Woody McCoy

- Class of 2022

Hello, I'm Woody! I'm a senior in CS at CMU, and I love making games. I've worked on around 2 dozen games during my time here, and I've had a lot of fun on technically challenging and artistically interesting games. Aside from previously helping run GCS, I also taught the student course on game creation for 2 years, and currently teach a course on the design and play of Roguelike games.

Previous GCS positions:
Vice President
Director of Development

My resume

My GCS Games

Minion

Spring 2022

Woody McCoy

Weiwen (Andy) Jiang

Alexis Giauque

William Crenshaw

Annika Wu

Liam Hower

Andrew Knowles

William Ozeas

Jonathan Fischer

Emma Jiang

David Zelong Fan

Swapnil Das

Steve Lu

Joseph Perrino

Adrian Ma

Connor Leemhuis

Kushal Dulla

Resurrected again and again, your existence has been redefined to a single goal: kill the Holy Cardinal at the top of the Spine. Climb all 8 floors of the tower, battling wild beast, goblins, dragons, and the clergy. Learn powerful magics and equip enchanted gear. Kill the Cardinal, or be resurrected once more.Here is the source code.

Flip-O-Tronic 5000

Winter 2022

David Zelong Fan

Gary Bailey

Woody McCoy

A cross between a platformer and a bullet-hell, with some puzzles thrown in there as well. Hop between top-down and side-scroller mode to escape the facility with the Flip-O-Tronic. Made for Global Game Jam 2022. Here is the source code.

Haunted

Fall 2021

Sebastian Yang

Woody McCoy

Charlotte Wang

Emma Jiang

Yuxi (Ethan) Xu

Nathan Oswell

Oleg Plisov

Robert Chen

Scott King

Siddharth Singh

Soo Hyun (Alan) Lee

Jia-En (Jessica) Lee

Swapnil Das

Anabelle Kang

Anqi Chen

Arin Pantja

Caleb Sun

Lucas Hurley

Pheht Salcido

Sasha Mishkin

Shelly Zhang

Stacey Cho

William Ozeas

Haunted is a VR horror game where the only enemy is yourself. In this game, there are no monsters or enemies that hurt you, instead, the only way to lose is if you get scared. You woke up in a completely dark house with only a candle in your hand. If you wave your hand too fast, the candle goes out, and game over. The game consists of six rooms, each room has a unique set of mechanics that will be randomly activated. You need to reclaim three memory shards that are randomly scattered in some of the six rooms. As you regain more memory from the shards, you gradually realize the unspeakable things that happened in this house ...

Escape From Lab 8

Spring 2021

Woody McCoy

Michael Poirier

Joseph Perrino

Jonathan Fischer

Nick DesRoches

George Whitfield

Andy Kim

William Ozeas

Scott King

Brandan Chen

Emily Zhang

Brad Zhang

SeongWuk Jeong

Escape From Lab 8 is a roguelike dungeon crawler, where you play as a unnamed test subject who must complete a deadly challenge to keep their life. As you play, you'll encounter 4 procedurally generated floors, filled with over a dozen unique monsters, more than 50 items, and many game-redefining artifacts. Choose an artifact that suits your playstyle, assemble a build around it, and count your Professor Salts carefully, or else you'll never... Escape From Lab 8.

Scythe

Winter 2021

Joseph Perrino

Rich Yu

Sebastian Yang

Woody McCoy

Jonathan Fischer

You lost your soul. Now get it back. Collect souls by killing monsters and humans. The only caveat is you become the thing you kill the most. You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The VillainMade for Global Game Jam 2021.

Fly Game

Fall 2020

Woody McCoy

Sebastian Yang

Ben Cagan

Lauren Kung

Simona Yu

In Fly Game, you play as a hungry fly in need of some nourishment. Gain points by flying into food, and keep your speed high for a better score! Beware of going too fast and too far, though; boosting takes up energy, and if you run out early, it's game over!Controls: Mouse - Change direction of flight Spacebar - Boost

Slope Crusher

Spring 2020

Jan Orlowski

Jessica (Jess) Cao

Alan Zhu

Ben Cagan

David Morales

George Whitfield

Joseph Perrino

Marie Leung

Woody McCoy

Sam Murray

Tracy Cui

Slope Crusher is an intense racing game about boarding through a noise-filled world. Jump, Smash and Flip at insane speeds to get the best time possible. Keyboard and Controller are both supported.

Reverse No

Fall 2019

Carter Williams

Joseph Perrino

Adrian Mester

Woody McCoy

Tiger Jia

Dominic Calkosz

Reverse No is a cooperative party game about communicating ideas with a limited vocabulary, and building up your common language over time. It can be played with two or more players. This game was created at the 2019 Pittsburgh IGDA Board Game Jam, for the theme: Foreign.

Flip Flop

Spring 2019

Woody McCoy

Sebastian Yang

Mckenna Brown

Ryan Po

Claire Peck

Jonathan Fischer

Welcome to Flip Flop! Flip Flop is a competitve multiplayer platformer, where something drastically changes every 15 seconds! Try to keep up with the changes (and your friends), as the last one left standing wins!

Odin's Beard

Fall 2018

Joseph Perrino

Nathan Blinn

Michelle Chen

Matthew Cruz

Alan Li

Charlie Liu

Woody McCoy

James Nguyen

Yumi Sato

Alysa Bradbury

Ross Elovitz

Sahn Kim

Sharon Liu

Jinhee Lee

Odin's got the finest beard in the Nine Realms - at least, that's what he wants to believe. He's getting increasingly more jealous of his arch-rival, Surtr, whose beard has begun to rival Odin's own in its magnificence. To this end, he's summoned you, a Viking barber, to defeat Surtr and his leagues of minions by reducing their beards to pitiful whiskers. Controls: Move left/right with AD Jump with Space or W Attack with Enter/Return In air, you'll do a pinwheel attack like a Screw Attack On ground, when you have 3HP, you'll fire a projectile

Updated January 27, 2022

Woody McCoy

- Class of 2022

Previous GCS positions: Vice President Director of Development

My resume

My GCS Games

Minion

Flip-O-Tronic 5000

Haunted

Escape From Lab 8

Scythe

Fly Game

Slope Crusher

Reverse No

Flip Flop

Odin's Beard

Previous GCS positions:
Vice President
Director of Development