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SGX.22

The Stout Game Expo (SGX) invites you to our end of the semester game exhibition.
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Welcome to Western Wisconsin's largest game developers event!

Stout Game Expo (SGX) returned as an in-person event for spring 2022, and we will be in person again on December 14th from 6:00-9:00 pm in the upper level of the MSC. Virtual tour of games, virtual reality, and interactive experiences created​ by senior through freshman students of UW-Stout's two Game Design and Development programs will be on display. 

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First-Year Student Games

Play dozens of board games created by Game Design and Development 100 (GDD) students.
Get some game on!
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Sophomore Games

Exciting games created by Game Design and Development 200 (GDD) students.
Check it Out!
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Junior Games

Variety of multi-player, puzzle and party games created by Game Design and Development 325 students.
Game Party!
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Senior Capstone Games

Amazing games created by Game Design and Development 450-451 (GDD) students and playable for the first time anywhere!
These are awesome!
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Indie Games

Taking game development to new and exciting levels of engagement!
Virtual world thrill
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MFA Games

New and exciting levels of game engagement - amazing projects!
Get in the game!

SGX Spring 2022 Award Winners


Freshman Best Implementation: Overlord

Freshman Most Original Concept: Dark Offering

Freshman Audience Choice Award: Blackstone Manor


Sophomore Best Gameplay: Rise and Chime

Sophomore  Best Art: Starlight Postal

Sophomore  Audience Choice Award: Rise and Chime


Junior Best Gameplay: Stellar Decay

Junior Best Art: Sun Staff

Junior Audience Choice Award: Forged


Senior Capstone Best Gameplay: Wobble Warriors

Senior Capstone Best Art: Wobble Warriors

Senior Capstone Audience Choice Award: Newt!

SGX Fall 2021 Award Winners

SGX Fall 2021 Award Winners

Intro to Game Design
(GDD 100)

Most Original Concept

It’s Alive?

Also nominated: Best of the Worst, IMPossible Escape, Wall Street Weapons, Western Warfare


 

Best Execution

Best of the Worst

Also nominated: Ascension, Monkémon, Space Divers, Space Saboteurs

Video Game Development
(GDD 200)

Best Visuals

Death’s Dog

Also nominated: Elemental, Knight of Dragons, Skyship Frenzy


 

Best Gameplay

Death’s Dog

Also nominated: Elemental, Knight An’dae, Knight of Dragons

2D Game Design & Development
(GDD 325)

Best Visuals

Felidae

Also nominated: Crosshatch & Slash, Space Masquerade, Top Dog


 

Best Gameplay

Zoomstick

Also nominated: Culinary Kingdom, Lethe, Smoothie Mania
SGX Spring 2021 Award Winners

SGX Spring 2021 Award Winners

Intro to Game Design (GDD 100)

Outstanding Visuals

Grudgemental Ghosts
Mortal Ascension

Honorable Mention: Chick Magnet, MEATBAGS, Mistakes Were Made, Nightmarish Next of Kin

 

Outstanding Gameplay

Familiar Faces
Primordium

Honorable Mention: Bug Hunt, Grudgemental Ghosts, MEATBAGS, Mistakes Were Made

Video Game Development (GDD 200)

Outstanding Visuals

Froot Punch
Homeless Hamster
Kindled

Honorable Mention: Kill All Gods, The Last Song, Project: Husk

 

Outstanding Gameplay

Kill All Gods
Poltergeist

Honorable Mention: Alchemist Exile, Monster Farm

2D Game Design & Development (GDD 325)

Outstanding Visuals

Asunder
Magma Mission

Honorable Mention: Battle of the Seas, Kaguya: Star Chaser

 

Outstanding Gameplay

Hat HighRise
MonkE Pew Golem
Squared Up

Honorable Mention: Kaguya: Star Chaser, Magma Mission, Olek, Stronger than Brass

3D Game Art & Engines (DES 350)

Best Visuals

Temperance Gardens

Also nominated: Capital City

 

Best Interactivity

Seldom Seclusion

Also nominated: Hallways

Game Design Capstone II (GDD 451)

Best Visuals

Dawn of the Falkonir

 

Best Gameplay

Dawn of the Falkonir