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Ben Davis (2021)

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Ben Davis

Hi! My Name is Sample Student, and I am a student at Baylor University majoring in Computer Science in the Gaming Concentration. I’m from Houston, Texas and currently am a sophomore.

Career Goals

Upon graduating, I plan on working as a Game Designer.

 

Experience

 

Games Created 

 

Favorite Games

 

Classes Taken

  1. CSI 1337

Dr. Matthew Fendt

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Dr. Matthew Fendt

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science

 

 

Education 

Ph.D, North Carolina State University, 2014

B.S, University of Delaware, 2009

Profile 

I teach the introductory gaming class, CSI 1337, as well as the upper level game engine class, CSI 4342, and the gaming capstone, CSI 43C8.  My PhD work was in the creation of a narrative generation tool for authors.  Now I create learning and educational games.  I have three ongoing projects.

  • A mobile game to teach grade school and high school students about the drop tower over in the BRIC.  This is to encourage students to pursue a STEM education.  The game is currently in development and if you want to poke around with the apk it is here.
  • A mobile app to promote health education in India.
  • A collaboration with the Family Health Center in Waco, who provides health care to under serviced populations in the Waco area.  We developed an app for their researchers to assist in patient survey administration.

I also supervised students in the development of a game to teach people about the Armstrong Browning Library.  You can download the game here!

Screenshots of the Armstrong Browning Library game called Time Historian

If any of those projects sound interesting to you, please come talk to me about them or other gaming research opportunities.  My office is in Cashion 360.02.  If you want to see some of the papers I have published, you can find them on my Google Scholar page.

We try to publish our senior gaming capstone games every year on Steam.  You can play our turn based strategy game Synch or our multiplayer battle arena game Mutation Mayhem on Steam.

The gaming capstone game Mutation Mayhem

Favorite Games

I learned to love video games from my dad, who brought home a DOS computer where I played Siege, Paladin 2, and Sim City.  My first gaming console was an Atari, and I loved the Joust game I had.  I also had the infamous E.T. game, and like everyone else, had no idea how to play it.  Nowadays I mainly play narrative games, like Life is Strange.  I am currently playing Night in the Woods.

Most of your time playing E.T. was spent falling down this hole.

Gaming Classes Taught

  1. CSI 1337 Introduction to Video Game Design
  2. CSI 4342 Game Engines
  3. CSI 43C8 Senior Gaming Capstone

Mutation Mayhem (2018)

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About This Game

Dropped in a new environment you must struggle, fight, and adapt to survive. You must overcome harsh environments, giant apex predators, and others vying for power. By beating other animals you can take their adaptations for yourself. Mix and match your adaptations to give yourself the edge over your prey.

Sit on the couch with your friends and enjoy this split screen battle royale! Become a polar bear and rip your friends apart! Defeat an apex predator become huge and beat everyone in your path! Turn invisible to hide and strike at the perfect moment to win! Oh, and there are hats.

System Requirements 

OS:Windows 7, 10

Download 

Get Mutation Mayhem on Steam

Get Mutation Mayhem on Box

Class 
CSI 43C8  — Spring, 2018 
Developers

Timothy Arterbury
Trystan Jasperon
Amy Li
Stacie McLaury
Mitchell Shannon
Morgan Wesemann

Learning About the Brownings Through Video Games

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The Armstrong Browning Library is a beautiful building found on Baylor campus. It is world-renowned and believed to house the largest collection of secular stained glass in the world. Yet many students spend their time at Baylor without ever learning what the library has to offer. We at the Computer Science department wanted to change that by creating a video game to teach about the Armstrong Browning Library and get people excited to visit it…

Read the full article on the Baylor Teaching Fellows blog: https://sites.baylor.edu/teachingwithspecialcollections/2018/06/07/learning-about-the-brownings-through-video-games-a-post-by-matthew-fendt-phd/

Dank Dungeons (2017)

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Screenshot of the game, Dank Dungeons
Screenshot of the game, Dank Dungeons

About This Game

System Requirements 

OS:Windows 7, 10

Download 

Baylor box download

Class 
CSI 43C8  — Spring, 2017

Attributions:

Credit to Lanea Zimmerman for https://opengameart.org/content/dirt-platformer-tiles.

