SGX First Year Student Games

Play engaging tabletop games created by Game Design and Development 100 (GDD) students.
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Free Range

A duck-hunting themed game where players are tasked with obtaining the most ducks by the end of hunting season, battling the weather and other players along the way.

Ben Musser, Amelia Nehring, Aiden Rogowski

Instructor: Dave Beck

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High Noon in Snaketown

A tactical, wild west free for all where the aim of the game is to gather gun-shaped snakes and be the last outlaw standing.

Luke Jowett, Janey Currie, Sam Schreiter

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Rustbelt

Play as a factory owner in the rust belt during the1900's. Experience americas economy throught history. Battle against the encroaching future events.

Bella Cook, Owen Conley, Thomas Stolz, Marissa Wendt

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Stable to Stage

An engine-builder game designed around farming and feeding your animal, all to perform well at the fairs and become the best farmer

Cordell Purdy, Lexee Graff, Tobey Riedmann, Fox Chaplin

Instructor: Dave Beck

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The Shadow of Chicago

A Chicago mob themed board game that focuses on using your influence as a mob boss to defeat other mobsters. Take others land, launder money, and grow your gang to take over all of Chicago.

Tucker Chipman
KaraDefoe
Owen Whitney
Quinn Zwolanek Laird

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Net-Worth

A resource-driven collection game of strategy and magical fish. Collect bait to catch fish, use your fish to gain an edge over your opponents.

Xander Riedmann, Alex Tlougan, Leif Gunhus

Instructor: Dave Beck

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10-Day Biker Gang of Pictures and Doom!

Explore the midwest, take the best pictures, and dodge doom while making sure to not miss your flight back home.

Antonio Garcia, Ethan Parke, David Reeh, Lydia Robinson, Tilly Rizo

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Camp Woebehere

Discover the secrets of Camp Woebehere by investigating, finding clues, and slowly revealing hidden monsters. Will you escape, banish the monster, or face the consequences of Camp Woebehere?

Micah Bernard, Jack Carson, Austin Hunt, Jake Wilhelm

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Cryptid Hunters

Your ragtag cryptid hunting crew has headed out into the woods to find and eliminate the monster the locals have been reporting. Will the hunters defeat the cryptid, or will they become the hunted? Only time will tell.

Zoe Kleinke, Avery LaLonde, Riley Martin, Rachael Schuenke

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Rails to Riches

Take on the role of a Railroad Tycoon during the late 1800s and build an expansive Railroad Network to complete deliveries and contracts across the Midwest.

Justin Bonelli, Jess Haapoja, Zak Suhajda, Madi Moseng

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Race Across the Midwest

Race through a wild, futuristic Midwest on mechanical horses! Outsmart rivals, survive calamities, and collect relics to win. Will you emerge as the ultimate racer or fall behind?

Ethan Skoog, Gregg Hammel, Gerishom Muholeza, Seyi Adesiji

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Bakery Bumble!

You are running a bakery! Gain stars by reaching the critic card goals set at the start of each day. Earn money from customer orders to upgrade your kitchen and buy decorations. But watch out! Your competitors may have some tricks up their sleeves. Will you be the first to 5 Stars?

Kilian Wilinski, Amanda Gagnon, Odessa Barreyro, Brooklyn Albrecht

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Braving Superior

Welcome to the brutal and supernatural Lake Superior. Band together as a crew to survive your journey while battling everything from a gentle breeze to horrors beyond your mortal comprehension. Can you and your friends finish your journey with both your ship and your sanity intact?

Seth Kendrick, Taylor Roe, Jacob Hickethier

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Local Legends: Hodag Haunt

The year is 1893. There are four of you that enter the forest, but unbeknownst to you, there is a fifth lurking within. You begin hearing inhumane roars coming from the wood; what looks like a dark green sort of creature darts just out of view. You are not welcome here, something tells you, and tensions rise within the group. Through cooperation or competition, complete your individual goals to escape the forest or kill the Hodag: the legendary beast of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Will you be able to defeat this beast and escape the forest? Or will you become lost, forever wandering the endless woods, stalked by an unknowable thing.

Lila Biksacky, Max Mike, Jazmine Sweda, Ash Vircks

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Mall of Mid-ness

Up to 4 Players are making a last minute shopping trip at the only mall around for 50 miles: The Mall of Mid-ness. Full of off-brand but functional products, and something more sinister, players must cross off their shopping list ASAP before things take a turn for the worse.

Russell Frey, Yeeleng Vang, Mia Hazen

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Feuding Farms

You and your neighbors are the pround owners of your very own farms. Word around town that is that your neighbors aren't too happy with your competition and might take action. Will you be a fiendly farmer hoping for safety or strike them before then can strike you. Whatever it takes to be the best!

Collin Rollie, Seth Shaw, Andrew Jones, Adam Helwig

Instructor: Dave Beck

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Skies of November

Tops’ls, gallants, and royals! Come sail on the Great Lakes! Inspired by the early history of Lake Superior, Skies of November is a strategy game where you amass your own fleet of ships and explore, trade, and battle other players for dominance. For glory and gold!

Allison Corter, Dani Matthiesen, Jackson Hinshaw, Joss Leaf

Instructor: Dave Beck