Nov. Game Design Challenge – “Like A Rolling Stone”

Design Theme:

Your challenge is to create a rolling ball style game, with the ball controlled by the player in some way.  Camera angles, and actual movement options are up to each of you as the designers.  Think about fun ways to allow players of your game to explore and progress through your game.  Entries will be judged by a panel of GAME-U Instructors who will be looking for creativity, technical skills, and of course the fun factor!

Game Design Requirements:

• Each game design must have the ability for the player to control a ball (or ball-like object) via keyboard, mouse, controller or some combination of these
• The controls must include movement of the ball in at least 2 directions.  It may also include the ability to jump, speed boost, size changes, etc., but they are not required
• There must be a clear end goal for the player to reach.  This end goal may be a location that the player needs to navigate to, or the goal could be to collect a certain amount of tokens.
• Other goals are acceptable, as long as it is clear once the end goal has been reached.  This can be accomplished with a simple on-screen text message saying “You Won!”

Rules:

• You may team with up to 3 other students for this challenge
• All work must be completed by team members
• All entries must be submitted by 10:00pm on November 30th, 2014
• Entries created in any editor EXCEPT for Project Spark must include a playable build of the game.  Project Spark games will be evaluated within Project Spark

Prizes:

• There are two tiers for this competition – one for Explorers and one for Apprentices.All GAME-U students (in both the New Jersey & Ohio studios, plus remote students) will be competing together
• First place wins the following:
  • $50 gift certificate to your choice of Amazon, iTunes, or GameStop
  • Your game and team photo showcased on GAME-U’s website, Facebook page & Studio monitors
• Second place wins the following:
  • $25 gift certificate to your choice of Amazon, iTunes, or GameStop
  • Your game and team photo showcased on GAME-U’s website, Facebook page & Studio monitors
• Third place wins the following:
  • $10 gift certificate to your choice of Amazon, iTunes or GameStop
  • Your game and team photo showcased on GAME-U’s website, Facebook page & Studio monitors

Delivery:

• If you design in class or open lab simply save the design to your studio computer for us to review.
• Email your design to info@game-u.com.

• Project Spark students who designed at home will need to “Save to Cloud” from the home computer. Then email us your design name so we can search for the game in the studio.
• Send us a link via Google Drive or Dropbox