Several UDK School Projects

[Hourences]

The past few weeks I have given a UDK course at the education "FutureGames" in central Stockholm, and the students and I would like to present the UDK games that were made.

• When we started this course the students had no game development experience, no experience with unreal. They just started their education, and this was the first thing real game thing they did. The course was six weeks long. And only the first three were used for actual education. Last three were used for building these games.
• Roughly six people a team. Designers and artists only. No programmers! Everything you see required either no or little unrealscript. The solutions weren't always as nice as they could have been (had they used Unrealscript), but it works, and it shows how fast someone with no programming experience can prototype an idea in Unreal, even with limited knowledge.
• To keep the scope small, we gave them Iphone limitations. So no normal maps, no fancy stuff. Diffuse/Emissive/Alpha only. Max. 24 MB worth of textures used. Max 7000 triangles in view at all times.
• It was not the idea to design the next tripple A most awesome game ever, but rather to design something small and manageable for a small team and with limited amount of time available.

SpyBot

The player navigates a small spy bot through a space station on a mission to obtain secret information from the stations main frame and escape intact.

Traveling through a series of rooms, the spy bot has to solve puzzles in order to move on. By using his teleport function, the spy bot can switch places with cargo crates or explosive boxes that are used to push down buttons, open doors and crack open safes. Completion of each room will award the player with a colored floppy disc. Once all three has been collected, the player can access the main frame and download the secret information. It is then up to the player to escape in time before the base is sealed off.

Team: Niklas Strid, Christoffer Hedborg, Daniel Olsson, Niclas Halvarsson, Olivia Berndtzen, Lina Andersson

Video

Phobia

In Phobia, the player takes on the role of a test subject at an experimental research facility.
Waking from sedation, void of memories, you are guided by disembodied intercom voices and generic messages as you navigate a series of increasingly complex and hazardous psychological tests within the mysterious underground facility.
The test chambers are designed to exploit, explore and study the deepest fears of the human psyche, and measure how the average human reacts in situations of extreme mental and emotional stress.
Surviving the puzzles and dangers of the laboratory test chambers brings you closer to overcoming your fears, and revealing the truth of what really lurks behind the one-way mirrors.

Team: Fredrik Englund, Tomas Almgren, Karl Andersson, Jonatan Lönnquist. Erik Spellerberg, Gari Malkoc

Video

Iwon

This is Iwon, a 3rd person adventure game within the same category as Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy. You play as a spaceman called Iwon who has crash-landed on an island filled with simple minded grass-eating creatures. Your mission is to collect ship parts to get home. You can either do this by exploring the world, or completing quests helping the locals. The game offers a minimum of 40 minutes of gameplay with 8 challenging quests.

Features:
* Explore an open game world
* Acquire Gravgun and Jetpack
* Find a unique AI
* 8 challenging missions
* Superboss challenge

Team: Maria Komenda, Filip Coulianos, Mathias Cecilgård, Hans Mothander, Robert Vikström, Jonas Wallin

Video

Intergalactic Dentist of Love

The Intergalactic Dentist of Love is crazy popular! The dentist, who is loved across the universe must valiantly travel to the other end of the galaxy to treat a patient in distress. The mission turns out to be more difficult than planned since the dentist must avoid a mob of crazed fans with nothing but an anti-love shield to defend himself - or he will perish.

The player will be able to control the Dentist's ship through an arcadey top down shooter-style space odyssey in a world full of humor and one-liners. Rather than being focused on mindlessly spamming attacks, the game plays more like a puzzle in realtime with constantly moving pieces, so the player must learn and master how to make every attack count.
Can you handle the love?

Team: Michael Lindqvist, Jonas Benson, Daniel Nordlander, Isabella Fellborn, Martin Olsson, Niklas Ylitalo

Video

[Forsaken]

Nice!
My favorite is Phobia, has a decent gfx and I like the theme itself.

[RhinoMatte]

Some nice stuff there, but Phobia seems very much based on Portal (allthough it looks stunning and I'd never be able to create something like that, so kudos to everyone)

[Hyrage]

Nice job guys, that's very interesting.

[djfdat]

Wow all three games are looking good. Intergalactic Dentist of Love is my favorite, just because its unique in terms of art and atmosphere but all seem to have solid mechanics and hopefully they execute well.

[itzexor]

Phobia remind anyone else of portal? All them games look like fun Good job.

[Drevlin]

Looks cool, hour. Soon we will have a bunch of mini-hourences walking about.
Shout out to Filip "misterbister" who worked on Iwon, hope i'll be seeing you in skövde in a few weeks, my friend!

[Hourences]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010...st-only-games/

In case you read this, thanks Alec Meer!

There were two games missing from the first post, students didn't send me the material on time, so here is another one:

S.t. Elizabeth's Asylum

John Doe is locked inside a mental asylum. As he one day strolls around in his cell going about with his usual everyday prison life he suddenly feels very light headed. Before he know it he fall down to the ground, and all he can see before he blacks out is his cell door opening.
When he again becomes conscious, a woman is leaning over him. He can feel her draining him of all his life energy. He can also see his own body lying on the ground, about to die. His soul has left his body. He realizes that if he doesn't act fast, he will be dead. In the world of the dead he has to solve the riddle to save his own life.

Fredrik Danielsson, Robert Ankarbranth, John Troive, Jenny Holmér, Eyrún Hjörleifsdóttir, Lowen Hoc

No video right now, but basically you (almost) die as soon as the game starts, you become a ghost, and you have to solve a puzzle in order to get a syringe to revive your dead body and return back to the world of the living. Fps puzzle game with nice atmosphere. The general idea was that the player had to somehow get himself almost killed, to force his ghost out of his body, and then use his ghost to go to places where he normally couldn't have gone to. Quite a nice concept, albeit a bit too complex for a game that had to be made in three weeks. Trying to get hold of video..

[Zomy]

Nice game idea Hourences. I like your style.

[Piranhi]

The students should be proud of themselves, good work.

[Hourences]

Nice game idea Hourences. I like your style.

Not mine
This was a student project, I was the teacher, hence why I am presenting this here.

[Zomy]

:O
XD
Anyway, you'r good XD.

[WillM]

Man, these are really cool.

[UDKKutigi77]

Very impressive indeed.A very interesting story line looking forward to the demo.

[henzy190]

Nice! My fave is intergalactic dentist of love. It has a true Indie character and is sooo original its unbelievable.

[Mandinga]

This is very similar to the curriculum Im teaching at AIU,FIU and DMAC here in florida. Kudos Hourences. Will post shots soon.

[Gmax5]

where do i download these games?

[gnyoda]

Interesting work, good to game prototyping without programmers being implemented, seems like a valuable skill-set to have under your belt.