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The following video games are original content created by students of NM4260 Game Design, a module offered by NUS Department of Communications and New Media.
Challenge yourself in these 4 single-player games that allow you to navigate through transition, change, pause and ambiguity. Get ready to traverse perilous journeys, enter new universes, explore moral dilemmas, and experience different states of mind.
Will you sink or survive in these spaces between?
These games are best experienced on Chrome or Firefox platforms.
Lead Artist, Producer: Katherine Whiteway
Lead Developer: Hannah Neo Xin Hui
Lead Quality Assurance Tester: Bethany Low Zhi Hui
Lead Designer: Soh Wan Ying
Lead Designer: Valencia Maggie Candra
Amnesia is a single-player role-playing mystery memory game. Through controlling an avatar in a third-person perspective, you will navigate a hallway with 5 doors. Behind each door lies a card-matching game that you must complete before they can unlock the next door. You must aim to match card pairs by walking over them. Lives are lost by matching wrong card pairs and bumping into a “memory eater” roaming the level. The player loses when all lives are lost. Power-ups like “freeze” and “peek” aid in gameplay. This game appeals to players among you who like achievement-based and memory games with a role-playing factor.
Producer, Programmer: Hong Yi En, Ian
Artist: Luo Mingxuan
Game Designer: Samuel Chew Kheng Wee
Quality Assurance Tester: Chong Ting Yi, Charmaine
Bags to Bags is a single-player time-based puzzle game. You assume the role of a Space Taxi driver, who is trying to transport as many aliens in a day as possible to earn money. Before transporting each passenger, you must arrange bags of different shapes and sizes into the taxi’s trunk. You have 3 working days to earn money so that you can bring you partner on the best date possible on the weekend. The more you earn, the better the quality of the date you would have with your partner. This game appeals to players among you who like games that require real-time stress and risk-reward management.
QA Tester: Cassie Seet Cher Faye
Artist: Tan Wei Chien, Ariel
Designer / Producer: Sugandha Tuteja
Developer: Tan Yi Jia
Traverse the derelict alleyways of Dustville at sundown where horrors breathe and thrive in the peril spaces caught between two warring nations. You are the lone Guardian Angel amidst a panicked population of unguarded orphans. You must navigate the darkened streets filled with horrifying delusions, to illuminate the way home in this single-player arcade horror game. Find yourself on a rollercoaster-ride as unsuspecting children, oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark, stray and wander on their Long Way Home — relying on you to light their way back safely.
Artist: Celine Lee Hui Qing
Game Developer: Lim Wen Hao, Lionel
Game Designer/Producer: Ng Kwok Lun Colin
QA Tester: Shaun Ang Yit Siang
SPAC3 Out is a single-player 2D action puzzle game. As a trapped spaceship commander, you will need to escape 9 spaceship rooms by solving Sokoban (box-pushing) puzzles within a timeframe to escape the Kurons (Aliens) invaded spaceship. The game ends when you cannot escape the rooms in time or if Kurons touch you. However, you can also collect all weapon parts around the room to stun the Kurons. The game appeals to those among you who enjoy puzzle-solving games within a challenging environment that emphasises time pressure and swift hand-eye coordination.
