Student Games
Games for Change, 2026
These games were created by students for the Games For Change student challenge. You can play them right now in your browser (more games coming soon)! For a little more information about Games For Change and what the students objectives were, check it out here.
Monkey Quest, one of our student games that was a finalist in this global competition in which 70,000 students from around the world participated. You can play it and the other student games by following the link.
Summer Camp, 2026
WEEK 1: TOWER DEFENSE
The first week of summer camp, students studied tower defense games such as Plants vs Zombies. They had to conceptualize who was protecting where against what, and learned to code the entire game from scratch using GameMaker's GML programming language.
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WEEK 2: RPG BATTLER
The second week of camp was WILD! The goal was to make a game that was reminiscent of Pokemon...in one week! We were working with complicated arrays of data, and the students adapted to these advanced concepts very well!
WEEK 3: SCROLLING SHOOTER
In the third week of camp, we had a lot of newcomers. We worked on a fun scrolling shooter. Every student had to conceptualize their own narrative and art treatment that would fit into that genre's mechanics.
WEEK 4: PLATFORMER
Referencing games like Mario and Mega Man, students created fun platformer games. They had to devise unique mechanics within the rules of a platformer, and some of these games are truly brilliant!
WEEK 5: ADVENTURE
Harkening back to games like The Legend of Zelda and Gauntlet, students had to come up with a fun adventure; a hero, an environment, a small story to be told mostly through gameplay.
WEEK 6: SMASH
This one was a challenge, but the students were adamant! We had to deal with character and stage selections, and a nightmare of array data for each fighter's individual properties. But playtesting was a blast!
At the Studio
A Growing Library
At Bitmask Games we are building a library of retro games that students can play and study. We are grateful to all of those who have contributed and donated from their personal collections. Rest assured, these games are seeing a new life at the studio!
While it may sound strange, one of the goals is to be able to provide an almost Video Rental Store type environment for weekend sign out or rental of these classics for enrolled students. While that's not up and running yet, these games (and more every week!) are cleaned and tested and able to be played live in the studio during free play events and open lab hours.
Build Your Collection
Whether you're looking to relive the classics or find brand new experiences for classic consoles (including those made by Bitmask Games and its students!), there's nothing like owning a physical cartridge you can hold in your hand. We've got consoles and an ever changing listing of games in stock! We stock Hyperkin "clone" systems that can play retro cartridges on modern TVs over HDMI. These are the same units we have in the studio. You can pick them up in person (and test out some games while there, too!), or on The Retroverse website's shop.