Undercover UXO Roles: Design, Art, Testing
Undercover UXO is a landmine-risk education game designed to be played by children in war torn countries. The game teaches players to recognize and avoid environmental indicators that often co-occur with landmines and other unexploded remnants of war.
Version 1.0 of the game is customized for use in Cambodia (images, audio narration), but the game is ready for adaptation to other locales.
You can download the game here.
Shift / Shift 2 Roles: Co-Producer, Design, Animation, GUI Programming, Testing, Sound Editing.
Shift is a 2-D platformer game set in the future. Our Hero, Drake Harrison is an elite one-man special operations team. Equipped with the most advanced military issued stealth-suit known to man, Drake has been charged with the mission of infiltrating the robotic enemy forge-world and disrupting the manufacture of a killer robot army.
In Shift, the player guides drake through a series of puzzles in an attempt to download enemy plans which allow him to alter his own steal suit with new powers. Utilizing these powers Drake rushes through the various levels of the forge-world until his final confrontation with Draksyys, lord of the Tryykan robotic alien empire.
Shift recieved best in Show at the 2007 MSU DMAT showcase.
Shift is available at the MSU DMAT Showcase website.
Shift 2 won 1st place at the Spring 2008 Spartasoft Semester Game Jam, recieved “Outstanding Media Project” honors at the 2008 DMAT showcase, and was a participant in the 2008 Independent Games Festival.
Shift 2 is available for download from the Spartasoft website.
Eagle A-46 Roles: Design, Animation, GUI Programming, Testing
Winner of the 2008 WolverineSoft/Spartasoft Game Jam Competition in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A-46 is a 2-dimensional, side-scrolling, shooter game. Game mechanics involve avoidance of moving obstacles and enemies, aiming and firing at moving targets, performing well-timed air dodges, gathering power-ups, and ultimately racking up a killer high score to brag about. The player can move in the eight cardinal directions, fire shotgun shells horizontally, drop bombs vertically, and perform an air dodge to avoid incoming obstacles and enemies. All of this is done while astride a flying mount.