The A.L.E.X. Protocol

Battle of the Alien Invaders is a fast-paced first person shooter multiplayer experience with a campy 1950s science fiction theme. It features traditional CTF and a special variant game mode, supporting up to eight players in four versus four combat. Players take the role of two alien teams battling to capture the other team’s power cell to fuel their spaceship. In the center flag mode, player’s try to capture a human jukebox and beam it up to their ship.

The Blastworkers created Battle of the Alien Invaders over the course of 16 weeks, representing over 2,100 man-hours of effort. The team consisted of nine student developers working in the Unreal 4 engine. We were inspired to create a game with a 1950s B movie campy theme. 

Edge of Winter is a 2D, procedurally generated, endless runner designed for Android tablet devices. KnightLight Interactive consists of four team members: Ed Dearien, Andrew Socha, Soraya Abtahi, and Christian Erali. Ed Dearien is the lead producer and game designer in charge of assets, with Andrew Socha as lead programmer, Soraya Abtahi as lead artist, and Christian Erali as lead level designer. 

In this game, players take on the role of Anora as she travels down bumpy slopes bringing the first day of spring to the snowy world. The player's main objective is to achieve the highest score possible by gathering energy orbs and surviving as long as possible on the slopes. Along the way, players must dodge a number of different obstacles, each providing a unique challenge the player must overcome. These obstacles range from rocks and logs that line the slopes; to large chasms; to the adorable, mobile yaks; to the large imposing towers. As players travel along the slopes, they traverse through a simple, fairy tale-inspired world. Geometric mountains, trees, and clouds, along with cozy little homes, give life and breath to the white slopes.

Edge of Winter plays off the player's desire to do better on every run. A few more meters might get the player just as many points as a few more energy orbs forcing the player to sometimes either play risky in order to get more coins or play it safe and just continue through the level. Adding to this drive is the use record flag that continually updates the player on how close they are to their previous goal. All the while, the procedurally generated levels provide the player with a limitless amount of slopes and routes to take, ensuring that each run is unique in its own way. Edge of Winter provides player with a fun, challenging experience in a simple, geometric, and stylized world. With difficult obstacles, fun endless-runner style gameplay, and a procedurally generated world, Edge of Winter provides players with an exciting tablet experience.

Grave Snafu is a 2D, base-defense game where players control Dayne, a young magician, who must defend his castle. Players activate Dayne’s spells by tapping, swiping or drawing on the screen to use against the waves of undead enemies. The artistic approach lends to the comedic and lighthearted approach of the game through its bright colors, cartoony characters and animations. 

Mansion Raid is a 2D top down tablet game developed in Unity. Mansion Raid is an exploration game in which the player must find and collect treasure by traversing a haunted mansion with very limited visibility and avoiding ghosts that are protecting the treasure. The players overall objective is to collect as many gems as they can throughout Morley’s Mansion. The player carries a lantern that only lights up their surrounding area, which is about 6 feet in all directions. Players find gems around the mansion by completing simple adventure puzzles. The player needs to find artifacts to get to the next level. The player must match the symbols from the artifacts to the correct colored code blocks to unlock the gate to the next level. To challenge the player, Morley commands ghosts that guard his treasure. The ghosts patrol the level and should they find Sarah they will steal gems from her. Other obstacles in the game include walls, locked doors, furniture that limits Sarah’s movement.

Pandamonium is an exciting and humorous 4v4 (four versus four) CTF (Capture the Flag) game made in Unreal Engine 4. The game consists of two different game modes, featuring a vanilla CTF and a variant CTF mode. In the vanilla game mode, players play as zookeepers who are trying to capture the other team’s panda from their opponent’s exhibit. The variant builds upon the vanilla mode, and allows players to collect bamboo to trigger the 'Pandamonium' event.

From Anything Studios built Pandamonium over a 16-week development cycle. The team consisted of 8 developers working in the Unreal 4 engine, each putting in 15 man-hours per week individually. We chose to do Pandamonium because of the humorous nature of capturing pandas instead of flags. 

Sandman’s Apprentice is a 2D top down action game designed for the Android tablet. The player takes on the role of Ollie, an apprentice of the Sandman. Ollie must navigate through a perilous dream world filled with nightmares. The player must destroy these nightmares using Ollie’s special weapon, the sand shuriken. Ollie must avoid hazards and carefully move across disappearing terrain to progress through the narrative story of what has happened to the Sandman.

The original fairy tale character inspires the narrative concept for Sandman’s Apprentice. The game represents 360 man-hours of effort over an 8 week development cycle.