Game Challenge results
What a year! Amazing people, amazing games!
Grand Prize Winner
People’s Choice Winner
Indie Category
- GigaSword by Hybrid Games – an action-puzzle metroidvania in which you wield a huge sword that weighs you down. By sticking the sword in the ground, you’re able to jump higher, but you become unable to attack. Many of the puzzles revolve around sticking the sword into interactive objects that transport it around the room to areas you wouldn’t have been able to reach while holding it. With cataclysm on the horizon, it’s up to you to ascend the ancient tower and recover the God Crystal, Gnosis.
- Don’t Take It Personally, I Just Don’t like You by Christian DeCoster et al – A dating sime where not everyone wants to date you.
- Betty & Earl by Giant Light Studios – a puzzle game where you move the heroes, enemies, obstacles, and everything else, all at the same time. You will explore the tragic and hilarious nature of interconnectedness by crashing enemies into each other, using them to open doors and disable traps, and then sacrificing them to the ever growing flames and clear a path to reunite the disconnected couple. Discover what it means to live in a world where we depend on each other, and learn how growth and destruction are both collaborators and adversaries.
College & University Category
- The Camera That Bleeds (RIT) – a horror mystery game with a noir graphic novel visual style where you play a ghost-hunting detective, solving ghostly mysteries using an instant camera that can see into the invisible, supernatural world. Follow footprint trails, look through drawers and cabinets, “manifest” supernatural evidence with your camera, and figure out what happened at the crime scene. Be careful to avoid the monster, however – don’t make too much noise if it’s nearby, lest it hear you and chase you down!
- Out of CTRL (Tufts & Northeastern) – A haunted chatbot on a decrepit old computer. You can only form sentences by cleverly Copy/Pasting it’s text back to it in this creepypasta inspired interactive fiction game.
- Isogirl (Becker) – an action platformer roguelike in which you delve deep into the world to determine its secrets.
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Learning from others
Andrew Beaulieu
MassDiGI’s Experience Program (XP) has passed its midway point and the teams are buckling in for the final stretch towards releasing their games. I wanted to give perspective on why meeting new people and working on projects with them is a fantastic opportunity, and how it allows everyone involved to grow as developers.
I am a part of Team Cake, a group of seven people who have never met before, given the task of developing a completed mobile game in eleven weeks. Every person on the team came in with a strong set of skills, yet each of us has grown in new and exciting ways by learning from one another. This growth not only enables us to make our game better, but also gives us experience that we can take forward to our future projects.
The classroom can teach basic skills, and online resources are an incredible tool, but the greatest learning opportunity comes from the people you work with. Being able to absorb all the lessons that your colleagues have learned in a fraction of the time is an amazing benefit of working on a team. Working with the incredibly skilled people here at the XP program has given me the experience of working on dozens of different games, all in less than three months.
In the coming weeks Team Cake, as well as Team Pie and Team Custard, will be finalizing our ideas and releasing our games. It will be a bittersweet moment, and one that will be upon us far too quickly. My advice to my peers at XP and to everyone interested in improving themselves is to squeeze out every drop of knowledge you can from those around you, and not to be shy about spreading your own skills and ideas to others.
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Start your journey today! The Jump Start Game Jam welcomes all – especially high school students or those interested in making a game for the first time! Online! Free! Preregister now!
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MassDiGI is part of the Becker College family. Yesterday’s update regarding the college was tough to read. We appreciate the messages of support we have received and welcome any questions though we may not have any answers – not yet, at least. That said, from our perspective, the work we do at MassDiGI is the work we do and our expectation is that it will continue. We will share more information when we can.
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Save these dates!
2021 is shaping up to be a busy one at MassDiGI. Lots going on!
- SIP21 application opens up – January 21, 2021
- Game Challenge registration opens up – February 8, 2021
- XP2 application opens up – March 8, 2021
- SIP21 application closes – March 22, 2021
- Game Challenge – March 26 & 27, 2021
- XP1 ends – April 16, 2021
- XP2 application closes – April 23, 2021
- 10th Birthday Celebration – April 26, 2021
- SIP21 begins – May 18, 2021
- XP2 begins – June 7, 2021
- XP3 application opens up – July 12, 2021
- SIP21 Open House – August 12, 2021
- SIP21 ends – August 15, 2021
- XP2 ends – August 20, 2021
- XP3 application closes – August 27, 2021
- XP3 begins – October 4, 2021
- XP3 ends – December 10, 2021
Of course, given the pandemic, all programs and activities are expected to be virtual. However, we hope that at some point we will be able to return to the way things were – or at least to some semblance of the way things were – later in the year.
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Join us at the first virtual BostonFIG Fest! Tickets are available and pay-what-you-like.
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