PAX East

Get ready to paws and explore in Impawsible Quest, where you play as a cat on a mission! Venture through a suburban wonderland, completing quests and upgrading your cozy cat shelter with treasures you find along the way. Meowvelous adventures await!

P.O. + Director + Character Art: Mengliu Lu (MFA thesis project)
Producer + Environment Art: RJ Anthony
Programming: Noah Bornstein
3D Art: Alexia Cronin, Esau Bernstein, Joshua Talavera
2D Art: Alexia Cronin
Animation: Ethan Nappi
Special Thanks + Programming Consultant: Stephen Lucini

Spaceholder is a VR rouge-like shooter that takes place in an abandoned facility…or so you thought. Battle through rooms of killer robots to reach the safe room. Will you wager your precious ammo for a chance at a better weapon? Or keep it for the next fight? Daily high scores will be kept track of!

Producer: Edward Greig
P.O. + Director + Programming: Kyle Flores (MFA thesis project)
2D Art: Cole Klimoski
3D Art & Animation: Edward Greig, Kyle Flores
Level Design: Tony Cunha, Jeremy Higgins, Edward Greig
Audio: Jack Hughes+Billy Johnston

You and your besties decide to have a slumber party…but after a sugar-fueled night of watching your favorite tv show, “The Familiars,” the dream-world is just too inviting! Now you must work together to wake up for school and turn off that annoying alarm!

P.O.+Director: Prof. Ulm
Leads:  Nathaniel Manfra (Art+Level), Arielle Johnson ( UI/UX+Design), Duncan Armstrong (Programming)
Art: Brien Rondeau
Audio: Christian Octaviano, Sam Nelson
Music Composer: David Gates
Level + QA: Christopher Mattarelli, Eddy Jose Ramon, Tyler Gaughan
Producer: Joshua Barbato
Programming: Ambah Effah-Donkoh (ux specialist), Dan Zhu (audio specialist)
Writing: Kieran Wild (as well as 2D art)

A colorful puzzle adventure based on the legend of Sun Wukong! Join this young monkey as he explores ancient ruins looking for delicious peaches! Garden of Taozi is an isometric puzzle game based on the legendary Sun Wu Kong.

Leads: Camden Benkovszky (Designer), Angelina Kastrytskaya (Artist), Lucas Oliveira-Chace (Programmer)
2D Artist:Marta Szemiot
3D Artists: Daniel Stevens, Brenna Lutzky, Scott Vagnini
Programmers: Reilly Zoltan, Matthew Dango, Jackson Chace
Designers (UI/UX + Writing + Level Design): Brett Pfister, Seth Ferreira
Designers (Level Design): Pablo E. Acosta, Daniel Kempf, Jeremy Whitman-Kinghorn, Tucker Greene (+VFX)
Sound FX: Robert Ruiz
Music Composer: Channing Webber
Professors: Prof. Mborja, Prof. Swartz
Producer: Alex Supron

How much do you really know about yourself? In Love is a Numbers Game meet a colorful cast of characters meant to teach you more about yourself and others. Discover who you most relate to and who you want to spend more time with. 

P.O.+Director: Kaylin Canon (MFA thesis project)
Lead Programmer: Daniel Mojica
Lead Designer: Kaylin Canon
Lead Artist: Darby Hartford
Background Artist: Stephanie Katakalides
UI/UX: Mikel Frith, Jacob Czerepica, Jason Messina
Writing: Kaylin Canon, Declan Zielinski
Audio: Carly Mota
Music Composer: Merritt Hyman

Chasing a distress signal from the far-off space colony of Tiamat IV, your scouting team beams you down to the planet alongside your trusty R-Bit combat robot. Armed with a powerful axe and arm gatlings, fight your way through stages of pulse-pounding hack-and-slash action. Will you be able to survive?

P.O.+Director+Lead Programmer: Chenxi Gao
Producer+Narrative Design: Danny Rorke
Art Lead: Raven Clarico
Audio Design: Sam Nelson
Environment Art: Graham Codd
Audio Programmer: Daniel Zhu
UI Programmer: Alex Massaro
Advisor: Prof. Ezra Cove

Do you hate scam callers? Of course you do! Play as an adorably cunning cat in this humorous story game, making hilarious choices to mess with fake scam callers, all while learning how to recognize scams in calls you receive IRL!

P.O. + Lead / Design / Art: (raccoon+alligator character art, menu + level screen art) Skyler Barron (MFA thesis project)
Art: (cat character art and backgrounds) Maddie King
Art: (fish character art) Jay Lam
Programmer: Tristan DeMacedo
Writing: Tim Egli (Tech Support and Lottery scams), Pablo Acosta  (IRS and Kidnapping scams), Nicholas Lord (Refund and Job scams), Charles Weiller (Charity scam)
Voice Acting: Charles Weiller (Scammer), Xaver Dose (Fish Voice), Maddie King (Cat Voice)

Meet your enemies in the arena and settle the discord in the colosseum with Discolosseum! If you play your cards right, you will call upon the power of the most exotic fantasy creatures to ever do battle. Leave the colosseum in disarray, and remember that the natural order of combat is disorder!

P.O. + Director: Stephen Lucini (MFA thesis project)
Producer: Ian Yasso
Programming: Stephen Lucini
Visual Effects: Kristopher Cronshaw
Animations: Kristopher Cronshaw, Marta Szemiot
Art Director: Marta Szemiot
Artwork: Marta Szemiot, Derrick Audian, Elisha Kelley
UX / UI Design: Ian Yasso, Jake Wajnowski, Elisha Kelley
Sound Design: Carly Mota