Game design students demo game projects at Tinkerfest
Game design students in the capstone sequence presented their projects at the Indiana State Museum on Saturday.
The work was showcased in the museum’s annual Tinkerfest, a day-long event that invites families to explore interactive activity stations made by Indiana’s builders, coders, artists, designers, and makers of all ages. The Media School was one of more than 30 organizations who participated in the event.
Attendees had the chance to demo the students’ games and learn more about their development. Students presented three capstone games, set to be published in the spring, including:
- Slime Guy is a roguelike dungeon-crawler where players control Puddles, a seemingly weak slime, and gain various slime-based abilities, perks, and evolutions on the way to defeat an evil army. The game was created by Noah Graham, Sadae’ Higgins, Trenton Hill, Jared Kessler, Edison Li, Peter Lim, Matthew Miller, Brandon Sheley, Jacob Smith, and Jason Williams.
- Decomposition is a horror game that places players in the shoes of Detective Gareth Zeal as he searches a cursed castle for his brother Gawain while fending of enemies called the “Rot.” The game was created by Erica Becker, Dom Bennett, Michael Betar IV, Meghan Disko, Stephen Moore, Jake Morgenstern, Jalen Moya, Tre’vell Porter, and Bowen Zhou.
- Love Surge! transforms household appliances into personified avatars in a dating simulator game where players balance a busy college life with relationships over a semester. The game was created by Darrion DeSilva, Taylor Gibson, Abbey Gorny, Colin Hans, Elayne Mason, Max Moreno, Gregory O’Keefe, Jalen Slutzky, and Brenden Wood.