Siren's Peak
Developed by: Studio Leviathan
Nate Thorn, Cian Rice, and James Martinez
Siren's Peak is a 2D adventure game where players take the role of ex-detective Drake Wright. Drake has arrived at the mysterious town of Siren's Peak to find it deserted. Can he uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of his friend Billy and the rest of the town? It's up to you. Explore the town of Siren's peak to uncover clues and solve puzzles to discover who (or what!) is behind this mystery.
(Winner of Best Original Art, Students' Choice Award)
(Honorable Mention for Best Original Art and Best Overall Game, Students' Choice Award)
(Winner of Best Art, Best Programming and Best Overall Game, Expert Panel Award)
Fractal
Developed by: Ambivalently Ambiguous Games
Cordell Zebrose, Ryan Casey, and Derrick Barth
Fractal is a three-dimensional mystery game that blends the puzzle gameplay of Myst with the visuals and atmosphere of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Navigate an empty space station to discover the fate of its missing crew, and unlock gripping story events as you solve challenging puzzles. Fractal features beautiful 3D rendered scenes with a science fiction theme, while offering ambient sounds and atmosphere that sets the suspenseful mood of the game. Complete the game's levels to discover a plot twist that will turn the world of Fractal upside down!
(Winner of Most Original Game and Best Technical
Programming, Students' Choice Award)
(Honorable Mention for Best Overall Game, Students' Choice Award)
(Honorable mention for Best Technical Programming, Expert Panel Award)
Furious Charles
Developed by: Exit Clock
Michael Miranda, Ben Kaplan, and Binh Pham
Charles The Irritable has a problem. After a night of especially heavy drinking, he found that he could no longer remember his spells. Now, he has to murder everything he encounters to get enough blood to fill his spellbook! Accompany him as he battles his way through multiple fast-paced levels, with varied spells and powers, as he bests his foes and finally faces down the universe's ultimate evil. With new mechanics such as the rage meter, the fury meter and the wrath meter, expect some angry slaughter as Charles The Perturbed chews his way through enemy legions to once again come out on top.
(Winner of Best Overall Game and Best Sound, Students' Choice Award)
(Honorable mention for Best Overall Game, Expert Panel Award)
Kaijin no Gekitou
Developed by: Doujin Soft
Michael Pelissari, Stephan Aelmore, and Nick Konstantino
Kaijin no Gekitou is a classic 2D fighter in the style of games like Street Fighter and Guilty Gear, enhanced with modern features such as integrated physics, destructible stages, and compositor effects. The game is combo-based, like Smash Bros, and revolves around fast-paced reflex action.
(Winner of Best Gameplay, Students' Choice Award)
(Honorable Mention for Best Art, Expert Panel Award)
Punishment
Developed by: Turn Left Studios
Bishop Myers, Freda Smith, Mike Johnson, and Andrew Lindstrom
My head hurts. The room is dark. I can't remember where I am or how I got here. The lights are out ... where's the switch?
Welcome to Punishment. Your goal is to escape this mysterious room by clicking and interacting with objects. Good luck.
(Honorable Mention for Best Original Art, Students' Choice Award)
(Honorable Mention for Best Art, Best Gameplay,
and Best Overall Game, Expert Panel Award)
Galaxy Bounce
Developed by: Miluji Studios
Mike Frankfort, Jill Sauer, and Lucien LeMenager
Galaxy Bounce is a game that has a platform-based concept and puzzle-based game play where getting from point A to point B involves solving an intricate puzzle. In Galaxy Bounce, the player moves the main character, Xerb, from a start point to different platforms to ultimately reach a goal. The player has to solve the puzzle that the platforms create in order to reach the door at the end to the next level. The combination of platform-style gameplay and unique puzzles makes the game engaging and addictive, and has the player coming back for more to find new techniques to solve the progressively challenging puzzles the game presents.
(Winner of Best Gameplay, Expert Panel Award)
(Honorable Mention for Best Programming, Expert Panel Award)
Escape from Hell
Developed by: Missing Apnea
Will Caulfield and Matt Ferreira
Escape from Hell is a one-player side-scroller game in which you play as the character of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop himself. This is a post-death game in which MJ has been sent to Hell and now, he is desperately trying to escape. Many surprising obstacles lie ahead, but with the true swagger of a smooth criminal, not even the Devil can hold Michael back. What he seeks is repentance for his sins. He must beat his way through the Stage of Hell, which can be quite the overwhelming challenge. But then again, when has there ever been a stage on which MJ has not been able to get his groove on? After all, he is the master of the moonwalk. So strap on a glove and get ready to pelvic thrust your way through Hell. The King of Pop will live on. The darkness will become light (and not with bleach).
