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Computer Animation and Game Development

Previously named Applied Computer Graphics, Computer Animation and Game Development (CAGD) is the new name for our program focusing on, you guessed it, computer animation and game development! This change was not taken lightly and after much discussion it was decided that this new name will accurately and precisely convey what our program has to offer students interested in this exciting and diverse industry.

We invite you to explore our website and learn more about what our program focuses on and offers students the opportunity to achieve through hard work and perseverance. We welcome any questions you may have about Computer Animation and Game Development so please feel free to contact us at CAGD anytime.

Computer Animation and Game Development
College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0003
530.898.4891
cagd@csuchico.edu

Lava Golem Hockey

Sports

Stumblebumps Unite

Run, jump, dive, and bump your way to the finish line and glory!

Platformer

Action

The Warfront From Intercepts

Hidden amongst the fake messages are the real plans of the enemy's attack.

Strategy

Aftershock Forecaster

Experiment with evacuation routes while learning about aftershock probabilities

Simulation

Get ready, it's time for RATSKETBALL!!!

Sports

Seven Seas to Glory

Become the renowned pirates of the seas! Take on as many pirates, treasures, and recruits as many as you can

Action

Power up your stats by looting enemies corpses!

Action

Fight your friend in wheely chairs!

Fighting

Make More Motorhome Mocktails!

Simulation

Alchemic Crafter

Makin' Potions and Crafting Items

Simulation

Chicken Scramble

Puzzle

Shooter

Become a futuristic black market mechanic.

Simulation

Strategy

In Noire Magic beat up the denizens of the night by utilizing an array of spells!

Nightmare Outpost

Survival

Frogs of Rage is a thrilling platformer and puzzle game set in a 1980s suburban home.

Platformer

Action

Same Day Delivery

A fast-paced, scifi, delivery driver racing game!

Racing

Save squishy goobers with dangerous tools. Things will get messy.

Puzzle

Glock, Paper, Scissors

Shooter

Fight your way to securing exclusive clothing releases in The Drop

Action

Menacing Mansion

Horror

Survival

A game about letting out your inner child by learning magic, solving puzzles, and saving the Universe!

Adventure

Action

Rune Chronicles

Combine might and magic as you explore different worlds, collect gems, and strike down your foes.

Adventure

Guns N' Gauntlets

Back To The World

Racing

Why fight fair when you can fight together?

Action

The Dreaming Lake

Seasons change, memories fade, and nothing is ever the same.

Sew, place, unsew, and rotate your way to new adventure!

Puzzle

Fight waves of alien robots by building destructive turrets

Shooter

Action

Platformer

A top-down "anti-stealth" strategy game, where you play as the guards and catch thieves!

Strategy

What Crawls Beneath?

The Adonai Invitational

Earn the praise of the gods, enhance your chariot, master the tracks, and become the greatest racer in Greek history!

Racing

Can you contain the Zyga threat and save Hi-Cordia?

Strategy

Desert Mirage Horror

Survival

Archania is a roguelike magic dungeon crawler game.

Adventure

In this unforgiving world, will you be the savior?

A jazzy roguelike deckbuilder

Action

Action

Shapeshift Dungeon

One Room Roguelike

Action

Guilded Fletching

Here at The Fletcher’s Guild, we aspire to create deep and engaging puzzle experiences for our players.

Puzzle

Will you step up to recover what you lost, or will you remain lost in the woods?

Ascend to Glory

Survival is never certain but glory is FOREVER.

Card Game

Protect the Citadel

All hope is left to you, hold out as long as you can.

Shooter

Extreme Freeze Tag

Survival

Racing

2d&Animation_Fall2020

Art Team

Strategy

Escaping from the past

Tower Defense Card Game

Card Game

Don't be a sacrifice; escape the cult!

Puzzle

Platformer

Castle On Wheels

Protect your home by taking it with you in this tower-defense/RTS mashup!

Strategy

Fall 2019 - 470 - Kaiju Corps

A turn based strategy RPG where monsters attack a city.

Strategy

Fall 2019 - 470 - Monster Truck Alley

Bullet-hell arcade racer

Racing

Fall 2019 - 470 - Open Water

Speed around the ocean and rescue survivors from the jaws of death!

Action

Fall 2019 - 470 - Cutthroat Dungeon

A Hack 'N' Slash Cooking Adventure!

Action

Fall 2019 - 470 - On The Peak

Simulation

Undead Shinanigans

Platformer

Operation: Escort

Strategy

Action

A puzzle game where you visualize your senses to find invisible artifacts.

Puzzle

Deadeye Desperado

A First Person Shooter where you control your cylinder and the bullets in it.

Shooter

My Little Tavern Shop

Own and operate your very own fantasy/medieval tavern!

Simulation

You are clumsy and average, the worst builder you know.. luckily so are they

Action

Draco Joust Fall 2018 470

Fighting

Just In Time - Fall 2018 - 470

Suspenseful Puzzle Game

Puzzle

Juicy Moose - Fall 2018 - 470

Juicy Moose is here and ready to let loose!

Puzzle

SuperNova - Fall 2018 - 470

Shooter

Flight Or Flight - Fall 2018 - 470

Survival

A top-down adventure in which you navigate through a twisting dungeon while slaying ghosts on your way to the exit.

Adventure

Maelstrom Madness - Fall 2018 - 470

Become the true God of Storms, choose your champion and lead them across the land, ravaging it to assert your dominance.

Fighting

The Hand That Feeds - CAGD 495

Action

Skate and Grind - CAGD 495

Platformer

Railway Raid is an on rails RTS with various elements of a classic tower defense.

Strategy

Bounce House Brawlers

Bounce Around

Fighting

Crazy Contraptions

Build crazy Rube Goldberg machines to maneuver balls to a goal and beat your opponent

Strategy

Catch These Hands

Enter a world of chaos, kung fu, and angry fuzzy creatures in Catch These Hands

Action

Resurgence: The Eve of Despair

Action

Shinobi Blitz - Fall 2017 - 470

Shinobi Blitz is a Japanese themed tower defense game.

Before the Wake - Fall 2017 - 470

First electronic version of Before the Wake. Status incomplete. Controller Required.

Platformer

Curious Tales of a Time Traveler - Fall 2017 - 470

Game where you travel through time!

Shooter

Sugar 'Splosion - Fall 2017 - 470

Platformer

KingdomMaster - Fall 2017 - 470

Strategy

Death Escape - Fall 2017 - 470

Find your way out of this maze while avoiding traps!

Puzzle

Bug Arena - Fall 2017 - 470

A game where you get to kill bugs

Action

Andromeda - 495 Advanced Production

2.5D Platformer with unique abilities and heavily themed level design.

Platformer

ZeroG - 495 Advanced Production

ZeroG is a top down puzzle racing game focused on competition and quick decision making.

Puzzle

Fall 2016 - 470 - Cowboy vs Aliens

Chico State Game Studios and Team Valor Present.. Cowboy vs Aliens!

Platformer

Fall 2016 - 470 - Escape from Rogue Planet

Tron meets Dark Souls

Action

Fall 2016 - 470 - Cloak

Head-to-head Splitscreen Versus Multiplayer Shooter

Shooter

Fall 2016 - 470 - Burninate The Peasants

Prepare to Burn, Destroy, and Devour your way through the countryside!!!

Action

Fall 2016 - 470 - Galactic Defenders

HTC Vive Tower Defense Game

Shooter

Fall 2016 - 470 - Tales Of Adventure

Action

Fall 2016 - 470 - InaZuma

Infiltrate the enemy fleet and destroy them from the inside out with nothing but a katana.

Action