Fitchburg State Game Design
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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FSU Fall Game Jam: 2023 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019
Global Game Jam: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
Shoot up to five others in an online multiplayer VR arena death match game, as worms!
Shooter
Explore, meet characters, and learn abilities as you heal the barren land around you.
Adventure
Play as a dragonoid in this top-down roguelike, collect potions, powers and abilities to defeat Archmage Cramit.
Game Studio Capstone
Game Studio Capstone is a full-time, semester-long game studio experience taken Senior year
Shoot up to five others in an online multiplayer VR arena death match game, as worms!
Shooter
Explore, meet characters, and learn abilities as you heal the barren land around you.
Adventure
Play as a dragonoid in this top-down roguelike, collect potions, powers and abilities to defeat Archmage Cramit.
Explore the city as Bottle Man! Complete missions and help the citizens of Bottleburg.
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
Global Game Jam
A selection of games created for Global Game Jam, hosted at Fitchburg State
When you are stuck in purgatory, between two worlds, it is up to you to find a way to get out.
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 1v1 battle arena where players push and pull objects in an attempt to knock the other player off.
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
Navigate the tunnel and cave system as Sam. Find your way out and reach the surface.
Platformer
Platformer
A game in which you have to find the end of the maze while collecting coins, avoiding traps, and trying not to get lost.
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
Game Design Workshop
A selection of games from Game Design Workshop, typically taken Sophomore year
Thank you so much for choosing to cooperate and volunteer for this short experiment.
Survival
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Fight against hordes of the undead in this fast-paced retro shooter
Action
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A co-op game where you must escape the spaceship before it explodes!
Puzzle
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A racing roguelike where you construct your vehicles out of the scrap of your opponents
Racing
Destroy vampires on the night train before it reaches their cave using only the cheapest bullets!
You have the power! Destroy the aliens and save the city from destruction!
Shooter
Fall Game Jam 2021
Use your abilities and work as a team to escape the mine shaft that's crumbling to pieces!
Platformer
Puzzle
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Platformer
Platformer
UNFINISHED, ENEMES AND LOCATIONS NOT ADDED [2 Player Pen and Paper RPG]
Fall Jam 2020
A Co-op Competitive exploration game where you race your friends to collect all of the artifact shards!
Survival
Bag and Chat with your Customers, and Potentially Date Them!
Visual Novel
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Puzzle
All Together Now! (Now Meaning Life After Death)
A short horror game where you collect your pumpkins that have been scattered around the house.
Fight monsters in this hedge maze Halloween themed dungeon crawler.
Action
A wounded Knight must save his friends before the castle collapses
Fall Jam 2019
Games from the first Fitchburg State Fall Game Jam, 2019
A charming little game about the morning newspaper delivery. Make your run and see how much money you can earn.
Simulation
Simulation
Find your stocks which blew away while rushing to work; just be careful not to take out grandma!
Puzzle
RoboPopo - Play as a friendly robot dodging food, more food is thrown over time. Survive as long as you can!
Visions 20/21
Visions is the juried student honors festival of the Communications Media department.
Explore the city as Bottle Man! Complete missions and help the citizens of Bottleburg.
Adventure
Navigate the tunnel and cave system as Sam. Find your way out and reach the surface.
Platformer
Save your sister from being turned to mulch in the world under the rotting stump.
Platformer
Dextra is a 2D platformer... at first. As Dextra, you can find leftover code and use it to change the game's genre.
Platformer
More Student Games
A short personal game jam to try out some ideas. This game was created solo over the course of 3 days.
Shooter
Game Design Workshop Fa23
A short game where you must pilot a ship through the ever shifting ice fields
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defeat the raid boss to get rare white bags
Welcome to the Training Room! Try to shoot as many targets as you can and be in a stealth zone when you should!
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Fight off as many zombies as you can before you die!
Shooter
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Evil mice have taken over your concert, destroy them with your amazing guitar skills.
see how long you can last against the storm of colored bullets
Survival
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A mini game where you play as a crocodile who eats as many fish as it can while avoiding logs.
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A minigame where you control a spaceship and shoot enemy spaceships.
Action
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A simple game where the player is at the shooting range and has to shoot as many targets as possible.
Shooter
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