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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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Why did you choose Gotland University?

I just received the report from the First Year Experience-questionnaire we ask all new students to fill in. Saw this in the free-text section and… blasted coffee all over my screen.

This calls for a raise, I’d say. 😀

Other cool data points: every fifth GAME student have studied somewhere else before coming here. Almost 40% find out about our educations through friends. An amazing 70% apply to the GAME education at Gotland University due to our reputation!

Read all the stats here (swedish only, sorry):

First Year Expectations 2012: Speldesign & programmering
First Year Experience 2012: Speldesign & grafik

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Visbydagen 2012

“The Night of Horror” began a couple of years back when Film pĂ„ Gotland went out and projected cult horror films in the ruins of Visby one night in October every year.

That beautiful tradition grew into the “The Night of Culture”, with fireshows, song and dancing in the parks and pubs throughout the night.

More and more local businesses and artists were attracted and the thing morphed into Visbydagen. An event that now stretches from early morning to … early morning. 🙂

We’re talking poetry, photo, film, music, dance, art, fire shows, craftsmen opening their studios, exhibitions, tours, markets, foods and on and on and on.

There’s stuff going on throughout the entire city and most of it is free (and brilliant)!

As an extra sweet twist to the deal, we got to celebrate Gotland Pride during the same weekend as Visbydagen this year. If there’s anything we at GAME appreciats its lectures. And human expressions. And rainbows. And love and passion and this beautiful city of ours.

PHOTOS!

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The new Serious Games course

Marcus Ingvarsson inherited the Serious Games course when Anne Duse went back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He the opportunity with both hands and ran with it!

This week saw a guest lecture by Jolyon Webb from TruSim, showing off their immensely cool game technology for military training, medicine and physiotherapy.

Next week we have 2 lectures; the first one is on Wednesday 10/10, 13.00 in D20. The prominent Ernest Adams makes a quick stop. Who knows, he might give a lecture, why don’t you come by and find out?

And on Thursday 11/10, 13.00 in E22 we’ll be gatecrashed by Professor Richard Bartle who didn’t just invent the mmo-genre but this photogenic pose as well. He’ll be talking about human rights in virtual worlds.

Wednesday, 17/10, 09.00, E22 we’ll be invaded by the mad scientists from Grendel Games. They’ll be showing their laparoscopy training game. And who knows, we might have to put a “volunteer” under the knife.

So, to sum it up:
Wednesday, 03/10, 13.00, E22
Wednesday, 10/10, 13.00, D20
Thursday, 11/10, 13.00, E22
Wednesday, 17/10, 09.00, E22

That’s all for now. See you!