Larger Projects
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Return to Monkee is a top down Hotline Miami like shooter where the player plays as a monkey attempting to escape various research facilities.
A highly-intelligent chimp and dozens of lab techs walk into a facility. Only one very angry primate will escape, with the help of several guns and a speedrunning timer.
Return to Monkee was created in fall of 2022 for the Traditional Game Design class at the University of Utah.
Climate Cat is a top down 3rd person art game where the player needs to travel the world putting out the ever growing wildfires while planting new forests.
This is a prototype project for the MEAE program at the University of Utah. We were tasked with creating an alternative game with a specific art style, so we chose climate change and our art style was Dansaekhwa.
Intergalactic Garbage Patch
Intergalactic Garbage Patch is an infinite 2d arcade space shooter where the player is tasked with destroying space debris before it collides with the International Space Station.
Intergalactic Garbage Patch is an educational game that teaches about space debris. Every year thousands of new debris is launched into space and are seeming left floating around in Earth's orbit. This could cause harm to satellites and the space stations that are orbiting Earth. If we have too much debris in Earth's orbit, this could cause delay in future generations ability to explore space due to the debris.
Intergalactic Garbage Patch was created in the spring of 2023 for the Alternative Game Design class at the University of Utah.
Ivorfall is a steampunk, roguelike, twin-stick shooter where you play as the mysterious and capable Detective Flintlock tasked with taking out hordes of enemies to save Ivorfall city! Fight enemies, modify one of the three gun types in the game to discover a dozen ways to clear through the evil Raven's thugs. Move from level to level collecting weapon mods, spend money in the market on health upgrades, combat items, and weapon mods, and blast your way through boxes, crates, walls, and bank vaults in your quest to uncover the truth.
Ivorfall and Inquiry Games were created over the course of the 23-24 academic calendar year for the University of Utah’s Capstone course.
Doug Bowser playing our game at the Utah launch event.
Pony Express
Saddle up and cause chaos in the wacky wild west! Find unique mounts, meet quirky NPC’s, and collect awsome hats as you deilver mail across the wasteland - all on an innovative “H.O.R.S.E.” (Haptic Operated Rider Saddle Experience)!
Pony Express was created over the course of the spring 2025 semester for the MEAE’s alternative controller class. We will be continually working on this game to eventually submit to Indiecade and GDC 2026 alt.ctrl.
The “H.O.R.S.E”
(its basically a re-wired xbox controller)
Fam Squad studios team
Smaller Projects
Tides is an endless fixed arcade shooter where the tides are shifting the players position depending on the time of day. Manage your ammo while fighting enemies in both the sky and ocean and try to stay alive for as long as possible.
This is a prototpe project for the MEAE program at the University of Utah. Our assignment was to modify and iterate upon an existing arcade game, so we chose the 1976 Taito arcade game Attack.
