The Finished Works of Game School Students

by Alec Matias, Jun 20, 2005 6:40am PDT

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By: johnny skidmarks x Show Full Post

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I wonder how much Fullsail paid to have fullsailsucks.com taken off the net.

Jun 20, 2005 8:52am PDT

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I wonder how much Fullsail paid to have fullsailsucks.com taken off the net. : johnny skidmarks
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Downloading now...

Jun 20, 2005 6:46am PDT

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- Nice job overall considering it's a mod and free. But whoever designed the jump and walking animations ne... : lightly inclined

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this mod is great, i'm impressed its a student project. the fact that the team had designated leads, and they all didnt work on something they necessarily loved is excellent training for them in the game industry.

the quality of the work is good enough to begin working on something commercial immediately.

doing this within 5 months is also impressive. it shows they can work with a deadline, and have to deal with the issues of releasing work that isnt 100% perfect. that is a very unfortunate reality of this industry, but it is deadline oriented and money driven. developers who can work within those boundaries and do great things will go far.

Jun 20, 2005 10:27pm PDT

this mod is great, i'm impressed its a student project. the fact that the team had designated leads, and... : iggypopped

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Overall good job, but I'm sorry, that mod is even more boring and repetitive than Doom III. :)

Jun 20, 2005 2:56pm PDT

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Overall good job, but I'm sorry, that mod is even more boring and repetitive than Doom III. :) : osaire
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  Yeah, but id had 20 million dollars and four years to make their game. We only had a couple of laptops an... : scythe_guildhall
  - no fair, Digipen doesn't give us chimps =[ : lord cecil
  - I have a feeling that the chimpanzee designed and coded the gameplay. :) : osaire

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By: ornee x Show Full Post

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Looks nice. Kudos.

If I ever get around to reinstalling HL2, I'll try it. ;-)

Jun 20, 2005 9:06pm PDT

Looks nice. Kudos. If I ever get around to reinstalling HL2, I'll try it. ;-) : ornee

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Just curious, since a few of the authors seem to post here, did you all submit a bunch of mod ideas and then vote on whcih to develop... or how did you go about figuring out what to make? It seems a lot of students doing game dev. clubs/classes are inclined to do RPG/adventure style games... personally I would have hated to work on a fantasy based game, so how did you all deal with that?

Jun 20, 2005 6:04pm PDT

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Just curious, since a few of the authors seem to post here, did you all submit a bunch of mod ideas and t... : esky
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  Well, that's a good question. For our final project, we were all allowed to, individually or in small gro... : scythe_guildhall
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    Sorry, you say classes were divided in half? How many people per team does that make? : SpaecKow
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      about 17 give or take... : scythe_guildhall
      
      Ah, I see, thanks. I ask because an internet buddy of mine got a project much like this (make TC for U... : SpaecKow

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Thumbs up to the students who put this together~!

Jun 20, 2005 5:54pm PDT

Thumbs up to the students who put this together~! : g.lee

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By: scottk52 x Show Full Post

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It's free, it's fun, so...............Shut up!

Jun 20, 2005 5:48pm PDT

It's free, it's fun, so...............Shut up! : scottk52

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By: SpaecKow x Show Full Post

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Well not to be a faggot, but if your schoolwork (ie a large part of your life) was making a game, then I should expect them to release something like this.

Of course I haven't played it just yet, and it looks nice, but I'm not about to judge this by average mod standards and start oohing and aahing. If you got a bunch of skilled mod guys together, made them actually sit down together every day and work on their game for a long period of time, then they'd be able to produce something that looks like that as well.

Not automatically saying it sucks, just saying... you know... don't nobody go nuts.

Jun 20, 2005 8:40am PDT

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Some needs a few lessons in headline writing.

Jun 20, 2005 5:22pm PDT

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- SOMEONE NEEDS AN ENGLISH LESSON. : ^rec

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i couldn't even play eclipse.... oh well, it looked nice.

Jun 20, 2005 5:19pm PDT

i couldn't even play eclipse.... oh well, it looked nice. : tomatoactivator

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http://www.elderscrolls.com - Perhaps they are fans? (note the site design)

Jun 20, 2005 2:37pm PDT

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http://www.elderscrolls.com - Perhaps they are fans? (note the site design) : Effol
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  they are indeed fans. -X : xcalibur19
  - You really don't need to sign your name to every post, it's right there next to it :P. : Ecks
- ...and we have lazy artists... just kidding, no really, put down that knife.. : scythe_guildhall

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Here are the final games from my game class last year at the University of Michigan. Its a 1 semester course for upper classmen in EECS. You do a small arcade game, an interactive fiction text adventure, and then a final project. Not quite the same scope as the game schools, but theres some cool games in here:

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/Classes/494/showcase-2004/Games.htm

Jun 20, 2005 5:08pm PDT

Here are the final games from my game class last year at the University of Michigan. Its a 1 semester cou... : scatti

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Since DigiPen's website sucks and they haven't updated since the previous year, you can grab the game I worked on here:

http://home.comcast.net/~gimpy_prophet/SetupPC2.exe (exe)
http://ecks.shackspace.com/PC2.zip (zip)

We worked on it over two semesters while we had a full schedule of 20 and 22 credits respectively. We wrote and did everything from scratch. I wish we had more time to work on it, but I had 4 comp sci, 1 physics, 1 linear algebra, and 1 game class my last semester. It was pretty hectic.

