Thesis

In Space Game, you play as an astronaut stranded in space. The player takes control of the astronaut to collect coins and purchase fuel for the return trip. Space Game is designed to help players pass the time and is inspired by short, east-to-understand classic games like Snake and Fireboy and Watergirl.

PRECEDENTS

NARRATIVE

Fire Boy and Water Girl

DESIGN PRINCIPLE

Snake

Colors/Textures

This is the color palate and the textures that we chose for our planet

Design Principles

We chose three principles that

guided our decision making during the design process

1. Time 
2. Distribution
3. Abstraction 

Storyboard

Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Final Design

Checklists!

Final Images (Full Screen)

Video Showing off!

Thesis

This project uses exploration to create a narrative that is discovered by the player moving throughout an open world scene. The game world would be under a process of change as the player interacts with it, allowing the player to be the centerpiece of the world. The player would mainly interact with the world through a series of puzzles, combat sequences, and platforming challenges. The story would revolve around this changing world to communicate who the player's character is and what the world means to them.

Design Principles

We chose three principles that guided our decision making during the design process

1) Hierarchy

2) Branching

3) Change

Colors/Textures

This is the color palate and the textures that helped us to tell our story

PRECEDENTS

Narrative

ShrubNaut

Texture

ERRANDS

Design Principle

Hollow Knight

Storyboard

This is a storyboard that explains our step-by-step gaming narrative

Iteration 1

This iteration shows the design decisions we made

Precedent

by: Cátia Carvalho

We chose to focus on what the world would look like, how the player moves, and the flow of the world.

Iteration 2

This iteration shows the final design decisions we made

Here we focused much more on how the actual program would work and explore how we could integrate the map into the world

Final Design

These are snapshots of the final game design and narrative!

Final Images (Full Screen)

Video Showing off!

Thesis

This project uses exploration to create a narrative that is discovered by the player moving throughout an open world scene. The game world would be under a process of change as the player interacts with it, allowing the player to be the centerpiece of the world. The player would mainly interact with the world through a series of puzzles, combat sequences, and platforming challenges. The story would revolve around this changing world to communicate who the player's character is and what the world means to them.

Design Principles

We chose three principles that guided our decision making during the design process

1) Hierarchy

2) Branching

3) Change

Colors/Textures

This is the color palate and the textures that helped us to tell our story

PRECEDENTS

Narrative

ShrubNaut

Texture

ERRANDS

Design Principle

Hollow Knight

Storyboard

This is a storyboard that explains our step-by-step gaming narrative

Iteration 1

This iteration shows the design decisions we made

Precedent

by: Cátia Carvalho

We chose to focus on what the world would look like, how the player moves, and the flow of the world.

Iteration 2

This iteration shows the final design decisions we made

Here we focused much more on how the actual program would work and explore how we could integrate the map into the world

Final Design

These are snapshots of the final game design and narrative!

Final Images (Full Screen)

Video Showing off!

EggHead

By Will Fosnot

Thesis

EggHead is an exciting 2d platformer game inspired by Escape Room logic. The player takes the form of an egg in a fridge that needs to navigate past the obstacles, like butter, strawberries, and ice, to escape. This game plays with scale and imagines what its like to be an egg in a fridge. This game was inspired by the aesthetics of CupHead and Mouse Mazes. EggHead is made for kids and adults as the fun problem solving game.

Design Principles

We chose three principles that guided our decision making during the design process

1. Cartoon Style
2. Humor
3. Domestic Scale

Colors/Textures

This is the color palate and the textures that helped us to tell our story

Precedents

Narrative

Mouse Maze

Style

CupHead

Design Principle

Escape The Room

Storyboarding

This animated gif served as a storyboard to explain the idea of the player and its actions.

Checklists!

We created checklists in Figma to make sure we were keeping track of workflow and staying on schedule

I broke down the game

production into larger

categories such as art,

Unity asset creation

and scripting.

Iteration 1

This iteration shows the design decisions we made

Final Design

These are snapshots of the final game design and narrative!

Final Images (Full Screen)

Video Showing off!

Thesis

Detective On The Loose is a 2D mystery game. In the game, the player is a detective who is teleported into the house of a missing person. The goal of the game is to find out what happened. Throughout the game, as the player walks through the house they encounter cut scenes where the detective discovers clues. As the detective progresses through the game, they can use the clues they find to uncover new areas of the house with more clues. Detective On The Loose is visually inspired by the traditional aesthetic of the mystery genre with muted colors throughout the house. By the end of the game, you find the missing person and know who kidnapped them.

Design Principles

We chose three principles that guided our decision making during the design process

1. Color
2. Geometry
3. Pattern

Colors/Textures

This is the color palate and the textures that helped us to tell our story

PRECEDENTS

NARRATIVE

Thimbleweed Park

CONCEPT

Mindcop

Storyboard

This is a storyboard that explains our step-by-step gaming narrative

Storyboard 2

Checklists!

We created checklists to make sure we were keeping track of workflow and staying on schedule

Iteration 1

This iteration shows the design decisions we made

Iteration 2

This iteration shows the design decisions we made

Final Design

These are snapshots of the final game design and narrative!

Final Images (Full Screen)

Final Images (Full Screen)

Final Images (Full Screen)

Video Showing off!

Thesis

While exploring the beauty of the outdoors, there are calming natural and whimsical sounds that accompany the user during their travels. Spirit offers an opportunity to experience the serene environment of the New England wilderness.



Calming music soundtracks the game, along with the sounds of birds chirping and rain pouring. A mysterious glowing white orb takes form as the player leaving it up for different interpretations while traveling through the world.

Design Principles

We chose three principles that guided our decision making during the design process

1. Exploration
2. Immersive sound
3. Playful color + texture

Colors/Textures

This is the color palate and the textures that helped us to tell our story

PRECEDENTS

Concept

Exploring the Woods

Texture

Watercolor

Design Principle

A Bike Ride to the Creek

Checklists!

We created checklists to make sure we were keeping track of workflow and staying on schedule

Iteration 1

This iteration shows the design decisions we made

Iteration 2

This iteration shows the final design decisions we made

Final Design

These are snapshots of the final game design and narrative!

Final Images (Full Screen)

Video Showing off!

Thesis

'beneath bootsoles' explores the last verse of Walt Whitman's poem Song of Myself. The player follows a path made up of text and explores animations representing the different lines of poetry. The visuals and text help the player gain a greater appreciate our interconnection to the world around us.

Design Principles

We chose three principles that guided our decision making during the design process

1. Typography
2. Sequence
3. Grouping

Colors/Textures

This is the color palate and the textures that helped us to tell our story

PRECEDENTS

NARRATIVE

Song of Myself

Texture

Blair Imani

Design Principle

Train Study

Checklists!

We created checklists to make sure we were keeping track of workflow and staying on schedule

Iteration 1

This iteration shows the design decisions we made

Iteration 2

This iteration shows the final design decisions we made

Final Images (Full Screen)