Game Portfolio
Enviro
Fall 2020
Alyssa Lee
Michelle Chang
Dominic Calkosz
Jianrong Yu
Jim McCann
Enviro is a puzzle game about pushing barrels of toxic waste to a disposal site. Experiment with the different ways you can interact with the environment and overcome challenging obstacles!
Liminal
Fall 2020
Dominic Calkosz
Catherine Wang
Nellie Tonev
Hayoon Choi
An Tang
Chelsea Liu
Grace Li
Helena Yang
George Whitfield
Explore the disparate memories trapped within an eerie house. Liminal is a small collection of interactive narratives with common themes but separate characters, genres, and styles.
Decktatorship
Fall 2020
Dominic Calkosz
Davis Dunaway
Matthew Lucien Komar
Lexin Yuan
Zhenfang Chen
A multiplayer game about controlling an authoritarian state with your friends. Maintain a balance of happiness, health, military, and wealth, or watch your empire crumble.
Static
Oct. 2020
George Whitfield
Dominic Calkosz
Carter Williams
Joseph Perrino
A short horror game set in a TV shop. Turn off the lights and finish closing up for the night, but beware what lurks among the TVs.
I Am Not Alone
Oct. 2020
Dominic Calkosz
Matthew Lucien Komar
Lexin Yuan
Christina Sellountos
An atmospheric telepresence experience. Explore a liminal space alone. Find someone else to take you farther.
Crossed Paths
Oct. 2020
Discover the nature of these two crossed paths and break free.
Primordials
Oct. 2020
This game presents a brief interactive narrative, in which the coherence is tied to your pace.
The Pentaton
Sept. 2020
This game introduces an instrument called the Pentaton, which uses blocks of different shapes and colors to play notes on a grid. Explore how it works in freeplay mode, or jump into a sequence of 7 levels. For a customized experience, replace the audio files provided with your own sound font.
Out of Body
Sept. 2020
A short 3D puzzle game that separates the player from their camera. Can be played singleplayer, or 2-player with one on WASD and the other on mouse.
memcorrupt
Sept. 2020
A new take on the classic memory game of matching pairs. Flipping a card has a chance to corrupt it and its neighbors, permanently.
Digging Channels
Sept. 2020
Kalpa Anjur
Dominic Calkosz
Davis Dunaway
Max Krieger
Adrian Mester
A Discord MOBA powered by a bot. Split up to search for treasures and race against the other team to collect them first. Features four different minigames, emoji graphics, and proximity voice chat.
Skies of Pongoria
Sept. 2020
Skies of Pongoria is an exploration game built on Pong mechanics. Bounce through a strange, colorful world and uncover hidden mysteries.
Battlegrounds - Darkmoon Prizes
Summer 2020
Cornhole to Remember
June 2020
This Father's Day gift was a mash-up of two of my dad's favorite games: Cornhole and Times to Remember. We started by laying out bean bags and pins to mark every year from 1970 to 2020. Then someone read off a major life event, and my dad would throw a bean bag as close to the corresponding year as possible. He then had to pick a range of years that included whichever year the bag landed on. If the event occured within those years, he won that range. My grandpa played simultaneously, with his own life events, and whoever won the most ranges was the victor.
Mother's Day Memory Game
May 2020
15 family photos are cut in half and spread out across the table. Each turn, you get to flip over two pieces to try to find a matching pair. If they are two halves of the same photo, you keep them and get to go again. Otherwise, it is the next player's turn. Complete the most photos to win!
Implicitus
Spring 2020
Law
Apr. 2020
Law is a card game made for a standard 52-card deck in which the rules change as you play. Each turn, take 3 cards from the Draw or Discard pile, then discard 1. When you get a set, straight, or flush, you get a new Law, and the rules have changed! Collect 4 Laws to win.
Construction Derby
Feb. 2020
Malek Anabtawi
Dominic Calkosz
Thomas Carey
Jonathan Fischer
Tiger Jia
Adrian Mester
Carter Williams
When the world is ravaged by nuclear fallout, there is only one way to repair things... by destroying something first! Participate in the grand Construction Derby where you destroy your opponent's cars while simultaneously repairing and improving your own. Be careful, as the hosts of this competition are not privy to fair play, and many brutal traps await those who enter. Keep fighting and be the last one left driving! Achieve glory as you smash your friend's vehicles to bits and add them to your own!
Inhabitants
Fall 2019
Dominic Calkosz
Austin Garcia
Michael Loguercio
Joel Manning
Adrian Mester
Joseph Perrino
Alex Prudnikov
Triss Ren
Alan Zhu
Two empires battle for control over the land. But whether they nurture or neglect the nature around them is a choice of its own. Play as an industrious or environmentalist empire, or forget the troubles of human conflict and play as the Earth itself, fostering beautiful forests and animal ecosystems. Regardless of your goals on this planet, keep one eye on the climate, lest there is nothing left to fight for.
Octave
Fall 2019
Jonathan Fischer
Will Ozeas
Julia Shuieh
Christoph Gaffud
Sanjay Salem
Aidan Peck
Darien Weems
Harine Choi
George Whitfield
Dominic Calkosz
Notes come from all directions in this colorful rhythm game. Take aim, hit the beat, and nab that high score!
