FIEA’s Cohort 21 Students To Showcase Venture Projects on Dec. 1
November 19, 2025
The Venture Practicum empowers students to bring their own venture concepts to life from the ground up. From forming teams and refining ideas to managing development, marketing, and distribution, students experience the full lifecycle of launching a digital product. Guided by the Lean Startup methodology and supported by experts in intellectual property, marketing, contract law, and financial planning, the course blends innovation with real-world rigor.
This year’s showcase spans everything from atmospheric narrative adventures to powerful development toolkits. Audiences will step into the creeping dread of YOU, a psychological horror puzzle set in a looping retro fast-food restaurant; dive beneath occult-tinged waters in Nadir Sea, a narrative strategy game by Steam Sheep Games built on Unity and DOTS; confront the uncanny in The Hanging Stranger, inspired by the classic Philip K. Dick story; and explore the dynamic, character-swapping combat of Mirror of Shadows, a medieval fantasy action RPG. Other ventures push beyond games entirely—like Holy Frog Forge, a 3D art team crafting high-quality printable resin figures.
Each project will be showcased in a 10-minute presentation featuring market insights and live demonstrations of their polished games, prototypes, asset packs, and other products. Together, the event captures the spirit of FIEA: fearless experimentation, collaborative problem-solving, and the relentless pursuit of creative possibility.
Student Projects
Nadir Sea
Steam Sheep Games
The waves hold secrets. The game is a single-player, narrative-driven, strategy game, which is inspired by the Lovecraftian horror and nautical exploration. Built in Unity and DOTS, the game leverages a modular, card-based system to deliver a dense, atmospheric experience centered around occultism, forbidden knowledge, management of interpersonal relationships and power dynamics.
YOU
Zhouyi Huang
YOU is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game set in a retro fast-food restaurant, where you’re trapped in a 20-minute time loop—the timeline is fixed, but you aren’t.
The Hanging Stranger
TypePress Studios
The Hanging Stranger is an adaptation of a short story by the same name written by Philip K. Dick in 1953. Living through the eyes of Ed Loyce, a TV salesman in the small town of Pikeville, you find a dead body hanging in the park-and things only get weirder from there. Figure out what went wrong, where to go next, and who you can trust in a world now turned askew.
Mirror of Shadows
Mirror of Shadows is an action RPG set in a medieval fantasy world where humans and half-human and half-beast beings known as demi-humans live. Play as one of the demi-humans who lost her home to a war and separated from her sister during a servant trade in an unknown country, forming an uneasy alliance with the sovereign of the nation. This game features dynamic combat with character swapping, skill connecting, and combo system as well as a deep equipment system to ensure there’s a playstyle for everyone.
Holy Frog Forge
Holy Frog Forge is a team of talented artists with the goal of creating original 3D resin figures. We offer ready-to-print STL files for a streamlined and easy printing process. We have a large focus on craftmanship and quality, as we are artists first! Please look forward to more!
Detected Loop
Discovery often leads to madness: Detected Loop is a Lovecraftian detective horror game where you play as Orren Borisov, a retiring investigator pulled back to a decade-old Nazi occult case after a string of disappearances in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.
Mad Mages
SlopCap Games
SlopCap Games has developed a flexible and easily transportable network games toolkit, utilized by their networked co-op speech recognition-based game Mad Mages. The team’s mission has been to create a modular framework for rapidly creating games in the “Friend-Slop” genre, whose games typically contain proximity chat, and emphasize mechanically lightweight gameplay, explorative playstyles, and comedic emergent content. SlopCap’s evolving toolkit includes: robust network multiplayer with Steam integration, a custom interaction system, procedural dungeon generation, syllabic speech recognition, and customizable proximity chat.
Blood Memory
Ampersandbox Studios
A third-person action-adventure where the past won’t stay buried. When a burned-out journalist and a UNESCO field expert uncover a Vodun relic in Benin, they awaken ghosts tied to centuries of violence and loss. Their search for answers leads them through colonial legacies, hidden ruins, and those who would exploit the curse for power.
Tempe Goes to Wawa 2
Styled after the original 3D Zelda games, Tempe Goes to Wawa 2 is an autobiographical adventure which follows the protagonist, Tempe, a deeply indebted Florida thug attempting to walk to a nearby gas station to fulfill a specific dessert craving.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Anniversary
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Anniversary is a modern, HD love letter to the original series. Working alongside YouTuber The Unwithered Truth, the team is turning his fangame pitch, now past 2 million views, into a fully playable project. Built in Unity HDRP, it rebuilds the classic formula with new mechanics, expanded areas, side content, and fully voiced story moments. The goal is to capture the tension, dread, and dark corporate humor of FNAF while presenting it with the scale and polish of a full reboot.
Foxtale Studio
Brandon Espinal
Foxtale Studio LLC is an animation outsourcing company specializing in creating compelling, stylized cutscenes and in-engine cinematics. We aim to provide high-quality animation services to indie and AA game studios. At Foxtale, we believe that great visual storytelling elevates gameplay—and we’re here to craft those unforgettable moments. As proof of concept, we’ve partnered with Ampersandbox to create the opening cinematic for their game Blood Memory.