Category: Guest Lectures

Tobias ‘Dopefish’ Lundmark is a GAME-alumni working (since 2006) at Starbreeze Studios as Quality Assurance. Dopefish has been in charge of breaking titles like The Darkness, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Bourne and the unannounced Project RedLime. He’s also a recurring guest teacher in our vastly popular online course Quality Assurance in Games.

Dopefish is coming here during the Alumni Days to do an informal Q&A-session about Riddick, Starbreeze and life as a game tester. Also, he’s promised to show some unreleased behind the scenes footage from the production of Riddick. 🙂

Question & Answers: Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena
Time: Torsdag, 10 December, 10:30 – 12:00
Location: Borgen Movie Theater

GAME alumni of the year Peter Stråhle returns for another session on art fundamentals and to hold a short workshop – sharing his experience of common modelling mistakes and demonstrating a more efficient work flow in 3D Studio Max. He’ll also spend some time talking about his time at GRIN.

As you can see in Peters blog, anyone interested in game specific art can get some great stuff from this guy, but the art fundamentals are an especially helpful tool for your team based productions. These are true tricks of the trade. 🙂

Public Lecture: Art Fundamentals
Time: Wednesday, December 16, 09:00 – 12:00
Location: HGO, E22

Mikael Hedberg is a former GAME-student, game designer at GRIN and current full time writer at Frictional Games in Helsingborg.

Hedberg introduces himself thusly;

I’m a writer who had the great fortune of working with both games and film. As an obsessive compulsive storyteller I spend my time plotting against you thinking of new stories and how to tell them. For some reason I believe it’s in my authority to lecture you how to go about telling your stories.

What a douche!

Frictional Games are currently working on Amnesia: The Dark Descent; a first person horror adventure due to be released summer 2010, but Mikael is kind enough to take the time to visit us and talk about writing in the game industry and do a workshop with our students.

Lecture: “Hur bygger man en bra berättelse för spel och hur implementerar man den?”
Time: Wednesday, December 9 13.00-17.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E30 (students only)

Workshop on yesterdays lecture
Time: Thursday, December 10 13.00-17.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E30 (students only)

Public Lecture: “What does the game industry know about storytelling, and how does it work?”
Time: Friday, December 11 (time TBA)
Location: HGO, lecture hall TBA (open to the public!)