Uci Video Game Design Club

Video Game Development Club at UCI

The Video Game Development Club (VGDC) at UC Irvine is devoted to providing a community to student game developers. Whether acting on an interest in the medium, or in pursuit of a long-term career, all are welcome.

We look to build each other up through workshops, crafting successful portfolios, and establishing lasting networks. Each and every voice is valuable and contributes to making our games what they are.

VGDC at UCI Fall 2021 (Destiny)

Only one can claim Godhood

Platformer

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A game about a student's destiny to finally go to bed... after going to class.

Action

A fight to predict your opponent's DESTINY

Make that bread. Claim your birthright. Full-bake your destiny.

Platformer

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Visual Novel

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A little bird told you that you are destined to become a prominent chef but at what cost..?

Simulation

Submission for UCI VGDC Game Jam

Puzzle

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VGDC at UCI Spring 2021

A vampire top-down impostor Game... Run for your life!

Strategy

A narrative-driven retro RPG about the battle against apathy. A UCI VGDC project in development.

Adventure

Turn-based tactical action!

Strategy

A short game about getting out of a city while a kaiju battle is ongoing

Puzzle

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You are getting ready to start college and a new chapter of your life, until a terrible pandemic forces you indoors!

Visual Novel

maximum quality achieved

Visual Novel

VGDC at UCI Winter 2021

A vampire top-down impostor Game... Run for your life!

Strategy

A narrative-driven retro RPG about the battle against apathy. A UCI VGDC project in development.

Adventure

A short platformer made by a few busy students in their free time.

Platformer

A short game about getting out of a city while a kaiju battle is ongoing

Puzzle

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VGDC at UCI Fall 2020

A fun online multiplayer game that anyone can play!

Shooter

A vampire top-down impostor Game... Run for your life!

Strategy

(INCOMPLETE) executable build of Q1 scaffold unity

Platformer

This was certainly a game

Platformer

Game about snails and chicken.

Platformer

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Fall 2020 VGDC Game Jam

Use fire to damage enemies and float!

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Top down visual novel about a father and daughter trying to protect one another.

Adventure

Protect your chefs from being killed by rival chefs!

Role Playing

VGDC at UCI Spring 2019-2020

Work a minimum wage job at the Gas Station to earn money for college!

Duke it out with your favorite ICS Professors!

Fighting

Defeat the evil Snail Mafia!

Platformer

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A 2D platformer game where you explore and solve obstacles!

Platformer

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A metroidvania farming game

Adventure

Spring Game Jam 2020 (Theme: Betrayal)

Find peace of mind in a graveyard

Strategy

Story Driven 2D Shooter (Game Jam)

Shooter

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An Animal Crossing fangame where all the villagers want to kill you!

Action

Find local monster girl and boy singles in your area!

Interactive Fiction

VGDC at UCI Winter 2020

Direct Clone of Tetris Attack (for now)

Puzzle

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A roguelike tactical-RPG.

Adventure

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A 2D, sci-fi, stealth-based platformer with no combat.

Platformer

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Grand strategy game built on realistic physics calculations.

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Traverse floating islands to solve 3 sets of puzzles, each with an easy, medium, and hard variant.

Puzzle

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Duke it out with your favorite ICS Professors!

Fighting

UCI VGDC Winter Quarter 2020

Rhythm

A 3D RPG based (very) loosely on Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and New Catacombs by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Action

VGDC at UCI Fall 2019

2D Isometric turn-based tactics game. You play as a commander of the last resistance against the Rogue Mind.

Strategy

A 2D platformer game where you explore and solve obstacles!

Platformer

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Fight soldiers, collect aliens, and escape!

Shooter

Puzzle game where player has full control over the character's gravity.

Puzzle

Something almost completely incoherent. Enjoy!

An Ace Attorney fangame with realistic trial mechanics

Visual Novel

Type to defeat the kaiju within

Interactive Fiction

A 3D RPG based (very) loosely on Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and New Catacombs by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Action

Fall 2019 VGDC Quarter Project

Puzzle

Piece together your past from the ashes.

Platformer

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Traverse floating islands to solve puzzles!

Puzzle

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Make some coffee and meet some weirdos.

Visual Novel

Casual crafting simulator

Simulation

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Fall Proto Game Jam 2019 (Theme: Secrets)

Make an excuse to keep your secret identity secret!

Interactive Fiction

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The button just becomes harder to find. Can you find the secret room while you're at it?

Puzzle

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2D Platforming Cat boi

Adventure

Discover a mysterious Island full of secrets

Adventure

Bounce around a top secret U.S. facility as ball of goo

Puzzle

The Darkness grows stronger

Puzzle

A visual novel about secret admirers

Visual Novel

VGDC at UCI Spring 2019

A thrilling maze game where your greatest enemy is yourself.

Top down zombie survival game

Survival

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Puzzle, Audio Driven

Puzzle

Are you ready to start your training?

Action

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A prototype for a physics-based puzzler. Think Boomblox without Steven Spielberg

Puzzle

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Narrative-driven puzzle adventure

Puzzle

A 3D game where the objective is to navigate through a randomly generate maze.

