uw-madison-games

A book examining the poetry of 2D platformer design.

hauntology

Crates Plus

kshaf

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Fortune Favors

The message inside the fortune cookie, which contained only six words, has become your fate.

ACupOfJoJo

Interactive Fiction

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Paint!!

Paint the blocks with the correct color.

Zin.a

Puzzle

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Tanuki Thief

Steal gold as a tanuki

Zin.a

Platformer

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Quest of Dao

Kane2147483647

Puzzle

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Space Color Craziness

Andrewman03

Platformer

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Puzzle

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Business Co.™

One of the games of all time.

Sauceboii

Platformer

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snowfall

a game about the snow kind of

kctw

Simulation

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.⋆*⋅° Time and Space °⋅*⋆.

Dawn

Visual Novel

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~ Flames ~

A short puzzle game about putting out fires with water

Dawn

Puzzle

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What's For Dinner

maparker77

Platformer

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Visual Novel

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Chef It Up!

A puzzle game based around cooking!

TRose

Puzzle

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Maze Madness

jalper1

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2022-2023

Inner Workings

Ball of light. Neuron caves. Mushrooms with teeth. Need we say more?

Levi Huillet

Adventure

Root Beer Resurrectionist

Return to your roots as you resurrect your dead ancestors to recover your family's lost root beer recipe.

Kevin Joseph

Platformer

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feelings

spend

Interactive Fiction

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Simulation

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Upgrade and defend the last human outpost from an ever-growing horde of aliens!

TheLoNk13

Action

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THE DOGBEAST

there are secrets in this forest.

felsic

Adventure

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Rage Monster

The only way to lose is to quit!

jfhackbarth

Platformer

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Adventure Kitty!

A game about the adventurous life of my boyfriend's cat Tommy.

Yue Shi

Adventure

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The Tale of Orpheus and Eurydice

This is a Bitsy game in the style of ancient Greek pottery to tell the tragic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Yue Shi

Educational

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Two Paths

A very small game about walking home.

Rubidant

Adventure

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What Lies in the Hadal Zone

A short interactive story about eldritch horror under the ocean.

Rubidant

Interactive Fiction

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Ant Quest

Rubidant

Platformer

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Normal Day in Gym Class

Gym class is a bullet hell.

Kevin Joseph

Action

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Core & Crust

Rubidant

Platformer

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Ghost Snatchers

Competitive, rock-paper-scissors based ghost hunting!

Cherry

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Puzzling Magnetism Recharged

Control 2 characters with opposite magnetic charges as you solve some puzzles.

Kevin Joseph

Puzzle

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p5.js shenanigans

Mysterious_Rice

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2021-2022

ping-pong jump

Zoey Zhao

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Simple Chinese Cuisine Tutorial

Want to learn some simple Chinese dish? Come and try!

Timmexy

Simulation

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Rain Terror!

Use the WASD or Arrow Keys to maneuver the character. Dodge the raindrops!!!

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Demo Project for Curric 357

atatHat

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Stacking

Final Project for Curric 357

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Scattering or falling

Weihao Xu

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Trash.

Play as a raccoon as you work to provide for your cold and hungry family. Or don't.

eplitzner

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Forager

Use your keyboard to move the squirrel and collect the mushrooms!

eplitzner

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Your Robot Best Friend

Play as the little robot Jeremy as he helps his Creator put his friends back together again.

eplitzner

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To feed or not to feed

Feed?

just737

Interactive Fiction

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Life Restart Simulator

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balls must line up!

Puzzle

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2020-2021!

Games created by UW Madison students in the 2020-2021 academic year. Reach out if you would like to see your games here!

Night Shift

qkrwndud

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Pickled Beats

Pickled Beats is a game where you create a garden that in turn generates unique music.

uw-madison-games

Rhythm

Grimm Blossoms

A Little Red-Cap story told through Twine

Levi Huillet

Interactive Fiction

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Libertalia

A prototype game designed for UW-Madison Game Design II

JPierro0513

Simulation

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Scapel's Edge Final Build

A medical simulation game where you play as a doctor in an Army Hospital during the Vietnam War.

NewbJar Games

Simulation

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DeepDive

Toma

Simulation

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An Obituary

Re-discover Earth's beauty

Aidan Babidan 🎮🎷

Platformer

One of Many

A game about death and mortality

NewbJar Games

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CATALYST

Top-down shooter with time-looped bullets

chemelia

Shooter

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What I Heard by Listening to the Ramblings of Games: a Manifesto

A manifesto on game design

IronnButterfly

ASTRO v.0.1

Shoot down enemy ships in this short action packed space adventure!

NewbJar Games

Action

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Necropotence

The world has scorned you. You are done playing nice. It's time for you to show them the power of your undead.

IronnButterfly

Adventure

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Persephone

Escape the Underworld as Persephone!

greeneyedtrombonist

Educational

Spooky Space

An arcade-like game to collect coins and avoid other ghosts

JoshVL

Survival

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Simulation

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The Lost Cape

Vocal104

Platformer

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Walk in the Dark

Erin Beck

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RUNEGΔRD

sequence the runes to escape this strange realm!

chemelia

Shooter

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Quasar Kid

jtostrud

Platformer

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Kilted Otter Game Jam

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2023-2024

2022-2023

2021-2022

2020-2021!

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