BitSits Games

Selected for Poster Presentation in Gracehopper celebration of Women in Computing.

2011-11-20T05:10:00.000-08:00

Hurrah !! ! after long wait of one and half month I finally got the mail from Gracehopper for being invited to Poster Presentation. Feeling very lucky and proud for getting such opportunity. It feels like Dream comes true. Hope I can make to the finals and bagged the prize. Off to Bangalore on 15th of December.Once again I am sooo... excited !!! :)

तलाश

2011-11-15T12:45:00.000-08:00

जिंदगी थी बढ़ी उदाश
जिसमे थे बढे बढे ख्वाब
ख्वाबो को पूरे करने की थी तलाश
जीवन हो न जाये व्यर्थ
डर था बस यही हर वक़्त
बनानी थी अपनी एक पहचान
जिससे हो हमे बढ़ा अभिमान
भरने है हमे जीवन में इतने रंग
की खिल उठे हम अपने सपनों के संग
जीना है कुछ इस तरह
की मुस्कुराएँ हम हर एक पल
भुलादे हम हर एक गम
सिखा हमने बनाओ अपने
कर्तव्य को अपना अभिमान
फिर दुनिया भुला न पायेगी
चाह कर भी तुम्हारी पहचान
जिंदगी जितनी भी हो उदाश
सपने देखो तुम हर एक रात

एहसास

2011-09-28T12:45:00.000-07:00

जाने आज ऐसा क्यों एहसास हुआ
जी रहे थे हम आखे बंद किये |
खुशियों के आने पर भी
खुश नहीं थे हम |
किसी और की कामयाबी को
बनाकर अपना जी रहे थे हम |
आखे खुली तो देखा
हमारे सपने मुस्कुरा रहे थे हमपर|
दिल ने कहा हमसे
देर नहीं हुई इतनी की तुम मुरझा गए हो
फुल भी सूरज की आखरी किरण तक खिलते है |
रास्ते वही है, सफ़र वही
फिर क्यूँ तुम सोच में दुबे हो
उठाओ बिस्तर, भुलाओ बीते पल
और ढूंड लो अपनी मंजिल |
क्यों दिल धारक था है जोरो से
सोच कर चल रहे हम अकेले|
जब की मंजिल की शुरुआत में
हम थे बिलकुल अकेले|
सफ़र के सहरो ने दिखाए इतने बरे सपने
की अपने प्यारे सपने लगने लगे छोटे
दिमाग ने कहा चलते रहो उधर
मुनाफा है जिधर|
दिल ने कहा पूरे कर अपने सपनो को
जितने भी हो वह छोटे |

Participating in Gracehopper celebration of Women in Computing

2011-09-24T04:48:00.000-07:00

Being a Microsoft Student Partners, I got invitation to participate in Gracehopper celebration of Women in Computing. I got excited to participate after going into details of the program. But my hectic schedule was not permitting me to take part. I somehow managed with my time and made my mind to participate in poster designing. From long time I had an idea of a research paper in my mind, so I thought it would be best time to implement it. After one week of research and hard work amidst my Gre exam and Amazon interview, I finally completed my two page abstract on "Environmental Educational Game" based on the design of Gombli (Imagine Cup Game Designing Competition 2010).Thanks to Dr. Gautam Paul (Jadavpur University), he reviewed my paper and help me to rectify my mistakes. Contribution from my team mate Shubhajit in designing Gombli was no less.

I realized that research on environmental problems can bring significant changes in us.It make us more sensible in terms of saving energy, planting more trees and realizing major problems of our environment. Now a days before wasting a glass of water I feel it can save life of so many who don't have access to clean water. I stopped using plastic bags unnecessarily unless it is required much. Recycling became my favorite. "If we don't recycle today the earth will definately recycle us tomorrow".

