The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
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!
GAME alumni Theodor Berg takes two days off from his job as render expert at Magoo 3D Studios to show us how to consistently produce beautiful and efficient renders, in Mentalray and Vray.
Both lectures are open to all of everyone, with Animation and Graphic-students naturally having priority.
Time: Thursday, May 14, 09:00 – 16:00
Location: HGO, B22
Time: Friday, May 15, 09:00 – 16:00
Location: HGO, E31
Jason Booth is a game designer, -developer, musician and all-round wünderkind who’s recent releases include Guitar Hero 1, 2 and Rock Band.
He was involved in the early days of Turbine (Asherons Call, Lord of The Rings, etc) and Conduit Labs, and is currently employed at Harmonix. And he blogs about iphone game development on his spare time…
Jason will be here for three days – two days of lectures and a third to give feedback on your GGA Projects.
Game design, theory and practice
Time: Wednesday, April 29, 15:00 – 16:30
Location: HGO, B52
Being effective in the game industry
Time: Thursday, April 30, 10:00 – 12:30
Location: HGO, B52
GGA Projects presentation & feedback
Time: Friday, April 31, 11:30 – 13:30
Location: HGO, B52
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.
Anyone interested in game specific art can get some great material here, but the art fundamentals are an especially helpful tool for your team based productions. These are true tricks of the trade. 🙂
We’ve also scheduled some time the following day for Peter to come visit your groups and give feedback on your GGA projects.
Time: Thursday, April 23, 13:00 – 17:00
Location: HGO, E22
Johan Lindfors is a developer and technical chief at Microsoft Sweden and will come here to hold a seminar on XNA Game Studio 3.0.
Johan will introduce the platform and tech, and promised lots of code and hands-on demos. But he will also share his experience and give practical advice for development and project management. Should be very interesting for the budding game developers among us… 😉
Time: Friday, february 27, 12:30-15:00
Location: Almedalen library, E22.