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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Ernest Adams: “Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!”

Ernest Adams from the "Fundamental Game Dev." workshop earlier this year
Ernest Adams from the "Fundamental Game Dev." workshop earlier this year

For those of you who are new to the show: Ernest Adams is one of our many live-from-the-industry lecturers. He’s been in the game industry since 1989 and currently works as a free lance game designer, writer and teacher. You all ought to know the name; his Fundamentals of Game Design has been a staple in our game design courses for years. He’s written four books in total and he has developed online, computer, and console games for everything from the IBM 360 mainframe to the Nintendo Wii. Ernest is also the founder and first chairman of the International Game Developers’ Association and a popular speaker at conferences and arts festivals around the world.

And now; our man Ernest is back again for more lectures! 😀

On Monday he’s doing an exercise with the first-years, which will include a week worth of homework (due Friday that week). On Wednesday he’s giving a lecture based on the massively popular “Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!“-columns. This is a lighthearted look at some common design errors in both current and older games, divided into bad conceptual design, bad game mechanics, bad user interface design, bad programming, bad level design, and bad content. This lecture will have a particular emphasis on physics and action games.

First year students
Time: Monday, October 5 09:00-12:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall B25/B27

Second year students
Time: Wednesday, October 7 09:00-12:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E22

First year students
Time: Friday, October 9 09:00-12:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall B25/B27

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The Nude in Western Art – A History of Discrimination?

It’s time for lecture seven in Human Rights and Diversity in Serious Game.

Svenrobert Lundqvist is a well known artist, print maker, sculptor and painter. He studied at Valands School of Arts in Gothenburg, and was the dean of the school from 1984-87. Svenrobert has been very active: he’s written several books, taught stone sculpting, was in charge of Göteborgs Konsthall, he founded Grafiknytt and worked as editor for the magazine, he was chairman of NUNSKU (National commitee of the Exhibitions of Contemporary Art Abroad).

Lundqvist is coming here to do a lecture on “The nude; the female body through the eyes of male and female artists, from the time before christ until today.” Is there a difference how we look at the body concerning which sex is looking?

Time: Friday, September 30 13.00-15.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E31

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Matthew Barzun, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden

Ambassador Barzun
Ambassador Barzun

Matthew Barzun – famous for creating and executing the micropayment campaign for Barack Obama’s presidential bid, and the new U.S. Ambassador to Sweden – is coming here to discuss “Networking, entrepreneurship and meeting the challenge of the future”!

A real entrepreneur that helped change the world and the nature of modern politics; prior to becoming Ambassador, Matthew was one of the first employes of CNET – the (exclusively) online publishing company – and was a driving force behind much of the companies success for more than a decade; creating and managing many of their services and web sites. Matthew left the company as executive vice president when it was aquired by CBS last year (for $1.8 billion dollars…) and founded BrickPath LLC – consulting and investing in internet publishing.

Mandatory for all 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students!

Time: Friday, September 25 10.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E22

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Steven M. Ilous, Writer & Director

Steven M. Ilous is a creative wunderkind; games, movies, tv productions, photo, music, commercials, visual effect are all part of his forté. He’s worked for Dreamworks, did special effects for the entire Matrix-trilogy, was a senior animator for The Polar Express and was a part of the team who recently won 2009 MTV Breakthrough Video of the Year. And he’s no stranger: Steven was at the Gotland Game Awards 2009 and handed out the prices for Best Student Animation. 🙂

Steven at GGA09
Steven at GGA09

I’ll shut up and just let his blog, his demo reel, his high-resolution special effects tests and indeed – his music videos – speak for themselves.

Oh – almost forgot to mention; Steven will be having a one week long workshop with our first year students in Computer Graphics & Animation! 😀

Schedule:
Mon 090928 12:30-18:00 B51
Tue 090929 10:00-17:00 E45
Wed 090930 10:00-17:00 E45
Thu 091001 10:00-16:00 E31
Fri 091002 10:00-17:00 E45