TSU Game Programming Club

Edit: This post should have happened weeks ago... anyway, Happy Belated!

The Game Programming Club is a newly formed club in Tennessee State University's Computer Science Department by Professor Erdemir. During fall semester, students joined groups and worked together to learn and create using the Unity3D game engine.  The club and students are all energized and hopefully we'll be on a good footing to having a great and sustainable resource for the student body!

Here are some of the pictures from the final meeting of the Club at Tennessee State University back in December.

Some introductions of new members

A bowling game presentation

Pirate Island Themed Bowling Game

Most members, pre-meeting

My team member, Blake presenting our Battle Zone Remake

Jeff and team member(sorry) presenting their bowling game Razz

Jeff' gave a post game presentation on what he learned over the first semester working with Unity.

Global Game Jam 2014!

Alright, I'm done!

GGJ14 was a (personal) success!

You can try the game out via the page link above or here.

This year was my first ever Global Game Jam event. I jammed out with the awesome people of Nashville Game Developers! I think the jam continues until tonight (Sunday at 10) or so, but I'm dying from being at it for most of the day.

Theme: "We see things not as they are, but as we are"

This theme led to ideas that were very meta and even mindbendingly complicated to break down to a bare game mechanic sensibly.  It's something that we've already seen in games time and time again in games where different characters/character features give the player different in game reactions. After thinking on it during our brainstorm friday night, and most of Saturday morning, and even as I was in Franklin crafting this idea, I settled the evolved version of my one of my original ideas: a maze.

It's pretty simple, except it's not... Travel into the depths of your memories and maybe you can reflect on yourself and how you see things!