Teaching + Mentoring
A selection of student-built games, virtual reality experiences, and interactive systems developed through project-based courses at George Mason University.
107 projects are grouped by semester in reverse chronological order.
Showing all 107 projects
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Created by Camber Boles
Unity Macro System is an extensible Unity plug-in that lets developers add player-defined input macros with configurable triggers and command sequences, a customizable UI, saving and loading, and an Input System demo.
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Created by Alex Gold
FightInputDDR is a Unity 6 development tool that reads XInput controller data and grades fighting-game motion inputs in real time across DDR, motion trial, and passive detection modes.
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Created by James Byerly
The Great Space Race is a retro-style arcade game where players shoot alien ships, earn dark matter, purchase fuel and weapon upgrades, and work toward traveling 5,000 light years.
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Created by Sorah Kim
Ramyun Tycoon is a 2D Unity cooking game where players add ingredients in order, manage two pots without burning the food, and earn at least $10 before time runs out.
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Created by Liam North
Split Splat is a one-level demo that combines Agar.io-style growth and unit splitting with RTS-inspired group selection, puzzles, and combat.
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Created by Team Carrot
Team members: Alex Au, Victor Dimitriev, James Byerly, Sorah Kim, Alison Coca-Pardo
Bunny Grid Game is a 2D adventure puzzle game where players guide one or two bunnies through grid-based levels. The player must collect keys, avoid obstacles, and find the correct path to unlock doors and complete each stage.
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Created by Skelywiz, lnorth2, Juniyyya
A top-down roguelite where you battle monsters in your dreams and return stronger after every run.
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Created by Camber Boles, Mekdem Seyum, Manal Trombati
Brave the solar system as you navigate past danger to the source of light itself!
Created by Dang Tran
Kitty Combat Evolution is a fast, arcade-style survival game where you play as an animated cat fighting endless waves of mice. Move with your mouse, slash while you run, and survive as long as you can while difficulty ramps up wave after wave, including boss fights every few rounds.
Created by Team Flare
A classified research facility once studied unknown energy tied to time and movement. During experiments, they discovered entities now known as Weeping Angels, beings that turn to stone when observed, but move and hunt when unseen.
Created by Party of Two
Created by Team B
Vr game where you play as a witch brewing potions
Created by Drop the Ball
Team members: Nik Sublett, Brian Ho, Alyssa Nguyen, Zamzam Mohammed, Falah Zia
Nik: Hi! I am a senior studying Computer Science at George Mason University. I will be graduating this May. Some of my hobbies include gaming, cars, and fishing.
Created by Team Torso
Team members: Amatak Yvi
GMU CS 452 Spring 2026 VR horror escape room by Team Torso.
Created by Unexpected
Team members: Rose Alvarado, Claire Cho, Kelly Leach, Chimdinma Okafor
Short story-based dungeon crawler. Available for Windows
Created by Alpha Beta Zeta
Team members: Thanh Nguyen, Joey Bourgeois
The World’s Easiest Platformer is a perfectly ordinary platformer… probably. Like the name says, it’s the easiest platformer you will ever play. It has levels, platforms, a jump button, all the usual stuff you would expect. There’s absolutely nothing weird about this game, and this abstract would never ever lie to you about that. Ever. Probably.
Created by Cat-Hare Tales
A 2D Point and click adventure game taken place in Germany during the Salem witch trials. Follow a young girl named Adelaide who is trying to figure out the truth behind her mother’s death with the help of her mom’s past friends. However, the girl must be careful.. unless she wishes to be accused of being a witch as well!
Created by AsianPersuasion
Team members: Nik Sublett, Brian Ho, Peter Dang, Justin Lam
Nik: Hi! I am a senior studying Computer Science at George Mason University. I will hopefully be graduating in the Spring of 2026. Some of my hobbies include gaming, cars, and fishing.
Created by Ctrl+Omega
Team members: Alyssa Nguyen, Ayden Shimek, Falah Zia, Molly Nichols
Created by Team Insomnia
Created by BIG GAMES
Team members: Kaden C., Ian S., Dylan P.
Delve down into a twisted card based roguelike
Created by Party of Four
Created by Thanh Nguyen
Mini-game prototype for a mechanic demo for GMU CS 325 Fall 2025
Created by Zachary Hubenak
Created by Ivory Jemmott
Created by Jung Chang
A fast-paced teleportation platformer built in Unity – master timing and spatial awareness
Created by Joey Bourgeois
Created by Falah Zia
In Ichigeki, you control a lone ninja mowing down hordes of rival shinobi as you try to survive the night trapped in a rival lord’s castle. Controlled from a top down perspective, the player can attack and strafe in any direction as enemies relentlessly chase them throughout the castle.
