The rapid prototypes were produced in a two- to four-week period in instructor Ron Weaver's Rapid Prototype Production course, a boot camp for making your first games and creating innovative gameplay.
Snot Rocket Troll
Description:
Lay waste to the kingdom and leave behind a sticky, gooey mess. Use spitballs, boogers, and earwax balls to bring about your messy revenge.
Development Team:
Bobby Ciullo, Brent Hunter, James Melsha, Pamela Vargas, Ignacio Garcia
Ballocalypse
Description:
An intense, fast-paced, multi-player "Pong meets Peggle" on steroids! Shoot your ball into pegs, power-ups, and your oppenents' goal to amass points and claim total victory. Requires 2-4 Xbox 360 controllers and a wireless gaming receiver for Windows to play properly.
Development Team:
Bobby Ciullo, Mathias Haugner, Ryan Morse, Chris Spence, Eric Montanari, and Special Thanks to Reid Bond for creating the installer.
Scridoodle
Description:
Scridoodle is a two person challenge racing game. The first version was done in flash and it was ported over to XNA for the polish round.
Development Team:
Victor Estorino, Rob Raissi, James Marcus, Andres Cantor, Travis Hawk
Charged
Description:
Charged is a XNA puzzle game that requires the player to light up all Goal Nodes on a given board using electrical charges. Charged is playable on the XBox 360 and also on the PC. It has 3 difficulties with 10 stages per difficulty.
Notes:
To run the game you need to run "RunGame.bat" inside the Final Build folder.
Development Team:
Brian DeSanti, Travis Hawk, Mike Prestia, Kait Peplow, Josh Star
Polish Team:
Brian DeSanti, Erin Anderson, Matt Watkins, Donald Branch, Lauren Schenzel
Wall-E
Description:
Wall E game is a sequel to the movie where you must help the humans regrow plant life on earth. As Wall E and his side kick roach, the player must collect seeds before the approaching sand storm reaches the green house.
Notes:
This game requires that you install XNA. The installers are provided here. Please follow the read me file included in the zip.
Development Team:
Johnathan Wolverton, Steve Durst, Alex Zelenin, Carlos Garcia, Katie Wollam, Victor Estorino, Ignacio Garcia
Arcane Fury
Description:
Two to four players match arcane powers with quick thinking as they do battle. Knocking off three opponents in a row unleashes your Arcane Fury, which calls down a meteor to decimate your enemies. Made in Gamebryo and requires 2-4 XBox 360 controllers.
Development Team:
Dan Scholten, James Melsha, Tom Galdi, Reid Bond, Jason McGowen
I Herd Ya
Description:
You are the wrangler. Your aliens have escaped across the planet, and you must re-capture them. The majority of aliens will run away scared from you as you approach. You have to herd them into your transporter. Don't get sucked into your own transporter or you'll be a failure as a wrangler.
Development Team:
Paul Watkins, Corey Teblum, Steve Baker
Morphin' Marvin
Description:
You play the role of Marvin, the blue guy. Marvin can transform into Rock, Paper, or Scissors. Coincidentally, he's up against a Scissor monster. Use Marvin's Rock form to break Scissors by running into it with the arrow keys.
Development Team:
Jeff Champ, Mark McGee, Chase Ruppert, Olayimika A. Alade
Circle Spirits
Description:
Use portals to leap from planet to planet to save your mother and your land from an evil priest. Battle safari animals along the way in this dark action/adventure game.
Development Team:
Barrett Lovorn, Chris Hapner, Rogier van Etten
Bugaholic
Description:
Quickly spin a spider web to catch enough bugs to fill your target stash before the sun goes down.
Development Team:
Jennie Gritton, Greg Heddlesten, James Moore
Up Your Kilt
Description:
The object of the game is to take over the enemy’s castle. The units at your disposal are an infantry, archers, and a cavalry. Capture the tower to gain resources and increase the unit cap.
Development Team:
Tim Metzler, Matt Read, Rich Grula, Chris Smith
Axis
Description:
This game is a 3D puzzler where you rotate platforms on all three axes to reach the target.
Development Team:
Trey Morabito, Jeremy Conkin, Isaac Oster, Nathan Forget
Penguin Pandemonium
Description:
You are a penguin named Leeroy. You have a freakishly long flipper. Everyone makes fun of you! Get your revenge by hurling snowballs at your tormentors using a wiimote or pc controls.
Development Team:
Joe Tanksley, Chris Keyser, Sky King, Christine Morten
300 Soul of the Spartan
Description:
300: Soul of the Spartan aims to recreate the bloody tale of how a few stood against many, and where glory was earned through sacrifice. This was the first rapid prototype game at FIEA to utilize our House of Moves studio to completely capture all animations via Motion Capture. Grab your sword and prepare to enter a frenzied fight for your life on either the PC or XBOX 360. Spartans! Prepare for Glory!
