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Team: Acheron Design
URL: http://renegaderx.com
Platform: PC

A scrolling shooter using their own engine called MASI (which is available for use for free by emailing them).

 

Renegade RX: A Jake Granite Adventure combines explosive vertical scrolling top down shooting with a gripping film noir story. Drawing from classics like Epic Megagames's Tyrian, Apogee Software's Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and Remedy's Max Payne, Renegeade RX: A Jake Granite Adventure reinvigorates western shooters for the modern age.

Told through the eyes of Jake Axle Granite, a charismatic hero with more chin than chivalry, the narrative provdes a driving impetus for ingame action and a satirical treatment of computer game culture in general. A tale of love, betrayal, hope, and war, the only thing more exciting is the game itself!

Exhilirating battles are fought over the surfaces of devastated worlds, inside mechanical structures, and in the haunting depths of outer space. The ability to customise your spacecraft and weapons provides a refreshing take on a tested genre. With three episodes of engrossing, unpredictable and incredibly memorable adventure, Renegade RX: A Jake Granite Adventure is sure to leave you feeling amazed.

Team: Revenge Interactive
URL: http://revengeinteractive.com.au
Platform: GBA

 

Build from scratch by a team of 4 students, and completed in 4 months.
These guys set up their own business so they could fulfil their work placement requirements their own way!

Project Esmay is a Strategy RPG for Nintendo’s Gameboy Advance handheld gaming platform. In the game the player tours the nations of a fictional world in search of the best tacticians and soldiers. The player must then fight them, defeat them and/or recruit the best to form their own elite fighting force to defeat an evil corporation hell-bent on ruling the world.

It contains 28 overall missions grouped in a three act structure – 3 tutorial (or lead in missions), 20 primary missions, and 5 final missions that lead to end-game. There also exists a headquarters, and world map where missions are selected from (the headquarters allows for an element of exploration and character development/interaction outside of the games mission battles).

When the player starts the game they are in the employ of the ICARUS Corporation. These first three missions are tutorial missions and while introducing the player to the game mechanics they also introduce the main characters, both good and bad (Alex, Dr Watson, Marshall, and Southwick) as well as some of the back story.
Once the player character (Alex) reaches the Esmay1 (Dr Watson’s Zeppelin base) – their options open significantly with a number of optional/non-story focused missions becoming available as well as the main storyline ones.
The game runs on a self-built 2D-side scrolling engine (similar to a traditional platform game). It is designed for Nintendo’s Gameboy Advance handheld gaming platform which has the largest install base of any video game system and is still compatible with Nintendo’s newer DS system.