Emergent Spark
Format
SOECS Senior Project Demonstration
Faculty Mentor Name
Daniel Cliburn
Faculty Mentor Department
Computer Science
Abstract/Artist Statement
Amidst the darkness, a spark emerges
Fangames are video games that are made with the similarities to the original game “I wanna be the guy” (http://kayin.moe/iwbtg/) and metroidvania games are games that require the collection of power-ups to progress through the game. Currently, in the fangame community, many of the games available are of relatively low quality and the number of metroidvania games is quite limited. Offerings are often frustrating and hard to play, and as a result, are rated extremely poorly. We wish to make a game that is actually fun to play and challenging as well. Our goal is to create a high quality metroidvania fangame in order to increase the overall quality of fangames in the community and increase the number of available metroidvania games.
Emergent Spark is a game where you explore a factory that has suddenly come to life. In your struggles to find the meaning of things, monsters have appeared and it is your job to traverse the factory and discover the causes of this mess.
We intend to use volunteers to test our game. We will collect data points such as common areas of failure (resulting in character death) as well as utilize post-game surveys to determine adequate balancing of our game. We will ask questions to discover users’ difficulties throughout the levels, or perhaps if they thought something was too easy. We will look for patterns in the data we collect to draw conclusions on what we need to change.
Our presentation will cover the development of our game. We will discuss how we came up with the design, and what the implementation process consisted of. We will also provide a quick demonstration of our game on multiple laptops we provide.
Location
School of Engineering & Computer Science
Start Date
6-5-2017 2:30 PM
End Date
6-5-2017 4:00 PM
Emergent Spark
School of Engineering & Computer Science
Amidst the darkness, a spark emerges
Fangames are video games that are made with the similarities to the original game “I wanna be the guy” (http://kayin.moe/iwbtg/) and metroidvania games are games that require the collection of power-ups to progress through the game. Currently, in the fangame community, many of the games available are of relatively low quality and the number of metroidvania games is quite limited. Offerings are often frustrating and hard to play, and as a result, are rated extremely poorly. We wish to make a game that is actually fun to play and challenging as well. Our goal is to create a high quality metroidvania fangame in order to increase the overall quality of fangames in the community and increase the number of available metroidvania games.
Emergent Spark is a game where you explore a factory that has suddenly come to life. In your struggles to find the meaning of things, monsters have appeared and it is your job to traverse the factory and discover the causes of this mess.
We intend to use volunteers to test our game. We will collect data points such as common areas of failure (resulting in character death) as well as utilize post-game surveys to determine adequate balancing of our game. We will ask questions to discover users’ difficulties throughout the levels, or perhaps if they thought something was too easy. We will look for patterns in the data we collect to draw conclusions on what we need to change.
Our presentation will cover the development of our game. We will discuss how we came up with the design, and what the implementation process consisted of. We will also provide a quick demonstration of our game on multiple laptops we provide.