Zero Project Games

One of the many requirements BSGD's have at DigiPen Institute of Technology is that we have to make a bunch of individual games.  We need to do this in DigiPen's home made engine, the Zero Engine.  Because it's made by DigiPen, it doesn't always work perfectly.  For example, I can't get Fraps to work with it.  So I can't take any videos of these games to make your life easier, and I'm sorry about that.  But these games are an important sample of my work.  I took the best (In my opinion) of the three to put up here.

Relocator | 2012

  • Puzzle Game
  • Destroy and move objects to get your golden cubes to the goal
  • Team Responsibilities: Solo Project
  • Team size one, Junior Year
  • Core Aesthetic: Submission
Relocator is a physics based puzzle game.  The player can only really do two things: destroy red objects and drop heavy purple spheres.  The idea is to get your little golden boxes to the goal, but it's usually harder than it looks.  Though not that hard.  The core Aesthetic I really wanted to try my had at with Relocator was submission, or game as past time.  I feel it was pretty successful in the end.  When making the game, I noticed I had two main puzzle types: timing based puzzles and construction puzzles.  The shift between the two different ways of thinking really killed the experience for some of my play testers, so although the construction puzzles were by far more challenging, they really didn't fit the feel of the game so I had to cut them.