Jun 20, 2005 12:58pm PDT

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Since DigiPen's website sucks and they haven't updated since the previous year, you can grab the game I w... : Ecks
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  did digipen help you in your career? : broly1718
  - I'm not done from it yet. That game is my second year project. : Ecks
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  game crashed to desktop upon startup... i give you a F- : buzzbat
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  - I blame that on a guy that was going to school for one class and got kicked out of our group the second s... : Ecks

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MOST IMPORTANT ?= Have they tightened up the graphics a little bit after they finished level three?

Sorry, sorry , couldn't help it someone had to say it :)

Jun 20, 2005 11:42am PDT

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MOST IMPORTANT ?= Have they tightened up the graphics a little bit after they finished level three? So... : toadkiller-dog
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By: Vincent Grayson x Show Full Post

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I actually played this mod last night for a bit. It's *very* nice looking, the animations aren't *great* but they're not bad, except for the jumping animation which is fairly aweful.

The telekinesis stuff is pretty cool though, as you can lift a whole bunch of objects at once and launch them at the enemies.

I just hope further in it gets a little more...involved. All I saw was one monster type, and no narrative whatsoever aside from these "journals" you run across from time to time, that don't add much aside from some hints.

Jun 20, 2005 6:50am PDT

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I actually played this mod last night for a bit. It's *very* nice looking, the animations aren't *great* ... : Vincent Grayson
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I never get tired of The Academy of Art College (oh, I'm sorry University ) embarassing all it's students with it's shitty ads. Especially the ones in Game Developer.

Oh, I'm a student there btw, but I'm in the photography department, which rocks. But I hate visiting my developer friends and getting razzed because of my schools shitty ad department.

Jun 20, 2005 1:45pm PDT

I never get tired of The Academy of Art College (oh, I'm sorry University ) embarassing all it's students... : octosloth

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Eclipse requires a Radion 9500 or GeForce FX video card or better.

Grr I say, I don't wanna buy another damn video card. I assume the game will not work at all with a GeForce 4 4200... just like the Battlefield 2 demo didnt work at all. Fother Mucker.

Jun 20, 2005 12:49pm PDT

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Eclipse requires a Radion 9500 or GeForce FX video card or better. Grr I say, I don't wanna buy anoth... : gibmiser
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  how can a HL2 mod require a GFFX when the original game ran perfect on my gf4? : cryptical
  - because the Eclipse team added in several rendering effects. -X : xcalibur19
- The 4200 was released over 3 years ago. You can get an FX 5200 now for less than $50 (though I would pro... : binaryc

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Holy crap. A friend of mine, Greg Walek, is a student at Guildhall. I last talked to him a few months ago and he commented on being busy with "something cool" that he couldn't talk about just yet. This must have been what he was talking about, as I see he is listed as a level designer.

Jun 20, 2005 10:01am PDT

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  He's just the guy who picked up their pizza : Degenerate
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By: PSYCHON x Show Full Post

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congrats guys, the screenshots look great. Having gone to one of these game schools i know the work involved. Best of luck.

Jun 20, 2005 9:07am PDT

congrats guys, the screenshots look great. Having gone to one of these game schools i know the work invo... : PSYCHON

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Screenshots look very good. I'll have to check this out.

Jun 20, 2005 7:22am PDT

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Screenshots look very good. I'll have to check this out. : ezanga
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  Yea, I plan on trying it when I get home from work. I like the idea of telekinesis; it seems alittle dif... : amrbean
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    You should check out Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy. It's all about telekinesis. Very fun game; going f... : Alec Matias
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      Ah, thanks for the recommendation. I will definately check it out, although my game que is growing. : amrbean
      
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      Wait a second. This isn't out for the PC, is it? I been tricked. : amrbean
      
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      came out in europe for the pc I think : OrkO
      
      There is also the game Second Sight, that definetaly came out on the pc : OrkO
      
      Xbox and PS2 as far as I know. : Alec Matias

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This is actually really well done. Other than the WACKY jump animation and sound, I found zero issues.

Jun 20, 2005 6:49am PDT

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This is actually really well done. Other than the WACKY jump animation and sound, I found zero issues. : DKo5
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- I agree. I usually start a mod whether it be Half Life, UT, Quake, but eventually stop after about 2-3 m... : killingwithkindness

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