EARLY ACCESS is the Wits Digital Arts Department graduating student exhibition. The event serves as a platform for students to share their work with a wider community. This year we will be teaming up with Fak'ugesi for an Early Early Access exhibition as part of the Fak'ugesi Arcade.
Matthew Brown, Eric Gardiner, Thishen Packirisamy, Brendan Jackson, Ryan Van Zyl, Brenton Budler
C.H.I.P is a FPS game where you must survive against a machine uprising! Collect cogs and upgrades and buy weapons to become stronger. But strategic map knowledge is also needed to defeat every wave of relentless machines.
This game is an OCD simulator with the intention of allowing people who do not have it to better understand the emotional gripes people with this illness have to deal with. This game is not for the faint-hearted, and comes with a big, fat trigger warning. However, players who persevere will surely walk away with a (hopefully) meaningful experience.
Rok'Nar is a 3rd person Asset showcase that conveys high-quality, game-ready 3D models with the main focus being on that of Rok'Nar, the character 3D model. Simply put, this asset showcase shows a beautiful outdoor world featuring lush forests in a semi-realistic fantasy world meant to evoke feelings of awe and a desire for exploration.
The Constructed Wetland Microbial Fuel Cell (CW-MFC) Project is a 3D animated piece which aims at educating people about a strategic development that aims at assisting with generating electricity and providing clean water. The animation explains how the structure of a CW-MFC is built, showing significantly the layers that are formed within it, as well as how it operates. One of the core operations of the CW-MFC that the animation highlights is the use of Bacteria to generate electrical current and how clean water is produced in the process.
Dear Diary is a text-based horror mystery game where players slowly learn more about the character of Elli and the downward spiral of her mental state. The game attempts to set an environment which makes the player feel uncomfortable and uneasy but also speaks to the traumas of self-loathing and isolation. This piece may not be able to encapsulate these ideas in their entirety and to an extent may be a bit over the top but it is an attempt to share a fragment of the emotions one can go through.
The game has two endings which are decided at critical moments within the game.
Chervalle Dermit, Jesse van der Merwe, Keagan Bowler, Nadia Hassim, Zhuofeng Wu
Love me Less is a visual novel/dating simulator that explores the concept of toxic relationships and the effects that it can have on a person’s emotional well being and mental state.
The player is introduced to the antagonist of the game, Elliot, when you bump into him at a party. He is quite charming and the player is mesmerized by him easily.
Follow the storyline as the relationship develops further and unfolds into something much less sweet. Make difficult decisions that test your friendships and reveal the darker side of your relationship.
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Toxic relationships. Emotional manipulation.
Events in the game may evoke negative emotions.
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Love me Less is a work in progress game for the final project of third year Game Design at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. We, as the development team, would appreciate feedback.
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Matthew Cresswell, Ivan Von Staden, Bonga Malusi, Homolang Marule, Gift Maposa
'Escape the Spire' is a 2D top down dungeon crawler styled RPG. You are the last mage left alive in a lost prison. All your brothers are dead, massacred by monsters that lurk within the depths of the prison. Escape the prison, escape the Spire and regain your freedom!
The game will be available for PC users. It is currently in the BETA phase of development and will be a continuously developing project. It was created by 5 students as our final game design semester project for our final year of the degree.
Samantha Thurgood, Amy Pegram, Za'yaanah Albertyn, Iman Raffee, Erin Hutton
The game centers around a young farmer, Demi and her wife Ruby, a beekeeper. They live on a quaint farm in the countryside near the town of Sazei. The game takes place in the season of Spring. Demi spends her days caring for her crops and spending time with Ruby. The player assumes the role of Demi. They will be in charge of growing and selling crops to the townspeople. The player will check for orders everyday i.e. what crops have been requested, how many and by when must they be delivered. The player can choose which jobs they would like to undertake and produce the appropriate crops by buying the correct seeds and tending to them.
