by tired turtle games

• Gabrielle Getz, Team Lead*
• Laura Mo, Developer
• Amy Su, Character Artist*
• Keano Jan Osmillo*, Environment Artist

* denotes EGS lab membership

Design Concept

Heartline is a game in development for mobile devices that is a hybrid of an infinite 2D sidescroller and a choose your own adventure story. From 2D sidescrollers we’ve taken procedurally generated terrain and a constant forward motion, and from choose your own adventure stories, we’ve decided to give players the chance to shape the outcome of the story.

Players of any age can enjoy MathDash, while elementary-age children can use it to reinforce basic math concepts. MathDash is unlike most educational games because math is integrated into the core gameplay design. Unlike traditional tests, you’re given an operator and an answer and must solve for the operands. Do this while chaining combos, activating power-ups, avoiding hazards and competing with your friends.

In Flashbulb everyone is both celebrity and paparazzi. Players are assigned a “celebrity” target to find and photograph. Successfully photographing targets will gain you notoriety points. The goal of the game is to become the most notorious photographer of them all. A new game of “social” tag, Flashbulb gives players at various events a fun new way to break the ice.

“The Diamond Eye Conspiracy” is a hybrid work of theater and games. Integrating elements of video game design, physical theater, and dance, the Entrepreneurial Game Studio in collaboration with Joe Ahmed, Arianna Gass, and Daniel Park, seeks to create systems that encourage public play. Our experiences force people to break out of their daily routines, see the playful opportunities in the spaces around them.

Registration will open 4/1/16.

Show Dates

• 4/20/16 (Preview)
• 4/21/16 7:00
• 4/21/16 9:00
• 4/22/16 7:00
• 4/22/16 9:00
• 4/23/16 7:00
• 4/23/16 9:00
• 4/24/16 5:00
• 4/24/16 7:00

“The idea for this project began in 2008 when I was driving East on I-76 in Philadelphia at night, heading towards Center City. Like many nights before, I saw the sparkling lights of the beautiful Cira Centre building. However, this night I saw Tetris shapes rotating and falling on the building’s lights in my mind’s eye. This became my inspiration to make a game out of those lights, in what I call the “World’s Largest Videogame Project.”‘

– Frank J. Lee

Media Coverage

• Drexel University
• Technically Media
• PHL17 Philadelphia
• FOX 29 Philadelphia

The aesthetic vision and ultimate goal of the Skyscraper Tetris Project was to use gaming technology to bring people of the City of Philadelphia together in a “shared moment of joy and play.”

Skyscraper Tetris is an interactive light display designed for the Cira Centre building, a 29 story glass skyscraper in West Philadelphia, as part of Philadelphia Tech Week 2014. The game, played on the North and South sides of the building, was visible all across Philadelphia. It was played by hundreds of participants and viewed by thousands gathered at Eakins Oval, as well as those able to see the lights from other locations in North and South Philadelphia. This event broke Dr. Lee’s previous Guinness World Record for “World’s Largest Architectural Video Game Display” with displays totaling 119,600 square feet.

Media Coverage

• NY Times
• Discovery Channel
• Wall Street Journal
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Ars Technica

(Concept art created by Angela Buchanan)

War of the Worlds is a collaborative effort between the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, Swim Pony Performing Arts, and the William Penn Foundation.

Loud, strange, and never seen before on earth! Swim Pony is committed to the creation of unique live performances that are joyful and defy tradition in order to bring contemporary audience beyond their experiences of the every-day. For more info: https://swimpony.org/

The William Penn Foundation, founded in 1945 by Otto and Phoebe Haas, is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater Philadelphia region through efforts that increase educational opportunities for children from low-income families, ensure a sustainable environment, foster creativity that enhances civic life, and advances philanthropy in the Philadelphia region. With assets of over $2 billion, the Foundation distributes approximately $90 million in grants annually. Learn more about the Foundation at www.williampennfoundation.org.