(Winner of Best Visual Art Selection, Students' Choice Award)
Lazor Tank
Developed by: Chocolate Sauce
Samantha O'Neill, Ethan White, and Jonathan Saunders
Your puppy's gone missing, but you suspect you know who took him ... operate a remote-controlled tank to navigate through a shampoo factory, advance by using various lifts and switches, and thwart the conceited and effeminate villain to save your dog! LazorTank is a puzzle game in which you use Lazors to manipulate various machines, and advance through several tile-based levels to find your puppy.
(Honorable mention for Best Art, Expert Panel Award)
Run 4 Your Life
Developed by: Team Drafted
Evan Davies, JJ Zhaochen, and Ed Golden
Run 4 Your Life is 2D platformer game with a scrolling screen that kills the player if the screen moves past the player. In order to survive you must duck and jump through deadly obstacles all the while staying one step ahead of the screen. This game is fast but easy to learn, and it can be played by any PC that can run Adobe Flash.
Surge
Developed by: Team Surge
Matt Tomson, Peter Wallace, and Stephen Wood
You are Professor John Surge of WPI. You have accidently unleashed an epidemic that you unknowingly created upon the WPI campus. Now you put it upon yourself to take out as many as you can trying to keep the infection contained. Fight your way 3 separate familiar WPI landmarks of rising difficulties against hordes of multiple different zombie types with your trusty pistol. Try to earn as many points as you can before you get overwhelmed by the zombie horde. You have been warned, not that it will stop you, Surge.
Operation Kaz
Developed by: Copy Pasta Studios
Jeffrey Thomas, Wyatt Gray, and William Jones-Mulaire
One morning, Gunner woke up to a zombie sound. "What was that?" cried Gunner fearfully. "Zombies,", said Driver. "Let's get the *censored* out of here!" Driver and Gunner got in the Zombiemobile. "We should Head towards the highway!" screamed Gunner. You do the gunning, I'll do the driving," declared Driver boldly. Little did they know that their adventure would lead them directly into the very heart of evil. It wasn't just a coincidence. It was their destiny...
Center of the Universe
Developed by: Twisted Gears
James Sturges, Gregory Moore, and Alfredo Porras
Center of the Universe follows Steve the Star on his quest to find something to orbit around him. In this task, he must goes through asteroid fields, around planets, and to the edges of the universe. Manipulate gravity, jump from asteroid to asteroid, conquer challenging mazes, and help Steve find his place in the Universe.
Raptor Rifts
Developed by: Cantaloupe Destroyers
Michael Grossfeld, Michael Metzler, and Will Stockinger
Raptor Rifts is a sidescrolling action game in where you run for your life from devastating raptors. When raptors suddenly crash an office birthday party, it’s run or die. Avoid obstacles as you make your way through various levels while trying ever so hard to avoid being eaten by the vicious raptors. Achieve victory by successfully reaching the end of all the levels, finally outrunning the raptors once and for all!
An Exercise in Morality
Developed by: Carl Games
Anthony Sessa, Evan Saccoccio, and Antonio Vincentelli
You are an underpaid accountant living in New York City. You are single, alone, and struggling to make ends meet. Worst of all, you are also an addicted gambler, which you started with the deluded notion of changing your luck around. Now, you owe $100,000 in lost bets and have only 24 hours to attain the money. What happens next is up to you.
Finish to the Race
Developed by: Marvelous Nonsense
Drew Clapp, Lukasz Zawada, and Brian Seney
Finish to the Race is a pseudo-3d side-scrolling action game. You control Tyler OneWheel, a man with a dream: to win the annual unicycle race. However, he woke up late, and now must race to the race itself! On the way he will have to deal with many obstacles, such as falling branches, balloons, clouds, evil bubbles, and roadkill. Be careful on your journey! If you get hit too many times, poor Tyler will lose all his confidence and abandon his dream. However, if you manage to survive all the way to the end, Tyler will enter the race and become a champion!
Immortal Memories EX
Developed by: Team Dragon
Alex Rosen
Immortal Memories EX or Extension allows the player to become part of an original saga called Immortal Memories. The player will start off as a lowly mage, warrior, or rogue eventually emerge as a familiar face from the actual storyline. The player will then experience a brief journey of that character. The player is led to believe that the character they are playing as is them from a time and place that existed before the “beginning of time”. And they are playing a sequence of their reawakened memories.
Zephyrian Chronicles
Developed by: GAS
Sasha Abdurazak, Anthony Vergara, and Gabriel Stern-Robbins
Once every 100 years the people of the world celebrate as the floating island in the sky zephyria approaches the earth. But little do they know the dark one zaerech has betrayed the inhabitants of the floating island and turned it into his own dark fortress filled with monsters and abomination. Unknown to the people of the earth, it is only a matter of time before the island comes crashing down to bring calamity to all. Enter our heroine Sarah of Zeria, descendant of the zephyrian people, now she is all that stands between the world and total destruction.