a a superficial accessory, meant to set the mood or create a sense of immersion. In Sonorous, Erik Nelson's MFA thesis project, music... »

Team: Michael Steffen, Jessica Rosenblatt, Erin Reynolds, Ken Leung

Advisor(s): Chris Swain, Peggy Weil, Scott Ruston

Telmahre, an interactive character drama in the tradition of Myst, is the thesis project of MFA gradute Michael Steffen. The player is free to explore Telmahre, a late medieval... »

Team: Peter Brinson, Hyunjung Ree

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You play the cat of Mohammed Mossadegh, the democratically elected leader of Iran. On the night of August 19, 1953, the Prime Minister undergoes a CIA sponsered coup d'etat .... »

Team: Bill Viola, Kira Perov, Scott Fisher, Tracy Fullerton, Todd Furmanski, Kurosh ValaNejad, Mike Rossmassler, Michael Sweet, Jamie Antonisse, Andreas Kratky, Scott Gillies, Richard Almodovar, Aimee Dozois, Juri Hwang

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The Night Journey project is a game project conceived by Bill Viola, an internationally acclaimed artist and MacArthur fellow, which uses video game technologies to explore the universal story of... »

Team: Aaron Meyers, Corey Jackson

Advisor(s): Julian Bleecker, Michael Naimark

Torrent Raiders, the thesis project of MFA student Aaron Meyers, is an application which serves two functions: it is both a graphically stunning BitTorrent visualization program and a tongue-in-cheek game... »

Team: Jenova Chen, Nick Clark, Austin Wintory

Advisor(s): Tracy Fullerton, Chris Swain, Michael Licht & Kevin Mark (Electronic Arts)

flOw is a Flash-based game created by Jenova Chen, the lead designer of Cloud and member of the IMD MFA class of '06. It uses an elegant and simple... »