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Event Schedule:

June 9 2021 - Showcase Day 1 - 2-5pm PST

2-3pm

  • Welcome Video
  • Bond: Wish of the Forest
  • Last Lunar Air
  • Gods of Corruption
  • Alone, Not Lonely
  • Alumni Message
  • Origin Story

3-4pm

  • Love Heist Romeo
  • Alumni Message
  • Magic Mousters
  • Together in Spirit
  • Bomblebees
  • Willow Wood Refuge
  • Alumni Message
  • Bound 2 You

4-5pm

  • Welcome to Lakewood
  • Knights
  • Hunting the Aurora
  • Iron & Aether
  • Alumni Message
  • Tracing Memory
  • Homerun Miko
June 10 2021 - Showcase Day 2 - 2-5pm PST

2-3pm

  • Welcome Video
  • GDA Direct
  • Fish N Ships
  • Mocha Magic
  • Alumni Message
  • Al Cielo
  • Alumni Message

3-4pm

  • Honey Bear
  • Collector
  • Alumni Message
  • Comet
  • Invicta Vitae
  • Spectral Ascension
  • Alumni Message

4-5pm

  • Seventino Midnight Cafe
  • Skelly’s Uprising
  • Alumni Message
  • Vulpecula
  • Ape Ship
  • Bixié

July 1 2021 - Community Stream Day - 12-6pm PST

July 1 2021 - Sammy Awards - 6pm PST

What is the

Games Showcase?

A unique fusion of engineering and art, computer games are a growing global phenomena, driving technological and cultural innovation. The study of games offers the opportunity to blend creativity and personal expression with technical development to tackle challenging engineering, social, and design problems.

The UCSC Games Showcase and Sammy Awards celebrate the work of the UCSC games community of students, alumni, and faculty. The exhibit features video games, tabletop games, research talks, student artists, and games-related community activities, highlighting the senior projects from the latest academic year.

Student Games

Smithworks

The Tower

Shepherd: Into the Den

Shepherd: Into the Den

Together

Fragments of You

Fragments of You

The Adventurer’s Guild

The Adventurer’s Guild

Spirit Kin

Spirit Kin

Tides of Time

Tides of Time

Cyber Fantasy Horror Dungeon Crawler Shooter

Turnstyle

Turnstyle

Autoclave

Autoclave

Desert Dreams

Desert Dreams

Dream Delivery

Dream Delivery

Room 4

Room 4

Deserted

Deserted

Aquatic Espionage

Aquatic Espionage

Head Above Water

Head Above Water

Just Focus

Just Focus

Love, and Coconuts

What the Hell?

What the Hell?

The Quest for Doge

The Quest for Doge

Skynet: ReUploaded

Skynet: ReUploaded

Mariana Trench

Mariana Trench

Amorphous

Amorphous

Turnip – Birth of a Made Man

Turnip – Birth of a Made Man

Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Valley

Treasure Tower

Treasure Tower

Malevolent Maze

Malevolent Maze

The Funeral

The Herd

The Herd

Spacecraft

Spacecraft

Orbital Descent

Orbital Descent

Re-Pair

Re-Pair

Scroggin

Scroggin

Trail Mix

Trail Mix

Sub-sono

Sub-sono

Comet

Comet

Iron & Aether

Iron & Aether

Collector

Collector

Welcome To Lakewood

Welcome To Lakewood

Last Lunar Air

Last Lunar Air

Gremlin Garden

Gremlin Garden

Sea Star Crossed Lovers

Sea Star Crossed Lovers

Bound 2 You

Bound 2 You

Bomblebees

Bomblebees

Seventino Midnight Cafe

Seventino Midnight Cafe

Hunting the Aurora

Hunting the Aurora

Spectral Ascension

Spectral Ascension

Alone, Not Lonely

Alone, Not Lonely

Tracing Memory

Tracing Memory

Magic Mouster

Magic Mouster

Skelly’s Uprising

Skelly’s Uprising

Bond: Wish of the Forest

Bond: Wish of the Forest

Together in Spirit

Together in Spirit

Origin Story

Origin Story

Mocha Magic

Mocha Magic

HoneyBear

HoneyBear

Fish N Ships

Fish N Ships

Love Heist Romeo

Love Heist Romeo

Knights

Knights

Homerun Miko

Homerun Miko

Seven

Seven

Willow Wood Refuge

Willow Wood Refuge

Invicta Vitae

Invicta Vitae

Vulpecula

Vulpecula

Bixie

Bixie

Ape Ship

Ape Ship

Al Cielo

Al Cielo

Student Art Gallery

Kiara Yupangco - "frong & friends"
star☆sapphire - "Sundae Girl"
Gillian Yu - "GDAchan Telememe"
Vicente "Prunes" Hernandez - "At the Door"
Holly Cheng - "Beach Day"
Akash Basu - "Rin"
Ashley Lu - "Feelings"
Andrew Dunne - "Childhood"
Tiange Wei - "Kong Fu Panda"
chiisagi - "Pretty Boy"
Victoria Rafaelian - "Pillar Men"

Some work from the 2020 Showcase:

Visit the 2020 online exhibition:

Undergraduate and Graduate degrees

Study games at UC Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Science

Master of Science

Doctorate