Digipen studio is home to some of the most amazing student projects. If you're unfamiliar with them, they are most famous for the students that created a game called Narbacular Drop, which then scored the students a position at Valve where they would go on to create Portal (based on Narbacular Drop's basic game mechanics).

But there are others recent students' games you should be paying attention to from there as well. Here are 5 of my favorites:

1. Void
https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=23876
In Void, you can open pockets into another time. Within a confined space, you can travel back in time to what the area looked like many years ago and use the two time dimensions to solve puzzles.

2. Terra: The Legend of the Geochine
https://www.digipen.edu/?id=2832&proj=23877
In Terra, the world bends to your whim. You can tilt and rotate the entire planet to your advantage. It's like those old wooden Labyrinth games with the steel marble in them combined with an 3D action platformer.

3. Deity
http://www.deity-game.com/
In Deity you are an incredibly bad ass shadow demon. The mechanics are very unique as it combines elements of Diablo with fast speed stealth action.

4. Nitronic Rush
http://nitronic-rush.com/
This is a high octane futuristic racer with more than a few tricks up its sleeves and lots and lots of beautiful neon.

5. Solace
http://solacegame.com/?page_id=7
This is an artistic shmup that shoots in time to music as you work your way through the five stages of gried (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance). It's lovely and reminds me a bit of Rez.

Deity and Nitronic Rush have both been featured on RPS recently. But I had no idea they were student projects. Those people certainly have promising futures ahead of them.

I've never heard of these projects before.
Thanks for the links.

Nitronic Rush is freaking awesome. Thanks for the links, can't wait to try the others as well.

These look great, downloading Deity and Nitronic rush now. Thanks for posting

Let me know what you think of them. I'm excited about all 5 of these. I think they are all cutting edge stuff with really unique ideas.

Did any of you guys get around to playing these games?

I played through all of them as they are rather short, except I haven't finished all of the hardcore challenges on Nitronic Rush yet, as they are, well, hardcore. Man, that game is a beast. I'm really impressed with it. It's so much fun.

I just thought I'd bump this once more for the hell of it and see if anybody played any of these games?

I played Nitronic Rush(not related to this thread) and I must say it's awesome, but gets repetitive quite fast. Could be a great game with a little more polish.

Deity seems really fun!

I played Nitronic Rush. It's a cool racing game with interesting graphics, but it's very short. Mor e a proof of concept than an actual game. But still fun.

The guys that made Nitronic Rush currently have a Kickstarter going for a new racer called Distance that looks pretty amazing:

http://indiegames.com/2012/10/kickstarter_project_distance_r.html#more