Notes:
This game requires that you install XNA. The installers are provided here. Please follow the read me file included in the zip.
Development Team:
Andres Cantor, Mike Prestia, Neal Sukkert, Eric Montanari, Donald Branch
Cage Fight
Description:
Cage Fight is a head-to-head spellcasting battle where wizards duel to remain alive using their weapons of choice. Wield a magical spell book and pen or a mystical cauldron and enchanted wands to cast elemental spells and send your opponent's cage plummeting into the abyss. Unique RFID and tablet input technology brings players into the wizarding world!
Development Team:
Victor Estorino, Dan Fischbach, Thiago Gomes, Lisa Melegari, Nate White
Chaos City
Description:
A busy suburban street: crowds of pedestrians, busy traffic and a slippy road surface...chaos just waiting to happen! Use your arsenal of water balloons to rain devastation upon the unsuspecting victims below.
Development Team:
Dan Fischbach, Michael Macleod, Mike Prestia, Trey Sharp, Matt Watkins, John Wolverton
Defender Dib
Description:
Take on the role of Zim's arch nemesis, Dib, to take on an army of insane GIR units. Thwart Zim's evil plans by clogging his tubes using your energy bubble or use it to vaporize GIRs. There is also the chance go head to head in multiplayer mode to see who is better at saving the world.
Development Team:
Justin Schram, Carl Killian, Anthony DiMento, Nathan White, Trey Sharp, John Erickson
Freedom Tales
Description:
Become Bobby Teenager and help defend Anytown, USA from a Communist Robot Invasion!
Development Team:
Steve Durst, Tucker George, Mike Prestia, Lauren Schenzel, Chris Spence
GI Joe - the Curse of Cobra
Description:
Get ready for an all guns blazing battle against Cobra's latest war machine. Only minutes away from destroying the United Nations take on the fight alone or call in air support with the two player cooperative mode.
Notes:
This game requires that you install XNA. The installers are provided here. Please follow the read me file included in the zip.
Development Team:
David Blosser, Travis Hawk, Ian McKay, James Melsha, Christopher Spence
Polish Team:
Anthony Alvarez, Kenneth Greenblatt, Michael Macleod, Ian McKay, Joshua Star
Nano Nobis
Description:
In Nano Nobis, play as Dr. Poindexter von Kingsworth's latest nano tank prototype and shield the CPU from attacking hackers.
Features a scripted story, profesional quality voice acting, a radar system to hunt down enemies, a tron-like glow filter, and introduction cimenatic.
Development Team:
Victor Estorino, Pam Vargas, David Blosser, Carl Killian, Kenneth Greenblatt
Shinobi Storm
Description:
Control the weather as a cloud jumping ninja to destroy buildings on the ground. Use different weather effects to destroy the different building types.
Development Team:
Justin Schram, Ryan Fernandez, Dan Scholten, Ryan Morse, Lauren Schenzel
Spaceballs
Description:
Take control of Lone Starr and rescue Princess Vespa from the evil clutches of Dark Helmet in Spaceballs: The Video Game!
Notes:
This game requires that you install XNA. The installers are provided here. Please follow the read me file included in the zip.
Development Team:
Steve Machalek, Dan Scholten, Ken Greenblatt, Tucker George, Dan Fischbach
Air Assault
Description:
You play as an unscrupulous bird who enjoys pooping on unsuspecting pedestrians. The nerds and teenage girls don't fight back, but watch out for the ninjas and cops, because they will try to injure you with their weapons! Eat 3 pies and enable SUPERCRAP by pressing Ctrl.
Development Team:
Ingrid Aguero, Sean McVey, Jeff Champ, Victor Lugo
Alterra
Description:
You play as Alterra: a hero entrusted with elemental powers that must find ways to help animals in the game by altering their environment. By talking to animals and assisting them, you will be rewarded with new abilities.
Development Team:
Jason Mann, Reggie Hope, Chris Ablemann, Billy Bell
Batman Bat Bomb
Description:
The Penguin has planted a bomb somewhere at the city dock. It’s your job to find the bomb and give it back to the Penguin as a farewell gift before he leaves in his submarine!
Development Team:
Jeff Champ, David Burleson, Christopher Gulliver, Max Acree
Polish Team:
Leela Siragusa, Chase Ruppert, Mark Punsapy
Dog Fight
Description:
Dog Fight is a two-player game in which players choose canine fighters with varied abilities to see who is the leader of the pack!
