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Humber Is Having A Gaming Capstone Showcase On April 16th

Jake Deichert let me know about a Gaming Showcase hosted by Humber for student developed games on April 16th. You can sign up for the event here.

Game exhibitors will be explaining their game design strategies, language choices and libraries utilized.  Unity developers will be reviewing the game component structures.

Some comments from our game exhibitors:

  • Alice of human sacrifice.
  • Be the overseer in a burglary.
  • Come for the sun, stay for the fun.
  • Did you ever want to build your own spaceship and lead it into battle?
  • Do you have what it takes to be a real cop?
  • Dodge them all, kill them all.
  • Explore a mysterious world hunting powerful enemies for their advanced weapons and arms.
  • Gobble, gobble.
  • Have you ever wanted to throw a rock at a friendly?
  • Hovercrafts? Multiplayer? EXPLOSIONS!?
  • It's getting hotter, can you feel it?
  • It's the year 2868 and war is coming
  • Only the strongest survive.
  • Spells n' combos
  • Suck'em chuck'em
  • Tug of war
  • Who done it?
  • You're bored come waste your time playing my game - I am not crazy, you're crazy

I got to play Jake's VR game Instincts last week at LevelUpTO and had a lot of fun with it. There are plenty of examples of student developed games being released, so be sure to check this out if you want a sign of things to come.