About the Alumni of the Year award

We are embarrassingly proud of our graduates and former students of the education. We have been teaching game design- and development on Gotland since 2001, so our network of alumni counts in the thousands, with careers across the globe.

They constantly surprise us with their insight, their productivity, their skill, their willingness to listen, advice and help out. Whether it’s as jury at the Gotland Game Conference, or inspiring the generation of students coming after them at our annual Alumni Days – they always seem to go the extra mile.

With all the value we get from our Alumni, we like to give something back too. And so, as often as we can, we try to recognize former students for their contribution to the education, to the games industry or to their specific field – be it game design, entrepreneurship, activism or academia.

Year	Name	Notes
2007	Mats Andersson	Avalanche Studios
2008	Anders Ekermo	Starbreeze
2009	Peter Stråhle	GRIN
2010	Johannes Wadin	Might and Delight
2011	Karin Ryding	Ozma Games
2012	???	No data in our archives!
2013	Annika O. Bergström	Södertörn University
2014	Ted Sjöström	Pixel Ferrets
2015	Rikard Jaksch	King
2016	Kim Aava	Guerrilla Games
2017	Joakim Andreason	Paradox Interactive
2017	Pernilla Sparrhult	Paradox
2018	Max Tiilikainen	Stunlock Studios
2019	Jona Marklund	Star Stable
2020	n/a	No nominations due to Covid-19.
2021	n/a	No nominations due to Covid-19.
2022	Aydin Afzoud	Lead Game Designer at Ubisoft Stockholm
Year	Name	Notes

Are you a former student of the game educations on Gotland? Please join the Uppsala University Alumn Network! And consider joining the 700-people strong GAME community on Facebook. It is run entirely by Alumni and has become the gathering point for all people who is or have been part of the GAME-educations on Gotland.