The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
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.
A week has gone by and it’s time for the first year students to pitch their arcade concepts to the department staff.
Marcus Ingvarsson – the primary instructor of the first year students – claims these people (his people) will kick the teeth out of every other year this education ever saw.
Not that he’s partial or anything. 🙂
10 weeks of Project Runway brutal production starts today.
We’ve got 15 first year teams, 12 in the second year. The third year is mostly doing thesis work, so we’re expecting 2 games and a massive art gallery. The fourth year is still shrouded in myth and mystery.
The countdown has started; it’s time to earn that spot in front of the jury and on the showfloor.
Well. We’ve always had t-shirts, but this design is new. Code-literate people would read these as “Gotland University – Game Design AND Programming OR Graphics” – mirroring the structure of our educations (game design major, art or code minor).
… programmers will then likely realize how silly it is to do Boolean comparison when clearly we’re aiming for something like a bitwise assignment. 🙂
The shirts are for sale in the university reception (plastic only people!). GAME students can sign up here to allow us to restock.
We’ve just returned from this years Gamex. We invested in a large booth and exhibited 60 sqm of student projects – Carnage, Clockwork, Fields of Glory, Robotorusama, VeloCity, Victorious Skies and Walkabout – allowing us to meet and talk to thousands of people interrested in game development- and design.
It was great to see how well represented Gotland was; with Three Gates showing off Aethereus and Zeal Studios exhibiting together with Paradox, 6% of Swedens largest game tradeshow was from our island. 🙂
