Project crew:
Kirill Smolskiy - game designer, art director
Shao-Hua (Ethan) Kao - Technical director
Rob Renaud - evaluator
Paul Munson Bethe - evaluator

Game idea:
This game should be shown on a computer science showcase. As a game designer I had to dream up an idea of a very good, fun and simple game, so that everybody could play this game. And while waiting a train in the subway station I memorized the game called "Ring toss". In this game a player should throw rings to the pin. Then I started thinking how to make this game fun, and how to make everybody love it. As long as we live in New York I decided to add some NY symbols: bagels, King Kong and Empire State building. And after discussing the idea with the project crew we came up with "Kong Toss".

Game description:
The game is very simple and I think fun :). The King Kong is seating on the top of the Empire State Building and throwing bagels to the tops of the other New York buildings. There are different types of bagels in the game, that give different amount of points. And you can chose between several buildings. Each building is placed on the different distance from empire state building and you need different power of throw.
By holding a button on the game pad, King Kong starts rotating around the pin and gaining power. When you release the button, King Kong throws bagel.

Making of the game:
We had only two weeks to implement this game.
The game is implemented using Microsoft XNA game engine. This engine is free and very powerful. Anyone can use it to create his own game for windows or Xbox.
All graphics in the game is 2d sprites. Sprites are made using 3d models in 3Ds max. King Kong animation is key frame animated biped model in 3D studio max.

Game title	Game screen	Game play
Show case	Show case	"Kong Toss" crew