Geometry Genocide
This is the game that I and a team of five others created to graduate from college. Other outside people developed assets including the music and textures (available in the credits). It is a 3D arcade-style shooter akin to Geometry Wars, in which you play an armored sphere against hordes of other geometrical objects, including an icosahedron that rolls around and spawns other enemies based on the number rolled. It includes powerups that can be upgraded with your points and cycled through. It also has achievements ...and the screen behavior is Horizontal+!
I was the QA Engineer and I also developed and implemented the collision system, traps system, game state machine, and helped code the shaders. I used a binary tree to keep track of all collideable objects and used a new (for that time) algorithm for tracking fast moving objects between frames. The development cycle was a total of five months: one month design, one month asset production/pre-planning, and three months implementation. We set our own schedules to work by (ours was 08:30-18:30 M-F), including rules and regulations to follow. For example, if anyone was more than 15 minutes late, they had to buy everyone breakfast the following morning. More than 30 minutes late and you were written up and reported to the producer.
Unfortunately we had to develop the game to run on outdated hardware and are development computers were desktop replacements. It runs great on my desktop: I recommend AFR if you have a SLI system. We only tested on the target machine and our laptop, so multiscreen was never tested. I would love to see if any of you guys are able to run it with multiple monitors, though. Keep in mind that the gameplay board is a fixed size, so it won't add anything to the experience. That and the HUD is programmed to be at the corners of the screen, but the HUD does scale with the resolution.
Alas there are some bugs and still a minor DirectX memory leak. There was a bugfix completed, but it was never uploaded and I haven't been in contact with my teammates in more than a year. I'm still impressed by what we accomplished, and it is a lot of fun to play. Our final grade was 96%(A-) if anyone is interested.