Rise of the Titans

Website: www.rise-of-the-titans.com

Projekt:
In the 3rd Person Shooter ‚Rise of the Titans’, you find yourself in the role of the female mech-pilot Almeida Cruz, who has dropped deep behind enemy lines with her Titan on the Planet of Innsmouth.

Almeida’s goal is, using force of arms and the special abilities of her Titan, to sabotage the defender’s resistance, in order to secure landing zones for the Templar invasion.

Team:
Game Producing:
Alfred Bigler, (PRO I 08), Teamlead
Benjamin Föckersperger, (GP I 08) Producer
Phillip Willers, (GP I 08), Creative Producer

Game Design:
Gil Salvado, (ART I 08), Vision Keeper/Lead Game Designer
Maximilian Schlutter, (ART I 08), Lead Level Designer

Art Department:
Nadine Wies, (ART I 08), Lead Artist
Marco Gromöller, (ART I 08), Artist
Martin Kepplinger, (ART I 08), Artist
Maximilian Eham, (ART I 08), Animator
Mirko Wiedmer, (ART I 08), Animator
Mona Zeutschner, (ART I 07), Artist
Michael Kollmann, (ART I 07), Artist

Programming:
Martin Stark, (PRO I 07), Lead Programmer
Nicolai Pfaff, (PRO I 07), Game Programmer
Christoph Becher, (PRO I 08), Interface Programmer

Freelancing:
Michael Goretzki, (GD extern), Level Design
Daniel Pharos, (SD extern), Sound Design
Alexander Mateasik, (QA extern), Quality Assurance
Daniel Steegmüller, (ART extern), Artist
Daniel Finger, (GD extern), Storywriter

Space Captain Flint

(Work in progress)
Website: www.captain-flint.com

Projekt:
Space Captain Flint is in grave danger! After barely escaping a deadly field of asteroids, the Captain´s ship gets fired at and he crash lands on an alien planet. Now it’s your turn to help Flint survive in the hostile environment, repair his spaceship and unravel the mysteries of an ancient civilization. The first Games Academy project on Nintendo DS!

Features:
- Classical Action Adventure Gameplay
- Innovative, rune - based magic system
- Lovely handmade 2D graphics
- Exciting storyline about alien races and long forgotten technologies

Team:
- Jakob Braunisch (Game Design)
- Patrick Chomik (Art)
- Gordon Ermisch (Art)
- Benjamin Föckersperger (Producing)
- Daniel Federl (Game Design)
- Mathias Gontek (Programmierung)
- Bastian Heinrich (Programmierung)
- Ingo Heßling (Programmierung)
- Tobias Renner (Art)
- Hans Rottler (Producing)
- Sebastian Schröter (Programmierung)
- Thomas Sieben (Game Design)
- Simon Zengl (Art)

Mindbreaker

Website: coming soon

Projekt:
In “Mindbreaker” the player adapts the character of a little girl that has to solve the mystery about the death of her own parents. In the girl’s imagination, the player steers her around in her old house.

A lot of riddles have to be solved while the player has to avoid different types of enemies with the help of a flash light, the only weapon to save him. A never seen genre mix makes the game a special experience.

The game is based on the CryENGINE 2 from Crytek.

Team:
Christin Matt (GD, Protocols)
Eva-Maria Freund (GD, Teamlead, Project Manager)
Eric Eschrich (Art)
Andreas Menkhoff (Art, Art Lead)
John Patrick Deza (Art, Vision Keeper)
Anna Jacob (Art)
Michael Lückhof (Art)
Arne Kleinophorst (Programming)
Dominique Mader (Lead Programming, co Project Manager)

HARD2MORROW

Website: www.hard2morrow.com

Projekt:
HARD2MORROW is a modern 3D adaption of the arcade classic Pong for two players.The game is set in a post apocalyptic world where you take control of a gladiator, who has to face his opponent in an ultimate fight.

Team:
Lead Programmer & Team Lead: Alfred Bigler
Art Director: Sebastian Schild
Concept & 2D Artist: Philipp Fraunholz
Modeling & Technical Artist: Martin Kepplinger
Game Designer: Alexander Lüpke
Animation & Environment Artist: Maximilian Eham
Texturing & Environment Artist: Mirko Wiedmer

CCM

CCM
Website: www.ccm-game.de

Projekt:
Mars, 2402 : Relentless battles for the few remaining resources of the red planet scar the globes surface...

