Cell Explorer (Virtual Reality)

Cell Explorer is a virtual reality game created using the HTC Vive headset and controllers. In this game, the player is able to move around and explore the internal structures of a Eukaryotic cell while performing a littany of tasks designed to educate and entertain the user. Cell explorers start their adventure in the nucleus of the cell and will eventually need to package and transport a protein outside of the cell itself following the various steps required for this.

Technical Directors 1 & 2: Joshua Bierdz and Sarah Mientka 3D Modeler and Game Designer 1: Lisa Revette UI Artist and Game Designer 2: Shariwa Oke

Emergency Decision

Emergency Decision is a trauma simulator that requires a player to take on the role of an emergency physician and correctly asses and treat an incoming emergency patient. The game utilizes ATLS guidelines to build an algorithm of the player’s actions and the consequences of those actions based on the incoming patient’s condition. Correct assessments and actions will improve the patient’s condition while incorrect assessments or actions may actually degrade the patient’s condition.

In a fully built out version, the scope of this game would include a variety of injuries the responding physician would need to asses and provide the correct intervention for while going through the ABC’s of correct care laid out in ATLS courses taught in medical school.

Technical Directors 1 & 2: Dani Bergey and Julia Bendon 3D Modeler and Game Designer 1: Joshua Bierdz UI Artist and Game Designer 2: Ann Liu

Mission Fertilization

The goal for Mission Fertilization was to create a competitive two player racing game that taught players general concepts concerning fertility. Players would race sperm through the uterus to be the first to fertilize the egg residing in the Fallopian tube. Along the way, players would try to obtain power ups (that relate to an increase in fertility) that would boost their health or speed while simultaneously avoiding obstacles (that relate to a decrease in fertility) which would lower their health or speed.

Technical Director: Logan Weihe Art Director: Joshua Bierdz Project Manager and Game Designer: Casey Garr