Automaton Alliance

Abstract

For my honors thesis, I created a video game called Automaton Alliance. Automaton Alliance is a cooperative first-person shooter, where two players work together to find the exit of randomly generated levels. Automaton Alliance uses multiplayer networking - meaning that you can play with other players over the internet. The paper has an artist’s statement addressing my goals and motivations for creating Automaton Alliance. Additionally, this paper contains a link where you can download and play Automaton Alliance. If you have a friend to play it with, I would encourage you to give it a try! There is also a link where you can download the source files for the game. If you want to look at the game’s code, look there. After that, there is an acknowledgement section to thank all the wonderful people who helped with the thesis. Finally, the paper has a reflection of my time working on Automation Alliance over the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters. This reflection talks about different aspects of working on the thesis. More specifically, the reflection talks about my experience with creating a networked game, game development, and self-directed work. Overall, making Automaton Alliance was a great experience.