Ryan was assigned to a team and tasked to make a game that functioned with the limitations and benefits of the Nintendo DS in mind. The team was given a Unity project that had a Nintendo DS environment to work in, along with controls already implemented (based on the touch pad, and buttons), made by Professor Dieterich. Outside of these programming and base visuals that made the game function like a NDS game, all art and programming were made by the development team. This group consisted of Kaitlyn Flynn, who made sound effects, Bobby Bronaugh, who worked on the main menu art, music, and additional sound effects, Kevin Phan, who made the idea for the game and handled the coding, and Ryan Bone, who designed the gameplay concepts, made all the art assets (in Adobe Photoshop with an XP-Pen Tablet) and created assets lists to organize the sound team.

Ryan’s gameplay and art designs were made with the Nintendo DS’s technological limitations in mind, and is an arcade-style high score game. The game consists of the player attempting to get the high score by fulfilling as many orders from customers as they can before the timer runs out. The player makes the burgers by pressing certain parts of the screen, and dragging ingredients towards each other to make the burger with the right toppings to keep the customers satisfied.

Within a group, Ryan was tasked to make a game in Unreal Engine that had a serious theme, with a deadline in a month and a half. The team consisted of Brendan McDermott, who made the ghost character model, and the models, animations, and textures for the props, Kevin Phan, who coded and implemented the assets, and Ryan Bone, who made the concept art and character designs, the main character model and animations, the environmental models including: hallways, doors and stairs. Ryan made the 3D models in 3ds Max, while making the textures for those models, and the concept art in Adobe Photoshop with an XP-Pen Tablet.

As a team, they came up with a game that revolves around the idea of the stress experienced as a college student. They present this theme by revolving the story around a student collecting study sheets and rushing to do their Resident Advisor tasks, while being chased by a ghost of a student, which was turned into a monster out of their stress. To fit with the theme of stress, the team decided to make the game have horror elements, with the only source of light being the player’s dying flashlight. They have limited time to complete their tasks until their flashlight goes out or until the ghost catches up to them as it roams the halls, so the player may experience stress the way an overburdened student does. The gameplay consists of the player running through hallways, turning on lights in bathrooms, picking up lost study sheets, and finding a key to the exit of a level. Each level is a floor of the building, where the player must keep looping around in circles to find the objects that they need. The gameplay and art of The Haunting at Harrison Hall work together to give the player a stressful experience that could help them learn to relate to stressed-out college students.