Reverse No
Oct. 2019
Scholomance Academy
Summer 2019
Ashes of Outland
Summer 2019
The Medium - A Slay the Spire Mod
Spring 2019
Carter Williams
Adrian Mester
Dominic Calkosz
Tiger Jia
Joseph Perrino
Grace Liu
Eileen Lee
Explore the duality of humanity and spiritualism as you climb The Spire, building a deck of unique cards in a quest to slay the Heart. The Medium is a mod for an existing game called Slay the Spire.
A Touching Conversation
Apr. 2019
Grace Liu
Carter Williams
Adrian Mester
Joseph Perrino
Dominic Calkosz
A conversation game about touch. After filling out a preliminary survey, players on either side of the wall place their hands into the box. They will then be prompted with charades style questions based on the comfort level inferred from the survey. Players must attempt to communicate complex ideas using only their hands.
Helter Smelter
Apr. 2019
Dominic Calkosz
Zixuan (Avery) Zou
CJ Nilson
Austin Garcia
Ilana Franklin
Trento von Lindenberg
Helter Smelter is a couch co-op/PvP game about forging weapons for the Norse Gods. Play as Eitri or Brokkr to shape, smelt, and smith the Gods' requests as fast as possible. Compete as two teams to accumlate the most gold, or work together towards a high score.
Beatsketball
Feb. 2019
Dominic Calkosz
Zixuan (Avery) Zou
CJ Nilson
Austin Garcia
Ilana Franklin
Trento von Lindenberg
Beatsketball is a PvP basketball rhythm game that will keep you on your toes. Keep to the beat as you dribble across the court and dodge your opponent's defensive guards. Show your musical mastery by winning every faceoff, and you'll make a sweet dunk. Features song selection, controller support, and endless fast-paced fun.
Nesting
Jan. 2019
Dominic Calkosz
Zixuan (Avery) Zou
Austin Garcia
Ilana Franklin
Trento von Lindenberg
CJ Nilson
Nesting is a single player platformer created for the Global Game Jam 2019, with the theme: What does home mean to you? When we think of home, we think of family, of balance, of growing and finding new experiences. But we also think of the inevitable day when you have to leave and make a new home. In Nesting, you'll build your home one twig at a time.
Cloak and Dagger
Fall 2018
Dominic Calkosz
Carter Williams
Ning Cao
Tommy Jiang
Jessica (Jess) Cao
Jessica Li
Xiang Luo
Gabe Whitney
Cloak and Dagger is a top-down multiplayer online arena brawler where players are visible only under torchlight. It features multiple game modes, customization options, and playable characters. Take on a fast-paced match of King of the Hill, or use your stealth and the element of surprise to be the Last Survivor. Connect with friends online using our AWS server.
Backside Breakout
Oct. 2018
Carter Williams
Tomas San Miguel
Adrian Mester
Tiger Jia
Dominic Calkosz
Backside Breakout is a prison break role-playing game. Gameplay is turn based with multiple turns a day before players have to move back to their cells and lose any items not properly hidden. The most convenient place to stash items is in one's rectum, hence the title Backside Breakout. The game is won by fulfilling one of three different escape routes, possibly involving bribery, disguises, or a copious amount of spoons.
CubiCo
Aug. 2018
Dominic Calkosz
Emma Popham
Jack Lawrie
Augusto Iversen
Drew Sangston
William Yin
Simon Perry
CubiCo is a puzzle game in which you control a businessman trying to get to an interview. After stepping on the same tile twice, it will fall away behind you, so planning and foresight are key. CubiCo was originally made for the Ludum Dare 42 Game Jam in only 72 hours, but has since been expanded and polished. Links to both the original game jam version, and the full version, are available below.
Binary Star
Spring 2018
Carter Williams
Dominic Calkosz
Grace Liu
Adrian Mester
Binary Star is a cooperative couch party game that brings new meaning to the twin stick shooter genre. Work with your partner to control a space ship together and fight off waves of alien enemies: One player pilots the ship while the other controls the cannons. You will have to upgrade your ship and unlock powerful new abilities in order to take on increasingly challenging waves. It will take a combination of teamwork and skill to reach the final boss. Do you have what it takes to defeat him and unlock endless mode?
Talk of the Town
Jan. 2018
Adrian Biagioli
Matthew Bofenkamp
Dominic Calkosz
Grace Liu
Aidan Peck
Talk of the Town is a 2-player game in which you must convince as much of the town as possible that you are the party king. Prove to your fellow citizens that you really are the life of the party by completing the challenges they give you. Succeed, and they'll tell everyone that you truly party harder than your opponent, transmitting your charisma across the community. Convince the most people that you party the hardest, and you win!
Verto Animo
Fall 2017
Carter Williams
Dominic Calkosz
Edward Shin
Adrian Mester
Philip Lamkin
Matthew Bofenkamp
Verto Animo is a cooperative platformer with a twist: Each player controls the movement of one character and the jumping of the other. Test your patience and your friendships as you work together to complete each challenge.
Dead Weight
Spring 2017
Dominic Calkosz
Jack Lawrie
Augusto Iversen
William Yin
Dead Weight is a story-driven puzzle platformer about a young boy who finds himself lost in the woods with no memory of his past. He is lucky enough to find the cabin of an old hermit, who is not unfamiliar with his situation. The hermit does his best to help the boy recollect his past, piece by piece.