NANCY WANG
"Above all, video games are meant to be just one thing: fun.
Fun for everyone." ― Satoru Iwata
Fun for everyone." ― Satoru Iwata
Garden Variety Aliens is a game where you build your own tower defense!
Aliens are attacking and you need to create an army of little guys to help you keep them at bay!
Collect resources from fallen enemies to upgrade your guys. Based on how you upgrade them, you can find a variety of different outcomes. Mix and match to craft the best defense you can and survive as long as possible!
Created as a submission for JamCraft 5 and Decade Jam.
By Lamplight is a turn-based dungeon crawler where you must climb to the 13th floor of the Demonic Spire.
As you climb, you must manage the oil supply for your lantern as well as your own health and sanity. Lighting Torches can help stave off the grip of insanity but will cost you some of your ever-dwindling supply of oil. Will you conserve oil to keep your lantern lit or will you save your sanity and attempt to ward off the horrors of the spire?
Created as a submission for All Things Wicked Game Jam.
By Lamplight is open source.
Feel free to check out our code and assets on our github repository!
https://github.com/nKowalchyk/DemonJam
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To apply video game industry frameworks to build software applications. To engage in teamwork, promotion of their game, the creation of their games, assets, and engagement into the video game industry.
Our group decided on creating a rouge-like crawler and thus, multiple enemies, rooms and tiles need to be randomly generated. The inclusion of a variety of creatures will add a sense of adventure but thus requires a vast majority of art and assets.
We have planned to cut a majority of the initial enemies list. Recoloring and reskinning will be a viable option to reduce the workload on the arts and assets department, allowing further progress and focus on other areas of the game.
To create an engaging, fun and visually appealing video game in groups. My partner, Nick Kowalchyk was in charge of programming while I was in charge of arts, assets, and design. We wanted to create a fun, cutesy adventure platformer that followed the tale of an adventurous wizard cat!
We had a large concept that we wanted to tackle. We wanted skill trees, different attacks, a variety of monsters and various levels. However, we only had a school semester to work on the project and create the beta version for a presentation.
Like the Grocery Bingo flyer, I wanted to use a strong, bright color to draw in one's attention. However, instead of using a bright, light blue, I opted to use a darker, navy blue/teal as a brighter color would be too harsh for one to read. I also created generic buildings with windows to symbolize Housing Tours. By using different splashes of muted greens and blues, I was also able to draw one's eyes to each important article of information.
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To gamify a social situation into a playable game for the young students in Dolgeville, NY.
Coming up with an interesting topic to gamify was difficult. I had initially wanted to create a card game that dealt with difficult school life/situations however, that was too vague and was difficult to translate into. Another issue was how I could try to incorporate cooperation, as humans are naturally competitive.
I simplified “school activities” into difficult social situations and turned the characters into stray cats--animals that are often ignored and neglected. the characters are also cutesy and are attractive to young children; each stray cat also has strong attributes and weak attributes as well. Thus, I created an overall objective--to win together! that way, students would be forced to encourage and assist one another using each other's strengths.
Bring Him Home! is a very simple platformer game that I created in Construct 2 for a beginner Game Design course.
** I DID NOT CREATE ANY OF THE ASSETS USED IN THIS GAME **
Although I knew Photoshop, I didn't possess the knowledge to create animations, sprites and sprite sheets. I did try to incorporate some of my own artwork, but being new to animation made it immensely difficult. I truly just wanted to focus on getting the logic working.
I borrowed assets from an already existing game so I could focus on the logic and overall gameplay as a whole! I would love to revist this game and create my own assets now that I have the ability to do so.
