UW-Stout’s Game Design and Development Program Capstone Game Projects

Senior Students from University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Game Design and Development Program will present their year-long capstone game projects. Multiple games will be presented by representatives from teams of artists, designers, and programmers. While the games are not finished yet, this will be a perfect chance to get a sneak peek into the development processes behind these games, before they are debuted a month later at the Stout Game Launch from 6-8pm on Wednesday, April 27th in Menomonie (only 60 minutes from the Twin Cities!). For more information, please visit UW-Stout’s Game Design Program web site.

Games that will be presented include

• EVEREND - a 2D/3D puzzle platformer in which you are an owl trapped underground in a cave, trying to get back to your family
• BUILDING 37 - a 3D noir-style narrative exploration and puzzle game with a graphic novel aesthetic. You are trying to solve the mystery of what happened in Building 37…
• SMALL FOLK - a multiplayer co-op game, in which 3 players control the “small folk”, while one player controls a giant “exterminator”, trying to vacuum up the little guys.
• WITHERED ASH - a first-person gaming experience aboard an abandoned space station.

UW Stout Game Design and Development Program Introduction

Dave Beck

Dave Beck serves as both the Director of the Game Design BFA Program and the Chair of the Department of Design at University of Wisconsin - Stout. Dave will present indroduction materials about the Stout Game Design and Development Program and introduce the student game projects. Dave presented his intractive expereince game, Tombeaux, last year.