Browsing 'The Department': Posts from the Department of Game Design, campus Gotland
A Rat Betwixt
A rat Betwixt is an isometric, turn-based tactical game about the exploration of a bunker in future medieval Sweden. During that exploration, multiple players will be asked to complete objectives that can run counter to the survival or efforts of the rest of the group. Players control their avatars via tablet or phone screens, where their objectives and moves are hidden from other players.
The game uses Unity as its main engine, with music provided by Elias software. […]
A Rat Betwixt
A rat Betwixt is an isometric, turn-based tactical game about the exploration of a bunker in future medieval Sweden. During that exploration, multiple players will be asked to complete objectives that can run counter to the survival or efforts of the rest of the group. Players control their avatars via tablet or phone screens, where their objectives and moves are hidden from other players.
The game uses Unity as its main engine, with music provided by Elias software. […]
Amenti
Amenti is a first person dark, puzzle game, placed deep inside an Egyptian pyramid in the late 1800’s. You play as Sofia Thompson, a young archeologist that’s trapped in the pyramid, her left hand has been cursed and turned into “the hand of death”. Now she must venture down through the pyramid to reach the death realm and find the cure. During your adventure, you will face several puzzles that you must solve in order to continue your journey. Now […]
Amenti
Amenti is a first person dark, puzzle game, placed deep inside an Egyptian pyramid in the late 1800’s. You play as Sofia Thompson, a young archeologist that’s trapped in the pyramid, her left hand has been cursed and turned into “the hand of death”. Now she must venture down through the pyramid to reach the death realm and find the cure. During your adventure, you will face several puzzles that you must solve in order to continue your journey. Now […]
Hyperduct
Hyperduct is a two player party game in a tunnel shaped tent. Step into a large tunnel and be immersed as the walls and ceiling become your playfield.
Use your hands to knock back balls and utilize the field to your advantage by raising defensive walls and activate cannons to blast your opponent away! Hit objectives and the opponents goal to push your color over the playfield, the first player to fully cover the field wins!
Fast paced and focused around […]
Hyperduct
Hyperduct is a two player party game in a tunnel shaped tent. Step into a large tunnel and be immersed as the walls and ceiling become your playfield.
Use your hands to knock back balls and utilize the field to your advantage by raising defensive walls and activate cannons to blast your opponent away! Hit objectives and the opponents goal to push your color over the playfield, the first player to fully cover the field wins!
Fast paced and focused around […]
Drink or Die
In Drink or Die, you play as a mosquito competing against another mosquito. Your victim is a sleeping human in their bedroom, and your goal is to gather the most amount of blood as possible. You have to be careful though, because the human will notice you biting them. You have to be careful and decide how you should go about with your attack.Drink or Die is made with Unity and runs on a PC connected to a TV. In Drink or Die, you play as a mosquito competing against another mosquito. Your victim is a sleeping human in their bedroom, and your goal is to gather the most amount of blood as possible. You have to be careful though, because the human will notice you biting them. You have to be careful and decide how you should go about with your attack.Drink or Die is made with Unity and runs on a PC connected to a TV.
Drink or Die
RIM RAM RUM
Rim Ram Rum is a two player arena game, where you as the player, a pirate, needs to gather rum from space islands, but other pirates are also trying to get the rum. So defeat the opponent by ramming your opponent or destroying their ship by firing cannon balls. Dash around the map, gather rum and raise the crew moral! Lead Design – Philip Hagberg Enea
Team:
Lead Art – Alexander Linde
Lead Code – Antonio Ackalin
Lead Sound – Kaarle Nurmi
Producer […]
RIM RAM RUM
Rim Ram Rum is a two player arena game, where you as the player, a pirate, needs to gather rum from space islands, but other pirates are also trying to get the rum. So defeat the opponent by ramming your opponent or destroying their ship by firing cannon balls. Dash around the map, gather rum and raise the crew moral! Lead Design – Philip Hagberg Enea
Team:
Lead Art – Alexander Linde
Lead Code – Antonio Ackalin
Lead Sound – Kaarle Nurmi
Producer […]
Educators: don’t forget to register for the Summit
The Higher Education Video Game Alliance is joining us on Gotland at the end of May!
There is still some room in the Game Educators Summit. Are you too pressed for time to attend the full Summit + GGC? We have a suggestion!
Why not attend just the last two days: Tue 30 – Wed 31. That will get you the final day of the GGC show floor, with awards and mingle (= get to know everyone), […]
Educators: don’t forget to register for the Summit
The Higher Education Video Game Alliance is joining us on Gotland at the end of May!
