Over & Out 2024: os jogos da Universidade Lusófona!
Especial, pois foi a grande novidade este ano o Prémio Telmo Couto: Melhor Conceito, um gesto que nos comoveu cuja gratidão é enorme e, desde já, um muito obrigado do Meus Jogos por este gesto. Foram vários os prémios e ainda mais os jogos que tive oportunidade em experimentar, falar com os seus criadores e ainda partilhar algumas ideias. Muitos jogos e muito talento, das áreas mais técnicas às mais artísticas, explorando diferentes géneros e conceitos, cujo resultado poderão também experimentar!
Foram muitos os convidados a participar neste evento, além de experimentarem os jogos e trocarem palavras com todos os participantes fizeram também parte do júri! Membros de empresas como a Fortis, APVP, FunCom, Gaming HUB, Fun Punch Games, Infinity Games, Real Fevr, OnTop Studios, Vertical Reach, RedDagger e a Loading Studios. Tivemos também meios de comunicação como representantes a SIC entre YouTubers, Streamers e, como dito no início, o Meus Jogos.
Foram mais de 20 jogos apresentados, aumentando assim o catálogo de jogos e ideias que vão passando pela Universidade Lusófona, recheados de criatividade e boas ideias. Algo que poderão ver vocês mesmo através deste link (https://videojogoslusofona.itch.io/), de forma gratuita! Podem também ver informações sobre o curso aqui (https://videojogos.ulusofona.pt/).
E agora, sem grandes demoras, eis os jogos premiados!
Em destaque temos Nimona, que arrecadou 3 prémios! O Prémio Telmo Couto: Melhor Conceito, Prémio: Melhor Sistema Desenvolvido num jogo e Prémio: Jogo mais Inovativo. No entanto, nada melhor como ver o jogo em si, por isso convido-vos a experimentá-lo.
Seguem-se agora vários jogos que receberam todos um prémio cada:
- Prémio: Incentivo à Cultura para Rota;
- Prémio: Impacto Social para Bordalo e o Gato;
- Prémio: Alt. Ctrl para Pack-o-Rama;
- Prémio: Especial 42 para Magic Intern;
- Prémio: Best Awkward Game para Demon Dungeons;
- Prémio: Melhor Jogo EPIC-WE para Puss in Books;
E, por último, o grande prémio do evento que encerrou a cerimónia. O Prémio: Melhor jogo do Ano foi para Moira! Foi uma bela conclusão, vários prémios a serem entregues aos alunos num ambiente cheio de boa disposição e muitas trocas de ideias.
Convidamos também a ir à página da Lusófona Games Collection 2024 no Steam, onde podem fazer wishlist da coleção deste ano. E tudo gratuitamente! O link é https://store.steampowered.com/app/3004070/Lusofona_Games_Collection_2024/
"As the cyborg Motoko, you break and hack your way through the guarded building in search of your assassination target."
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"After being defeated by Po, Lord Shen somehow survived and found an Oogway’s scroll from 200 years ago, emanating a lot of Chi, thinking that it was something he could use to conquer China and eradicate kung fu. To accomplish it, Po will run through Gongmen City’s streets, fighting Shen’s soldiers and defeating Shen’s new weapons: flying arenas. Without his friends, The Furious Five, Po will have to fight an army with the techniques he learned and will learn through the clashes between enemies."
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"Dive into the world of the Ninja Turtles in this fast-paced, 2D side-scrolling action game. Play as Leonardo and team up with April O’Neil to take down Super Fly's gang in a high-stakes mission."
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"A Portuguese merchant who goes by Vasco looking for wealth in foreign lands tries to start business with Japan, he must fight pirates and earn the trust of the Japanese for his business to grow and prosper. However, the Japanese have reason to believe that the merchant is also trading with the Chinese, Vasco must try his best to hide this fact to not cause conflict. He isnt the only portuguese merchant in Japan, as other merchants may try to stop Vasco, going as far as sending assassins after him. Can Vasco surive this struggles while staying in the good side of the Japanese."
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"A small indie game made by a group of student developers. In this game you will follow the story of Arzach, based on the comic of the same name, by the late Jean Giraud (Moebius).
Fly through the landscapes, on the back of your cyborg pterodacyl, while dodging obstacles to reach a misterious woman who you are trying to conquer, and fight a giant monkey by dodging his attacks to live to fly another day."
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"You're just an intern wizard, doing magical stuff in your magical workshop. You accidentally messed up – you dropped the office key into a bubbling cauldron, and now you're locked in! But no worries, because you vaguely remember the master wizard mentioning something about an emergency key. The problem? You can't quite remember what he said. All you know is that he left some clues and puzzles around the room that lead up to the emergency key. Time to channel your inner magic and solve this mystery!"
