This is a selection of games created and published by NYU Game Center students.
Ape Out
Ape Out is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
Designers: Gabe Cuzzillo (BFA ’15) , Bennett Foddy (Faculty) and Matt Boch (Faculty)
Honors: Published by Devolver Digital, Backed by IndieFund, 2016 Independent Games Festival, Best Student Game, Finalist
Available on: Nintendo Switch and Steam, GOG, & Humble Store
Membrane
Membrane is a creative-action puzzle game in which you build, bend and break the world around you while experimenting to create your own solutions. Bendy bridges, wobbly ladders and shaky structures are just the beginning of what you’ll make to test the limits of this weird, day-glo world!
Designers: Seth S. Scott (MFA ’17), with Perfect Hat Games
Honors: 2018 Independent Games Festival, Best Student Game, Honorable Mention
Available on: Nintendo Switch and Coolmatch Games Store
Triple Agent
Triple Agent is a mobile party game for 5-9 people. Each player is secretly assigned a role as either a member of The Service or a double agent for VIRUS. Players then pass the phone around as they get events that can reveal information about other players, change their allegiance, or give them a completely new win condition. At the end of the game each player votes on who to imprison. If a double agent is imprisoned, the Service wins. Otherwise VIRUS does. Each game is an intense 10 minutes of deception, cunning, and deduction.
Designers: Tasty Rook with Sig Gunnarsson (MFA ’15)
Honors: 2017 Nordic Sensation Award Nominee at Nordic Game Conference, 2017 Indie Game Expo at RESPAWN, 2017 IndieCade Europe Selection
Available on: iOS , and Google Play
Major General: Duel of Time
In Major General: Duel of Time, each player has a set of eight Order cards which they play beside the battlefield, overlaying existing orders. All orders for both players that are still showing are resolved after each card is played. Control the most territories at the end of the game to win!
Designers: Wyatt Yeong, Jingjin Liu, Jonathan Moormann, Jing Zhao
Available on: Amazon
Beglitched
Spin your way through crazy imaginary worlds inside the mind of a troubled inventor. Using just one finger, guide Click and Cogsworth to recover the inventor’s memory and bring him back to reality. Easy to learn and packed with whimsical adventures, Cognition is the world’s first “Tap-former”!
Designers: Hexecutable: AP Thomson & Jenny Jiao Hsia
Honors: 2016 IGF Best Student Game Winner, 2015 Fantastic Arcade Official Selection, 2016 Indiecade Finalist, 2016 Bit Bash Official Selection
Available on: iOS, Steam, itch.io, The Humble Store
3 Nights In Chicago
3 Nights in Chicago is a competitive local multiplayer game for 2 or 4 players where two teams of gangsters attempt to rob the same bank at the same time. Players race to crack open safes, grab the loot, and get it back to their getaway car before the cops show up.
Designers: CS Wallace, Carl Farra, Ben Poland, Angela Lee
Honors: Casual Connect USA 2016 Best Multiplayer Game finalist, Ludicious Festival 2017 Best Student Game nominee
Available on: itch.io
Swap Sword
It’s Swap Sword! A knife-sharp adventure through a brutal world of puzzling bushido. Swap Sword takes the familiar landscape of a match-3 puzzle game and cuts in the tactical challenge of a roguelike-style battlefield. When pitted against a monstrous army over ever-changing terrain, will you be able to draw your sword before you draw your last breath?
Designers: AP Thomson & Diego Garcia
Honors: 2017 Game Design Choice Award Mobile Game Honorable Mention
Available on: iOS
Soft Body
Meditate in bullet heaven.
