University of Michigan

EECS 494: Computer Game Design and Development

Final Projects

John Laird

December, 2005

These games were created for University of Michigan, EECS 494: Computer Game Design and Development in Fall 2005 and run on Windows PCs (sorry, not Macs or Linux). We had over 210 people come an play them at our end of the year showcase.

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.

Most users will need to also download an update to Direct-X. This is necessary for all of the games and can be downloaded from Microsoft.

The games are listed in alphabetic order. I recommend trying all of the games.

The Top 3 games in showcase

1. Strife
2. Doubloons!
3. Suds of War

“Single Player” indicates that the game can be played with only one player.

“Multi (one CPU)” indicates that the game can be played with more than one player at one PC.

“Multi (network)” indicates that the game can be played with more than one player over a LAN or the Internet.

Game (download)	Single Player	Multi (one CPU)	Multi (network)
Battle Ballistics	Yes	No	No
Doubloons!	Yes	Yes	No
Earthdust	Practice	No	Yes
Event Horizon	No	No	Yes
Hamster Balls	Yes	Yes	No
PlayPlace	Yes	Yes	No
Strife	Yes	No	Yes
Stronghold Assault	No	Yes	No
Suds of War	No	No	Yes
Xtreme Arctic Luge	Yes	Yes	No
Yaki Soba	No	Yes	No