The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
2D games from 2004 and onwards. We recommend you use the tag cloud to the right to browse the student work.
Pawns is a 2D side scrolling co-op action game for the Xbox360. You and a friend must work together and combine your powers to defeat the human invasion!
Pawns won “The Award for Human Rights” at Gotland Game Awards 2010.
Team:
Producer: Nina Moritz
Graphics: Esteban Soto, Jonatan Hagström, Alexander Oltner, Ruben Johansson, Simon Öhman
Programmer: Mikael Gullberg, Thommy Siverman
Sound: Mikko Jokela
Website: http://pawns-northerngate.blogspot.com/
Dwarfs is an Arcade/Strategy game for PC and Xbox360 where you are put in the middle of a vast, underground playfield. The goal of the game is to explore the randomly generated map as much as possible, while at the same time protecting your Town Hall from harm, such as water floods, lava or hostile creatures.
What makes this game unique and interesting is that your greatest asset is also your greatest threat: the Digging Dwarfs. While you need them to explore the dungeon and increase your score, their random behavior is the source of most your troubles. Taking control of them is easy, but costs gold, so you have to be careful with your choices! Pointing a Dwarf towards those juicy minerals might look tempting, but what if you need that gold to stop lava later on? In Dwarfs, there is a constant flow of risk/reward decision making.
Dwarfs! was awarded “Pwnage Award” at Gotland Game Awards 2010, and went on to win Game of the Year at the Swedish Game Awards 2010.
Team:
Graphics: Robin Flodin
Programmer: Teddy Sjöström
Sound: Christopher Flodin
Website: http://po2games.com/
Introduction to Game Development – our annual crash course in production methodology. Students arrive in the autumn – unknowing and ill prepared. They are ordered into teams, introduced to SCRUM and given a license to Torque 2D. Then we tell them to make space shooters. It never ceases to amaze me, the growth we see in our students during these intense first weeks.
Ghost Written is an educational adventure- & role playing game where the main focus lies in helping swedish children ages of 12-15, improve their English. To restore balance to the dimensions a lone boy ventures into the unknown. By his side he has a curious little creature to aid him, hoping that in return, the boy will be able to grant it its own wishes to come true. The World of Ghost Written is rich in detail, colour and imagination. Populated by characters with their own wishes, pasts and futures for the player to become part of.
Ghost Written was awarded Best Presentation, Best Serious Game and the Almedalen Library Award at Gotland Game Awards 2009.
Team:
Pernilla Sparrhult, Emma Ströberg, Richard Jakch, Christoffer Schedin, Jenny Nordenborg, Lotta Tjernström, Niklas Åhs, Anna Holmgren, Magdalena Lepp (external)
