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 |
 | 2015 | A Divided Light | Divided Light is a 3D puzzle-platformer where you use light to change your world. Navigate a deep space landscape using thoughtful combinations of light sources and colors to alter the environment and solve puzzles. FEATURES: Wield light as your tool, removing obstacles and revealing new pathways. ... | Action; Puzzle-platformer | PC; Mac; Windows |
| 3 |
 | 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 |
| 4 |
 | 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 |
| 5 |
 | 2013 | Avatar Trials: Ninja Uprising | Unleash your Inner Ninja! Avatar Trials: Ninja Uprising is a third person platforming game. Using parkour and free running movement, use your Avatar to navigate three challenging levels influenced by Assassin's Creed and Ninja Warrior. You've never seen Avatars like this before - Master your skills ... | Action; Platformer | Xbox |
| 6 |
 | 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 |
| 7 |
 | 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 |
| 8 |
 | 2015 | Creeping Willow | Video game created by a team of students from the 2015 EAE Cohort | Action | PC; Windows |
| 9 |
 | 2012 | Curse of Shadows | Experience the story of a thief who can transform into her own shadow. In this 2-D side scroller, alternate between normal and shadow mode to navigate platforms and solve puzzles. Walk on the shadows of objects to get to new areas, move objects and light sources in order to change the shadow environ... | Action; Puzzle-platformer | |
| 10 |
 | 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 |
| 11 |
 | 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 |
| 12 |
 | 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 | |
| 13 |
 | 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 |
| 14 |
 | 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 |
| 15 |
 | 2015 | Eye Of The Swarm | Video game produced by a team of students in EAE's 2015 cohort | Arcade; Action | PC; Windows; Mac |
| 16 |
 | 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 |
| 17 |
 | 2014 | Galactic Labor Union | Help construct the universe after the Big Bang while learning actual planet compositions in this exciting and original, educational, (potentially) gyroscopic, first-person planet-building game. Galactic Labor Union is an Action game, developed and published by Utah Game Forge, which was released in ... | Action | PlayStation Vita |
| 18 |
 | 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 |
| 19 |
 | 2012 | Heroes of Hat | Heroes of Hat is a multiplayer 3D puzzle platformer where you use the power of hats to traverse levels, solve puzzles, and fight enemy forces. You'll have to tie all of your hat abilities together to make it through levels and conquer what lies at the end. Heroes of Hat became the first student-gene... | Action; Puzzle-platformer | Xbox |
| 20 |
 | 2013 | Heroes Of Rock | Official description: Guitar Hero 5 has been cancelled and Rock Band has stopped DLC. Heroes of Rock gives gamers a chance to rock out again but in a whole new way - through an action game. Heroes of Rock is a side scrolling action game designed for the guitar peripheral and injected with Heavy Meta... | Action; Adventure | |
| 21 |
 | 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 |
| 22 |
 | 2013 | Last March of the Dodos | Last March of the Dodos is a tower defense game with a few unique twists. First, the artificial intelligence of the enemy units (the Dodos) allows them to learn the types of traps that block their way to the exit, and they then reroute to avoid the player's schemes (they're not much brighter than th... | Real-time; Strategy | PC; Windows |
| 23 |
 | 2011 | The Last Pod Fighter | The Last Pod Fighter is an arcade shooter. The player controls a space ship (the camera is fixed behind the ship's back) and shoots down attackers which appear in waves. Movement is unrestricted in all six directions within the boundaries of the current level. After the countdown runs out, the boss ... | Action; Shooter | Xbox |
| 24 |
 | 2013 | Magnetic by Nature | Magnetic By Nature is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle platform game with magnetism as the main mechanic. It is a reworked version of the Xbox 360 XNA Indie Game Magnetic By Nature: Awakening. The game is set in the ruins of an ancient civilization where a little robot is by itself. One day it discovers t... | Action; Adventure; Puzzle-platformer | PC; Windows; Mac; SteamOS + Linux; Xbox |
| 25 |
 | 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 |