Students within the Department of Digital Humanities have had the opportunity to work on some great projects.

Below is a small selection of the projects students and faculty in the DH have completed in recent years.

COSMIC JUSTICE

Dive into the heart of the cosmos in Cosmic Justice,  a retro-inspired visual novel that brings the drama of an intergalactic courtroom to your screen. Inspired by the whimsical charm of beloved visual novels like Ace Attorney and Monsterprom, Cosmic Justice blends humour, science fantasy, and an engaging narrative into a short, yet unforgettable gaming experience.

DEAD ON ARRIVAL

Dead on Arrival is a high stakes racing game—a competition between daredevil ghosts to deliver the most grub and make the most cash! Four players battle it out on souped-up scooters, speeding through the undead city of Necropolis. Pick up orders and race across the map to drop them off. Using your spectral powers, activate a PhaseBoost that’ll send you flying through walls, or slam into another driver to steal from them and take their deliveries for yourself!

• Four Player Local Multiplayer. Compete against up to three friends in local split-screen party multiplayer! Find out who among you is the speediest spectre!
• High Speed Racing. Dash, dodge, and drift your way through the haunted city streets. Drive over jumps and boost pads to get an edge on the competition!
• Phantasmal PhaseBoost. Use your ghostly powers to super-charge your engine, phase through walls, and steal orders from other players!

MORAVEIL

In Moraveil, you are a respected archaeologist, an avid lover of Irish mythology infected since childhood, and a courageous man who delves into the fabled resting place of the gods for his family, and you must dig into the secrets of the legendary hero, Cu Chulainn, and search for the Fountain of Youth in the lore of to heal your sister, who is watched over by the curse of a mysterious family legacy.

Explore the mysterious, unpredictable caves, evade the entities, navigate through the clutter of clues to find the only answer – the map to Moraveil – and then show off your unparalleled memory by returning to the human world through the collapsed caverns where the magic has failed.

Death, loss, the mystery of Irish mythology, and the life of your sister are all in your hands.

UNNATURAL SELECTION

Play as animals and fight your friends to win the tournament!
Eliminate the most players to win the round!
Use the terrain, traps, and events to your advantage to take home the win!

• Fight with a variety of unique guns, including weapons such as the Plunge-O-Matic and the D.A.R.T. Gun!
• Play with a wacky cast of characters, from Foxes to Whales!
• Events add an additional level of crazy to gameplay, changing the movement and the environment!
• Player with the most wins after 4 rounds will take home the Victory!
• Watch out for that hammer!

FORAGE FRIENDZY

Forage Friendzy is a cheerful cat-and-mouse game where Prey work together to collect and deposit food (at tree stumps), while a team of Predators aim to stop them. Prey win if they deposit enough food to fill the food bar and Predators win if they catch all the Prey.

Fun for the whole family! Choose which cute critter you’d like to play as and choose which cosmetic you want them to wear.

MOUSU

A 4th year group project (GAME 2023), Mousu is an isometric single player action game where the player progresses through a destroyed village to free their land and take down the boss.

TECHBRAWLOGY: INTO THE ROBODOME

Techbrawlogy: Into the RoboDome is a multiplayer split-screen beat ’em up with cartoon-styled characters. Players can fight robots with their team and possibly survive long enough to defeat the final boss at the end. Players can level up by cooperating and defeating enemies, charging up their super meters as they do so to perform powerful attacks.

• Play as one of three characters: Orrek the Orc, Sylene the Elf, and Karamine the Fairy
• Battle waves of robots to become stronger
• Unleash powerful moves while cooperating with others and defeating enemies
• Use your skills to defeat the almighty Dr. Faustus

CALICO CAT-FE

Pounce into the purrfect world of Calico Cat-fe with this feline-tastic cooperative gameplay experience.

Choose to play as a barista or server and claw your way to the highest score possible. The demo currently offers 3 days of hiss-terical playtime.

BALLELUJAH

Ballelujah is a local one-versus-one Pinball game played from an overhead perspective, where both players’ boards are attached to one another by the portal at the top of both play areas. Players are able to select their own unique character, place and upgrade Towers, and use their overall pinball skills to avoid sinking pinballs in their netzone, with an overall goal of obtaining more points than their opponent. A match of Ballelujah is 4 minutes 30 seconds total, with two 15 second build phases, and two 2 minute play phases. At the end of the game, the player with the highest score wins, and they are able to return to the main menu and do it again.

BEATBUSTER

BeatBuster is a single player, 3D rhythm-based hack-and-slash where the player battles their way through the music-powered city of Audiopolis. The player’s job is to destroy musical monstrosities known as Bad Vibes– a manifestation of corporate interference in the artistic process– and save Audiopolis from being overrun!

RE-SOURCED

After spending her life wasting away in a Human Resources job, Agnes has died. Unfortunately for her, the work doesn’t stop there. Baron Samedi, the God of Death and ruler of the Underworld, has decided to start up a God Resources branch of his corporate empire, with Agnes being a top choice for an employee. Instead of being doomed for her entire afterlife working behind a desk, Agnes sets out to solve three of the Baron’s most pressing concerns. Spread across three separate realms, Agnes must encounter and resolve issues between Egyptian, Greek, and Norse employees and Gods, with the hopes that she will be granted a chance to leave her corporate afterlife forever.

