Over ten years ago, faculty from the School of Computing and the Division of Film Studies formed the Entertainment Arts & Engineering (EAE) program to address a growing student population that wanted to study games and game making. Students studying computer science and film came together in a handful of shared courses to learn the myriad facets of entertainment technology, as well as gain practice with new technical skills inside a rigorous academic experience. Over the intervening decade the EAE program and its course offerings have grown steadily, and has been successful by any measure. In July of 2023, EAE transitioned from a teaching program to a stand-alone academic department called The Division of Games.
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| Date | Title | Description | Genre | Platform | ||
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 | 2015 | 404 Sight | 404 Sight is a free-to-play 3D running game set in a pastel, Tron-like version of cyberspace, where bandwidth is the health bar and fast lanes provide a boost to health and speed. The player sprints through these surreal maps, avoiding the bandwidth-throttling drones sent by an ominous ISP, using th... | Action; Runner; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 2 |
 | 2018 | A Walk in the Woods | Find Your Friends! Over the years, dozens of children go missing in the forest. They disappear without a trace. Where did they go? What happened to them? You and three other friends venture out into the forest on an adventurous camping trip. But what you find in those woods is more terrifying than... | Adventure; Free to Play; Horror | PC; Windows |
| 3 |
 | 2021 | Abyss of Neptune | Abyss of Neptune is a survival horror game set in the deep seas of the Bermuda Triangle. You are sent to investigate a mysterious underwater signal, but there is more to it than what meets the eye. Do you have what it takes to survive the abyss? Team Members: Animesh Barmukh - Lighting Artist; Raj... | Action; Adventure; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 4 |
 | 2021 | Ahri & Bear | Ahri and Bear is a puzzle adventure game, where players will take control of Ahri the cat and Bear the dog who embark on an emotional journey to find their true home. Team Members: Xiaohang Ding - Creative Director/Environment Artist; Heng Zhang - Technical Producer/Lead Engineer; Nick Day - Produce... | Adventure; Casual; Free to Play | Windows; PC |
| 5 |
 | 2019 | Airwaves | Airwaves is an escape room experience played on a vintage TV set. You play as a Cold War era sleeper agent tasked with finding nuclear launch codes in America, Russia, and Cuba! | Escape room | TV |
| 6 |
 | 2015 | All Is Dust | It's the year 1931, and Oklahoma has been brought to its knees by the Dust Bowl. But the suffocating dust is the least of your problems... Take on the role of Thomas Joad, a proud farmer and father. Over the course of three nights he tries to unravel the mysterious and horrific events that are plag... | Adventure; Survival; Action; Horror; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 7 |
 | 2018 | And I Must Scream | And I Must Scream is a horror-platformer that delves into the psyche of a young boy and follows him as he metaphorically and physically traverses the five stages of grief. | Action; Adventure; Horror-platformer | PC; Windows |
| 8 |
 | 2020 | ArchiTac | ArchiTac is a resource gathering and crafting game where you play as TAC, an astronaut who has crash-landed onto a deserted planet. You must search the planet for pieces of your ship and gather the resources you will need to fix it up so that you can continue on your journey. | Crafting; Free to Play; Adventure; Casual; Building; Simulation | PC; Windows |
| 9 |
 | 2016 | BEST | B.E.S.T. is the world's first and only police training simulator to focus exclusively on de-escalation of conflict. In 2015, at least 1,205 American citizens were killed by police and 127 police officers were killed in the line of duty. B.E.S.T. teaches officers how to manage conflict BEFORE it beco... | Training; Police | PC; Windows; VR |
| 10 |
 | 2016 | Blind Trust | Blind Trust is a two-player, cooperative, first-person game where the deaf lead the blind on a fantasy island using binaural audio. The Soldier uses sound to lead the Oracle through the level where the Oracle will hear obstacles, reveal them, and allow the Soldier to destroy them. Team Name: Good V... | Free to Play; Adventure | PC; Windows |
| 11 |
 | 2024 | Cardboard Chronicles | Welcome to Doodleburg! You play Doodle, a child who has been transported into a cardboard world of their own creation. Not all is well in the Burg of Doodle. An ancient, extradimensional evil has awoken and it's up to you to save this idyllic town from its ravenous rampage. Studio Casserole Saurabh ... | Adventure; Casual; Indie; Free to play | Windows |
