About

X48 is a team based, student orientated competition to build a game from scratch in 48 (closer to 24) hours using C# and XNA. It's been running for just two years with three competitions, two of which I have entered as part of two different teams.

Sensor

Our entrant for the 2010 x48 competition in February at Birmingham University. The theme was discovery and we came up with what is just a simple maze game when it comes down to it, but with plenty of added twists and turns. Our team for this was Me, Stuart Farnaby, Ashley Muncaster and Tom Baker on art duty.

Mazes are generated randomly. Touching a wall will restart the level (and randomly generate a new maze). The balls surrounding the player have multiple uses. When simply hovering around you they will squash up against walls, giving you time to react before you die. Once fired the balls become more specialised. Green orbs will bounce off walls to show you the way around corners, Blue orbs will (probably) stick to walls to show you the immediate dangers and Red orbswill travel through walls (so cannot be used for navigation) but will kill any enemies nearby. Power-ups are available from level 4 onwards, they reveal the whole maze to you for a short time, but be careful, enemies also begin to spawn from level 4.

Awards

This game nabbed us third place in the competition, we're extremely proud of this given how good the rest of the games were.

Screen Shots

Download

Click Here to download it from the x48 website. Requires the XNA 3.0 Framework Redistrobutable.

Charles Darwin's Magical Voyage

Our entrant into the very first X48 competition. We had no real idea what to expect or what we could reasonably get done in the time frame. So we made something far too complicated to actually do. The team for this was Me, Stuart Farnaby, Gavin Woods and Alexandre Laurent.

It was a simple RTS/Tower Defence... but in 3D. Spawn peons who'll automatically walk towards the trees to gather resources, spawn cannons to protect them from the monsters. As you can see it had loads to do with the theme of the competition, which was Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution.

Awards

We proudly accepted the prize for Best Technical Achievement. We also humurously accepted the prize for The Game That Veered Furthest From The Theme.