Created by Jamie Wexton
Can Detective Pharren Square crack the case of the cabin catastrophe?
Created by Ayden Shimek
Created by Ian Sehl
This tool is for extracting info for card from formatted text files and a Unity editor tool for editing those cards. The info is taken from two formatted text files and split and parsed into the attributes and descriptions of the cards and effects.
Created by Brian Ho
About me Hi! I’m Brian Ho, a senior majoring in Computer Science at George Mason University. I like building small, fun games in my free time. Outside of coding I’m usually gaming, watching sports, or hanging out with friends.
Created by Nik Sublett
This project is a custom Unity editor tool designed to help game developers balance enemy waves across levels. Instead of guessing difficulty by feel, designers define enemy types using EnemyStats Scriptable Objects (health, damage, attack rate, speed, spawn weight).
Created by Alyssa Nguyen
Created by Kelly Leach
Created by Josh Dow
Created by Molly Nichols
Created by Rudolph Knechtel
Created by Betty Ferraro
Orc Punisher is an endless survival minigame based on the arcade-style endless survival games of the past. An homage to another personal project by the developer, False Light's antihero returns to satisfy his bloodlust for the Orc Kingdom that ravaged his village and killed his mother.
Created by Peter Dang
A simple Plinko game; this game tasks the player to feed a hungry crocodile! Besides the cheeseballs, you must drop peas into his mouth to stuff him full.
Created by Boxed Incorporated
Floor It! is a simple to learn, hard to master top-down racing game in which players control their car by rotating, accelerating, braking, and using items to outwit their opponents on the race track to see who the best racer is!
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Created by Hollow Moon Studio
Team members: Cody Halstead
Lunar Breach is a 2D top-down action shooter created as a project for George Mason University’s Introduction to Game Design course.
Created by Twilight Studios
Team members: Samuel Klosky, Neil Raja, Mohammad Asim
Seamlessly shift between Dawn (white/serene) and Dusk (red/intense) realms, each with unique platforms and environmental properties that affect gameplay.
Created by Cardboard Productions
Survive duels of Connect Four and discover new powers in shops or chests to strategize against enemies and defeat bosses. Connect-alot takes the classic game of Connect Four and puts a interesting spin on it. Inspired by other deck builder roguelites like Balatro, Peglin, and Slay the Spire.
Created by ToSoftware Inc.
Created by Rewinder Enterprise
Flashback is a puzzle platformer, revolving around its core mechanic, the ability to rewind time, and its core challenge: time limited levels. Each level aside from the first forces the player to explore every possible movement option, paths to take, and tricks to manage all while the stress of
Created by PlusOnBlock Studio
Team members: Michael Tafesse
"Let's Throw Stones" is my take on the 2D fighting games I grew up loving. For a university project, I set out to build the core engine from scratch, focusing on what makes the genre feel great: responsive controls, satisfying hits, and smart mechanics that create cool moments.
Created by Starch
Sundown was intended to be a pixelated, top-down, 2d, survival shooter. A round based game where the player would fight ghosts with light based weapons to earn points. The points would’ve been used to unlock new rooms in the map and purchase new weapons.
Created by Amatak Yvi
Official website for Border Door Game - a fast-paced quiz challenge built with Unity 6.1. Test your knowledge and quick thinking under pressure with 30-second questions.
Created by Cody Halstead
Beat-Shot is a gameplay demo showcasing a unique mechanic developed for George Mason University’s Introduction to Game Design course. This project is my personal take on a game mechanic that combines aspects of both rhythm-based and shooter games to create something new and engaging.
Created by Franklin Medina
Billy the Balloon Boy is a bullet survival game in which players take control of Billy and maneuver their way around tacks to get the highest time! Players will encounter four different types of tacks throughout the game, and each of them have their our behaviors: red tacks simply move forward in a
Created by Noah Laliberte
Abstract Isekai Adventure is a top-down 2D survival game in which players control a lone adventurer armed with a sword, facing an ever-growing horde of orc enemies. The primary objective is to survive as long as possible against increasingly numerous and aggressive foes. Utilizing intuitive
Created by Ellis Tran
Kitchen Defense is a mini tower defense game where you must defend your kitchen from invading bugs! Protect your valuable heart jam from nasty ants by deploying various bug destroying gadgets.
Created by Omar Naseem
No creatively titled name for this - it is simply as the title describes: A level-designer for puzzle platformers. Using web-technologies, and thus easily accessible when hosted over the internet - it randomly generates levels and puts the exit in a feasible location using a reachability
Created by Vagn Avila
Contribute to Galonite/Personal-Project development by creating an account on GitHub.