Development Team:
Corey Felver, Billy Bell, Max Acree, Chris Caravello
Polish Team:
Sean McVey, B.J. Badger, Jeff Werner, Scott Giacomin
Ghost Getters
Description:
The game is of the action/twitch genre. The player takes control of a geeky ghost hunter out to rescue his fallen comrades. With the use of a beam cannon, the player must defeat a swarm of ghosts within a rundown haunted house. The player loses when they run out of life points before all ghosts are destroyed.
Development Team:
Sean McVey, Olayimika Alade, Jonathan Vaughn, Mark Punsapy
Greedy’s Revenge
Description:
In this twist on the Western, you play the villain in this play with wooden puppets. In Act 1, flee from the good guy to lure him back to town. In Act 2, its a showdown, and you must take the do-gooder down once and for all!
Development Team:
Stephen Baker, Jason Fox, Scott Giacomin, Chase Ruppert
Polish Team:
Emerald Abrahim, Jason Fox, Chris Gulliver, Jon Vaughn
Kung Fu Hustle
Description:
Kung Fu Hustle, based loosely upon the film of the same name, is an action-packed third person fighting arena game uniquely using two Wii-motes & nunchuks as the user input. The game is designed so that when the player punches and kicks, so does the hero in Kung Fu Hustle. Use this real-time action interface to defeat the relentless waves of the Axe Gang.
Development Team:
Olayimika Alade, Billy Bramer, Bernard J. Badger, Jeremy “Trav” Lavin
Polish Team:
Max Acree, Billy Bramer, Victor Lugo, Charles Babb
Lost in a Blackhole
Description:
You have to protect floating critical parts from meteors until there is enough time to get out. Bounce meteors by running into them. Create barriers from the back of your spaceship.
Development Team:
Yinka Alade, Erin Carroll, Jason Fox, Jason Mann
On The Fly
Description:
You are the wife of a stranded astronaut, who is caught in the moon’s orbit. You must get in your hot air balloon to rescue him from the moon. The core mechanic is inserting objects to control the movement of the balloon to avoid obstacles that can damage the balloon.
Development Team:
Charles Babb, Jonathan Vaughn, Scott Giacomin, Chris Gulliver
Joogi
Description:
Control the flow of the water drops to create your own tropical orchestra. Use your mouse to move leaves and flowers around the world and change the pitch and tempo of your original song.
Development Team:
Dan Bracewell, Jerome Terrell, Rogier van Etten
HellBoy
Description:
Play through 4 levels as the famous comic book hero, Hell Boy, to destroy the wizard and avenge your father’s death.
Development Team:
John Yuhas, Shaun McNeely, Greg Fields
Wind Racer
Description:
In this 3D game, you are piloting a balloon-powered airship through an obstacle course. Although you are being guided by a friend, you are also being taunted by your nemesis. The game can be played with a console controller or your keyboard.
Development Team:
Ken Pariser, Chris Mack, Tony Maligno, Shaun McNeely, Rogier van Etten
Flufficutt
Description:
Get a cuteness overload in this networked, 2 player game. Play as either Team Bunny or Team Teddy Bear. Run around a kid’s bedroom collecting objects such as lego pieces and rubber balls to throw at the other team.
Development Team:
Dan Bracewell, Jeremy Conkin, Christine Morten, Rogier van Etten
Isle of Virgins
Description:
In this game, the objective is to protect the virgins from the mighty Zeus by herding them into the temple. Control the action in this rich 3D world with the mouse and keyboard.
Development Team:
Dan Bracewell, Pete Rose, Chris Hapner, Barrett Lovorn
Coda
Description:
In this music based game, players navigate through a celestial microscopic world collecting and rearranging cells to create their own musical compositions.
Development Team:
Jonathan Yuhas, Michael Dixon, Ken Pariser
Transformers
Description:
Based on the popular 1980’s cartoon, this is a two player game in which players can choose to be Optimus Prime or Megatron in the ultimate Transformers battle.
Development Team:
Chris Mack, Brandon Miller, Steven Pierce
Retribution
Description:
Sail out as the captain of your own ghost ship to seek retribution on those who betrayed you. Load and fire a series of cannons with your choice of ammunition to sink the enemy ship.
Development Team:
Trey Morabito, Dan Bracewell, Shaun McNeely, Scott Webster
Ojo Enfermo
Description:
Put your creative problem-solving skills to the test with this unique vector artwork-styled puzzle game.
Development Team:
Elliot Epstein, Shaun McNeely, Pete Rose
Night Of The Spider
Description:
In this 1950’s sci-fi meets 1930’s private eye game, you play a robot detective on a mission. Navigate the city through obstacles and robotic enemies to find your missing partner 1.2.
Development Team:
Jonathan Yuhas, Anthony Maligno, Jeremy conkin