Puzzle

An Edgy Turn Based Combat RPG.

Adventure

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Spring Game Jam 2018 (Theme : Lose to Win)

Bound by the same chains of fate, two players take the descent to ensure the survival of their partner.

Action

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just a platformer with a little extra character development

Platformer

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Lose your negativity to win

Interactive Fiction

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Die your way out of the dungeon!

Adventure

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Find the cube.

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(dont) beat up your little brother simulator

Role Playing

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puzzle game death

Platformer

VGDC at UCI Winter 2019

Platformer

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Ball Bouncing Action!

Fighting

A platform fighting game with cats

Fighting

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A top down turn based combat RPG

Adventure

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Grow your settlement and ward off the alien attacks!

Strategy

Protect your fellow Bobalings!

Action

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2D platformer where you play as a chicken

Platformer

Interactive Fiction

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Escape the Wizard's Tower before he returns

Adventure

Defend your castle with nothing but a catapult, some rocks, and your wits.

The beginnings of an open and expressive music game

Rhythm

Puzzle, Audio Driven

Puzzle

Mostly Civilized: A Resource Management Project Building Game

Slowly be overrun by enemies as your incomplete defenses get warn down.

Puzzle

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VGDC at UCI Fall 2018

2D Platformer where you make parts of the level yourself to progress

Platformer

Build grid-based circuits to solve math puzzles

Puzzle

Defeat the demon fish lady, save the world

A game about a gingerbread man who takes revenge on his creator. Created by Sabrina, Aliyah, Jared & Chris

Platformer

VGDC Fall 2018

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Simple 2D Platformer that will make you rage quit!

Platformer

The Dark Souls of Platformers

Adventure

Platformer

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Fun platformer game with cake and cool tiles

Platformer

Raccoon-stacking running game

Join a ravenous orange on his journey to sate his hunger.

Platformer

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Scaffold 11's Submission for Fall 2018 of VGDC

Platformer

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Scaffold Team Full Panda

Platformer

Ominous 2D action-adventure game

Adventure

Fall Proto Jam 2018 (Theme : Spiral)

Space rails shooter with random upgrade choices, but then the whole space starts spinning

Shooter

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Maze-like Stealth games with lights

Strategy

A fantasy aerial espianage game

Action

Go to work or take care of your kid...

Interactive Fiction

Circular puzzle game

Puzzle

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Summer Game Jam 2018

Overcome CARTASTROPHE at your unpaid Bostco Internship! Become Cart Manager!

Action

Leap on the dragons back thousands of feet in the air and bring it down! Don't get knocked off!

Action

A game of explosive catharsis in an art museum.

Action

VGDC at UCI Spring 2018

What if you threw guns instead of shooting them?

Shooter

A fully fledged pacifist platformer where you save your pig instead of a princess.

Platformer

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A complete Ace Attorney rip-off!

Puzzle

VGDC at UCI Fall 2017

A Visual Novel

Visual Novel

Platformer

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topdown zombie shooter in space

Shooter

A rough Contra clone.

Action

You like balloons? What about homeless people? This game is for you.

Puzzle

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Spring Game Jam 2017

Chase down other people to convert them to your edgy ideologies.

Platformer

Get out all of your teenage angst in this edgy themed top down shooter!

Shooter

NotEnoughEdge

Action

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VGDC@UCI 2017 Spring Game Jam

Platformer

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VGDC at UCI 2016-2017 Year-long

A Unity based vertical scroller for UCI VGDC Winter 2017 that will stress you out

Platformer

Rance Rance Human Devolution is based on Konami's Dance Dance Revolution.

VGDC at UCI Winter 2017 Games

A Unity based vertical scroller for UCI VGDC Winter 2017 that will stress you out

Platformer

a turn-based battle between Red and the Big Bad Wolf

Role Playing

2D Downwards Side Scroller. Reach the bottom!

Platformer

Winter Game Jam 2016

3D top down arena shooter, upgrade your stats and die glorious deaths!

Action

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Roman themed bullet hell with randomized stat system

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VGDC at UCI Fall 2016

A Unity based top down 2D shooter for UCI VGDC Fall 2016 inspired by Splatoon and Hotline Miami

Action

Fantasy Resource Management Game

A young kid searches a dark and dangerous cave system for his mother

Adventure

Non-profit, student-made Castlevania fan game

Platformer

Fall Game Jam 2016

you can't let the light touch you.

Platformer

Don't touch the potato!

Action

Play as Master Chef in a free-roam run for your life, 3D action avoidance game - WASD + Space and Mouse to move!

Action

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Space arena combat to defend your star and destroy the opponent's star.

Action

Don't touch the floor! Hit Spacebar!

Platformer

Made For UCI VGDC Game Jame Fall 2016

Platformer

Navigate obstacles to touch MC Hammer

Action

An action rpg/hack'n'slash/dungeon-crawler about a rouge robot running around murdering every human in sight.

Action

Two Player Capture the Flag though Land and Sea

Sports