Dead Steel
About
Dead Steel is a student project I worked on at Media Design School during my Game Development graduate diploma. We were a team of 7 and had 6 months to take a game from concept through to final product. Dead Steel was coded in C++ using an educational variant of the Gamebryo middleware.
Awards and Accolades
Dead Steel was included as an on-disc download in the October 2010 issue of the New Zealand PC World Magazine.
NZ Game Developers Association: Kiwi game wins ‘excellent’ award at IGF China.
Our tutor, Jonathan Booth, giving a GDC presentation about Dead Steel.
We decided to make a top-down shooter, as it's a genre that makes it very easy to control the scope.
It was a very successful student project. The scope was kept narrow which allowed us to iterate on the game and ensure it was of a consistently high quality.
I have the full game available for download, however you may have trouble getting it to run on modern Windows machines.