Game Development

Project: Artemis Chonicle

Submitted by tkampa on 2008, December 16 - 12:00pm
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Platform: XNA (PC/360)
Language: C#
Technology: XNA
Development: 6 months
Team: 3 tech, 5 art
Role: Technical Director (Lead Engineer)

This was a dual-purpose project to create an XNA game engine for the USC GamePipe Lab, and to create a game to prove the engine.

Game - Artemis Chronicle: Journey into the Gaea, a fantasy world threatened by a looming dark force. Play the role of Aya, an expert archer who seeks the power of a divine artifact to fight the darkness that plagues her home village. Using your bow and arrow, strategically plan your attacks to defeat enemies from afar, and gather clues to solve puzzles.

Engine - NitroX: NitroX focuses on loosely coupled subsystems interacting primarily through messages. The engine aims to avoid monolithic class hierarchies by "decorating" game objects with functionality rather than relying on inheritance. It features powerful yet flexible graphics, real-time physics, complex AI, as well as integrated audio and UI. Gameplay programming is significantly accelerated by the features of the C# language and the programming patterns used to architect the engine.

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Project: Super Happy Flut-Flut Smash Game

Submitted by tkampa on 2008, December 16 - 11:00am
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Platform: PC
Language: C++
Technology: Ogre
Development: 6 weeks
Team: 12
Role: Technical Director (Lead Engineer)

As a class project, 12 engineers were provided with a Flut-Flut (little dragon) model by Naughty Dog, a thin layer around the Ogre rendering engine, and were told to create a game in six weeks. We came up with a Super Smash Bros inspired party game. Players jump on top of each other for a one-hit-kill, while trying not to fall off the level, in an attempt to be the last player standing. To add variety, there are five power-ups and five different platforms types.

 

Project: Lockdown

Submitted by tkampa on 2008, May 25 - 11:00am
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Platform: PC
Language: C++, Lua
Technology: Ogre, PhysX, Raknet
Development: 4 months
Role: Technical Director (Lead Engineer)
Team: 10

Training simulation for first responders to a school or office shooting. Worked with Sandia National Laboratories to create a networked first person shooter that implements real-world strategies such as triage.

 

Project: Tesla's Revenge

Submitted by tkampa on 2008, May 25 - 10:00am
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Platform: Flash
Language: ActionScript
Development: 2 months
Role: Engineer
Team: 2 (David Welch)

Play as Nikola Tesla rampaging through New York City on his quest to vanquish Thomas Edison.

 

Project: Gems

Submitted by tkampa on 2006, December 15 - 12:00pm
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Platform: PC
Language: C++
Technology: Ogre, Newton
Development: 3 months
Team: Solo

Gems is a game prototype designed to help stroke victims recover their motor functions. Patients exercise pronation by using a power glove to reach out and touch a gem. That gem and all adjacent gems of the same color are eliminated. Patients exercise supination by touching an offset gem and rotating their hand to realign the gem.

 

Project: Wormhole

Submitted by tkampa on 2006, May 25 - 12:00pm
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Platform: PC
Language: C++
Technology: Ogre, Newton
Development: 3 months
Team: Solo

Race your spaceship through a twitch-speed 3d maze of wormholes as you find your way home to earth.

Wormhole is designed to challenge and hone the player’s three-dimensional awareness. First, players are presented with a rotating overview of the level. They can attempt to memorize the map (straightaways, turns, and forks) for as long as they choose. Next, they must race through the tunnel from start to finish without slowing down for an extended period of time, or excessively damaging their ship by colliding with the walls of the wormhole. If players choose the wrong path at a fork, they will reach a dead-end and be destroyed. Each level is randomly generated.

 

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