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Advanced Game Projects

Year-long capstone projects developed by both Undergrads and Graduate students in both the Interactive Media & Games Division, and the Computer Science: Game Development majors, with teams ranging from 10 to 30 members.

Featuring a range of PC, Console, VR, and Mobile games across many genres!

BoMI is A 3D Adventure game where players meet extraordinary creatures, learn their behaviors, and photograph their majesty.

Beasts of Maravilla Island

The Candle is a first-person horror game that integrates with Tobii eye-tracking technology to provide eye gaze interaction.

The Candle

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Ginkgo is a 3D first person atmospheric adventure with Asian horror influences in which you solve puzzles with a magic needle.

Ginkgo

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Koa is a mobile puzzle platformer where you GROW the platforms! Help Koa save his home of the forest Ekos by growing,

cutting, and traversing

enchanted branches.

Koa

Narrative VR experience for Oculus. The experience follows a father and his son on the way to school until things take a turn for the worse.

Our America

Retronomicon is a puzzle arcade game where players can create, share and play levels in a neon synthwave world.

Retronomicon

3D Arena Fighting game where you play as silly snakes, fighting in with crayon swords and donning... cardboard armor?!

Serpent Showdown

Soulfarer is a mixed reality game that innovates on the way shoulder pain rehabilitation is conducted for manual wheelchair users.

Soulfarer

The Witch List is a social mobile game set in a modern fantasy world: Cast spells, win battles, and rank up!

The Witch List

MFA Thesis Projects

The Masters Thesis Games are team projects spearheaded by third-year graduate students of the Interactive Media & Games Division as their theses and culmination of their work at USC.

Featuring a range of PC, VR, and Mobile games across many genres!

The Death Mask is a mobile mystery game where you collect information by changing your identity in a masquerade.

The Death Mask

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Light at the End of the Tunnels is a virtual reality horror experience for the Oculus Rift, where players must take flash photography of of the different ghouls and ghosts inhabiting the seemingly abandoned tunnels...

Light at the End of the Tunnels

LIQUIDATORS is a survival horror video game about the three nuclear plant workers that embark on a daring mission to prevent a nuclear fallout that would affect half of Europe during the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.

Liquidators

Parallel is a 3D action platformer where you unravel a family's mystery and fight for the freedom of the multiverse.

Parallel

SOS is a local multiplayer game where 5 players act as both performer AND stage crew. Hog the spotlight! Move the props! Bask in fan's praise!

Super Opera Squad

Smile Medicine is a short and simple narrative adventure for iOS that tells a story about a daughter and her mother.

Smile Medicine

A mobile adventure game with unlockable puzzle solving abilities. Players play as an alien ambassador named Rory, visit a new planet, learn about their culture, and select the perfect present for them.

Your Presence is Present Enough

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The Star Wanderer is a mobile turn-based space strategy game where you must lead your people through the epic journey of surviving an approaching black hole.

The Star Wanderer

VR / AR

Games created for AR/VR that push the envelope with new modes of interaction and storytelling.

A casual VR construction-comedy game about the worlds craziest road trip, finding your glory days in a post-infrastructure America

Detour Bus

A long form 6DOF VR film about finding digital comfort in dire distress

A recreation of found footage from a 2-year-old livestream for the Oculus Quest

STUCK

Mobile

Mobile Games created by students as class assignments, game jams, or passion projects.

Monster Coffeeshop is a single-player casual mobile game where you play as a barista tending to some otherworldly patrons.

Monster Coffeeshop

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Number Two Ice Cream Shop! is a silly 2D mobile game where you play as an ice cream shop worker who must catch as much ice cream as possible and serve them to your hungry customers!

Number Two Ice Cream Shop!

PC Games

PC Games created by students as class assignments, game jams, or passion projects.

Apollo is an experimental multiplayer game in which an astronaut player and 1-4 mission commanders fights for survival in the historic Apollo mission disaster.

Apollo

3rd person comedy platformer built in UE4. Play as Chablis, the party-pooping cat wants nothing more than revenge on the neighboring bunnies who are seemingly at guilt.

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Binky Saves the World is a couch-co-op game for two players to save the world from a nuclear disaster.

Binky Saves the World

Catharsis is a game in which players are a blind artist who is trapped in his dark and unpleasant memory.

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Birb Runner is a 3D game where you play as a hybrid bird navigating through challenging platforms and obstacles in a world driven by music where your movements are synced with the rhythm!

Birb Runner

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Fade Away is a 2 player asymmetric couch co-op puzzle adventure game for Mac and PC about two friends trying to escape a magical forest before they fade away forever.

In this somber but heartwarming visual novel, meet cute animal characters, and navigate the encroaching advances of a predatory corporation bent on buying out your neighborhood coffee shop.

Koshka's Kofe

Lighthearted storybook-style puzzle game where players must help Quinn, a pacifist knight, avoid dragons in a trap-filled castle and steal a crown hidden in its depths

Quinn's Epic Tale

Leechbug is a 3D action game set in an alien sea, where you are a parasite trying to climb to the top of the food chain by possessing sea creatures.

Leechbug

Tri-Ger is a color matching top down arcade shooter inspired by games like Galaga, Asteroids, and Ikaruga. Defeat enemies in endless waves, and match colors to get the highest score!

TRI-GER

Left on Read is an choice-driven narrative platformer about the harsh realities of modern age communication.

Left on Read

Both Timbers

Catharsis

Fade Away

Embower is a 2D platformer about a young boy who travels the world of Ustrianata to purify trees of toxins by hugging their hearts!