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"Welcome to AMAZING EXPRESS, the galaxy's most chaotic distribution company! As the top dispatcher, your mission is to sort, fix, and deliver packages with precision and speed."
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"Made for the Oculus Quest 2, you can now shear all the sheep and become the best shear-er ?! Doesn't matter! Shear sheep and gain points! The more you shear the more points you collect."
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"A planet-exploring spaceship, the SS Celestial Voyager, faces a critical malfunction that puts it on a collision course with a massive meteor. In a desperate attempt at surviving, one of the crew members escapes in a pod, landing on the nearest unknown planet.
This is a Sci-fi themed single player first-person Escape-the-Room game where the player, a space explorer, must escape safely from a crashed spacecraft. To make its escape, the player must first repair the machine and then ensure its safety on this unknown planet before exiting the spacecraft."
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"Human Ltd. is a First-person Escape Room game where we play as a hired Detective. We are tasked with the investigation of the mysteriously abandoned company "Human Ltd.", which filed for bankruptcy despite its notable wealth and fortune. Our client is an ex-employee of that company, and he will be communicating with us through a Walkie-Talkie during our investigation. However, upon arriving at the building, the floor collapses and we fall into an abandoned underground office, from which we must now escape while also trying to figure out what really happened there.
Solve various puzzles by interacting with them and finding clues spread around the office. Collect various items that will help you escape, and use your Notepad to take notes of crucial information. Will you be able to escape this abandoned office?"
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"Consider following The Eden's Path to discover what Eternity looks like! Eden’s Path is a game that targets the Windows platform, delivering a Slow Paced, Strategic and Thinking Type of Experience.
In this game world, players assume the role of a sinner condemned to Hell, where the Devil manipulates their perception, making them believe they've entered paradise."
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"Play as an agent, part of an elite organization responsible for performing numerous tasks. You were tasked with exploring an abandoned train station and stealing the files that were hidden on the computer they left behind. These files contain important information about the city's tunnel systems, which you need to know in order to infiltrate your rival company’s HQ."
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"In BioLeap, you step into the shoes of Spike, a unique humanoid frog born from a genetic experiment combining human DNA with that of a red-eyed tree frog. The world is a dystopian future where humans are extinct, and cyborgs rule. Spike embarks on a daring mission to preserve nature and free captive species from high-tech laboratories controlled by the cyborgs. Navigate through vibrant environments, engage in thrilling combat, and use Spike’s agility and unique abilities to overcome the challenges ahead. Will you be able to dismantle the cyborg dominion and restore balance to the natural world?"
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"Agent Hopper is a third-person platformer developed by a group of students from ULHT in Lisbon for the DJD3 class. It is a vertical slice to serve as a demonstration for what a fully developed product could eventually be."
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"It's a 3rd person racing game where you use your grappling hook to traverse the map. Move using your hoverboard and use the grappling hook to swing through through the map and be the quickest."
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"Moira is a turn based deckbuilder with 2D characters and 3D environments where the player controls a young witch called Moira, who lives in Lisbon. Moira's work involves her dealing with creatures from portuguese folklore that are causing havoc in Lisbon. In the process Moira discorvers new depths to her powers, new friends as well as enemies and a whole new mess she now has to deal with!
You will use Moira's magical powers manifested into playing cards to attack monsters. Everything has an element attached to it, be it you or your oponents: fire, water and grass. These elements react when in presence of a different type of element - the efect can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the elements envolved.
Portuguese culture is an integral part of Moira not just on a visual level but also educational. Every battle occurs somewhere that's based on a real location in Lisbon, including metro stations, traditional streets and monuments."
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"Bordalo e o gato is a top-down puzzle solving customization game inspired by Rafael Bordalo Pinehiro's artwork. In this game you will have to discover and build a path to help Bordalo's cat Pires get to his food. After each level the player unlocks pieces of ceramic which he can use to create his own creamic piece."
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"Made for the EPIC-WE Cultural Game Jam, where the thematic was the Lagoon here at Óbidos, this game was made with the obejctive o offering, through some ridiculous designs and laidback aesthetics, a way to teach or promote interest in the lagoon's fauna and other dynamics within this ecossystem. You'll be playing as a detective trying to criminally profile birds from different species, all native to the Óbidos Lagoon itself.
You'll have to search through documentations and connect habits, characteristics and other traits in other to uncover the culprit. After you have decided who to blame, PRESS THE BIG RED BUTTON and give that naughty bird their well deserved punishment! Have fun messing with these suspicious birds and remember to leave some feedback if you so wish!"
