2022 Young Game Designers: ‘Game Making’ finalists

A character in a dystopian world, where people are categorised based on the hair and eye colour they are born with, has to face challenges as she hides someone who is being hunted by the people she is ruled by and taught to trust.

It is a platform-visual novel where parts of the story are told in a visual novel format and to unlock them you need to complete platform levels related to the segment.

A game about living a worthwhile life, and making the right choices even though it may not seem to make much difference at the time.

In Day of Life, you play a person who is nearing the end of their life and recalling their memories to decide whether or not they have lived a life worth living. You appear in a field, surrounded by long grass. In the field are several souls of people in your life who you have lost. You remember the bonds you created with them by doing favours for them, for example rekindling the memories of your grandma's pies by fetching apples for her.

Race your friend to treasure island in this fast-paced 1v1 pirate game!

Deep Sea Scuttle is a 1v1 race to treasure island. You can angle your sails into the wind, load and fire the cannons, steer your ship away from rocks, and repair holes in your ship to ensure you get to the gold first.

Nowhere to go, no one to trust, nothing left but your empty soul searching. Speak to the remaining inhabitants of the small Surface town with big secrets to discover clues and find out what's really going on, but most of all to find yourself in this dissolving world of darkness and lies.

In Fallen, you find yourself in a barren desert wasteland with no purpose. That is until you come across a little town on the horizon that needs your help. Talk to people and figure out what they need, and complete their quests as you go, such as herding a distressed farmer's goats, finding herbs for an exhausted nurse and getting alcohol for an alcoholic bartender. Despite your charity, your actions quickly spiral out of control when the bartender gets alcohol poisoning and you stumble across a knife that just so happens to be laying about.

Maintain the balance between movement and attack and defeat the wilting tree by swinging your sword.

The player moves their sword around themselves, and moves themselves around the sword, to move quickly and precisely around obstacles, then uses those skills to defeat the wilting tree.

Play as Imagibot, the world's first DNA driven robot, and take on the properties of living organisms to inherit their powers, and then use these on your mission to save Eden Green!

Imagibots is a visually rich, seamlessly mixed 2D platformer and 3D adventure game. You play as Imagibot, the world's first DNA driven robot. Imagibot can change form and take on the special abilities of creatures it encounters, or DNA it finds.

Fly like an Eagle, swing like a spider, swim like a fish on your mission to retrieve the Imagi-crystals, and save Eden Green from total annihilation!

An addictive, exciting rhythm game, where the player must sync their hits to the song's beat and compete with others for the highest score.

You load into a level through the main menu, where you can view the leaderboards, or change your settings. From there, you choose the level's difficulty, and play through the song. Make sure not to let your health bar fall all the way down as it will mean game over!

Escape prison as a penguin using powerful items to help you.

In this single player game, the player controls a penguin in prison, who’s managed to escape their cell, and is now trying to escape the prison in its entirety. The penguin needs to get past guards on patrol, rotating cameras and spotlights, all of which will get in their way while attempting to escape.

A story of androids, theft, and... fine dining? Follow the tale of an amnesiac robot and their companion, Rom, in their quest to get back at the restaurant that they once stole from - one satisfied customer at a time!

The story follows the journey of an unnamed robot (the player) and their companion, Rom, who is their sentient read-only memory - due to the bot having lost their memory from a failed escapade in the past, the two work together to try and get back at that restaurant and gain a reputation by... serving customers as waiters!

Space Boids is a roguelike set in space, where you control your flock of boids to fight waves of enemies.

In Space Boids, you travel through a procedurally generated map, fighting enemies and upgrading your boids. At each enemy encounter, you fight waves of enemies and gain money to spend on upgrades and changing your loadout of boids. At the end of each run, you get a score to represent your progress throughout the game.

Move the Pong Ball through perilous waves of Paddles, Balls and BOMBS!

Steer your Pong ball through twenty intricate and increasingly challenging levels, dodging at high speed as the dangers fly towards you. Avoid the spinning paddles! Dodge the deadly bombs! Escape speeding Evil Balls! Fight your way through 20 Jam-Packed Campaign levels and choose from three exciting modes: Single Player, Local 2-Player PvP or endless survival!

You and your clone wake up alone with an AI guiding you through clone-involving puzzles.

The setting is a game-show of sorts run by the AI named A.G.H.A.S.T. (Automatic Game-show Host Allowing Supernatural Tenancies). As you go through the game-show, A.G.H.A.S.T. will reveal to you disturbing facts about the modern day industry, like the outrageous cost of printer cartridges. The game culminates in an infinitely long corridor.

You are a demon, running away from the devil's bounty hunters after being framed for the theft of a demons' circle. Can you survive?

Parkour through the different fiery pits of hell and try not to get caught by the devil's henchmen.

In Egglien you play as an alien trying to find her lost husband. Use alien eggs to fight your foes in this action platformer shooter.

In this game you shoot eggs downwards onto the floor to shoot enemies. The egg attack also boosts you upwards, meaning you can use it for easier mobility. There are boss fights that test your skills and countless enemies to attack.

Eye Of The Portal an action roguelike game set in a mystical forest named Mystwood.

In the game you will encounter strange enemies as you try to get revenge on the eye of the forest. You wake up in the middle of nowhere knowing nothing, and as you go through the forest you will find armour and weapons until eventually you are strong enough to defeat the eye of the forest.

A lost frog makes it way back home to its family.

In Frogs Way Home, the player controls a frog as it travels through levels, collecting points to get back home. You go around the level collecting flys and flowers for points and avoiding the snakes that try and kill you. Collect sheers to destroy the vines that are blocking you from going to the next level.

Steal a great treasure and battle enemies in this platform game.

In Jungle Heist, you progress through a variety of different levels, fighting enemies who are trying to defeat you and collecting keys to unlock doors that take you to the next level. You will have to explore a large jungle full of traps, monsters, lava and more. Do not worry though, you are able to fight back against these threats by using a gun that you start with. You can shoot left, right, and up to get rid of the fiends in your way. There will be a variety of enemies and traps such as bombs, monkeys and even deadly spiders!!

Test your vocabulary against friends in this multiplayer, turn-based game but be careful—whatever you do, don’t turn into a monkey!

Le nouveau jeu du singe is a multiplayer, turn-based word game for 2-5 players. The first player thinks of a random word in their head without revealing it to the other players. Then, they type the first letter of that word and the others will have to take turns completing it by typing one letter at a time.

Defend your castle from attackers in this fast-paced high-score strategy game.

You play as a castle with the ability to place traps around itself. Drag around the traps and plan your defence. Attackers will approach your castle and you will have to stop them with your traps. There are also civilians, who will also approach your castle but you have to not let them get caught up in your own traps. if two traps collide, they will both be destroyed, increasing strategic need. The aim is to get the highest score you can before losing all your lives. Lives are lost when either an enemy enters your castle or a civilian gets caught in a trap.

The worm is always turning, and wants to get home.

The worm appears from a wormhole and must get to the other wormhole! The worm is always turning but you can control it by pressing any key to change its direction.

Once you get to the next wormhole you will go to the next level.