Once I win the competition I will proudly say "I am a Technical women". Wish me good luck. :) :\ :)

Folder.exe

2011-05-09T11:53:00.000-07:00

This Game is about a geek guy, whom the player have to control, whose computer is being attacked by the viruses, these viruses will eat up all the information of folders. The Player is the owner of the folder and those folders are very important for him to save or recover them. To save his folders he will kill the entire incoming virus. To recover and protect his folders he will take help of some power-ups. The bonus points are given at the end of each level, which is equal to the number of folders saved.

Enemy A.I
Here viruses are provided very simple A.I. Viruses will chase the folder when virus comes in chasing distance of the folder. Viruses will also run away from the player, when the player comes closer to the enemies.

Power-Ups
The RED cross sign appears after some interval of time in the game, which symbolizes power-ups. The player can use this power-ups to recover the folders. This power-ups are symbolizing antivirus which can heal our folders.
Folder.exe

Download
Folder.exe (3 Mb)

Instructions
Protect atleast one folder for certain time to move to next level. The time left is shown by yellow bar. Press [LEFT, RIGHT,UP,DOWN] to move the player. Press [LEFT BUTTON] to shoot enemies and score points. Collect power-ups to heal the folders.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Graphics: Maya Agarwal ( maya.agarwal2 @ gmail.com )

Music: Track Marching from Album MU.S.GA [Music for Strategy Games] EP by PILL under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Brazil

Particle effect in Folder.exe

2011-04-05T07:55:00.000-07:00

hi everyone I am writing after long time. I had been working on my academic project Folder.exe. It is a game designing project.The most interesting class of my project is "Particle", It is used when enemies are attacked by the player and get disintegrated in small particles.

Here is the screenshot of my particle effect used on enemies

In this Screenshot we can see when an enemy is attacked by the player, its health bar is shown and small particles coming out from the body of the virus. It make it appear that virus is breaking into pieces.

My first teaching session as Microsoft Student Partners

2011-01-25T11:55:00.000-08:00

As a Microsoft Student Partners I gave my first session on Introduction to Game designing in Xna. It was attended by more than 60 students from my college Bengal Institute of Technology. The driving force for this students to attend my session was the topic itself i.e designing game.

I was very confident, excited, and equally nervous for teaching so many students for the very first time. But, thanks to my friends who co-operated with me.

I described the most important elements required to design our own game i.e Microsoft Xna (game Engine) + Adobe illustrator( graphics) + Simple maths + interesting game play. Then discussed about Windows phone 7 games and apps. The benefits they can have by designing games in Xna, about cross platform support.
How they can begin by designing simple prototypes to execute their ideas and then discuss about very simple games to begin. I explained them few of the designs of my own game and online tutorial resources like xnadevelopment, Riemers XNA tutorial, App Hub.
I encouraged my friends about various game competitions like Imagine cup, Independent Game Festival, Experimental Game play etc.
The entire session continued for an hour. It was great experience interacting with so many students and answering their queries.

Cup A Cube

2010-11-26T02:53:00.000-08:00

Cup A Cube
In this game you have to collect sugar cubes to make your coffee sweet, which will help you to stay awake and complete your game in 7 days.This game is entry for Experimental Gameplay Project for the theme Night and Day for November

Download
Cup A Cube.zip(2.79 MB)

Instructions
Controls:
Press LEFT, RIGHT,UP,DOWN to drop sugar cubes accordingly.
Press [ENTER] to restart game.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Graphics: Maya Agarwal ( maya.agarwal2 @ gmail.com )

Music: Track Basse Dance from album The Time of Life by General Union under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

Sound Effects: dropsound.wav by vibe_crc
Sound effects are licensed under a Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License

Atooms to Moolecules

2010-10-22T07:50:00.000-07:00

I and Shubhajit had been working for a secret project, which is submitted to IGF this year. My contribution was Level Designing and Game Concept. I love the concept as I always wanted to see Atoms coming alive out of my textbook. The name of the game suggests that you have to make Moolecules using Atooms. Yes but the interesting part of the game is Lab Setup (still working on), where you can have your lab equipments and lots of Atooms to play around. Here is just the trailer of the game, have a look and if you really like it then please leave a comment and "wish me luck".