| 12 |
 | 2021 | Chromalition | Chromalition is a game where you and a group of rollerblading street artists fight to take back the streets and bring color and art back to a whitewashed city. | Action; Adventure; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 13 |
 | 2018 | Clawface | Clawface is an intense, arcade-styled, twin-stick shooter where you play as an adorable robot equipped with crazy weapons and a giant face claw to fight endless waves of alien monsters! With fast-paced combat, a dynamic level system that modifies the play field, and the ability to dual-wield weapon... | Action; Free to Play; Violent; Gore; Twin-stick shooter | PC; Windows; Mac; SteamOS + Linux |
| 14 |
 | 2018 | Cult of the Eye | Cult of The Eye is a tower defense inspired game where you manually control each tower. Use them to survive violent attacks from an alien monster. Team: Barely Alive Studios Producers Petra Pintar Designers Chak Long Cheung, Ekshit Nalwaya, Petra Pintar, Varun Suravarapu Engineers Khadeidre Dea... | Adventure | |
| 15 |
 | 2014 | Cyber Heist | Cyber Heist is a co-operative, action-packed experience where players take different roles to break, sneak, and hack their way into the future Department of Education. In the year 2114, student debt shackles every citizen into a life of slavery for major corporations, and it's your job to take them ... | Action; Strategy; Puzzle | PC; Windows |
| 16 |
 | 2017 | Deliriant | Video game produced by a team of students in the 2017 EAE Cohort | Adventure | PS4 |
| 17 |
 | 2013 | Drop Drop | Video game produced by a team of students in EAE's 2013 cohort, who invite players to ask "ever wonder how it feels to be a raindrop?" | Rain | |
| 18 |
 | 2012 | Erie | Erie drops you into a visually stunning, yet terrifying scenario where your goals are to investigate, survive, and finally escape. It's first person horror meets intense dark-ride with hidden, rotting cats. Erie begins in October 1966, when the Fermi 1 Nuclear Power Generator suffers a partial meltd... | Action; Adventure; Survival | PC; Windows |
| 19 |
 | 2019 | The Final Funktier | Final Funktier is a rhythm space shooter using a turntable-inspired controller. Dodge obstacles, shoot on the beat, and rescue the galaxy's music from the clutches of the evil Ampire. Team Members: Andrew Corum - Producer Tyler McCombs - Producer Caitlin McLaughlin - Artist Victor Cienfuegos Lopez ... | Shooter | |
| 20 |
 | 2018 | Forest Below | Releasing on Arbor Day 2018, Forest Below is a mobile game where you draw the path for your roots in order to solve water collection puzzles. Developed between 15 students for a senior project at the University of Utah EAE program, Forest Below set out with the goal to engage a new generation in the... | Free to Play; Casual; Puzzle; Action | PC; Windows |
| 21 |
 | 2019 | Goodbye | Uncover the dark secrets of the Cavendish family by exploring their nineteenth-century private library in a new alt-ctrl narrative-driven experience. With the use of a talking board you can communicate with spirits, look into the past, and witness the demise of characters who cannot escape their own... | Adventure | |
| 22 |
 | 2019 | Hard Light Vector | Hard Light Vector is a 3D first-person action platformer where you traverse an alien environment and fight to protect the memories of the dead from corruption. You play as Adelaide and use your Hard Light dagger to jump, stab and vault your way through an alien planet-scape. As you progress through ... | Action; Adventure; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 23 |
 | 2017 | Hide vs Seek | An experiment has gone horribly awry, giving birth to a mischievous, shape-shifting blob of goo! A state-of-the-art tracking robot was created as a countermeasure to protect the house. Take the role of either character and join the frantic cat-and-mouse chase as the blob sneaks through the house whi... | Action; Strategy; Casual; Free to Play; Shooter | PC; Windows |
| 24 |
 | 2019 | Hocus Potions | A social simulation game about friendship and magic! Gather and grow ingredients, brew powerful potions, and help - or hinder! - the local townsfolk while you become a powerful witch. Team Members: Mikaila Young - Production, Design, Art Sam Mittelhaeuser - Engineering, Systems Design Katrina Brads... | Adventure; RPG; Simulation; Free to Play | PC; Windows; Mac |
| 25 |
 | 2015 | Hostile Territory | Hostile Territory is a third-person multiplayer shooter exploring indirect combat in a dynamically changing and rotating environment. In the game, players take on the role of a demon battling for the souls of the damned following Judgment Day. In this hellish underworld, players will use territory t... | Action; On-rails; Shooter | PC; Windows |