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Catastrophe Factory is a top-down puzzle game where you guide a cat to escape a plushie-making factory! Navigate challenges such as crumbling floors, moveable walls, deadly lasers, and conveyor belts to make your way through 12 unique puzzles. Collect fish treats throughout your journey to keep the cat extra happy. 

Our team chose this project because we love cute, relaxing puzzle games. We want our players to think more about strategy when playing our game. We focused on enjoyment and that “aha!” moment where the player finally figures a level out and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment. 

Catastrophe Factory was developed by a team of 6 developers over an 11-week development cycle. Throughout the process, our team learned more about the game development process and agile management techniques with scrum. We were able to learn about how to communicate with our different colleagues in cross-disciplinary fields as well as how to best communicate and pitch to project stakeholders. For the game itself, our team learned more about how to craft an engaging mobile game by creating understandable conveyance and tutorials, simple but fun mechanics, and a cute art style. 

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Missy, the border collie, lives on Farmer Bob's dilapidated farm. Farmer Bob is pressed for money and is about to sell his farm to repay old loans. Suddenly an alien spaceship looking similar to a massive cotton candy machine crash lands in his pasture. Amazingly, the machine activates and begins creating sheep with cotton candy wool, launching them all over the place! Now it’s up to Missy to herd the sheep into the appropriate pens so Farmer Bob can sell off the sugary goodness to save the farm! From a top-down perspective, herd sheep through the correct fruity syrup puddles and pens as you avoid obstacles left around the run-down property.

To create this idea, the developer team, Highroad 305, went through a process of brainstorming and squarely landed on the verb “Herd”. With this, the team expanded on the verb and developed the basis of Cotton Valley (known originally as Cotton Candy Herding). Highroad 305 wanted a game that focused on moving other pieces around a map rather than just a central character/player, adding an element of franticness and lack of control - similar to when someone is herding sheep in real life.

The Highroad 305 team worked during the Fall 2021 Semester in the Team Game Production 1 Class at SMU Guildhall. The project began in September of 2021 and there have been several iterations that happened prior to Beta over several months of work. Through this process, Highroad 305 learned the ins and outs of game design. From ideation to prototyping to marketing, the entire team learned how to manage time, stay within scope, communicate with stakeholders, and work together as a team. Team members also all now have an unexplained love of cotton candy.

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Do No Evil is a platformer mobile game in which the player controls a small white robot, or a BubbleBot, using a Clean Beam. The Clean Beam is a stream of bubbles coming from the playable character that is used to propel off solid surfaces. This beam can be used to traverse the city, clean surfaces and people, and interact with the environment.

Do No Evil is set in a cyberpunk style city where an evil corporation called “Do No Evil” is polluting the city. Several humans have become trapped in the filth. Avoid electrical hazards, move around objects, and propel moving platforms to reach all the trapped citizens. Each level has a tracked percentage of cleanable surfaces, as well as a certain amount of people that need rescuing. 

Do No Evil features diegetic design, so the level select is a playable location. The story is incorporated into the advertisements and background art throughout the game experience. There is one person that needs rescuing in level 1, two to be saved in level 2, and three to be cleaned in level 3. When each person is rescued, they provide encouragement and more insight into the story. The game is completed by traversing entirely though all 3 levels and rescuing all 6 citizens. 

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In Flash Or Die, the main playable character is a shepherd equipped with a flashlight. At the beginning of the game the shepherd’s flock is stolen by evil vampires from a neighboring castle. Players must embark on a quest to rescue their sheep from within the dangerous castle. The player’s main weapon is a flashlight with a limited battery life, players must manage their in-game resources in order to survive and fight back against the enemies. There are also many kinds of traps and contraptions within the castle itself the vampires have placed.

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Inkky is an action platformer wherein you change your color at various points to navigate the world to save the world inside a doodle book.

Inkky takes place within the world of a sketchbook after a young child’s heart has been shattered due to the indifference of their parent. Rise up as the titular hero Inkky! Change your form and color to surmount obstacles in your path to save the world of the sketch book and restore hope to the world that has faded from grief.

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Nyanzo: No Lives Left is a mobile swiping puzzle game. It features an adorable cat ninja named Nyazno, trying to deliver a bomb to the evil shoguns castle to end his terrible reign. Nyanzo rolls swiftly through the floors of the castle, moving boxes and solving puzzles. But he must be careful, to much movement will set the bomb off in his paws.

Work your way through ever more difficult puzzles, discovering new traps and adversaries like holes in the floor, curved walls, and guards with swords and bows. Each challenge is more difficult than the last and Nyanzo will need all his skill and wit to make it to the very top of the castle.

Enjoy adorable pixel art as our feline hero rolls, pushes, and slashes his way through the four chapters of the story. Each chapter is represented by the four seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall by the various weather effects that change as players move to a new chapter.

Relax in the gentle ambience of retro Japanese music and sound effects. Nyanzo: No Lives Left is a perfect game to sit back and relax with. Brain teasing puzzles keep it interesting and the challenge ramps up to soaring heights in the bonus levels. Can you clear them all?

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Phantom Knight is a single player 2D platformer game for Android. The player plays as the phantom knight trying to escape from the castle. The player traverses through obstacles by platforming and puzzle-solving to reach the end of each level. The unique mechanic in the game is switching timelines and dynamic orbs: Switching timelines changes orb functionality which helps in platforming and puzzle-solving.

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Rocket Rocker is a rhythm puzzle game for Android tablets. You play as K, an upstart band manager mere minutes away from the start of her band’s next big show. Only, there’s one problem: the band’s instruments are nowhere to be found! With no time to lose, K must feel the rhythm and find her band members’ instruments inside the labyrinthine barricades before they miss their cue! Get the instruments to the band and hear the soundtrack build with each instrument.

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This game is a story about the desperate escape of you, a sushi, from your bento box and its hungry owner.  You will be forced to shoot your way out with your trusted soy sauce gun, destroying the other sushi that are trying to keep you from escaping. You fight different sushi, destroy chopping blocks that make them, and open gates to make your way out of the bento box and towards freedom.

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“…Once upon a time, there lived a powerful fairy who used organized crime and fairy mobsters to rule all the land. He became known as the Fairy Godfather, and he ruthlessly eliminated all who dared to oppose him. But he crossed you, a noble knight, so you have entered his castle to clip his wings… and his skull.”

The Fairy Godfather is a 2D, top-down, melee combat, mobile action game for Android devices. The player must complete the tutorial, four levels of gameplay, and defeat the Fairy Godfather in order to beat the game. The fairy henchmen are stationary and cast fireball projectiles at the player, who can move, but is limited to melee attacks. If the player has taken damage, they gain access to a wider attack and a projectile spell.

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We Come In Pieces follows the incredibly clumsy, but warm-hearted alien named Squeeblez who has been sent to Earth to gather humans and leave the planet… somewhat in-tact. Thankfully, Squeeblez is not taking this mission alone. He has acquired the help of his large alien friend Chonky to swing as a wrecking ball and break past any obstacles the humans have set up. Squeeblez and Chonky must work together to abduct three humans from three different areas on Earth: a farm, a suburb, and a city. Once these humans have been abducted, Squeeblez can return to his mothership and progress to the next level.

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