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Game Design at Fitchburg State University, the first of its kind in a public University in the Northeast, strives to make game development available to all. Students build foundations in design, art, and and programming, develop proficiencies with methods and tools of game development, and create thought-provoking games with innovative mechanics, unified aesthetics, and engaging stories.

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Secrets of the Jester - Act 1

Solve the mysteries of the circus with the help of the deceased.

Jonathan A. @ FSU

Adventure

Explore the temple. Master the parkour. Steal the artifact.

Platformer

Game Studio Capstone

Game Studio Capstone is a full-time, semester-long game studio experience taken Senior year

Explore the temple. Master the parkour. Steal the artifact.

Platformer

Secrets of the Jester - Act 1

Solve the mysteries of the circus with the help of the deceased.

Jonathan A. @ FSU

Adventure

Find your wife and don't get killed.

Nathaniel Owens

Strategy

a whimsical, 3D adventure game. Get a job!

Adventure

2 Player Cooperative Ridesharing Game

Vincent Colavita

Simulation

Kickflip & kill demons!

Action

VR wave based roguelike shooter in the Wild West

Shooter

Cryptid Case Files

A cryptid murder mystery game

Puzzle

InterDineMensional

Visual Novel

Shoot up to five others in an online multiplayer VR arena death match game, as worms!

Shooter

Top down hack and slash where you chop heads and throw them!

Action

Atmospheric puzzle game set in a haunted dollhouse

Puzzle

A fantasy western roguelite twin-stick-shooter.

Shooter

Explore, meet characters, and learn abilities as you heal the barren land around you.

Adventure

Ridu: Scarab War

Action

Play as a dragonoid in this top-down roguelike, collect potions, powers and abilities to defeat Archmage Cramit.

SocksOffStudios

Escape Bloodhill

First Person Horror Narrative Game centered in an Insane Asylum.

Adventure

A 2D Platformer where you gather ingredients to create and sell potions to a town on the edge of a dying world.

Adventure

Dextra is a 2D platformer... at first. As Dextra, you can find leftover code and use it to change the game's genre.

Platformer

Save your sister from being turned to mulch in the world under the rotting stump.

Platformer

2D couch co-op with unique characters and combos

Fitchburg State Game Design

Action

Advanced Game Workshop

A selection of games from Advanced Game Workshop, typically taken senior year

2-4 Player Co-Op Management Game where players must work together to crew a giant tank!

Action

A Sci-Fi movement FPS inspired by the likes of Mass Effect, Destiny, and Ultrakill.

Action

Dungeons n' Dining

Rouge-Like Dining Game

Adventure

Survive the most dangerous train ride of your life!

Zach Shirikjian

Shooter

How much wood could a Witchwood witch if a Witchwood could witch wood?

Destroy the city, make ends meet

Action

Explore the environment searching for alien plants and farm to survive

Platformer

Crosscut Hollow

Navigate the tunnel and cave system as Sam. Find your way out and reach the surface.

Platformer

EXPLORE. EVADE. COLLECT.

Strategy

Gnome Magic Required

Platformer

Jonathan Medlin

Guardian's Awakening

A short game about a dying world.

Platformer

A 2v2 hero based action brawler! Choose one of 4 heroes and battle it out.

Action

Escape the Forgotten Ruins

A game in which you have to find the end of the maze while collecting coins, avoiding traps, and trying not to get lost.

robertgrzechowiak

Adventure

3D Game Development

A selection of games from 3D Game Development, typically taken in Junior year

Grab all the gold you can for a chance at life-changing riches, but know that she has an eye on you.

Survival

Rubble Town Rumble: VR

Beat up some dwarves, in VR!

Action

It's chess... but not.. and with guns...

Strategy

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Rubble Town Rumble

Time to beat up some dwarves

Action

Fists of Fitchburg

Comical Beat-em-up

Action

Cyberpunk aesthetic beat em up

Andrew Tremarche

Action

Role Playing

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A prototype

Puzzle

A murder has been made! Can you solve the case by interviewing the four suspects?

Puzzle

Shooter

A puzzle game about Temporal Life Insurance disarming a Time Bomb.

Puzzle

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Battle your way to the top of a Tower with quick puzzles and Rhythm-Based Battles!

Zach Shirikjian

Action

Hotel Extravaganza

Adventure

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Fast Track to Nowhere

Guide a runaway train through the desert by placing tracks!

