Rite of Elements

Professor Arley’s Amazing Illusion Spectacular is a 2D puzzle platformer developed using Torque X by a team of 4 developers.  In this game, the player controls a grandiose magician surrounded by a steampunk setting.  He must use his magic wand to “disappear” and “reappear” objects including springs, the bullets of enemies, and enemies themselves to solve puzzles as he endeavors to rescue his magic cape from the evil steambots!

N.E.M.E.S.I.S. is a dynamic and challenging action-adventure first person shooter game that takes place within the futuristic utopian city, Salusa, based on ancient Greece and run by the benevolent Psyche Foundation, a collection of the world’s greatest scientists.  Citizens of Salusa enjoy the peace and prosperity afforded by Psyche Technology, ignorantly unaware of the tragic cost of bliss.  

The player is a young, up and coming scientist in Psyche’s advanced bio-robotics laboratories that became ingrained in one of his own experiments.  The player’s bio-metric imprint is left one day while escaping a reactor core meltdown within the laboratory, unknowingly activating the self-preservation commands in the self-replicating Nano-bots left behind.  These bots produce N.E.M.E.S.I.S. (Nano-bot, Emergency, Machina, Embryotic, Static, Impatient, and System) in order to survive; however, once N.E.M.E.S.I.S. escapes Salusa plummets into chaos.  The scientist must find a way to stop the N.E.M.E.S.I.S. before it destroys the last human civilization on earth.  

In a world where everyone lived in fear of their robotic oppressors, one person had enough. They took his wife, his dog, and worst of all, his tapioca pudding. It was time to take on these invaders in the only way he knew how—by blowing shit up. To end the reign of terror and get back his tasty pudding, Howard Moore will need to use his heavily modified (and illegally armed) 1985 Lincoln Town Car to destroy the robots.  In Operation Tapioca, players fly through space, collecting power-ups and destroying enemies in order to ultimately  save the planet from the disastrous MNY chip—and, more importantly, for the opportunity to enjoy tapioca in space.

Operation Tapioca is a 2D side-scrolling shoot’em up that centers play around the ability to switch weapons in order to do more damage to an ememy, at the risk of taking greater damage in return. Gameplay in Operation Tapioca closely echoes the traditional mechanics found in retro-style arcades with a new, innovative weapons mechanic.  Players fly through a level with the ability to move anywhere within the camera frame.  Throughout each level, players encounter various enemies and avoid obstacles.

In Orbital Recon, players take on the role of a scout ship guiding a damaged warship against countless enemies. By painting targets, players can signal the warship to fire, calling down destruction on their foes. Multiple weapon types and enemies provide an ever-increasing challenge as the player escorts the warship on its mission. Built in TorqueX over a period of eight weeks, Orbital Recon is a new twist on the classic 2D space-shooter genre.

Pandaemic is a 2D top down shooter developed in the Torque X engine. Players take the role of a panda warrior, fighting to protect the last of humanity after a horrible toxic storm as transformed most of the population into mutants. Players gain upgrades as they collect money from the levels, but have to watch out as money attracts what is left of the mutant’s humanity. Instead of a traditional lives system, the player as an electro-shock bomb that automatically detonates whenever a mutant touches the player. If a mutant hits the player when they have no shock bomb though, the game is over. The game also features a bonus level where the player faces an endless wave of mutants.