Credit to Art by Redshrike (Stephen Challener), commissioned by OpenGameArt.org (http://opengameart.org) for Xeon, https://opengameart.org/content/xeon-ultimate-smash-friends.

Gold coin: Created for Castles & Catacombs in the Machinis Ludo 3 game jam https://opengameart.org/content/spinning-gold-coin.

Developers

Juan Carlos Ramirez
Zachary Grumbles
Austin Mack
Dean He
Logan Coomes

Star Chores (2017)

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About This Game

A combination of asteroids and platforming, complete with custom made music.  In space!

System Requirements 

OS:Windows 7, 10

Download 

https://baylor.box.com/s/hvtspqxwsn17nnex12xfd33embxwt5b3

Class 
CSI 1337 – Fall 2017

Developers

Sample Student
Sample Student 2
Sample Student 3
Sample Student 4

CSI 1337- Marketing to Current Game Trends Assignment

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Assignment

In this assignment, students were required to perform market research on games that were currently commercially successful and create a video pitch for their game idea.  The students were given team and project length restrictions  on their project.  Listed are the winners and runner-up submissions for Fall of 2017.  Congratulations to Logan Parmeter and Ashley Emerson!

 

Videos

Winner

Runner Up 1

Runner Up 2

Class 
CSI 1337

Developers

Logan Parmeter
Ashley Emerson

Synch (2017)

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About This Game

In the apocalyptic wastelands of the future, with nothing but scrap and corrosive acid pervading the landscape, derelict robots work together to survive an otherworldly menace that threatens to destroy the feeble communities that manage to scrape by. It takes a band of bots to fend off one’s foreign foes. Choose your perfect team of bots to take down the evil boss bot and his floating flunkies!

Artists:

  • Amy Li – Robots/Environment: Amy’s Portfolio
  • Joseph Dufault – Concept Art/Music
  • Kathlyn Ramsey – Concept art

System Requirements 

OS:Windows 7, 10

Download 

Get Synch on Steam

Class 
CSI 43C8  – Spring 2017
Developers

Travis Forkner
Will Nations
Hailee Ammons

 

 

Disco Helix (2015)

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Screen capture from “Project Disco Helix,” a fast-action role-playing game created by students in Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science’s gaming capstone course.

About This Game

Description: Fast-action role-playing game

System Requirements 

OS:Windows 7, 10

Download 

Get Capstone Game on Box

Class 
CSI 43C8  — Spring, 2015
Developers

Tim DeVos
Joe Flowers
Trey Sedate
Caleb Sumpter

Misty Falls (2015)

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About This Game

Action game created by students in Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science’s gaming capstone course.

System Requirements 

OS:Windows 7, 10

Download 

Get Misty Falls on Box

Class 
CSI 43C8  — Spring, 2015
Developers

Sample Student
Sample Student 2
Sample Student 3
Sample Student 4

Get Consumed (2015)

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About This Game

Description:
Get Consumed!
Sometimes the only way to stop something is to replace them.
A smaller parasite can take over a larger one, and consume those smaller…but it can only enter based on a certain cycle.
Follow the cycle: Reds can take over greens, greens can take over blues, and blues can take over reds.

How to play:
W – Up
A – Left
S – Down
D – Right
Space – Jump
ESC – Exit

Enter other parasites by colliding with them. Don’t forget the cycle!

System Requirements 

OS:Windows 7, 10

Download 

Get Get Consumed on Box

Class 
CSI 4342  — Fall, 2015


Developers

Sample Student
Sample Student 2
Sample Student 3
Sample Student 4