Alumni and future plans

Hi there!

It has been some moths since I last wrote here, so I figured it was time for an update.

Right now I’m taking a Game Design course where we are asked to make a game in one or two weeks depending on the assignment. We are divided in random groups, without any rules other then that there is 3 or 4 students in each group. This means that you might end up in a group with only graphical students or programmers. You might also end up working with people you haven’t worked with before and that you wouldn’t have choosen to work with if you were the one to decide the groups.

This course is great since we both learn to work quickly and also get to learn how to work with different kinds of groups. We have been divided in to random groups in previous courses too, but since this is our last year, it feels important to challenge ourselfs and also, this is our last chance to get to know eachother before we split up.

Each game in this course have different themes to it. I will make one post for each game soon, so that I can have the posts more focused on that.

(The guest lectures)

This week we had our Alumni days, meaning that we have different guest lectures, most of them held by former students that are now working in the gaming industry. We had great lectures with people from Blizzard, Might and Delight, A Sweet Studio and NETENT. We also had a mingle party tonight where we were able to discuss the industry, favorite games, future plans, but also our feelings about tv-shows, movies and other nerdy things. It was a great evening and me and my classmates reflected on how different it feelt to talk with industry people in our last year compared to our first. Tonight we actually feelt like we were their equals and fully realized that we actually might work among them soon.