Guest Lectures

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Guest Lectures

Mikael Hedberg from Frictional Games

Mikael Hedberg is a former GAME-student, game designer at GRIN and current full time writer at Frictional Games in Helsingborg.

Hedberg introduces himself thusly;

I’m a writer who had the great fortune of working with both games and film. As an obsessive compulsive storyteller I spend my time ~~plotting against you~~ thinking of new stories and how to tell them. For some reason I believe it’s in my authority to lecture you how to go about telling your stories.

What a douche!

Frictional Games are currently working on Amnesia: The Dark Descent; a first person horror adventure due to be released summer 2010, but Mikael is kind enough to take the time to visit us and talk about writing in the game industry and do a workshop with our students.

Lecture: “Hur bygger man en bra berättelse för spel och hur implementerar man den?”
Time: Wednesday, December 9 13.00-17.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E30 (students only)

Workshop on yesterdays lecture
Time: Thursday, December 10 13.00-17.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E30 (students only)

Public Lecture: “What does the game industry know about storytelling, and how does it work?”
Time: Friday, December 11 (time TBA)
Location: HGO, lecture hall TBA (open to the public!)

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Guest Lectures
human rights

Peter Bryngelsson on music for Dictators, Torture & Drugs

Peter Bryngelsson is a musician, composer, lyricist, author, director and researcher – in charge of more than 19 album releases since 1976. He founded Ragnarök and have played in bands like Kung Tung, Triangulus and Urban Turban. He’s currently teaching movie soundtrack composition at Malmö’s Music University.

Peter is coming here to talk about:

How movie soundtracks “animate” everything you see on screen
Music and Torture – based on interviews with torture victims and the documentary he’s producing for SVT.
Music and Drugs – based on Peter’s research on LSD, Woodstock and Peter Green.
Musical preferences of dictators. What did Hitler, Stalin and Adi Amin listen to?

Time: Tuesday, November 10 13.00-16.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E22

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Guest Lectures

Robert Nyberg from Starbreeze Studios

Robert Nyberg at the Gotland Game Awards 2009 — Robert Nyberg at Gotland Game Awards 2009

With apologies for the extremely short notice we wish to announce Robert Nyberg from Swedish Starbreeze Studios who’s coming tomorrow!

Robert Nyberg has been the human resources manager at Starbreeze Studios for the past four years. As such, he’s the guy with final say in all recruitments and staff policies.

Robert will do two talks in succession, the first one on practical advice for how to get a job in the gaming industry. The second one will be about quality assurance in the Starbreeze production pipeline; what happens when an error is discovered and how is it remedied during production?

Time: Friday, Oktober 23 13.00-15.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E22

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Guest Lectures
human rights

Ann Dismorr, Head of the International Dept. of the Riksdag

Some of the 21st century´s greatest challenges are reflected in Turkey – EU relations; the widening gap between the West and the Muslim world and the struggle for human rights and democratization. Will Turkey become EU´s bridge or barrier to Islam? Which human rights issues might become a road block to Turkish EU?

Ann Dismorr, current head of the International Department of the Riksdag, has been a Swedish diplomat since 1981 and a ambassador since 1999. As such she’s served in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Libanon.

The title of her talk (the final one in Human Rights and Diversity in Serious Game) is “Turkey Decoded; The European Union and Islam.”

Time: Monday, Oktober 26 13.00-15.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E31