OMSI Mini Maker Faire is this weekend, and Good Day Oregon has a highlight of the games we’ll be showing.
This year, we’ll be hosting youth games by Oregon Game Project Challenge teams for the first time. Visit the exhibit in the PEPCO building and explore these locally made games:
OGPC Team Games
Learning Step; E-Lemon-Ators, Sunset High School
The Professional’s Choice Award of the 2013 Oregon Game Project Challenge (OGPC) and a Girl Scout Gold Award project, Learning Step is an educational video game for preschool & kindergarten aged children. The game reinforces concepts preschoolers learn in school through short educational mini-games including critical thinking, the alphabet, spelling one’s name, counting, and more. Presented through an engaging a story of cooperation, the game is accessible to both reading and non-reading children.
Developed by Michelle Nellis (art and voice-overs), Jeanie Pearson (team leader, programmer, designer)
Building Spree- Mars edition; Glitchbusters, Glencoe High school & School of Science & Technology
Building Spree won the ‘Best in Show’ at the 2012 Oregon Game Project Challenge’. It also won the Gold Medal and the ‘AMD game changer’ awards at 2013 National Scholastics arts and writing awards in the video game category.
In Building Spree, the year is 2030 and the United State of America has sponsored you for the hardest task yet. In this intricate tycoon game, you are the urban planner and on the barren flats of Mars, you need to build and manage a boisterous colony.
Developers: Andrei Blebea, Ashwin Datta, Kyle Hiebel, Justin Mellott
Modern Health Care-Call for Aid; Glitchbusters, Glencoe High school & School of Science & Technology
Modern Health Care –Call for Aid won the Best in show at the 2013 Oregon Game Project Challenge.
Manage a global non-profit organization devoted to the betterment of global health care. In real-time strategy, players guide regions to self-sufficient medical systems.
Developers: Andrei Blebea, Ashwin Datta, Kyle Hiebel, Justin Mellott
AfterMath, Robo-Programmers, Sunset High School
2055: all known sources of fuel are depleting and renewable resources can’t meet the world’s demands. In an act of desperation, scientists create //2, a plasma ball of pure energy, causing devastation across every continent. One of a few survivors, you must stop further damage even as //2 brings you closer and closer to a world without any technology.
Adult Indie Game Developers
PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew, Josh Schonstal & Incredible Ape
A game where two people use two microphones to control one jet-pack equipped, shape-shooting spaceman!
Zero Zen, Michael Romero
Zero Zen is a fast paced action game about patience and timing. Fly a zero fighter and shoot at your enemies to push them into the red zone. Bullets don’t do damage, they just push. Be careful of the kickback!
Clobbr, Clifton B
Line up the blocks to create a path, take out the cat and save the day! Help your mouse friends escape in this series of short, adorable puzzles.
Canvasser, Jackson Lango
Your forest is in danger, and the only way you can save it is by raising money on the streets! Canvasser tells the tale of a street-bound fundraiser through a unique persuasion style of gameplay.
