Game Programming Laboratory 2021

Jury experts from external pageStudio Gobocall_made: Nick Grover and the Studio Gobo's team.

Meove

Michael Keller, Giulia Argüello, Dominic Weibel, Lea Reichardt, Daniel Sparber

Meove is a grid-based single-player puzzle game in which the player controls the movement of the main character. The story follows Grimm’s fairytale "Puss in Boots", subdivided into multiple levels. The player completes a level by fulfilling tasks that advance the story, however, the main task of the player is finding a way from a start- to an end- field in each level. To toughen this task, each level presents various obstacles and challenges that can either trigger an interaction with the character, or the player has to find the correct path around them. DownloadRead more (PDF, 24.5 MB)vertical_align_bottom

SOMNIUM

Pascal Mailard, Andreas Aeberli, Tianhong Gan, Aydin Faraji, Tatiana Gerth

SOMNIUM features a 2-4 player cooperative 2D (top-down view) game based on a series of Grimm’s fairy tales. Each level of the game is based on a specific Grimm’s fairy tale. The players of the game are children, who have to fight and overcome their Grimm’s inspired nightmares together, by firing and combining colored beams cooperatively to create specific colors and color in the monsters in a frightening, colorless world, thereby overcoming them. DownloadRead more (PDF, 19.1 MB)vertical_align_bottom

Grimmetropolis

Manuel Serquet, Michael Giger, Tianyu Wu, Yelan Tao

In Grimmetropolis, each player controls a character in a 3D top-down game world. The game starts at a castle which the players have to protect. The enemies will constantly come to attack the castle, buildings or the players and become stronger and stronger! The premise of this game is to find the best strategy against the enemies as long as possible. DownloadRead more (PDF, 7.2 MB)vertical_align_bottom
 

Looking Grimm is a single-player 2D platformer game, based on the tale of The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats. The game is set in the lair of the wolf from the tale, playing the youngest goat trying to rescue his siblings, who were eaten by the wolf. The goat needs to explore the lair, which consists of many connected rooms, and along the way will come across other characters that the player will be able to recruit on his quest. The main mechanic of the game is the time reversal ability of the goat. The player uses this ability to solve various puzzles in the lair to progress and save the other young goats. DownloadRead more (PDF, 4.1 MB)vertical_align_bottom
 

Seven Dwarfs: Legends Untold is a co-op hero-fighter game for two to four players with a mythical twist based on the Snow White fairytale by the Grimm Brothers. Every game is unique (an “untold legend”) in that there are infinite possibilities to play each level. The core objective of the game is for the seven dwarfs to protect Snow White by defending against increasingly evil waves of enemies sent to harm Snow White. Snow White resides inside a house at the center of a two dimensional world. In line with the original fairy tale, the seven dwarfs are in fact miners and have access to an additional subterranean world which allows them to mine for resources necessary in their ongoing struggle. DownloadRead more (PDF, 17.5 MB)vertical_align_bottom

Hansel & Gretel and the Magic of Color

Josua Cantieni, Martina Kessler, Viturin Züst

Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents in the dark forest and need to find their way out. They have colored lamps that help them see in the dark. Those magical lamps unveil objects of the same color if the lamp is within reach of those objects. In this 2D puzzle platform game, two players need to mix the colors of the lamps to unveil objects of mixed colors and find their way out of the forest before time is up because the lamps only have limited fuel. DownloadRead more (PDF, 12.9 MB)vertical_align_bottom