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"Guide a cat through a whimsical journey as it explores the dreams inspired by a library in Óbidos. Traverse diverse literary worlds and craft an enchanting narrative as the feline encounters the captivating stories within its dreams."
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"A fox was posessed by the spirit of the lake. Now, in this new body, the spirit roams around the Obidos Lagoon to check if the animals and their habitats are according to the Nature regualtions"
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"In Search for Words is a 2D platformer inspired by the beautiful village Óbidos in Portugal made for the EpicWe project in a game jam. Words can move mountains, but in this game they move...... shelfs???? Explore the village and regain your long lost imagination as you control Joaquim, a rich and famous Portuguese writer who came across a writer's block and traveled to Óbidos to get some inspiration.
Collect the special Metal Letters and discover the powers hidden within them! Unravel the mistery of the long lost magic word and make sure to grab some ginjinha. Will you get through the awful writer's block? Or will you let your imagination be taken away by this greedy screenbound world?"
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"Catalog the birds in the Óbidos Lagoon with your camera and keep noisy tourists away with your removal gun!"
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Projetos 2023/2024
Projectos desenvolvidos em várias disciplinas do curso de Licenciatura em Videojogos, no decurso de 1 semestre lectivo, por alunos do primeiro, segundo e terceiro ano.Nimona
de Afonso Cunha, Júlia Costa, Mariana Martins e Gabriela Branco."In this kingdom full of fear and boring conformity, Nimona, the ultimate punk rebel with powers that'll blow your mind, says screw society's rules! Come along on her wild mission to save Ballister, the knight gone rogue. Chaos? Yeah, it's all about it!
Shapeshift into a raging gorilla, a thundering rhino, or a freaking flying dragon, smashing through forests, city streets, and castle dungeons. Every move you make will be like a scream in the face of authority, ready to rock this kingdom to its core and bust out with Ballister in a totally METAL escape!"
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Shapeshift into a raging gorilla, a thundering rhino, or a freaking flying dragon, smashing through forests, city streets, and castle dungeons. Every move you make will be like a scream in the face of authority, ready to rock this kingdom to its core and bust out with Ballister in a totally METAL escape!"
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Ghost in the Shell
de Eduardo Rocha, Gonçalo Sampaio e Hugo da Silva.Link para o jogo
Kung Fu Panda: The Sacred Scrolls
de João Monteiro, João Rodrigues e Lee Dias.Link para o jogo
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
de Breno Pinto, Martim Vicente e Miguel Almeida.Link para o jogo
Rota
de João Fernandes, Bruno Alegria, Tomás Cardoso, João Nogueira, Júlia Costa, Mariana Martins, Eduardo Rocha, Ivan Emídio, Leonardo Henrique, Lee Dias, Afonso Cunha, João Rodrigues, Catarina Fuscalicuc, Carolina Matos, Inês Gomes, Hugo Silva, Daniela Peixoto, Clara Antunes, Hugo Matins, Daniel Silva, Gonçalo Sampaio, Pedro Batista, Artur Martins, Breno Pinto, Luan Holmo e Daniel Costa.Link para o jogo
Arzach
de Tomás Cardoso, Artur Martins, Eduardo Rocha, Miguel Almeida, Leonardo Henrique, Hugo Silva, Inês Gomes, João Fernandes e Gonçalo Sampaio.Fly through the landscapes, on the back of your cyborg pterodacyl, while dodging obstacles to reach a misterious woman who you are trying to conquer, and fight a giant monkey by dodging his attacks to live to fly another day."
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Magic Intern
de António Rodrigues, Rafael José e Rodrigo Gomes.Link para o jogo
Pack-O-Rama
de João Fonseca, Bruno Rodrigues e Pedro Osório.Link para o jogo
A Shearful Day
de João Inácio, João Freire e Micael Teixeira."Made for the Oculus Quest 2, you can now shear all the sheep and become the best shear-er ?! Doesn't matter! Shear sheep and gain points! The more you shear the more points you collect."
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PodScape
de Daniel Fernandes, David Mendes e Vasco Caleiro.This is a Sci-fi themed single player first-person Escape-the-Room game where the player, a space explorer, must escape safely from a crashed spacecraft. To make its escape, the player must first repair the machine and then ensure its safety on this unknown planet before exiting the spacecraft."
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Human Ltd
de João Correia, Nelson Milheiro e Vitória Rodrigues.Solve various puzzles by interacting with them and finding clues spread around the office. Collect various items that will help you escape, and use your Notepad to take notes of crucial information. Will you be able to escape this abandoned office?"
