EECS 494: Computer Game Design and Development
Final Projects
John Laird
December, 2004
These games were created for
Many of the games require 3D hardware acceleration and will not run on older PCs. Some even require the newest graphics cards.
You can download .zip files of the games by clicking on the game names below. Once downloaded, you must unzip each program and then within the folder double click on the .exe file.
I’ve included a few comments on each game to give you some idea of what the game is about. The games are listed in alphabetic order. Games with at * were voted as favorites at the showcase. All games are worth a try.
Top Three Games:
1. Puck off
2. Road to Victory
3. DodgemBall3D
Jeremy Hammers, Shawn Lee, Felix The
1 computer, 1 player
Chronicles of the Emperor Sargosa (Volume II)
Sean Benton, Ken Kollin, Sam Serrano
Buy your fleet and then attack the enemy AI in this real-time space-based tactics/strategy game.
Waison Cheng, Dan Giszczak, Chris Judy,
Capture the power supplies and then go out after your enemy in this underground first person shooter.
2 computers, 2 players
Scott Doerrfeld, Jason Powell
Try to shoot the cross into the opponents goal (remember crossfire) but this time you can create and destroy walls that restrict the cross’ movement.
1-2 computers, 1-2 players
James Allen,
Nathaniel Hramits, Nicholas Piegdon
Grab the ball and shoot it at your opponents while avoiding getting hit yourself while sliding over a low-friction surface with lots of special effects.
1 computer 1-3 players
Eric Cheung, Edmund Wong
Save your village by defeating the evil enemies in this truly epic quest-based 3D adventure.
1 computer, 1 player
Brian Anderson,
Kirk Kozel, Chen Leo, Benjamin Schleicher
1 computer, 1-2 players
Chris Battey, James McCann, Michael Samples, Ronit Slyper
Design, build, create the control logic, and then fly/drive/steer your own vehicle through richly rendered environments. A technological tour de force.
1 computer, 1 player
Tim Ford, Andrian Marrs, Timotei Vaduva
Fight past the enemies in this 3D third-person fighter
2 computers, 2 players
David Fribley, Matthew Kish, David Ratti, Tiffany Walsh
Fight to excavate minerals on the moon in this third-person 3D adventure/fighter that has amazing graphics (requires a pretty good graphics card).
2 computers, 2 players
Martin Farren,
Daniel Harris, Charles Wa
The gameplay is a classic side-scroller – run, jump and kill your enemies, but with two twists. You can be good or evil; and all of the graphics are hand drawn – somebody in this group does more than just program.
1 computer, 1 player
Jeremy Cook, Eric Drews, Matthew Pfenninger, Chris Raabe
Fly through space shooting down the AI opponents in 3D, dynamically trading off shields, power, and weapons. Make sure you have Scotty there to put everything on shields when you are under attack.
1 computer, 1 player
Brian McCormick. Jacob Moshenko, David Yruma
Play Texas Hold’em (what else?) against savvy 3D computer opponents, but be on the look out for their “tells” (body language). Does itching his ear mean he is bluffing, or does he really have a great hand?
1 computer, 1 player
Kevin Cheng, Toby Long, Andrew Roskamp
The game that is sweeping the nation. Be the first to clear all of the pucks from you area in this frantic multiplayer party game.
2/4 computers, 2/4 players
Nuttapong Chentanez, Galen Elias, Arthur Tomlin
So you like multiplayer team-based Unreal Tournament? Try this. I never would have thought this was possible in a seven week project until I played it myself. A 3D, multiplayer networked third-person team-based shooter with beautiful graphics.
N computers, N players
Andrew Lin, Jon Thorndycraft, David Wintermute
Build your own robot and then fight it out with the AIs in a 3D computer version of Battlebots. As you progress, you can buy better weapons, better armor, bigger engines, and then finally the flamethrower (my favorite). Watch out for the lava pits or you could literally become toast.
1 computer, 2
player
Paintball cannons attempt to cover targets in this turn-based 3D game. Watch out or you might learn something about physics.
1 computer, 2 players
Chris Arnold
A true real-time strategy game where you try to out build and out fight 1 to 3 AI opponents.
1 computer, 1 player
Michael Beaubien, Jeffrey Mlakar, Shukai Ro
A turn-based strategy game based on the Stargate TV show. Send you Stargate teams out to explore new worlds, while you mine Naguadah on your captured planets to build fighters and defenders. Move your ships from planet to planet as you simultaneous attempt to attack the enemy and defend your home world.
1/2 computers, 1/2 players