DESTITUTE

Destitute is a resource management rogue-like where the player must plot their route from village to village, scavenging for supplies, managing their inventory, surviving an unforgiving world, and eluding the mysterious Follower. The player’s success is measured in a score that gets higher and higher the further the player goes, and if the player can discover any valuable items. How far can you go? How well can you survive? How many points can you earn? How long will you last in a world turned Destitute?

SHADOW FROM THE FALLS

A 4th year group project (GAME in 2021), Shadow from the Falls is a first person atmospheric horror game inspired by the graphics of the Playstation 1. Experience a new feeling of dread as you attempt to rid Niagara of the ghosts haunting it.

GUARDIAN ANGEL FOR HIRE

A 4th year group project (GAME 2021), Guardian Angel for Hire is a timed 3D puzzle game that follows brand-new guardian angel Tamiel on their first day of work. To learn the ropes of the new job, Tamiel is tasked with protecting Reginald, an accident-prone old man, from a series of strange deaths.

Super Confused News

A 4th year group project (IASC in 2021), Super Confused News is a puzzle game requiring you, a journalist working in a city filled with super-powered beings, to make the distinction of who is at fault for the many incidents caused around the city. Working with police reports, eyewitness statements, and a slew of supernatural gadgets, it is up to you to produce factual reports. Along the way, you might learn a thing or two about media literacy in your quest for truth, justice, and all that good stuff.

Shatter Keep

A 4th year group project (GAME 2021), Shatter Keep is an isometric multiplayer survival party game where 3 players are survivors attempting to escape the castle while being hunted by the fourth “monster” player, who is randomly selected at the beginning of each game.

Grimstone

A 4th year group project (from the first graduating class of GAME in 2020), Grimstone is an eldritch themed roguelike with tense turn-based combat on a hex-grid. Players explore levels of a corrupted mine to find the source of the mine’s madness and destroy it. As you explore, discover customizable abilities and bring back resources to upgrade their town and characters, restoring the town to its former glory.

Spy2K

SPY2K, created by the 2019 graduating IASC class, presented at the Level Up gaming showcase in Toronto.  The team used original music, voice work, character design, and animation in this head-to-head, spy vs. spy, game of industrial espionage. SPY2K is a two-player competitive game set in the late ‘90s era where Players engage in corporate espionage leading up to the Y2K threat. Send out your network of spies on missions and race your opponent to complete missions so your agency can benefit the most.

MAGEHEM

Created by a team of 3rd year GAME Students (Digital Details). Magehem is a competitive, virtual reality (VR), tower defense game where you duel your opponent with an arsenal of spells, minions, and potions to try and destroy the opponent’s tower. The game will involve rounds of combat with brief pauses in between for strategic planning. Players will use a dynamic spell-casting system that they will be able to customize, as well as potions and minions to defeat their opponent while defending their own tower.

Bad Manors

Created by a team of 3rd year GAME students (Expresso Games).  Three-time award winning, networked, head-2-head challenge.  Play as teenagers trying to outwit your spirit opponents in a haunted mansion.

Stop Running!

Stop Running!, created by the 2018 graduating IASC class, won the People Choice award at the Level Up gaming showcase in Toronto.  The team used original music, voice work, character design, and animation in this thrilling multi-player party game.  Playing as one of four hapless monsters, your objective is to keep away from the experience-hungry paladin and outlast the other players.

MUNIN

Munin is a 3rd year side scrolling game developed by IASC 3F00.  Use the power of your players flashlight to disarm traps while you traverse the maze to reveal your players’ true identity.

Joustaposition

Joustaposition, created by the 2017 graduating IASC Class won 2nd Place, People Choice award at the Level Up gaming showcase in Toronto.  The player versus player game features an original soundtrack and voice work that bring to life a future civilization’s hilariously inaccurate robotic reboot of the ancient sport of jousting.

Skrik & the Synapse

A 3D puzzle/platformer game developed by 3rd year IASC students in 2012.

Awaken

Awaken, created by the 2013 graduating IASC class, won Best Game at the Level Up gaming showcase in Toronto held that same year. It was the first year an IASC class entered the competition.

Nightscape

Nightscape is an isometric detective game that follows Danielle Thompson through her never ending line of murders in the little town of Brighton. Her job is to find out who Null is and stop him from murdering the whole town! Join Danielle in her journey to stop Null and reclaim Brighton!

Sponsored by IBM Canada, this project was a collaboration between students from Computer Science (BSc), Education (MEd) and Interactive Arts & Science (BA).

The student team built an autonomous rover — a simplified version of NASA’s Mars Rover — and wrote an instructional guide that is part of an open-sourced, inexpensive kit for students to take home, build and learn from.

The Arduino programming kit will be distributed by IBM Canada, free of charge, to Grade 8 students across Canada.

Published on February 8, 2016
Students in the Brock University Design Studio (BUDS) program work on a rover prototype as part of an IBM partnership.

The Curious Lamp — animation

HUE — IASC 3f91 film project

The Greatest battle — using stop motion

Use your imagination — IASC FINAL project