Melbourne’s Glitch Crab Studios will represent our fair country as a nominee in The Game Awards’ Student Game category.
Glitch Grab is composed of eight students — Benedict Zeng, Dane Perry Svendsen, Genevieve Rathgeber, Kip Brennan, Mark Tan, Matthew Harvey, Stephen Scoglio and Tegan Nicholson — all from Swinburne University, and all studying Game & Interactivity and Games Development.
Formed in March 2017, their game Level Squared (LVL² ) was their final year undergraduate project for the Bachelor of Games & Interactivity and Bachelor of Computer Science (Games Development) degree. The title started off as Four Shadow, a gothic 2D puzzle platformer, before a complete redesign for PAX AUS 2017.
The end result is a 2D puzzle platformer that uses a projection mechanic to displace squares in the environment relative to the player’s size and position. The redesign meant Level Squared was developed in about four months, or half the time allocated to the project.
Glitch Crab’s Level Squared is up against five other student games at this year’s Game Awards: Falling Sky, From Light, Hollowed, Impulsion and Meaning. Best of luck to our locals (and we can say that; though Stevivor is a judge in The Game Awards, we don’t vote in this particular category).
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