Created by Jonathan Hernandez
The UI prototype introduced was built for the game Floor It! created by Boxed Incorporated.
Created by Amatak Yvi
Create branching dialogues for games and applications
Created by Austin Nguyen
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe takes regular Tic-Tac-Toe and makes it more interesting! No longer are draws more common. When you play you decide the board your opponent has to play in and they decide for you too! Going multiple times in a smaller board by yourself is possible and makes game play more complex and fun.
Created by Mohammad Asim
Connect the words in logical chains! A unique word association game by Mohammad.
Created by Samuel Klosky
A game where you play as a gladiator in a simple arena.
Created by Isaiah Lewis
A simple game where direction keys are shown and you’re supposed to type the correct one as quickly as possible. There’s a timer that counts down to keep a sense of urgency, and the game ends when it hits zero. The game will also end as soon as you press an incorrect key.
Created by Long Tran
Created by Michael Tafesse
"Let's Throw Stones" is my take on the 2D fighting games I grew up loving. For a university project, I set out to build the core engine from scratch, focusing on what makes the genre feel great: responsive controls, satisfying hits, and smart mechanics that create cool moments.
Created by Karthikeyan Sridhar
For starters, the category that this project falls under is mini-game. The mini game is called star retriever. Like the name implies, the main objective of this game is for the user to collect all the stars that fall down. If the player collects all the stars, a cool win message appears in the middle of the screen.
Created by Darpan Rai
Created by Makonnen Mekonnen
HueSynth is a DevTool created for Unity to generate a color palette based on a chosen "base" color or a randomly generated color palette. The user is able to create palettes that follow Color Theory, using modes such as Analogous, Monochromatic, Complementary, Split, Cool, and Warm. Developers can
Created by Maia Ocampo
Created by Oculus Drifters
Created by Team_S
Team members: Steph Araujo
Read the README file! Contribute to Steph-2003/BurgerRushVR development by creating an account on GitHub.
Created by Team 1
Team members: Leo Klemet, Caleb Olson, Jaquim Brown, Kyle Kramer
Quickshot VR is a fast-paced, score attack-style virtual reality shooter where players test their reflexes and accuracy by throwing stars at targets that appear around them. Designed for immersive play, the game features a dusty western town as its map with unique visuals and atmosphere.
Created by The Goofy Goobers
Team members: Nicole, Gloria, Jacie, Ryan
This game was created by the Goofy Goobers for the Spring 2025 Semester
Created by Virtual Vis Studio
Team members: Kevin Naupari
Welcome to Parcel Patrol: Where Every Day is an Adventure Among the Stars!
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Created by Cybernaut Studios
Team members: Madison Sellers, Kayo Mendoza, Rahul Chithra Shiva, Tyler M
Defend the Core is an immersive VR game where you become a powerful antivirus agent tasked with protecting a central server from waves of digital threats. Set in a dynamic virtual environment, you’ll battle both land-based and airborne viruses using weapons that emerge directly from your in-game mobile device.
Created by Domineer Studios
Team members: Jonathan Hart, Michael Yu, Will Owens, Brendan Halstead
Double Action Shootout is a single-player VR experience set in wild-west town of Dead-Eye Gulch. In it, you seek fortune and glory through the art of the duel. A number of bandits and cutthroats inhabit Dead-Eye Gulch, and its citizens would be happy to pay you to clear them out.
Created by Infinity Loop
Team members: Omar Mojaddidi, Abdul Rahul (?), Diego Pena
Contribute to awmufti/Burger-Queen-Corporate-Sabotage development by creating an account on GitHub.
Created by Judgment Studios
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Created by Amoeba Games
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Created by Big Three Studio
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Created by Bistance Studios
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Created by Hoop Studios
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Created by Indigo Studios
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Created by LongshipStudio
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Created by Mix Studios
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Created by Pink Cookies Development
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Created by Pixel Studios
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Created by Prism Games
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Created by Synthetic Systems
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Created by WhiteFoxStudios
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Created by Ariel Clemmons
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Created by Cam Jarnell
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Created by Kim Donghyeon
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Created by Ethan Ross
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Created by Justin Langdon
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Created by Kevin DeCara
Created by Micah Williams
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Created by Michael (Cam) Howes
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Created by Michael Campbell
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Created by Michael Haile
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Created by Abdelhalim
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Created by Rahul Chithra Shiva
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Created by Ryan Fox
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Created by Ryan Langdon
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Created by Somaya Zaheereldeen (Soso Deen in the project)
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Created by Tuan Truong
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Created by No Team Name Yet
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Created by Sling Mania
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