Mia Lynn
Zoopany is a serious game that was created with the goal of teaching incoming workers to the tech industry how to identify and deal with toxic behavior. The chapter that was created focuses on Gaslighting. Our team of 6 worked closely with our client and subject matter experts to create a game that teaches about toxic behaviors and some of the options one who finds themselves in such an environment can take in a way that is more engaging than traditional sensitivity training. At the end of our development cycle We will held between-subject studies to test the efficacy of our game against standard sensitivity training.
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Additional credits: Jessica Wei, Kendra Shu, Jarreau Ortega, Dennis Zabluda, Yuxiao Wang
The cookie project is a serious game that aims to teach highschool
students how browser cookies work in a fun and interactive way. Our team of 13 developers spent time analyzing
research papers about learning and memory to incorporate these ideas into the design of the game.
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Endless sound is a protype for a rhythm game that utilizes Artificial Intelligence to create the music. I was part of a team of 4 who worked together over the course of 3 weeks. Our goal was have a rhythm game that could create endless content. We used the Unity Engine and combined it with Pure Data - an open source visual programming language so we could create pitches from our code. We used our music theory knowledge to create an AI that could produce variety in musical rhythm while avoiding dissonant chords.
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Additional Credits to Eduardo Zamora, River Rosevere-Hunt and Jordan Legget
BOOmates is a 2 player couch competitive game where you possess a human to do your spring cleaning. Players fight for control over the human host and compete over who can complete the most chores the fastest. Our team of 13 created this game over the course of 6 months. You
can download and play the game here.
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Finding Nouv is a short browser platform game created with the framework Phaser and Javascript. It follows a young girl Nouv, as she fights her apathetic tendancies and negative emotions in her search to find herself. I worked on a team of 3 who's objective was to create a game that reflected aspects of depression. We tried to convey this by focusing on color palettes and music that transitions from monochromatic to bright and playful.
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Additional Credits to Amber Sargeant and Tifanny Phan
Mister X is a card game prototype that was inspired by a mod me and 2 friends made for the card game Love Letter by Seiji Kanai. In this varient of the game players begin the game holding 3 cards instead of 1. Cards now represent hit points and played card effects have been altered work on a player's entire hand. Players who lose all their cards are out of the game. Additionally entirely new cards have been added to the deck such as the Magician and Mister X and some older cards have been modified to fit the new system.
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Love Struck is a card game that plays on the Japanese trope "Yandere" which is an individual who will go to outrageous ends to gain their target of love's affection. If they are unable to obtain affection they will drag everyone down through violent and explosive actions. In this game 3 to 5 players fight over the affection of an NPC (senpai) drawn from a shared deck. Throughout the game players draw from various decks of cards representing ingredients. Players then can use these ingredients to craft recipes on their recipe card(s)to either: gain affection points, sabatoge/eliminate their opponents or kill the target of affection and reset the affection points for all players. The game is won when a player either gets 7 affection points, Kills a target of affection 5 times, or is the last player standing.
From concept to mechanics to art this game was designed entirely by myself. Specifically I :
