2023 #wsagames
The Tower of Babel is a single-player exploration game in which players aim to unlock The Tower at the centre of their universe using their voice as a key. There, they aim to provide an answer to the question: “where have all the words gone?”
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows / macOS
Ravaged by falling debris and celestial bodies, the world of “Kessler” is destroyed and in a post-apocalyptic state, society has become divided living in secluded undergrown bunkers in order to ensure the survival of humans. The game follows a young resident of one of these bunkers.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows / macOS
Having been decimated during The Raze, an event in which the planet has passed too close to the sun, the world has been decimated. With the protectors of the world (The Guardians) left ravaged by a deadly Blight, life struggles in caverns underneath the surface.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows / macOS
Stik-Up has you control the chopsticks being held by an office worker, undergoing tasks in the workspace. You’ll have to see how quickly you can achieve ordinarily simple activities —like carrying a cup of coffee— and deal with pesky coworkers getting in your way, when there’s the barrier of using chopsticks to achieve your goals.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows / macOS
It’s ok to take a breather, even if that means packing up your bags and heading for the mountains. Sadly, it’s easier said than done, but what If we brought the mountains to you? Head over to the Getaway to experience a fully immersive 360-degree environment.
- Touch
- iOS
Gueraden is a single player experience where the player needs to grow vegetables to feed their community.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows / macOS
Relax and improve your mental wellbeing with Cogshel – a 2D single-player mobile game where you are responsible for nurturing pets at your animal shelter.
- Board Game
- Physical Game
It’s ok to take a breather, even if that means packing up your bags and heading for the mountains. Sadly, it’s easier said than done, but what If we brought the mountains to you? Head over to the Getaway to experience a fully immersive 360-degree environment.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows / macOS
The Sailor’s Guide to Game Design is a virtual-novel-based game. Players experience a virtual novel and make their own one in the end. This is the tutorial game of how to make games.
- Mouse
- Windows
2022 #wsagames
Relax and improve your mental wellbeing with Cogshel – a 2D single-player mobile game where you are responsible for nurturing pets at your animal shelter.
- Touch
- iOS
Trailer
Documentary
Game Play Demo
It’s ok to take a breather, even if that means packing up your bags and heading for the mountains. Sadly, it’s easier said than done, but what If we brought the mountains to you? Head over to the Getaway to experience a fully immersive 360-degree environment.
- Gesture
- Web Browser
Trailer video
Documentary
Game Play Demo
Gueraden is a single player experience where the player needs to grow vegetables to feed their community.
- Mouse
- Windows
Trailer
Documentary
Sengoku’s Love Letters is a single-player experience in which the player can follow the story of Rika Tokitsune, the wife of a brave samurai, Hisao.
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer
Documentary
Wayfinder is a third person adventure game where you will play as a robot who leads a pilgrimage of robots on a perilous journey across harsh environments as they deteriorate and breakdown as well as get hunted by an enemy force on this journey.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer
Documentary
Wayward Amnis is a game about reliance and forming groups, an exploration game in which you form a swarm of friendly animals to protect yourself from predators and ascend through the biomes of a long lost earth.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer
Documentary
“Monster in the making” is a 1st person game where something follows not only you but also all the living beings in the forest. While you try to put distance between you and what stalks you will encounter various spirits that will need help.
- Touch
- iOS
Trailer
Documentary
Locked away and hardwired into a life not of your choosing, you can only gaze out at the Blue Marble beneath as you execute commands and processes as per your creator’s design.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- Windows
You have just lost the love of your life and now you must continue on with your life in a world filled with death and obstacles. You must collect letters written by your partner to ‘reminisce’ back to the memories the two of you had together and to overcome the grief that has struck upon you and move on with your life.
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer
Documentary
Locked away and hardwired into a life not of your choosing, you can only gaze out at the Blue Marble beneath as you execute commands and processes as per your creator’s design. With no comforting past, or a future to pray for, and a stale present, you silently observe the passing of the world around you in a haunted dream. Til a draft of wind urges forward.
