The Social Grip: Llama Drama

The Social Grip: Llama Drama is a second-person perspective stealth game and is a continuation of last year’s The Social Grip. Almost every part of the game has been given a close look and is being updated. In each level players will have to switch between the security cameras to move the main character Dan around. Players, will have to think carefully on when and where to move and how to avoid the guards patrolling the levels. The original grid-based movement has been replaced with more responsive point-and-click movement. Our art team has also taken a close look at last year’s art style and are working on an improved art style. Finally, we are planning to introduce new mechanics and goals such as collecting evidence and hacking into elements of the environment.

The Social Grip: Llama Drama was awarded The Almedalen Library Award at the Gotland Game Conference 2024.

Thesis on DiVA:

Player Onboarding in a Low-Complexity Game Favouring Implicit Instructions: A Case Study of the Game The Social Grip

Team Chonk Cats Productions:

  • Rens van Eldijk
  • Daniel Mardunovich
  • Lukas Wolf
  • Ottilia Hedberg
  • Anna Hatzl
  • Bozidar Jankovic
  • Dylan Kühl
  • Ilias Keramidas
  • Disa Nordström

Imagmination

Imagmination is a chaotic couch co-op platformer game for three to four players. During a sleepover, you and your friends must work as a team to find all the cookies scattered around the house. The quest becomes more exciting when your imagination comes into the picture, turning the rooms into adventurous worlds where the ground is covered with rising lava! Use gadgets with unique abilities to help your friends avoid the rising danger and quickly progress through the rooms. The goal remains the same – chocolate chip cookies! And remember, under no circumstances – do not touch the floor!

This game was awarded the Public Choice Award and Best Level Design at the Gotland Game Conference 2024.

Team Made with Lava:

  • Vlada Morgun
  • Rasmus Löfgren
  • Marcus Anderfelt
  • Oscar Hofling
  • Elias Örn
  • Sofiya Nilsson
  • Mattias Axelsson

Metamorph

Metamorph is a low-poly 3D horror game that blends body horror and a narrative about growing up in a body that very quickly becomes foreign to you with aspects of the visual novel genre. The game is envisioned as a slow-paced atmospheric game that aims to envoke a growing sense of discomfort in an environment that slowly progresses and evolves alongside the player. Though the game is story-driven, as a team we’ve attempted to mix the story with interesting and engaging gameplay features and a unique visual style that mixes both traditional 2D and 3D graphics with mixed media and creative technical implementation. You play as a high school girl who wakes up one day and realizes she is slowly but surely turning into a twisted, bizarre cockroach monster. With this realization, she sets out to score a date with her crush before her grotesque transformation is complete. Will she succeed… Or will the pressures of high school and being stuck in a horrifying lovecraftian nightmare be too much? Play through an engaging story about teenage woes, explore a detailed 3D environment, experience a variety of minigames and prove that appearances aren’t anything, even when said appearances are a bit unconventional.

Metamorph was awarded Best Storytelling at the Gotland Game Conference 2024.

Team Jackdaw:

  • Moa Carnbro
  • Jiao Rosenqvist
  • Maja Wijk
  • Wilma Svensson
  • William Hammarlund

Museum.exe

“Museum.exe” is a virtual museum that exhibits some of the most notable indie games from the last decade. It is a 3D first-person game with a carefully curated collection of critically acclaimed projects, where the player explores and interacts with exhibits, learns about games and the influence they had on the industry. Just like in a real museum, we bring forward the concept and the ideas behind each of the exhibits but also we do this in the best way games can be presented – also through a game.

Museum.exe was awarded the Jury Spotlight Award at the Gotland Game Conference 2024.

Team White Box:

  • Aleksandr Poliakov
  • Nick A. Spyrakos
  • Samir Metwaly
  • Diako moeini
  • Georgi Madzharov