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This is the highly informal blog of the GAME-department. We use it mostly to document the things we do outside of running one of the worlds strongest game educations. For information about our education, programs and courses, check the official site at Uppsala University.

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Explore Every Game & Photo Gallery from the Gotland Game Conference

We’ve been hard at work making the Gotland Game Conference archive more complete and accessible than ever before! Here’s what’s new:

  • All student game projects are now published – including the full back catalogue from 2024 and earlier years. Browse and get inspired!
    • Use the tags in the sidebar to quickly explore subsets of the archive: browse all mobile games, award-winning titles, or even all card games.
  • New “thesis project” tag:
    You can now easily browse games that originated as student research projects. Each tagged game links directly to its corresponding thesis on DiVA, for those who want to dive deeper into the academic side of game design.
    • Know about a thesis game we’ve missed?
      We’re always looking to make the archive more complete – if you supervised or remember a thesis game that isn’t tagged, please let us know!
Screenshots from some of the many, many conference websites that now sports a photo gallery. 🙂

Before the Gotland Game Conference, the event ran under several different names. These galleries have always been available and remain untouched – linked here for your convenience:

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The GGC 2025 Winners

Best in Show: Shelf Life
The Innovation Award: CONVERTER
Best Game Design: Hamla, and Essom
Best Art Direction: Libertine
Best Audio Design: Libertine
Best Level Design: Access Acquired
Best Storytelling: Elephants Can Cry
Best Presentation: H2O
Best Arcade Experience: Shelf Life
Jury Spotlight: Inversion, Climb Me to the Moon, Vigil
Public Choice: Dawn of the Witch
Student Choice: Shelf Life
Almedalen Library Award: Library Bus

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Welcome activities at Campus Gotland autumn 2025

From 18 August
Reception fully open. Monday – Thursday 08:00 – 16:30, Friday 08:00 – 15:30. Welcome information for international students available. Staff from Student services and IT-support have drop-in hours.

18 August
Welcome email to all new students.

27-28 August 
Recommended arrival days for international students. Shuttle service from Visby airport and Visby ferry terminal for certain arrivals (registration required).

29 August 
Orientation Day in Maltfabriken, 09:00-12:30, designed for international students.

30 August 
Gotland history lecture 15:15-16:15 with Mikael Norrby.

30-31 August
Guided walking tours around medieval Visby with the university guide Mikael Norrby.

1 September 
Welcome Ceremony 14:00 in S:t Nicolai Ruin. Assemblage 13:30 at Rindi Castle.

5 September
A free ride on one of the tourist trains. Departures 12:00 and 12.30 outside the main entrance.

3-12 September
Lamningen – welcome activities arranged by Gotland Student Union Rindi.

27 and 28 September
Free bus trip in the countryside with Mikael Norrby as guide, at 11:00-15:00.

7 October
StudentExpo – mini fair around lunch with student services, the student union and others.

More information is published at cg.uu.se/welcome

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 Join a Game of Mystery, Identity & Co-Design

Step into the world of The Inheritor – An immersive escape box experience that fuses the thrill of a murder mystery with the power of cultural storytelling.

🔍 You’re a recruit of the Bureau of Unexpected Cases. Your mission? Solve an unsolved mystery from 2019 involving a cryptic heirloom box and a request to find the rightful heir before that person’s time runs out.

But this is more than just a game. The Inheritor is part of a research project on imagined identity and educational escape rooms, funded by Kozminski University and Salam Lab Association.

🎓 Before the game, join a talk on co-designing games with minorities — featuring methods for participatory design and firsthand insights from the creation of The Inheritor and The People, a game focused on life at the Polish-Belarusian border during a humanitarian crisis.

🔹 The session will be led by Weronika Szatkowska MSc, co-author of both games and Małgorzata (Gosia) Ćwil PhD, researcher and lead in the research of escape boxes.

This is an invitation to play, learn, and reflect on identity, inclusion, and the future of interactive storytelling.

📅 Date: May 14
📍Where: Strandgatan 1b (Residenset)
🕑 Time: 14.00 Talk, and 15.00 the Mystery Game will start
👉 25 players can join – Register now to secure your place at https://lnkd.in/dCxRTv2i

Welcome! Join us to play, learn, and reflect on identity, inclusion, and the future of interactive storytelling.