- Controller
- Windows
Trailer
Set in WWII, you play as an adolescent German youth who has been drafted to fight on the front lines. The game will mostly take place during the Battle of France (Ardennes, France), where your character will perish.
- Keyboard
- iOS
Looking for companions, Abel explores the broken and destroyed world, both learning about himself and the fate of everyone around him. The world is vast and with so much to traverse Abel will need upgrades to access new areas and find a way around the crumbling landscape, but it’s no problem for our protagonist.
- Keyboard
- Windows
Bosun is a single player atmospheric experience where you prevent your ship from sinking in a raging storm.
- Keyboard
- Windows
2021 #wsagames virtual arcade archive
A letter from a lost friend beckons you into the mountains. Climb into the increasingly dangerous heights, up the pillars that hold up the sky.
updated 30/04/21
- Controller
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
Welcome to Cap City! As the last survivor of a corporate robot uprising, it’s time to stand up from your desk, quit your job, pull out your trusty flamethrower and burn it all down!
updated 09/03/21
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
A village is being plagued with disasters caused by beasts coming from various nearby locations in the land. You play a mystic that deals with affairs involving these mythological beings.
updated 15/03/21
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
Welcome to the City of Serlon! Play as a lone trickster exploring and learning about the dystopian, floating city on which he is stranded.
updated 26/04/21
- Controller
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
Gardeners Grove is a singleplayer experience in which players can use the overgrown nature around them to create and customise their very own garden space.
updated 27/04/21
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
Test your piloting skills in this fun space simulator! Race and shoot your way through asteroid fields made of various food types, against the clock and/or other players, to hit high scores and get your name on the leader-board!
updated 29/04/21
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
Created by the Wizard from bit-and-bobs, a splash of magic and a whole lot of love, you must explore the Tower and clean up all the mess you can find.
updated 18/04/21
- Controller
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
Reikon: Beyond the mask” is an atmospheric Metroidvania taking inspiration from Japanese folklore, culture and art. The gameplay is set in two parallel worlds, one belonging to the humans and one to the spirits.
updated 10/03/21
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
updated 09/03/21
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
2020 #wsagames virtual arcade archive
DuoDeus is a 2D local multiplayer music game in which two deities cooperate to create their own universe by composing music.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
Maive is a single-player interactive narrative about a travelling storyteller with a magic book that brings her stories to life.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
Portage is a minimalist experience that encourages a mindful attitude whilst canoeing and hiking through the landscape.
- Controller
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
Game Documentary
Jazz and Azul is a single-player story-driven adventure game set within a world segregated by jazz and blues music.
- Keyboard
- Windows
Trailer Video
Somnia is a single player endless runner mobile game, designed to introduce its players to the concept of sleep hygiene.
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
Trailer Video
The Mind of a child is a weird and whimsical thing, you are its loyal subject. Use explosions and an adaptive teddy bear to solve puzzles set in the imagination of a child.
- Keyboard
- Windows
Penance is a short, narrative heavy game made as a third year university project for the Winchester School of Art.
- Keyboard
- macOS / Windows
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Games Design Staff
Games as Culture, Games for Purpose, Games as Art.
Adam Procter
Programme Leader
Due to Covid-19 we flipped our user testing sessions to remote. Now each year we have a vibrant online Arcade where you go come and test our games and provide feedback on itch.io as we develop them for launch at our Summer Shows at Winchester School of Art and in London.
Vanissa Wanick
Senior Lecturer
Our students not only make the games but these games are designed to talk to players and provide commentary on the world we live in, I am confident you will not only enjoy the games but see the depth of research and thinking that goes into each project.
Emma Reay
Senior Lecturer
Our brilliant students have worked incredibly hard to put together this arcade showcasing their final year projects. We’re very proud of what they’ve achieved!
Seth Giddings
Professor
Our Students are really pushing their games with a real focus on the ideas behind each project and the concepts they want to express. Please do visit https://winchester.games where you can read in depth about each project with student blogs, websites and social media links.
James Stallwood
Senior Teaching Fellow
The student teams have only been working on these games for less that 10 weeks yet I am confident you will be impressed with the quality of each game. You can follow more on social media via the hashtag #wsagames