You're a student. It's late. You're somewhere in the woods — and something isn't right. You must remember what happened. You must find a way out.
Fragmented is a 2D horror game built in Java with LibGDX. The overworld uses top-down RPG-style movement as you explore a dark forest environment at night. When you enter a building, the perspective shifts to first-person point-and-click exploration — use your flashlight to search rooms, interact with objects, and uncover what's happening.
Built in ~2 months as part of a semester-long project competition for the ACM CS Club at SJSU.
- Overworld — Top-down RPG movement through a night-time forest environment with buildings, barbed wire, and environmental storytelling
- First-Person Mode — Enter buildings to trigger a perspective shift into point-and-click exploration with a mouse-tracked flashlight
- Physics Interactions — Move and manipulate objects using physics-based movement
- Atmosphere — Night-time lighting, animated sprites, and environmental design built to create tension
- Custom tile map implementation — Built a manual tile rendering algorithm instead of relying on Tiled's automatic map generation, giving precise control over collision zones, layering, and interactive tile behavior
- Physics engine integration — Implemented physics-based object movement and collision detection using LibGDX's built-in physics support
- Dual rendering pipeline — Engineered a gameplay transition system that switches between top-down orthographic rendering and first-person perspective on building entry
- Modular game state system — Architected event-driven state transitions across menus, overworld, first-person sequences, and game events
- Language: Java
- Framework: LibGDX
- Tools: IntelliJ, Gradle, Git
Built by Sebastian Ezpeleta-Stewart and Richard Smith — October to December 2025.
| Beginnings | First-Person | The Bunker | Build Your Way Out |
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In order to run the game, you need to run the .jar file contained within. Run the following commands in your terminal, replace 'user' with your PC user.
cd C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Desktop\Fragmented
java -jar lwjgl3\build\libs\GameProject-1.0.0.jar