History

Early History

Emergence Games was founded back in September of 2016, during a class in the Game Design and Development department called "The Games Industry" at Long Island University, LIU Post campus. Students were placed into groups and given the semester to fully produce a single game, including polishing and release, that made a profit (which was kept by the students.) If no profit was made by the end of the semester, the students failed. 

This challenging goal drove the group to push themselves to their fullest potentials, allowing them to learn what they are capable of making in two months as well as how to drive others to success within a team. For some of them, this was their first time emerging into the field, hence their name: Emergence Games (Emergence).

Recent: Goop Troop

When conceptualizing their project, Emergence looked at the pool of skills within their team as a basis for their scope. With two members of the group having art backgrounds, as well as all of them being able to code and design, they focused originally on a painting game. After the first prototype failed, they took the paint blob aspect and created a Lemmings inspired game, based around color and elements.