There is still some room in the Game Educators Summit. Are you too pressed for time to attend the full Summit + GGC? We have a suggestion!
Why not attend just the last two days: Tue 30 – Wed 31. That will get you the final day of the GGC show floor, with awards and mingle (= get to know everyone), […]
Pump the Frog
Inflate The Frog! Roll slip and squeeze your way around this 2d-puzzle-platformer as The Hungry Frog. Control your size and affect the environment at the same time to devour as many flies as possible!
Pump the Frog was awarded Best 1st Year Project, Almedalen Library Award, the Cha-ching award (most commercially viable) and the Pwnage Award at the Gotland Game Conference 2017. It went on to win Best Execution in Art at the Swedish Game Awards 2017, […]
Pump the Frog
Inflate The Frog! Roll slip and squeeze your way around this 2d-puzzle-platformer as The Hungry Frog. Control your size and affect the environment at the same time to devour as many flies as possible!
Pump the Frog was awarded Best 1st Year Project, Almedalen Library Award, the Cha-ching award (most commercially viable) and the Pwnage Award at the Gotland Game Conference 2017. It went on to win Best Execution in Art at the Swedish Game Awards 2017, […]
Digitala Gotland 2017
Our local computer shop arranges an IT exhibition every year. For 2017 they rechristened it “Digitala Gotland” and moved down to Wisby Strand – literally across the street from campus. So they reached out and invited us to their show floor and scene program, which were happy to avail ourselves off.
A few of our students put up three new games for the public to try out, while Adam Mayes spoke, twice, about the […]
Digitala Gotland 2017
Our local computer shop arranges an IT exhibition every year. For 2017 they rechristened it “Digitala Gotland” and moved down to Wisby Strand – literally across the street from campus. So they reached out and invited us to their show floor and scene program, which were happy to avail ourselves off.
A few of our students put up three new games for the public to try out, while Adam Mayes spoke, twice, about the […]
A Dangerous Game? Problematic Aspects of Digital Gaming
This is the fifth symposium on digital games hosted by the Swedish Museum of Science and Technology. This time we were discussing game addiction / problematic gaming. Our new colleague Patrick Prax shared his research taking a holistic approach to treatment.
“Rather than taking games away, we need to add life back.”
More people than ever before are playing digital games. For many it is just an enjoyable leisure activity but games and […]
A Dangerous Game? Problematic Aspects of Digital Gaming
This is the fifth symposium on digital games hosted by the Swedish Museum of Science and Technology. This time we were discussing game addiction / problematic gaming. Our new colleague Patrick Prax shared his research taking a holistic approach to treatment.
“Rather than taking games away, we need to add life back.”
More people than ever before are playing digital games. For many it is just an enjoyable leisure activity but games and […]
The votes are in, and the fifth talk is…
Our fifth speaker presented us with not just one idea, but four(!). We wanted all of them, natch, and the arguing about which one to pick was so fierce we just decided to abdicate our responsibility and let someone else choose. You all voted in our Facebook poll and the result was 40% for a critical examination of so called “empathy games”.
So Bonnie Ruberg – founder of the Queerness and Games Conference, academic
The votes are in, and the fifth talk is…
Our fifth speaker presented us with not just one idea, but four(!). We wanted all of them, natch, and the arguing about which one to pick was so fierce we just decided to abdicate our responsibility and let someone else choose. You all voted in our Facebook poll and the result was 40% for a critical examination of so called “empathy games”.
So Bonnie Ruberg – founder of the Queerness and Games Conference, academic
Announcing the jury!
The jury represents the most hard-working participants at the Gotland Game Conference (save for our students, naturally). Jurors travel from near and far to listen to our students’ presentations a day before the conference even starts, and to play all of the student productions on the show floor.
Each members brings their own set of experience and expertise, and share that insight directly with the students during the presentations. This is followed by two days of hard labor […]
Announcing the jury!
The jury represents the most hard-working participants at the Gotland Game Conference (save for our students, naturally). Jurors travel from near and far to listen to our students’ presentations a day before the conference even starts, and to play all of the student productions on the show floor.
Each members brings their own set of experience and expertise, and share that insight directly with the students during the presentations. This is followed by two days of hard labor […]
Students interviewed about Alt.Ctrl:GDC
Local press caught up with our students as they returned from exhibiting at Alt.Ctrl:GDC: “The place to be om man är spelutvecklare”
Posted in Publicity by Ulf Benjaminsson
Students interviewed about Alt.Ctrl:GDC
Local press caught up with our students as they returned from exhibiting at Alt.Ctrl:GDC: “The place to be om man är spelutvecklare”
Posted in Publicity by Ulf Benjaminsson