Production Team is a small team of students working together to organize, plan, and produce the FUSE event. As young professionals they maintain communication with the venue and sponsors, advertise the event to the public and VIPs, create content for the website and social media, and manage the logistics of the event. The Production Team ensures that the FUSE event runs smoothly.

The Senior UX Design Majors welcome you to their Capstone Exhibit. We demonstrate what User Experience is and why it's essential through student projects, supersized print displays, touchscreens, sculpture pieces, and so much more. Experience UX like never before in this first-of-its-kind interactive multimedia showcase.

The Senior Animation Capstone

Battle for Nebulon is a 3D 2-player outer-space shooting game where players work together to save their home planet, Nebulon. In this experience players fight different enemies and destroy turrets. They must battle their way through several rooms in order to destroy the enemy ship and defend their planet! Are you ready to save Nebulon?

You approach the edge of reality. There’s no telling what’s out there. If anything exists at all. Explore space in the Polaris Mk 0, a ship straight from the 70’s, and meet your companions as the ship's commanding officer. Take charge and repair your damaged ship, learn from your alien crewmates, and discover the true nature of what lies beyond existence… before you do it all over again.

Welcome, contestants! Get ready to participate in the most unique game show you’ll ever see: Chain Attraction! Jump between platforms to complete each stage – while chained to a metal ball! Utilize your Magnet Remote to power magnets to help push, pull, and swing your way to victory. With the help of our magnetically charming host, Penny Polaire, can you be the star of the show and claim the grand prize?

Welcome to the world of Craytolia, where brave knights must compete in order to see who is the strongest! But, the only way to settle this contest is to run THE MAZE! Battle against your foe in this 1 vs. 1 experience on the arcade table, and forge your own path to become the best of the best! Now, go forth Crayon Crusaders, and claim your destiny!

Roll colorful cubes & score massive combos in this grid-builder strategy roguelite! Construct a custom grid and master shapes of all kinds to create powerful synergies - all while keeping the singularity at bay.

The world is ending, but everything will be alright. Time is running out for the people of Cradle, a planet that orbits a dying star. Thankfully, the effort to evacuate to another planet called Pearl is in its final stages. Research teams are arriving on Pearl’s surface, and a fleet of city-sized transport ships is nearing completion. All that’s left for most people to do is to continue their everyday lives and wait for the orders to board. For you, that means adventure! Play as Pepper Shaker, the amiable delivery girl for the used video game store Dream Disc Depot, and bike around one of the cities where the spaceships are being made. You’ll have to figure out where your destinations are yourself, so make sure you look thoroughly. It’s your last chance to explore this place, and the sights you see and the people you meet along the way could end up just as important as the deliveries themselves.

Your job is to make your way through a run-down mining operation, and find a massive diamond and get rich! But how are you going to do that, you may ask? EXPLOSIONS!! With your advanced TNT Backpack, you’ll be able to launch yourself along the old mining paths, but be careful! Lava has seeped into these mines, be cautious to not get melted!

Enter into a long-forgotten cavern, where strange flowers seem to part near-magical effects onto anything they get their vines on, only to reverse their effects when a photo is snapped. Using your camera and wits, traverse the cavern, solve its unique puzzles, uncover the civilization that long ago called this place home, and solve the mystery of why your mother went missing in this exact cave!

The Game art Gallery is an exhibit of digital artwork from students who major in Game Art at Bradley University. Featured artwork ranges from concept art to game-ready props, environments, and characters. Spanning across seven monitors, the gallery will be on display as you enter the lobby of the Riverfront Museum.

It’s time to unleash your inner kid. That’s right, your inner kid who longingly stared at street art and wished you could join in if it weren’t for those pesky laws. Graffiti Gala is a three-player cooperative experience where you and two other players work together to create the graffiti masterpiece of your dreams using spray paint can styluses and drawing tablets. Help us paint color back into Fuse City!

The Breakfast Bandits are on the loose and planning to use their secret weapon to take over the world! Play as Pickleman, as you jump, slash, and dash through this 3D platforming challenge. Get to the Breakfast Bandit’s hideout and destroy their super weapon before it's too late!

Calling all BFF Agents! Your mission: “Fundraise” as much you can from the mansion of I. M. Richman! In this 2-Player Co-Op experience, one of you will strap on a VR headset to enter the mansion directly while collecting and shooting out treasure, and the other will hack into the mansion’s mainframes on a nearby PC to locate the highest-value treasures and disable lasers. Agents of Burglars For Fun-draising, your night heist starts now!

A community world-building experience where players do a short improv scene set in the land of Leigh. Any world lore they establish will become part of our story and landmarks created will be added to our map. Help us fill up our map and determine the Lay of the Land!

“Orion and the Hare” is a short film about a Hare harnessing the power of the stars to banish a supernatural hunter endangering what they care about most. The plot is inspired by the mythology surrounding the constellations of Orion and Lepus. The film focuses on environmental storytelling and utilizes a 2D and 3D animation pipeline.

Trouble in the backyard - those malicious knee-high gnomes have come to life and are destroying your neighbor’s plants! You’ll be doing some routine “landscaping” in this single player experience by climbing onto the RotoChair as well as grabbing a VR headset and controllers to foil the gnomes’ mischievous plans. Smack, squash, and shatter those little guys all over the lawn to make sure they learn their lesson!

Explore your past memories recorded on cassettes, and collect the notes of forgotten melodies as you advance through the world of “In Harmony,” a grid-based puzzle game with musically inspired elements. Intuit your way through satisfying puzzles as you put yourself into the shoes of a single mother. Uncover a rich, bittersweet story of the mother, her son, and the high and low notes of their relationship. Voiceover credits: Jasper Schiliro, David Galmines, and Guy Lynn

The Great Strawberry Heist is a 2D vertical platformer built for the arcade cabinet that follows the clash of two unlikely foes. In our game, the player, a mischievous hamster has its eyes set on getting a bite out of the bright red strawberry sitting atop the towering dessert, belonging to a terrifying cat. The hamster must navigate through a variety of platforms, dodge falling globs of icing, and jump over rolling oranges in order to make it to the top and claim the strawberry. However, the cat won't hesitate to pull out all the stops in order to prevent the hamster from taking what's rightfully hers, including her razor-sharp claws... Come visit us at FUSE to see who will prevail in this epic contest over the strawberry topped cake and claim the ultimate prize. Special thanks to Dalsten Yan, for their significant programming contributions to the team.

“SketchBound” is a fun, feel-good, animated short film. It follows Email, a lonely middle schooler who struggles at a new school until she finds friendship through creating art and forming an Art Club. This film leans into an exaggerated and hand-drawn style in order to emulate an actual middle school artist.

Stranded in the fog of the murky waters on a confined and isolated ferry with nothing but your harpoon gun, you feel the overwhelming presence of something within the mists of the mangrove. Your vessel is cramped and certainly not your safest bet against the threats awaiting you. While navigating these waters, your vessel is stopped dead and it is up to you with the assistance of The Captain to get the boat back up and running again.

[REDACTED] Co. invites you to join our Interdimensional Internship Program! Your job will be to join our outstanding team of interns to create and monitor a new civilization. Our interns make tough choices for their civilizations that could lead to prosperity or catastrophe in this 1-Player shared experience, where each intern will build off the previous intern’s choices. [REDACTED] Co’s mission is to spread peace and order across all the planets we monitor. Completing this mission is no walk in the park, but with hard work, dedication, and contractual obligation, we're confident our interns can do the job.