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2024/06/06 - Thu2026/04/26 - Sun - Comments Off
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1st year master, card game, GGC 2024, winners 2024

The Last Vampire

A social deduction game based on roles given via a random draw of cards. A group of survivors must interrogate everyone as the days go by to figure out which one of them is secretly a vampire. They can use special game cards to argue and make their public deductions while there might be someone who is conspiring against the crowd. The game can be played in groups of 5-8 people. We imagine this game as a fun party game improving on the formulae shown in other games in the genre.

This game was awarded Best Game Design at the Gotland Game Conference 2024.

Thesis on DiVA:

The Last Vampire: Digital Adaptation of a Social Deduction Board Game

Team Guardian Shark:

Shashvat Singh
Baoliri
Guido Salustri
Smbat Voskanyan
Daniel Karlberg

2024/05/31 - Fri2026/04/26 - Sun - Comments Off
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2nd year, board game, GGC 2024

Gaggle of Geese

Gaggle of Geese is a comedic strategy board game. With children being the main target audience, the game’s visuals are vivid and light-hearted, as is the theme of the game itself. The game is fast-paced and allows for several quick games to be played in succession. Players take turns attempting to stash items in their nests and preventing others from doing so. Everyone chooses their action secretly before the round starts, and players then reveal their choice one by one, resulting in chaotic goose behavior. Board game shenanigans is a game development group made up of six bachelor’s game design students. We design games with easy-to-learn, accessible mechanics. We have worked on this game for months, and are excited to present it at the GGC, hopefully aiding us in our ambition to publish the game.

Team board game shenanigans:

Pietro Salvator Miglierini
Miranda Angyal
Claire Delhomme
Martina Edfast
Sam Nilsson

2024/05/31 - Fri2026/04/26 - Sun - Comments Off
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2nd year, board game, GGC 2024

The Ultimate Hack

The Ultimate Hack is a multiplayer competitive tabletop game, in which you have to strategize and vitalize your memorizing skills to gain advantage over your opponents. Play as quirky hackers who have decided to join a contest within which every one of them aims to conduct the ultimate hack. Memorize, plan and adapt to win! The game has been developed by a single person, sporadically, over many years; with the ambition of publishing, and potentially turning it into a digital game as well.

Team Akytelion:

Pietro Salvator Miglierini

2023/05/26 - Fri2026/04/26 - Sun - Comments Off
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3rd year, GGC 2023, thesis project, winners 2023

Layers of Pest Control

Layers of Pest Control is a quick single player board game with a real time element, intended to be played several times with additional mechanics added each time.

The player act as a monster exterminator trying to earn some extra money. The player will take heptomino shaped tiles (think Tetris shapes, but slightly bigger) with monsters on them and place them on a grid, so that the monsters are adjacent to weapon tokens placed on other tiles. Players should balance their use of time and space efficiently in order to reach as high a score as possible.

Layers of Pest Control at the Gotland Game Conference 2023

After playing the game once, the player can then play the game a few more times, with each new game adding on new elements that change how the game is best played.

The game was originally only intended to be used for academic research, but we decided to showcase it on GGC since a lot of our playtesters expressed that the game was really fun to play.

Layers of Pest Control won Best Game Design at the Gotland Game Conference 2023!