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
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)
Exhaust
Exhaust has been released on the Xbox Marketplace!
Exhaust is the first physics based 2.5D monster truck racing game to ever hit the market. Even though it is called a racing game, the use of dynamic objects and physics has given us the option of adding loads of interesting artifacts to the racing tracks which turns this monster truck racer into an incredible platform game.
Exhaust was awarded “Best Game Graduating Class” at Gotland Game Awards 2009.
Team: Johan Norberg, Jakob Tanentsapf, Ricard Johansson, Jona Marklund, Nicklas Johansson
Website: http://www.databoxgames.com/
Co-Op Cop
Co-Op Cop is a single player co-operative action puzzle game. The player(s) are controlling the two policemen Beardo & Musto – simultaneously – in the hunt for the vicious criminal “The Villain”. Beardo is controlled with the keyboard and Musto with the mouse. The basic goal in each level is to guide Beard to the exit, but getting there requires some tricky physics puzzling.
Creator: Marcus Ingvarsson