A medieval RTS

Strategy

The Disappearance of Bartholomew

A short and spooky adventure

Adventure

Race around the neighborhood in classic backyard fashion.

Racing

Escape from the lab that had held you captive!

Action

A Tower Defense game takes you to the stars.

Strategy

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Game Design Workshop

A selection of games from Game Design Workshop, typically taken Sophomore year

How fast can you park?

Survival

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Red Light District v0.5.1

Grab the coins! Don't get caught!

Platformer

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GDW Final Project

Heather DeRuyck

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Hot Head And Chill Dude

A battle cats inspired game!

Puzzle

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Castle Clearers

Onwards! Huzzah!

Action

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Techno Demon- Floor One

Thank you so much for choosing to cooperate and volunteer for this short experiment.

Survival

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A speedrunning challenge

Platformer

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Terminal Accretion

Survive a perilous Interstellar journey!

Action

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Fight against hordes of the undead in this fast-paced retro shooter

Action

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Explore an enormous cave with a monster possibly lurking behind every bend...

Survival

2D Gravity Puzzle Game

Platformer

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A co-op game where you must escape the spaceship before it explodes!

Puzzle

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Madeline Visconte

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Snowflake Scramble

A two-player competitive snow collection game.

Racing

Fighting

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Raiden Exemplum

Adventure

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A leaping, slashing, box breaking singular level!

Action

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My Quarantine Life

Quarantine Life Sim

Simulation

A network PvP tech demo featuring RPG elements and a D&D-esque alignment system.

Role Playing

Solve puzzles, navigate landscape, and regrow plant life on Earth.

Puzzle

Platformer

Serious / Historical Games

Projects developed for Serious Games and Making Historical Games

Managing Early America

A colony management game set in early colonial America.

Simulation

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The Fall of Mexica

Explore a Historically Accurate 16th century Mexico from the Nahual Perspective!

Zach Shirikjian

Adventure

An educational game meant to showcase the boiling house portion of the sugar production process

David Eisenberg

Educational

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Educational

Educational

Save the Homeland, One Note at a time!

Educational

Global Game Jam

A selection of games created for Global Game Jam, hosted at Fitchburg State

Who keeps turning off the lights?

Platformer

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Manipulate magnetic poles and guide the ball to the goal.

Puzzle

We have a Mayday situation. What's the plan, captain?

Platformer

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When you are stuck in purgatory, between two worlds, it is up to you to find a way to get out.

Platformer

Kill the Enemy Ships...And their ghosts!

Action

Pleasant Dreams

Visual Novel

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A psychological horror game like no other!

Survival

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First-person jetpacking to destroy mega-corporate advertisements.

Platformer

Switch between three robots with varying capabilities to solve puzzles.

Platformer

A 2.5D puzzle / platformer game where you play as a little girl attempting to bring her deceased dog back to life.

Platformer

Orpheus is a Bullet Hell RPG where you descend into the underworld to rescue your wife from the clutches of Hades.

Role Playing

A hand-drawn sailing adventure for Global Game Jam 2016

Adventure

High Pitch is a 2D platformer game made for Global Game Jam 2017.

Platformer

A 1v1 battle arena where players push and pull objects in an attempt to knock the other player off.

Action

More Student Games

Lead Bees Through the Woods

Puzzle

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Reverse time to get warmer.

Jonathan A. @ FSU

Survival

Overloaded Afterlife

Even Hell has bad days!

Nathaniel Owens

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Display Your Nostalgia Through Color!

Zach Shirikjian

Puzzle

Middleworld: Chapter 1

Multiverse RPG

Interactive Fiction

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Save the Homeland, One Note at a time!

Educational

A short personal game jam to try out some ideas. This game was created solo over the course of 3 days.

Shooter

Action

Play some VR minigames in an old west setting

Shooter

Save the World!

Collect litter to clean up the beach!

Simulation

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Project Smallbot: Light

Play the demo today!

Platformer

Juniper Jazz, The Great Ghost Detective! Case: 00

Role Playing

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Donut Drop Delivery

War. War never changes. DONUTS.

Action

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Rhythm

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Platformer

Puzzle

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A casual racing game

System Interactive

Racing

Legend of the Dungeon

JonathanStewart

Adventure

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