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!
Joakim Setterberg is a level designer credited in titles such as Diplomacy (2005), Terminator: Salvation (2009) and the newly released Lead and Gold (2010).
He will talk about direct and indirect player control. How to create the illusion of player choice, even when forcing her through a linear path.
This lecture is open to the public, but with priority for students taking Level Design II.
Time: Torsdag, September 23rd, 13:00-14:30
Location: E22
The lecture will be a broad exposé over the politics of Europe and Poland. The focus will be on Poland maturing into a key member of the Europen Union with an established democracy and respect for human rights.
This lecture is open to the public!
Time: Wednesday, September 22th, 16:30
Location: E31
Andreas Wangler is a level designer at Codemasters, currently building their new first person shooter Bodycount.
Prior to his position at Codemasters, Andreas worked for Avalanche building Just Cause 2.
This lecture is open to the public, but with priority for students taking Level Design II.
Time: Friday, September 17th, 13:00-14:00
Location: E22
With apologizes for the short notice we’re happy to announce that Johannes Wadin from Lionhead Studios in London is coming here on Friday to talk about level design for multi player games.
Wadin graduated from GAME in 2006 and went on to work as a Level Designer at Avalanche for three years. As the massive layoffs swept Sweden in 2008 and decimated the industry, Johannes jumped ship and joined Lionhead Studios in England. He was awarded Alumni of the Year at Gotland Game Awards 2010 for his outstanding professional achievements.
Johannes will talk about level design for multiplayer first person shooters. He will present level design patterns that allows you to better utilize the early design phases of your development, creating functional core level flows and asymmetric balancing from the get-go.
The lecture is open for the public!
Time: Friday, September 10th, 13:00-14:00
Location: GAME Motion Capture Studio
