Game Programming Laboratory 2024
This year's Game Programming Laboratory showcased 16 incredible games created by our students. The theme this year was "The Grocery Store". The teams were separated into three houses at the beginning of the course, each with its own theme: "Frozen Foods", "Fruit & Veg", and "Sweet Treats".
Trailers
Jury Experts from Studio Gobo
Jury Award Winners
We were once again joined by the fantastic Studio Gobo who awarded the Jury Award. After playtesting all 16 games, the expert game developers chose their winner for the jury award. Here are the winners of the Jury Award:
🥇 Some Like It Cold
🥈 Tic Tac Dough
🥉 Breeze & Freeze
Audience Award Winners
After the presentations of all games, the audience in the room and the viewers of the youtube livestream got to choose their favorite game. This year we had a tie for the first place. Here are the winners of the Audience Award:
🥇 Breeze & Freeze
🥇 Tic Tac Dough
🥈 Fae's Sweet Adventure
🥉 The Allegory of the Carrot
The Allegory of the Carrot turns you into a carrot in a fun, 2D game where you're trying to get out of a grocery store. Realizing there's more to life than being sold, your adventure begins when a hungry donkey charges in, starting an exciting chase. You need to dodge tough enemies while making the donkey help you beat them. Stay away from the donkey, power up the donkey, and face big bosses on your journey to freedom. This game will make you feel like a carrot, so strap in for the adventure of a lifetime.
Download the game: external page https://carrotdonkeystudio.itch.io/allegoryofthecarrot
It’s (tiny) shopping time! Grab a friend and get ready for a giant duel with tiny insects. In this fruitful two-player battle arena you both take over an army of ants and command them to collect fruits, attack the enemy and fight over every shopping aisle. Use all your skills to control your colony as an organized unit to be victorious before supply runs out and the store closes!
Tiny shopping will soon be available on Itch.io!
Take on the role of Geffrey, the karate carrot, in the 2D action game No Spoilers. The fridge you called home has been thrown into disarray ever since its owner left for vacation. Now the power went out and everything – and everyone – in the fridge is rapidly decaying.
Fight your way through progressively larger maps, trying to find the exit that leads to the next level. On your way you will have to fight all kinds of rotting fruits and veggies that used to be your friends, such as bananas, mushrooms or watermelons. How long can you survive before you share their fate?
Embark on an unforgettable journey through the mystical realms of IntoTheMist. In this captivating indie game, immerse yourself in a richly detailed world teeming with adventure and mystery. Your goal? To keep your ant colony alive amidst the challenges of the mist-shrouded landscape. Face off against formidable foes and uncover the secrets hidden within the mist to overcome the dangers that lurk in every shadow. With stunning visuals, immersive gameplay, and an engaging storyline, IntoTheMist promises an experience like no other. Join us as we explore the unknown and fight to ensure the survival of your colony against all odds!
Download: external page https://fedj99.itch.io/into-the-mist
Enter "Bazaar Bounty," a captivating roguelike dungeon crawler set in a lively medieval marketplace overrun by a pesky infestation. Each game level unfolds in uniquely randomized maps, brimming with vibrant bazaar stalls and narrow alleys. Players must harness an arsenal of veggie and fruit power-ups to enhance their trusty sword and gun, battling through diverse and unpredictable enemies that lurk around every corner. From sword-wielding rats to magic-wielding lizards, the challenge is ever-changing. Navigate through the chaos, utilize strategic power-ups, and reclaim the bazaar's bounty!
Fruitful Defence is a charming 2D wave-defense game set in a local supermarket.
As the manager, strategically deploy fruits and vegetables to fend off invaders – wicked unhealthy snacks from BigCandy, a corporation bent on monopolizing the market.
Place units in shopping carts to earn rewards, but balance defense and profit wisely.
Protect your carts and survive waves of attacks to unlock new levels and upgrades.
Can you defend your store from BigCandy's invasion? The future of your grocery store depends on your tactical skills!
Collect ingredients, bake them into pieces and use them to play Tic-Tac-Toe. Use the various powerups such as the gun or the boost to give yourself an advantage or slow down your enemies. Its Tic-Tac-Toe, but as a fun chaotic local party game for you and your friends.
