2022 Young Game Designers: the winners

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.

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.

Carrier Pigeon: World Tour is an arcade game about exploration, community, and delivering mail.

You will play as Lenny, a mail carrier pigeon from Seattle who, after having somewhat of an identity crisis, accepts a promotion from Local Mail Carrier to Worldwide Delivery Representative. This new adventure will take the player on a journey to not only 14 different locations around the world but also aims to take players on an emotional journey, accompanied by relaxing gameplay. As Lenny, the player will experience a wide range of cultures, climates, and people. The various villagers he will meet along his journey will teach him, and the player, valuable lessons about love, loss, and finding yourself.

An urban dystopian themed pixelated picross puzzle game, where you illuminate the past and the path to the truth. In this game, you play as a girl in a dark sub urban dystopia, who lights up the ruins of a house by using the light of your matches in a nonogram/picross puzzle. Deciphering these puzzles will pave the path to the truth and the identity of you yourself. The hope and goals for this game is not only to give the player the challenging experience of solving nonogram puzzlers, but to spread awareness of those fighting diseases.