Graduating Cohort 20 Students To Showcase Venture Projects on Monday
November 25, 2024
Just weeks away from graduating with their Master of Science in Interactive Entertainment, students and teams in the Cohort 20 Digital Venture Practicum will showcase their inventive projects on Monday, Dec. 2 at Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy at UCF Downtown.
The venture course provides opportunities for students to work on their own product and/or company idea. Students select their own teams, concepts and manage the entire development, marketing and distribution process. The course utilizes the Lean Startup methodology and experts in the area of intellectual property rights, marketing, contracting and financial management contribute to the course.
An assortment of video games, tools, packs and plug-ins, graduating students just weeks away from graduating will present their creations in a 10-minute feature, including an overview of the product market and demonstration of the game, prototype, asset or tool.
Student Projects
The Adventures of Jenny Watts
Kyle Hand
The Adventures of Jenny Watts is a demo/proof of concept of an electrical-based interaction system used to create stealth gameplay. It includes an additional concept for a tutorial that players would experience early in game to learn this system.
Brass and Embers
Blake Barbosa Gama
Step into the world of Brass and Embers, a steampunk TTRPG, where innovation fuels wonder, and danger lurks in the shadow of progress. Navigate a land of clashing ambitions—tycoons, nobles, rebels, and dreamers—all vying for power in the wake of a world-changing tech revolution. Will you shape the future or fall victim to its flames?
Co-op Tabletop: The Ultimate Digital Toolkit for Tabletop Roleplaying Games!
Unnatural 20 Studios, Michael Diaz, Tristan Spear
From the Tabletop to your Laptop: Run your favorite TTRPGs like never before! With Co-op Tabletop, you can host local game sessions on your laptop with friends over a local network. Recreate the excitement of a traditional game night with digital dice, immersive 3D maps, and a character generator that brings your heroes and NPCs to life.
Desultor
Brian Rushing
Desultor is a 2D-animated pilot created by Brian Rushing focusing on the struggles of two opposing sides and the repercussions of their decisions on those around them–not just their loved ones, but of the city they are in continuous contest over. This trailer is a small glimpse into the different characters, locations, and interpersonal conflicts that will be the focus during the full animation.
Education Course in Level Design on Thinkific
Austin Michaud
Providing aspiring level designers with an affordable, comprehensive, and engaging 16-week course that combines experienced level design instruction and professional instructional design principles, rooted in psychology and education, to ensure mastery of fundamental skills through practical projects and proven learning methodologies.
Jewelsmithe
Moonstone Games, Sandy Ford
A cozy gem of an RPG: Jewelsmithe is a fantasy life simulation RPG where the player must strive to become the best jeweler in all the land. Run your shop, gather materials, and create stunning pieces of enchanted jewelry. Grow closer with your customers and build your ideal fashionable fantasy life.
Meow-nopoly!
Willow Rachels, Jeffrey Zhang, Noa Baggs, Max Wolf
Claw Your Way to the Top of the Stock Meow-ket: Step into the paws of a cunning business cat on a mission to dominate the stock market and outsell your competitors! Buy low, sell high, and claw your way to the top as you build your empire with savvy investments and cunning schemes. Keep your whiskers on alert: the Internal Rat-venue Service is always lurking in the shadows, looking to steal your hard-earned purr-ofits. It’s a high-stakes game of strategy, deception, and, of course, purr-fect timing! Can you outsmart, out-invest, and out-meowneuver them all to become the richest cat in the business world?
One-on-One Arena Fighter Demo
SheepSheepGames (Yang Chen, Jason Ye)
A combat game demo that delivers an immersive, free-flow combat experience. It offers a flexible system for developers to integrate into their own projects and built upon. It will be available in the asset store and potential PVP expansion.
Plug-n-Play
Nillohit Manna
Esports-Ready Player Kits Shaping the Future of Competitive Gaming: These modular player kits are designed to bring precision and balance to competitive gameplay, offering customizable abilities and real-time tuning tools to enhance esports experiences.
Project Nonsense
Nonsense Studios (Quin Li, Ted Agriogianis, others)
Project Nonsense is an immersive sim where the player takes the role of a humanoid hyena trapped in a collapsing Dyson Sphere. They must learn to work with ancient human technology and navigate the hazardous megastructure all while being pursued by the remnants of the robotic maintenance system. Learn about the origin of your species and the tragedy that befell mankind, as your actions permanently influence the future of three species. Through interacting with the digitized remains of the humans and their robot servants that gained sentience, you must choose a future to side with, and annihilate the other.
Queries Unlimited
Sparrot Squad (Alex Issa, others)
Banish evil with your friends! Queries Unlimited is an online cooperative multiplayer game where you and up to four of your friends team up to banish an evil entity that patrols a rundown mansion. Explore a full procedurally-generated mansion to find mystical slates, bring them to the banishing ritual site, and lure the malevolent entity to the ritual to win. However, the entity will do everything in its power to stop you from achieving this goal!
Rock Image Asset Pack
Meagan Stoughton
This Realistic looking cliff and rock pack features 10 modular pieces of rock/cliff to help build your environment. The pack contains various sizes to explore at your heart’s content!
Titan’s Resurgence
Karan Prasad
Forge your path through a perilous waves where every strike counts, every choice echoes, and every battle is a test of survival—are you ready to face the unyielding?
Starboard
Spunky Studios, Daniel Velasco
Do you have what it takes to be a pirate? Starboard is a first-person action-adventure game created by the talented team at Spunky Studios.
Studio Point Blank
Studio Point Blank (Tori Gillis, others)
In-Engine Solutions for Cinematic Development – From Initial Concepts to Final Renders: Studio Point Blank is a cinematic outsourcing company specializing in in-engine cinematic development. They’ve developed a proof of concept short film of an intense fight scene between two foes to showcase their capabilities as a development team. Check out Studio Point Blank for future updates on their epic content!
Sunny Zheng Zbrush Asset Store
Sunny Zheng
My venture product is about opening a Zbrush asset store that sells accurate anatomy base meshes for character artists. The primary selling platform is the ArtStation marketplace and other websites including SketchFeb, Gumroad, and so on. My product can also be used in various fields including games, animations, 3D printable figures, education, and medical use.
Yegues Schettini Audio
Yegues Schettini
A freelance audio studio focused on contract work for sound design and technical audio implementation. Skills range from creation of sound assets, composition, and technical audio skills in Wwise, C#, and native Unreal Engine systems. Various SFX packs created can also be downloaded from gumroad.com.