Spark! Minigames
McGraw-Hill, Biology Minigames
Dev Team:
Producers: Jaquelyn Bacal, Nick Pham, and Jonathan Wolverton
Artists: Giancarlo Montalbano, Donald Branch, and Chip Lundell
Programmers: Stephen Cano, Jorge Capote, and Mike Prestia
Project Length: One month each
Contributions: All level design (XML and Ogmo editor), systems and game mechanics, and art and music pipeline for all four games. All sound FX, minor scripting, XML and AS3 updating, progress presentations in house and to the client.
Summary: Total of nine games were included in a suite of games to be digitally distributed to thousands of high school students nationwide as part of a biology course. The minigames are part of the Spark! project, a collaboration between 360Ed and textbook publisher, McGraw-Hill. The games are themed around 1950s era sci-fi/ horror movies.
Jaquelyn Bacal 