Global Game Jam 2017!!!
Global Game Jam 2017 was a blast! Met some wonderful people and made an awesome game in Unity! Good luck trying to get past the first level ;)
The game can be played here: http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/night-glider
This is my first VR game for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Complements to Make School, an 8-week VR bootcamp that taught me so much about Unity and VR-development! Flaming Ninja VR is a hack-and-slash, first-person shooter virtual reality game. You have been transported into a futuristic Feudal Japan. You have lost all your memory, including how you arrived at this new world, your identity, and your purpose to live. More severely, this world is inhabited by evil, humanoid creatures that will attack you on sight. However, these creatures have one weakness: Fire. Conveniently, you discover that you have acquired the ability to harness fire energy from his environment into bladed weapons that you can either throw from your hands or shoot from your high-tech wrist guns. Lost in this dangerous world, you assume the role of a ninja with one mission: to survive by scouring the land for money and slaying the evil creatures around you by extracting fire from your surroundings. The more creatures you defeat and loot you collect, the more you discover a sense of honor as a ninja, just within your reach. The question is, will you claim it?
This project was created for Calhacks 2017! It's a multiplayer VR game where one player plays inside the VR headset (Oculus/Vive) while the other plays on the desktop PC. Both players are placed inside a dark room with 6 lamps, and the goal of the desktop player is to turn off all the lights of the scene while the goal of the VR player is to stop the desktop player from doing so in the alloted time period. The VR player can either shoot light bullets or call out voice commands (using Bing Speech-To-Text API from Microsoft Cognitive Services) to cast special attack, defense, and searching abilities.
A game jam game made through Make School! It's a tower defense game where your goal is to defend your tower from endless waves of goblin-runners by throwing fire balls at them!
The game can be played at https://csharp.itch.io/human-society-shelter
USC MEGA holds these cool things called "Game Jams", which are essentially 24-hour hack-a-thons dedicated specifically to making games! I participated in it, and I teamed up with a group of 7 total people to build a game from the bottom-up. We made a game called "Humane Society Simulator". The player plays as a dog who is trying to get adopted by customers at the pet store. The dog has various "stats" (cuteness, strength, endurance, etc.), and potential pet-owners at the store are looking for pets with a certain distribution of these stats. Your goal is to train your dog, through a series of mini-games, so that it resembles this ideal distribution of stats as closely as possible, thus allowing your dog to be picked over the other dogs in the store. Most of the members on the team each made a mini-game to contribute to the overall game, with one person doing soundtrack and another doing the art. Our game won Best in Show for the Fall, 2016 GameJam, so we were pretty dang proud of that :]
So this was a really gruelling process, considering my roommate and I have basically no experience with modeling or 3D printing whatsover...nevertheless, we made this guy in one semester! It's a 3D-printed model of a Trojan Action Figure that has recently been made the mascot of 3D4E at USC. This took a lot of time and effort, so we were really proud of how it turned out!
The idea for this guy came to us right after our first meeting of 3D4E. My roommate and I were placed into an entirely new project group, the "Animation" Team, and to be honest, we were clueless on what to do. I mean, this was the first time the club ever had an Animation team before. After the meeting ended and after walking around a bit in the cold, I suddenly thought of the idea to make superhero action figures, kind of like the "International Justice League of Super Acquaintances" from SpongeBob! Then I thought about Parks and Recreation, and how poor Ben Wyatt took forever just to shoot 5 seconds of his claymation movie. So I thought, "Hey, why don't we 3D-print action figures and make claymations out of them?" Of course, we knew that animating solid objects would prove challenging and tedious, but considering that was the only idea we could think of, we had no choice.
First, we had to learn the entire interface of a modeling program. Because we were officially the "Animation" Team, we decided to learn AutoDesk: Maya 2016 and use that to model our little friend. Plus, we thought we could use the software to simulate our model's animations before we got around to physically animating it. My roommate designed all the concept art for the model (I'm not an artist), so we transfered his designs into Maya to use as references for sculpting and modeling. Sure enough, through a combined effort, it took us about 3 days to fully model the Trojan in Maya. In an even more surprising turn of events, it only took us ONE print to achieve a successful iteration (we were REALLLLYYY lucky haha). Our year's worth of hard work paid off with the work of art you see in the video link above. Super happy with the results :)
Global Game Jam 2017 was a blast! Met some wonderful people and made an awesome game in Unity! Good luck trying to get past the first level ;)
The game can be played here: http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/night-glider