These are the last few games that I wanted to post from Cornell University at least until they create more. Roto-Cosmos is a puzzle/platform game. Atomik is a 3d spaceship shooter type game. Shine is a 2d platformer.
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Roto-Cosmos
Help the block to the goal in this spacey 3d puzzle game. Challenging, fun, and colorful for everyone!
Roto-Cosmos is an amazing puzzle game with a simple design involving 3 main types of blocks. Puzzles are based off of picking up stacks of block and moving them around to create a path to the goal block. Standard blocks have no special properties but can be picked up and moved around. Triangle blocks with special properties depending on it's position. If it is pointing up it acts as a spike which kills you if you fall on it. If it is placed beside another block, it acts as a ramp and can also change the direction of gravity if placed beside a wall of blocks. Magnet blocks come in two colours: black and white. Same type magnet blocks repel each other and opposites attract. If two opposite type magnet blocks touch each other they get neutralized and become normal blocks. This game allows you to undo moves with 'Z' which makes the game fun because if you make a mistake you can just undo it without having to replay levels from the start.
Controls:
Mouse - moves camera
Left Arrow - move left
Right Arrow - move right
Down Arrow - drop down when hanging on a block
Up Arrow - climb up when hanging on a block
Shift - move faster
Space - pick up/throw blocks
Z - undo moves
F5 - quicksave
F7 - quickload
Esc - quit level
Download (5.69 MB):
http://gdiac.cis.cornell.edu/showgame.php?id=rotocosmos
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Atomik
Atomik is an esoteric, subatomic visualization of seven dimensional space. The user pilots an energy core through the reality, discharging sparks and collecting atoms and molecular configurations to expand their abilities. Other cores populate the space, with focuses on certain types of energy in correspondance to their home dimension. Breaking apart these molecules and cores increases the user's inventory. Use the navigation on the left to learn more about the visualization, or DOWNLOAD it for yourself.
Atomik is a 3d 'spaceship' shooter whith many upgrade and a dimension jumping feature. Your ship is called an 'energy core' that has the ability to be upgraded by collecting atoms. At the start you only have the first three basic upgrades of each type. To unlock more you must find and defeat more powerful enemies that are usually found by the center of each dimension near the bright light. You can also defeat certain special enemies to unlock certain special upgrades as well as new energy cores (ships).
There are 7 main types of atoms that can be used to upgrade your ship. There are 7 dimensions that you can instantly travel between. Each dimension has a color corresponding to the different atom types. Atoms are more frequently found in their dimension as well as enemies using the abilities of that type more often.
The goal is to kill all enemies and pick up all atoms and energy (health) in each dimension. It's a bit repetitive but at least you can unlock upgrades along the way. Sometimes it's hard to find the last few objects needed to complete each dimension so I recommend saving and reloading to reset their positions until you find them. There are four difficulty settings that seems to change the number of collectables to find and the number enemies to face. There is also an "impossible mode" in the options menu that I think makes enemies shoot more frequently.
Controls:
accelerate, decelerate, and strafe - WASD
select nearest enemy - Tab
change dimensions - Shift
pause - Escape
adjust trajectory - Left-Click
spark - Right-Click
change cores/configure - Mid-Click
quick save - F5
quick load - F6
Download (27.4 MB):
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Shine
Shine is a 2D platformer game designed and built in Unity. In Shine, you take control of a one of the few surviving Lumens and unleash the powers of light to rid the world of darkness. Light Vaulting (shooting the ground below or behind you while shooting) allows you to launch yourself to new heights. In the epic battle to save your homeworld, will you have the courage and skills to defeat the Darklings?
Shine is a 2d platformer game with one unique feature. You have the ability to do light vaulting - shooting the ground to cause an explosion to launch you to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each level is filled with glowing orbs that you can collect to increase your health. You can try to collect them all if you want but I just ignored all the hard to reach ones. Enemies cannot be hurt most of the gameplay is spent avoiding enemies and traps. You can also find and fight two bosses in the middle and in the end of the game.
Download (24.5 MB):