Download the Game: external page https://ms00.itch.io/tic-tac-dough
In our platform puzzle game, step into the shoes of a fae mysteriously transported to a sweet-filled world. Eager to return home, the fae embarks on an exciting adventure, navigating magical landscapes. Gifted with newfound powers by the surrounding faepowder, the fae must master these abilities to collect magical ingredients scattered across whimsical landscapes. Each puzzle brings the fae closer to retrieving the ultimate magical recipe for a cupcake, the key to returning home. Prepare yourself for an exciting adventure to help the fae reach back home!
Every ball of dough wants to get baked, but there is only so much flour to go around. In Collidough, the balls sort it out the old-fashioned way! Choose your ball, roll around the arena and collide with enemy players to push them into cutlery. Then, consume their sliced off flour to grow. But beware: your flour is just as valuable to them as theirs is to yours. Lose focus for a moment and your enemies will have you hurtling towards certain doom! Utilize the power-ups, outmaneuver the others and become the biggest dough! Are you up to the challenge?
Dear Bakers - once more! You are a confiseur who produces incredibly sought after baked goods. In the night, as people of the profession are wont to do, you must frantically construct production lines, hoping to bake enough breads and pastries to satisfy your patrons during the day without getting overrun.
Since the hungry customers are not above lunging across the counter to get the bread they so desperately crave, this is not an easy endeavour!
And every day, word of your transcendentally good bakery spreads further, more and more customers arrive, and the pressure mounts...
The evil fruit kingdom is attacking! ⚔️
Step into the roles of the brave penguins Breeze & Freeze and use your magical powers to fight off the fruit attack.
Work together using Breeze's wind powers 💨 to knock out your enemies and Freeze's ice powers 🧊 for a frosty finish.
Stomp and shoot your way through waves of enemies made up of prickly berries 🗡️🍓, tanky pumpkins 💪🎃, explosive coconuts 💥🥥, and sharp-shooting melons 🏹🍉.
Combine your powers to fend of the attack but beware the evil Pumpking 🎃👑 might have a nasty surprise in stock for you!
Store Defense: Manager is a Tower Defense style game, where waves of customers walk
from entrance doors along the givenpaths to exit doors.
Each customer type has its own shopping list with different amounts of different products
they need to be satisfied with their shopping tour.
The store clerks are positioned along the path and provide these products to
customers within range.
Every satisfied customers pays their goods when satisfied and leave immediately, giving you
the (monetary) resources to hire new staff and deal with more customers.
Different clerks provide different types of products in varying speed and quality!
external page https://belarnon.itch.io/store-defense-manager
Mold Mayhem lets you play as a patch of mold and wield the power of controlling the moldy hive-mind. Try to infect all food items inside the fridge in this chaotic twin-stick shooter and try to survive the onslaught as long as possible. Use the abilities of your enemies to your advantage by taking control of their defeated remains and conquer the fridge shelf by shelf with your ever-growing army. Switch from character to character to exploit synergies and enjoy the mayhem.
In the heat of the ancient desert, the pharaoh queen Cleopatra craves some refreshment to countervail the scorching sun. One day, her servant mentions the tale of a dessert which has the power to fulfill her desires. And so, the queen declares a race, for the first who delivers her an unmelted ice cream shall be rewarded beyond their dreams.
‘Some Like it Cold’ is a 2D local multiplayer racing game. Up to 4 players compete on a track through the desert, collecting ice cubes, avoiding obstacles, and picking up items to get ahead of their competitors. Protect your ice cream and beware of the approaching heatwave. Who will be the last one standing?
Freezer Frenzy is an action-packed arcade drift racing game set in a supermarket. Race to the exit as quickly as possible while completing challenges on the way! Run away from supermarket employees trying to stop you, race together with your friends or race solo trying to perfect your times and earn medals.
Available on Steam: external page https://store.steampowered.com/app/3021470/Freezer_Frenzy/
Culinary Showdown is a thrilling 2D shooter where two rival teams battle for culinary dominance in a post-apocalyptic world. Players join either FrozenGoods or HotMeals, two food companies with clashing visions for survival. In the chaos of an abandoned grocery store, teams collect food items, transforming them into heated or cooled ammunition. Use this to stun enemies and dynamically alter the map by freezing or melting pathways, creating strategic advantages. With high-stakes action and fast-paced rounds, the team that controls the most food resources claims victory. Dive into the hectic food fight, outsmart your opponents, and prove your prowess!