- Tactical first-person shooter
- implemented headtracking technology
- skymap

Team:
Daniel Stegmüller - 3D-Artist
Marko Vajagic - Art Director
Thomas Hilbert - Lead Programmer
Steffen Kleene - Programmer
Martin Stark - 3D-Programmer
Sebastian Meyer - Creative Producer
Martin Kreuzer - Team Lead
Jürgen Kayser - Executive Producer

Blake White

Blake White (GD II 2007 FFM)
Website: www.blakewhite.de

Projekt:
Blake White is an innovative mixture of the 2D jump’n’run genre and the puzzlegame genre offerring a challenging gameplay and an absorbing graphicstyle. The player picks the role of Blake White, owner of a mysterious gameconsole which draws him into a parallelworld upon starting it for the first time. Blake now has to master his given special abilities in order to solve puzzles and surpass obstacles, to finally find his way back into the real world.

Team:
Alexander Lüpke: Producing / Game Design
Timm Over: Art & Animation / Game Design
Alexander Rotter: Art & Animation / Game Design
Martin Storck - Programming, Level Design
Markus Holzer - Game Design, Game Design Document

Blockball

Blockball (ART & PRO I 2007)
Website: www.blockball.de

Projekt:
Roll with your ball in dizzying heights and take care not to falloff.Look around, think and find a way to the exit. Go full speed and make breathtaking jumps from block to block.Roll over smooth gravityswitches to bend the laws of physics and unleash your potential of your orientation skills. But hurry before time runs out.

Team:
Mathias Gonthek (Programming, SFX)
Bastian Heinrich (Game Programming)
Sebastian Schröter (Tool Programming)
Klaus Ullrich (Programming, Game Design)

Holmgång

Holmgång (work in progress ART/PRO/GP 2006)
Website: www.gnosys.at

Projekt:
Holmgång is a Multiplayer Online Roleplaying game. Survive the gloomy, grim  world of the vikings, which has been devasted during the Ragnarök, the war of gods. Experience a new, innovative and fast-paced combat system. By executing mouse gestures, you will be able to unleash deadly attacks upon your enemies.

Team:
Producer:
Michael Röhle
Programming:
Patrick Balthazar (Team Lead)
Daniel Rätzer (Programming Lead)
Lukasz Majchrzak
Artists:
Beatrice Gräßler
Ralf Ossig (3D Lead)
Michael Nadig
Christoph Soyere (GameDesign Lead)
Philipp Büttcher
Denis Loebner (Art Director)
Berker Siino
Frideriki Valkani
Robert Bergmann

Dawn of Bugs

Dawn of Bugs (ART/PRO/GP 2006 sowie GD II 2006)
Website: www.dawnofbugs.de

Projekt:

Fragfist

Fragfist (ART/PRO 2004)
Website: www.fragfist.com

Projekt:
Fragfist is a 3D multiplayer action-shooter with vehicles set in a hostile post-apocalyptic urban environment. The basic idea behind it is to take the vehicle based elements from common FPS titles, like the Battlefield-series, FarCry, UT2k4 etc. to build a cool game around it.

AMOC

AMOC (ART/PRO 2004)
Website: www.amoc-game.com

Projekt:
AMOC is an ultra-fast flight shooter with the classic arcade flair. Players use the mouse and keyboard to fly a female cyborg through steep canyons and narrow streets at breakneck speed. True to the arcade style, they must shoot at anything and everything that can somehow be made to explode.

Bricks from above

Bricks from above (1. Semester, GD I 2006)
Website: www.pixelpony.org

Projekt:
"Bricks from Above" is a game of skill based on the same principle as the classic "Tetris", but taken to a new level with up-to-date graphics, gripping multiplayer duels and a challenging power-up system.

Team:
Olliver Heins - Projektleiter, Sound, Game Design
Sascha Herfort - 3D Artist
Jens Heinrich - Game Design, Animation (Trailer)
Matthias Brunner - Game Design, Dokumentation
Andre Beccu - Programmierung, Balancing
Nils Malte Carstens - 2D Artist

Black Esteem

Black Esteem (ART & PRO I 2006)
Website: coming soon!

Projekt:
In a city shaped and controlled by crime and violence, players pick the role of characters typical for this genre and fight for power and prestige in the underground society..

Team:
Anna Timm: Game Designer / Artist
Tim Harder: Game Designer / Artist
Arend Müller: Programmer
David Wolff: Programmer
Lukasz Majchrzak: Programmer
Florian Bodenschatz: Music

JiaBoo

JiaBoo (ART/PRO/GP 2006))
Website: coming soon!

Projekt:
Guide JiaBoo savely to the destination of his journey, and master countless traps and mean obstacles that guard the way throughout the levels on this adventurous, yet dangerous trip through challenging nature worlds.

Team:
Olaf Spiewok Programmer
Dominik Barth Producer
Simon Holeiter Artist
Florian Bodenschatz Music
Anja Driemecker Music