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Eden's Path
de Guilherme Negrinho, João Neto e João Ribeiro.In this game world, players assume the role of a sinner condemned to Hell, where the Devil manipulates their perception, making them believe they've entered paradise."
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Cyber Break
de Diogo Freire, Madalena Cagido e Tiago Berlim.Link para o jogo
Bioleap
de António Rodrigues, Rafael José e Rodrigo Gomes.Link para o jogo
Demon Dungeons
de João Correia, João Ribeiro e Vitória Rodrigues."Demon Dungeons is a Third Person Hack n' Slash game with procedurally generated levels. The seemingly invincible Demon Lord and his army of demons have invaded the humans' territories, however a young hunter named Mikael accidentally found out that the Demons were using Magic Seals within Dungeons to become more powerful. Mikael's mission is to delve through all of the Dungeons on his own and defeat the Demon General at the end of each one, in order to break the Magic Seal they're guarding to weaken the other demons, and hoping that this heroic feat will make him famous.
Defeat hordes of enemies within the dungeon halls and reach the end of each floor to progress. Manage your health and stamina to survive: if your health reaches 0, you lose a life! Receive various random blessings from the Shrines between each floor to permanently increase your stats, and upgrade them using essence from defeated Demons. Defeat the powerful Demon General at the end of the dungeon to break the Magic Seal and weaken the demon invasion across the world."
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Defeat hordes of enemies within the dungeon halls and reach the end of each floor to progress. Manage your health and stamina to survive: if your health reaches 0, you lose a life! Receive various random blessings from the Shrines between each floor to permanently increase your stats, and upgrade them using essence from defeated Demons. Defeat the powerful Demon General at the end of the dungeon to break the Magic Seal and weaken the demon invasion across the world."
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Agent Hopper
de Guilherme Negrinho, Henrique Monteiro e Ricardo Louro."Agent Hopper is a third-person platformer developed by a group of students from ULHT in Lisbon for the DJD3 class. It is a vertical slice to serve as a demonstration for what a fully developed product could eventually be."
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Grapple Rally
de João Fonseca."It's a 3rd person racing game where you use your grappling hook to traverse the map. Move using your hoverboard and use the grappling hook to swing through through the map and be the quickest."
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Moira
de João Freire, João Inácio, Rodrigo Pires e Micael Teixeira.You will use Moira's magical powers manifested into playing cards to attack monsters. Everything has an element attached to it, be it you or your oponents: fire, water and grass. These elements react when in presence of a different type of element - the efect can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the elements envolved.
Portuguese culture is an integral part of Moira not just on a visual level but also educational. Every battle occurs somewhere that's based on a real location in Lisbon, including metro stations, traditional streets and monuments."
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Bordalo e o Gato
de Micael Teixeira, Bruno Rodrigues, João Fonseca, Rodrigo Pires, João Inácio, Marco Domingos e João Freire.Link para o jogo
Projectos EPIC-WE
Projectos dentro do programa Horizon Europe, cujo intuito é desenvolver e fortalecer os níveis de cultura dos jovens atráves de jogos desenvolvidos em games jam sobre e para cultura.Criminal Fauna Investigation
de Afonso Cunha, João Nogueira, Júlia Costa, Mariana Martins e Gabriela Branco.You'll have to search through documentations and connect habits, characteristics and other traits in other to uncover the culprit. After you have decided who to blame, PRESS THE BIG RED BUTTON and give that naughty bird their well deserved punishment! Have fun messing with these suspicious birds and remember to leave some feedback if you so wish!"
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Puss in Books
de António Rodrigues e Gabriela Branco.Link para o jogo
Spirit of the Lake
de Eduardo Rocha, Hugo Silva, Inês Gomes, Gonçalo Sampaio e Leonardo Henrique.Link para o jogo
In Search for Words
de Eduardo Rocha, Hugo Silva, Gonçalo Sampaio e Leonardo Henrique.Collect the special Metal Letters and discover the powers hidden within them! Unravel the mistery of the long lost magic word and make sure to grab some ginjinha. Will you get through the awful writer's block? Or will you let your imagination be taken away by this greedy screenbound world?"
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Óbidos Watch
de António Rodrigues, Eduardo Rocha, Gabriela Branco, Júlia Costa e Afonso Cunha.Link para o jogo
Assim foi mais uma edição Over & Out, deixando-me agora curioso com o que virá para o ano! Por último, à semelhança do bundle Lusófona Games Collection 2024, fiquem também com a página do bundle do ano passado!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2464630/Lusofona_Games_Collection_2023/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2464630/Lusofona_Games_Collection_2023/