The windman

My first thumbnail done! I edited the robot sketch I did earlier and created the windman! He is a wizard with power over the wind. (y)

Wednesday 13th

Today we were introduced to our first assignment for the 2D graphics class… We are supposed to make 20 character thumbnails till Friday. This is one of my first designs, it’s a robot thief sneaking around like robot thieves do…

Game Jam 8h

This is a late update, we had a game jam at school 2 weeks ago were we would make a game in 8 hours only using gamemaker free. In total we worked for 6h30min because of a lecture we wanted to go to. The theme of the game jam was everyday doom. The only rules was that we could only use game maker and couldnt offend anyone, except Ulf. Ulf is a guy that work at the school. Sp because […]

What I´ve been up to in my Advanced game design course.

This is my weekly report for our Advanced game design course, were we are creating a board game!
Goal
The goal for this week was to create a playable prototype of our board-game for our advanced game design course, so that it could be play-tested by other groups.
What we did
This week we have been working on our board game for our advanced game design course, focusing on getting the system right. When we first started thinking about how we were going to […]

Group 12

We have now gotten our groups for designing a game. And we got the words, interesteing and suit, to work with. It wassent the easiest words to work with but we landed on a game were you are gonna make a suit by making the individual parts, by flying with a machine that sew it all togheter. While you do it, moths and other things will try to eat the cloth. So you will have kill them by shooting them.
We […]

First post

Hello
This will be my first post here.
So I’ll introduce myself and tell you what i´m going to write on this blog.
My name is Viktor Nilsson, i´m 20 years old and lives in Gotland. I´m studying Game Design and Programming at Uppsala university Campus Gotland.
In this blog I will reflect and write about my studies at the university.
See you later. Bye

Mastery and end game in MMOG´s

So a while ago I had an interesting discussion with a teacher where he said that what makes Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG´s) so hard to design is that there are a big amount of players, that all are different.
His point being that they started playing at different times, they play via different time schedules (some play 6 hours a day, while some play 2), some are quick learners, some are not.
Now the biggest challenge in this is the people […]

Hey, I have a blog!

So.. I make games!
I am currently studying at the University of Uppsala campus Gotland, located in Sweden.
Turns out our teachers are forcing us to create blogs, so here we go!
 

Today we got the teams and words for the big assignment. My team got the word Romantic Pencil… We will meet up Tuesday to discuss and share ideas. I’m looking forward to this assignment and I believe that it will be very educational.

Maya mirror tutorial

Today I started modeling a head for a  character im making in Maya. I’m gonna use the character to train and learn bone rigging so I then can make it move. What I have found usefull before is using a mirror duplication so I only have to edit one side of the object and it will look the same on the other. To do this in maya was a little different.
How I did it in Maya.
Step 1: Go to front […]

Making a game

Today i got the sideview image of a ship my friend had drawn, so now i can start making that ship in 3D. It’s gonna be a lot of fun because i’ve never made something with the help of a reference sheet before.
I have also started designing a game today togheter with some friends. Something easy to start with this early in the school year but still challenging. It’s gonna be kinda crazy but hopefully it will be fun to […]

Modeling in Autodesk Maya