Project Nasu

Project Nasu is a highly creative, delightfully charming, and surprisingly challenging free-to-play 2D action-puzzle platformer developed as a DigiPen student project. Spending exactly 30 minutes inside the game is the perfect amount of time to master its signature mechanics, clear the early testing chambers, and experience the pure arcade flow before the difficulty curve sharpens. You play as Nasu, a quirky biological experiment desperately trying to escape an evil scientist's high-tech laboratory facility.The central mechanical hook completely carries the experience. Instead of a traditional running and jumping setup, you move by using Nasu's snout to fire rapid projectiles, which aggressively propel you backward in the opposite direction. Learning to leverage this dynamic recoil feedback to hover over spikes, navigate narrow corridors, and manually activate platform levers mid-air provides a fantastic layer of physics-based satisfaction. The visuals are clean, bright, and highly readable, while the pacing is kept fast by an intuitive built-in level timer. Naturally, as an educational showcase game, it is structurally brief and lacks complex world-building. However, as a complete…

Decent rage baiting platformer especially the last level needs precision but hey you can beat it in less than an hour easily if you focus. Well done and good luck in your career!

Very short, but very enjoyable experience overall.

Pretty fun side game to finish on your free time, I really like the gimmick with the things you shoot, it makes the game a bit more enjoyable than a boring ahh platformer. I also like that the levels don't stretch for too long. Also, nice little final chasing sequence. Only thing i want is music and achievements especially for the coins cuz those do nothing as of right now.

Pretty cool little platformer. I liked the shoot to move mechanic.

Project Nasu is a student project from DigiPen. One of the first things students should be taught in game development is that 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D cards like the Voodoo3 and the ATI Rage. But the students were deliberately mistaught that's it's okay to release obsolete 2D games in the 3D era of gaming... and certainly and professional developer seeing a prospective new hire who doesn't even know about 3D gaming probably isn't going to give them a job. Needless to say if an educational institution taught me incorrectly on purpose, I'd ask for my money back. This is just a really lame 2D platformer with not much else going on with it... seriously if I paid a lot of money to go to an educational instution, I'd be livid if they decided to teach me how to make garbage 2D retro pixel platformers. I feel bad for the students. We also have to question what value there is for gamers on Steam when institutions flood the store with low quality 2D video game homework assignments... sure, it might make the students feel good about themselves, but this has no benefit for gamers who have to wade through this stuff to find professionally made 3D g…