You can check out the first prototype of the game Moolecules, submitted for Experimental Gameplay Project theme Two Months of CASUAL ADDICTION.

Tetris

2010-09-27T06:58:00.000-07:00

This game is developed not for any game Contest but for fun. It is played by all of us and we find it very attractive, so i decided to build my own Tetris. Hope you all enjoy it :)

Download
Tetris.zip (3.53 Mb)
Tetris setup.Zip (3.75 Mb)

Instructions
Controls: Move left, Move right [ LEFT, RIGHT], Rotate[UP]. Move down [DOWN], Press [ENTER] to restart game, [CLICK] outside to pause game.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Graphics: Maya Agarwal ( maya.agarwal2 @ gmail.com )

Music: Track good day fom album Level Up! OST by Triplefox under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

Sound Effects: videogamesounds.wav, videogamesounds4.wav by LS.
Sound effects are licensed under a Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

Raining Letters

2010-06-26T06:47:00.000-07:00

It is a typing game which can help you to improve your typing skills. In this game you have to type the falling letters. This is my first Experimental Gameplay Project for the theme Two Months of CASUAL ADDICTION.

Raining Letters

Download
RainingLetters.zip (1.72 Mb)

Instructions
Input letters[A to Z] from Keyboard before they fall out of screen. You will lost the game if you miss more than ten letters.

Troubleshooting
If you have problems getting the game to run. You should install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and XNA Framework Redistributable 3.1

Credits
Game Design, Code & Graphics: Maya Agarwal ( maya.agarwal2 @ gmail.com )

Music: Track Back to old school from Album back to old school by Danilo Mazzeo under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

Sound Effects: chalk_on_blackboard.wav by v NomSomGomLom
Sound effects are licensed under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

Gombli

2010-03-15T09:50:00.000-07:00

This my entry in Imagine Cup 2010

Theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems”.

A single Player Platformer Game, where our game character Gombli will repair the ozone layer in the form of puzzle. The powerUps of the Game are Recycle ball, Soap bubble, Bean Seed and Marble. The powerUps are designed as such to teach the player the importance of Cleanliness(Soap bubble destroy Germs), Recycling(recycle ball), Planting more trees(Bean seed destroy CO2), and a loads of fun(Marble). This game also teach the player that animals should not be hurt.

Download
Gombli Setup.zip (11.1 Mb)

Instructions
Controls: Run left, Run right [A, D or LEFT, RIGHT], Jump [W or UP]. Use Power [SPACE or ENTER]. Press [TAB] to switch powers.

Troubleshooting
If you have problems getting the game to run. You should install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, XNA Framework Redistributable 3.1 and Windows Installer 3.1

Credits
Game Design, Code & Graphics: Maya Agarwal ( maya.agarwal2 @ gmail.com ) & Shubhajit Saha ( shubhajit.saha @ students.becs.ac.in )

Music: Track traiin and hi ha ho from album 1 for kids by chris.B under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic France.

Sound Effects: Sound effects are licensed under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

Gombli Uses: Creator Club's GameState Management sample and XNA Stater Kit: Platformer both under Microsoft Permissive License.rtf

My first feeling

2006-09-21T01:58:00.000-07:00

From Morning to Night
From Dawn to Dusk
You came in my heart
and made me anxious every time
When I laughed you laughed
When I cried you cried
You can read me like the leaves of a book
You can feel me like the nerves of my brain
I asked my heart
Is it friendship or some other relationship
My heart failed to answer but
he answered everything
Why those moments spent with you seems to be treasure of my life
Why those moments have become pleasure of my life
Why do your presence make me feel like herald of spring in my heart
Why do your absence make me feel cold static and unfeeling why??
My heart failed to answer but
he answered everything
As he is the one who can read my silence
As he is the one who can predict my forward step
As he is the one who made me walk even on rocky lane.