Designer: Zeke Virant
Honors: 2016 Fantastic Arcade Official Selection, 2016 Belgium Game Awards Best Art, 2016 SXSW Gamer’s Voice Award Nominee, 2016 Independent Games Festival Best Design and Seamus McNally Grand Prize (Honorable Mentions), 2015 Whippering Indie Cup Finalist, 2014 hóPLAY Best Sound, 2014 European Indie Game Days Finalist, 2014 Ludicious Diamond in the Rough Winner, 2014 Out of Index Festival Official Selection, 2014 Gamercamp Official Selection
Available on: Playstation 4, Steam, and itch.io
Peter Panic
Peter Panic is the world’s first mobile mini-game musical, bringing all the magic of Big Broadway to your smart devices!
Website: adultswim.com/games/press/peter-panic/
Designer: James Marion
Honors: Top 10 Funniest Games on the App Store, Best Presentation 2015 RPI Festival
Available on: iOS
BADBLOOD
Find your unique style of murder in this intimate and visceral local multiplayer for two, and outwit your neighbor. Same bloody field, different bloody perspective. Hide, seek, kill.
Website: badbloodgame.tumblr.com
Designers: Winnie Song
Available on: Steam and itch.io
Brooklyn 1776
A light, tactical war game exploring the events of the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War, The Battle of Brooklyn.
Website: brooklyn1776.com
Designers: Maxim Kolbowski-Frampton, Ben Poland, and Pierre Depaz for Creative Good
Available on: iOS
Circa Infinity
A brain-melting circular platformer with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.
Website: circainfinitygame.com
Designer: Kenny Sun
Honors: Pax Prime 2015 Official Selection, 2015 XOXO Arcade Official Selection, 2015 Fantastic Arcade Official Selection
Available on: Steam and itch.io
Cibele
Cibele is a game based on a true story about love, sex, and the internet.
Website: ninasays.so/cibele
Designers: Nina Freeman, Emmett Butler, and Decky Coss
Honors: 2015 Indiecade Selection, 2015 The Game Awards Nominee
Available on: Steam and itch.io
Slash Dash
In this local multiplayer ninja capture the flag game, players will slash, dash, and teleport while utilizing their best ninja moves to fight for the win.
Website: nevernautgames.com/#slashdash
Designers: Adnan Agha, Alexandre Gresh, Vivian, and Armand Silvani
Honors: 2014 Indiecade Selection, 2015 GDC IndieMegaBooth, 2014 E3 ID@Xbox
Available on: Xbox One
Rooftop Cop
A world of Police that have forgotten what, and why, they are policing.
Website: rooftopcop.com
Designer: Stephen Lawrence Clark
Honors: 2015 IGF Student Showcase Winner, 2014 IGF Nuovo Finalist, 2015 Fantastic Arcade Official Selection
Available on: Steam and itch.io
Sunburn!
Your ship is gone. Your crew is scattered. One option remains. Gather your crew… and jump into the sun.
Website: playsunburn.com/
Designers: Aaron Freedman, Diego Garcia, and Toni Pizza
Honors: 2014 Indiecade Official Selection, App Store Best New Game Selection, 2014 Gamercamp Official Selection
Available on: iOS and Google Play
Nika
Command a Greek city’s hoplite soldiers. Push and rout enemy lines. Coordinate allied attacks to secure victory, but watch your flanks!
Website: eaglegames.net/Nika
Designer: Josh Raab
Honors: 2013 Ion Award Best Strategy Game Winner, 2014 Golden Geek Best Abstract Board Game Nominee
Available on: Amazon and Publisher’s Site
Maquisard
Maquisard is a charming game of snooping and investigation.
Website: maquisard.itch.io/maquisard
Designers: Julian Hyde, Angela Lee, Terry Li, Wyatt Yeong, Kailin Zhu
Honors: 2015 Indiecade Official Selection, 2015 Indiecade E3 Showcase Official Selection
Available on: itch.io
Stellar Smooch
Help the two space probes smooch!
Website: alecthomson.com/home.htm
Designers: Alec Thomson, Jenny Jiao Hsia
Honors: 2015 IGF Student Showcase Winner, 2015 IndieCade Official Selection
Available on: iOS