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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| 1 |
 | 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 |
| 2 |
 | 2016 | Aplowcalypse | The end of the world is here. A giant alien has consumed Earth and everything you know and love, but there's one thing still worth fighting for… America! Hop in your homemade snow plow mech and defend freedom or die trying. It's too late for the planet, but it's never too late for revenge! The Apl... | Action; Free to Play | PC; Windows; Mac |
| 3 |
 | 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 |
| 4 |
 | 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 |
| 5 |
 | 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 |
| 6 |
 | 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 | |
| 7 |
 | 2016 | Dive | DIVE is a 3-D, 3rd person runner where the player transverses the stratosphere of planets. The player controls a lone astronaut diver as she orbits dangerous routes, by dodging asteroids, avoiding space debris, and preventing re-entry into the planet's atmosphere. Team name: Gravity Well Studio Te... | Action; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 8 |
 | 2016 | Eggwalk | Back in the day things were simple. Friendly yolkels balanced eggs on spoons and walked through meadows at their picnic parties. Not any more. In EggWalk let's embrace the chaos of modern life. The spoon is kaput, the egg has grown, and you are swerving through traffic-delivering eggs ‘til one sha... | Action; Casual | PC; Windows; Mac |
| 9 |
 | 2016 | fitting in | In a world of imagination one cube becomes a sphere! Swipe your cube into platforms to round yourself out. Avoid platforms that edge you out. Get to the end before you're crushed. How far would you go to fit in? Team name: Late Night Lemurs Animators: Jamie Ye Artists: Jeremey Hodges (Lead), Fabio... | Strategy | iOS |
| 10 |
 | 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 |
| 11 |
 | 2018 | Forward | FORWARD is a flight-based time trial racer set in a sci fi environment. The game sees you flying at breakneck speeds through tunnels that are packed with obstacles you must avoid in order to make it to the finish line of each level before time runs out. Team: Yuuuge Games Andrew Johnson Brady Campb... | Action; Racing; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 12 |
 | 2018 | Geometry Boxer | Beat the shapes outta your enemies using special powers, melee weapons, or the old fashioned fisticuffs way - solo or cooperatively - in this physics based, geometric, mob fighter. | Action; Casual | PC; Windows; Mac |
| 13 |
 | 2016 | Ghoul Kid | One day Ghoul Kid wakes to find his house has been invaded by lame tourists! His mission to show these rubberneck's what a real horror house is like! As Ghoul Kid you must scare the people in the house… to death. Create enough scares and Ghoul Kid becomes stronger, let enough people escape the hou... | Free to Play; Casual; Strategy; Horror | PC; Windows; Xbox |
| 14 |
 | 2018 | Glitchball | Glitchball is a 2D Vaporwave party-game that's like soccer but the ball kills you. Use your jetpack and shield to deflect the incoming glitchball to score goals, kill players, and compete for dominance in a chilled out dead mall. Team: Reboot Arcade Christian Roy Cody Black Karla Krais Pinak Jalan ... | Free to Play; Casual; Sports; Vaporwave | PC; Windows; Mac; SteamOS + Linux; Xbox |
| 15 |
 | 2018 | Kickshot | Kickshot is a first-person speedrunning game in which you utilize your tools, environment and movement abilities to complete the course as quickly as possible. Speed through the Floating Island, and Desert Wasteland levels. Use unique movement and knowledge of the courses to achieve the greatest tim... | Free to Play; Action; Gore | PC; Windows |
| 16 |
 | 2018 | Logout | Quinn is a citizen of the social media obsessed society of Outpost 72. It is protocol that every citizen has a chip implanted in their brains that connects them continuously to the social network, known as the neural net. However, Quinn has found a way to hack into the neural net causing her to log ... | Free to Play; Adventure; Action | PC; Windows; Xbox |
| 17 |
 | 2018 | Lost Borderline | Lost Borderline is a pixel-perfect hack & slash puzzle-crawler where the boundaries of reality are broken, giving you creative control over the sides of the screen. Play as a skilled Huntress as she shoots, slashes, and dashes her way through an underground cavern with a mysterious secret… the rul... | Action; Adventure; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 18 |
 | 2016 | Maui | An action-adventure game in the tradition of The Legend of Zelda exploring Hawaiian culture and mythology. Team name: Kokua Games Artists: Yung-Cheng "Jack", Erica Larson, Wuchen Li Designers: Sean Keanaaina, Aqeel Tapia Engineers: Saurabh Kulkarni, Karthik Narayan, Amit Prakash, Harrison "Bug" R... | Action; Free to Play; Adventure; Survival | PC; Windows |
| 19 |
 | 2018 | Mavrick | Mavrick is a western pinball bullet hell game where with the power of Infinium, the infinite fighting resource, the player rocket punches through baddies around the town of Mavrick. Team: Teameetings Lynn Hardy Yitong Dai Shantanu Mane Conan Zhang Clay Westing Trevor Newell Deblin Sakar Darren Flow... | Free to Play; Western; Action; Pinball; Combat | Android; Google Play |
| 20 |
 | 2018 | Ore | ORE is a couch-cooperative twin stick shooter where you and your friends are space miners draining a hostile alien planet of a volatile resource that's corrupted the planet's inhabitants. Fight through a handful of levels and navigate the planet's varied surface to collect as much ORE as you can bef... | Action; Adventure | PC; Windows |
| 21 |
 | 2018 | Overclocked: The Aclockalypse | Overclocked:The Aclockalypse is a roguelike bullet hell following The Keeper's time-twisting battle to reclaim The Eternal Sands from Greenwich and her clockwork army. Use The Keeper's ability to slow time to weave through impossible waves of cogs; then blast them with timesand to tock some sense in... | Free to Play; Action; Twin-stick shooter | PC; Windows; Mac |
| 22 |
 | 2018 | Porcuball | Porcuball is a physics based puzzle game where players take the role of Quill, the porcupine. Roll up items left behind by lazy campers to get past obstacles and maneuver through the woods to your ultimate goal...their coolers. Every stage will give players unique challenges to solve for in an open... | Free to Play; Casual; Adventure; Cute; Puzzle-platformer | PC; Windows; Mac; SteamOS + Linux |
| 23 |
 | 2018 | Project R.A.T. | After years of experimentation, Slimy the rat has had enough and is looking for an escape! Use Slimy's mutating power to help him get out. Sling, stick, and slide your way to sweet freedom in this 3D puzzle game. | Puzzle; Casual; Free to Play | PC; Windows |
| 24 |
 | 2018 | The Red Moon | "The Red Moon" is a digital board game about Town Building, Alliances, and Magic. Team: Pumpkin Patch Productions: Nathan Scott, Mike Breese, Katrina Bradsher, Shuang Wu, Rikki Zhuang, Patrick Benson, Sean Boland, Chen Mi, Zhitao Zhao, and Olivia Jenkins | Board game | Android; iOS |
| 25 |
 | 2016 | Reload 360 | Reload 360 is a fast-paced arcade shooter that gives players 360-degree omni-vision and wall walking to help them track down and eliminate their opponents. Take control of a robot sentinel as you vie for control of one of three thrilling space arenas. | Arcade; Shooter; Free to Play | PC |