DigiPen student games released

by John Bardinelli { Apr 27th 2007 at 9:10AM }

DigiPen Institute of Technology has unveiled most of the student games created for the 2007 academic year. Nearly two dozen projects will available by the end of the month covering a wide range of styles -- from space shooters, to puzzlers and the popular "riding a motorcycle in medieval times" genre.

Unfortunately the most interesting games are still unavailable, but with just a few days left in the month, the wait will be short:

Bossinabox - a fast-paced arcade-style shooter based on the idea that boss fights are awesome. Your goal is to annihilate the boss as he splits into an army of minibosses.
Empyreal Nocturne - a third-person aerial action game in which you combat enormous flying monsters by commanding a legion of birds.
Gigoon - a 3D, third-person action game in which the player takes control of a giant monster rampaging through the tropical city of Rio De Janeiro
PHLOP - a 3D physics-based puzzle game that asks the player to manipulate simple objects to create complex device in order to complete the puzzle.
RydenStryke - a third person action game set in medieval times where the player gets to control a character from the future on a motorcycle.

A well-respected school with game developers, DigiPen's student projects have turned more than a few heads over the years. The team behind Narbacular Drop was snatched up by Valve, and the group behind the block-tossing Toblo have gained a lot of attention for their project.

Tags: casual, digipen, experimental, independent, indie, student

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Steve @ Apr 27th 2007 9:29AM

Doesn't Nintendo sponsor one of these video game schools? I think it could be a good idea to post some of the good projects to the VC.

Joe @ Apr 27th 2007 10:11AM

Yeah, I believe they sponsor DigiPen. (I'm supposed to visit this summer ^_^ Hopefully I'll be going sometime between then and next year..)

Fatass of Kickassness @ Apr 27th 2007 10:43AM

I really like the idea of Bossinabox.

Alex @ Apr 27th 2007 11:06AM

I wanted to go to that school, but of all places to build a videogame school, why Washington?

hvnlysoldr @ Apr 27th 2007 12:01PM

Redmond, Washington is home to Microsoft and Nintendo of America. There maybe some other developers nearby too. That's why there's a school there.

Booxatron @ Apr 27th 2007 12:59PM

Bungie is based up here too, in Kirkland, and I think the Penny Arcade guys live in Seattle.

Western Washington FTW!!

Jason @ Apr 27th 2007 1:00PM

@4 - Because Washington has a ton of game developers. If I remember correctly in the latest Game Developer magazine washington was second only to California for game developers. Correct me if I'm wrong, because I very well may be.

I went to DigiPen, took one year of programming and then switched to art. It was extremely hard and an insane ammount of work, but the pay off is great since now I've been in the game insdustry for 3 years and actaully make the games I love to play. However now I got that student loan :/

Actiss @ Apr 27th 2007 1:04PM

1) Cut a hole in the box.

2) Put your boss in the box.

3) Have her open the box.

Tilly @ Apr 27th 2007 2:35PM

going to the graduation on sunday! my friend is graduating this year with a programming degree! GO CASSIDY!

jed @ Apr 27th 2007 4:25PM

we dont recieve any sort of sponsorship or subsidy from nintendo, we are related to nintendo through link of the school's president who was also on nintendo's board of directors until quite recently and was one of the founders of NST, nintendo's US game dev division.

and yeah, we're in washington because there are a number of game companies here, the founder of the school originally started in canada and has ties with nintendo, who happens to also be our next door neightbor. :)