Category: Guest Lectures

We use our ever-growing network to lure speakers from the game- & movie industry, academia and independent scene to the island. Unfortunately we’re very poor with keeping this category up to date; including the Gotland Game Conference we average 1 guest lecture every 14th day! Some of these are recorded – check the youtube channel. If you wish to speak with Sweden’s strongest game design students (or their staff), contact Ulf!

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Alumni Days 2009 Program

Alumni Day 2009 Participants

The annual Alumni Days are upon us yet again! This year features three full days of guest lectures and workshops by our industry active former students – ending the week with a huge party over at the Motion Capture Studio. Be there or be square!

Wednesday

13:00 – 17:00 (3rd year GAME Students)
Mikael Hedberg – Frictional Games
Location: E30
Workshop: Storywriting

13:00 – 17:00 (All Students Welcome! – but space is limited on sign-up basis)
Jonas Eriksson och Johan Presto – Pitchin
Charlotte Ryberg – Disco Volante
Sign-up: with Maria Larsson at BAC
Location: GIP
Workshop: Att Kommersialisera Kunskap

Thursday

10:30 – 12:00 (All Students)
Tobias Lundmark – Starbreeze Studios
Location: Borgen Movie Theater
Quality Assurance: Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena

LUNCH

13:00 – 14:00 (All Students Except 3rd Year GAME Students)
Johan Svahn – One Man Productions
Lecture: How to Start Your Own Studio

13:00 – 17:00 – (3rd year GAME students)
Mikael Hedberg – Frictional Games
Workshop: continues.

14:00 (All Students Except 3rd Year GAME Students)
Workshop: “Konsten att gå rätt – hur du använder kroppen, blicken och rösten för att nå dina mål.”

Friday

10:30 – 12:00 (All Students)
Mikael Hedberg – Frictional Games
Lecture: Story Writing

LUNCH

13:00 – 14:30 ( All Students)
Martin Ekdal & Koshjar Hamedi – Donya Labs
Demonstration: 3D Optimization

14:30 – 15:30 (All Students)
Nils Stadling – Microsoft Sweden
Lecture: Introduction of Microsoft Partnership

15:30 – 16:00 (All Students)
Emma Mellander – Nordic Game
Lecture: Nordic Game Presentation

16:00 (All Students)
Don Geyer – Wrap-up and Party Tickets Distributed

19:00 (All Students)
Alumni Mingle & Party! – With DJ Doktor DRYG
Location: Motion Capture Studio

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Tobias Lundmark – Starbreeze Studios

Tobias Dopefish Lundmark - QA at StarbreezeTobias ‘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

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Peter Stråhle Technical Artist

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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

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Mikael Hedberg from Frictional Games

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

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!)