The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
Arcades and theme park games. The arcades are the first big game project, and thus games in this category are primarily built and developed by first year students. We recommend you use the tag cloud to the right to filter the student work.
A racing game featuring two robots racing each other through a factory while avoiding obstacles in their path. The robots are controlled using giant trackballs.
Flash & Crash won Gamers Choice at the Swedish Game Awards 2014.
Team:
Niklas Svantesson – Producer
Georgios Chatzoglakis – Lead Designer, Level Design, Puzzle Design
Jonas Lundgren – Lead Programmer, Scripting
Ahmad Ali – Lead Artist & Lead Tech
Alexander Westerdahl – Lead Audio Design, Music, SFX
Adam Wrange – 3D art
The goat Lennart must save his balloon entangled friend that has taken to the skies. Grab some balloons and start your ascent through enchanting environments. Face the dangerous enemies and blow them away.
In Vertigoat the player is controlling a goat that is traversing the world vertically. The controller for the game will be a android device and the game uses the android device’s tilt function to aim the goat’s head and to accelerate the the Goats velocity the player will blow or scream into the android device’s microphone.
By using both the tilting and microphone the player will guide the goat through the world and avoid dangers.
Vertigoat was awarded the Tokyo University of Technology MS Dean’s Award in 2014.
Team:
Viktor Myhrberg – Producer, lead programmer
Simon Johansson – Lead tech, lead designer
Jenny Grip – Lead artist
Christoffer Svensson – Artist
Jonna Jarlsson – Artist
Evelina Venngren – Programmer
Vertigoat is created Unity 4.3, art is created in Adobe Photoshop, Paint Tool Sai and Adobe Illustrator.
Legendarium is a hardcore, arena-style hack and slash game with permadeath. Difficulty increases over time, it’s up to you to make decisions in order to conserve time and achieve better highscore.
Legendarium features responsive combat which makes the player feel every sword slash, hammer pound and spear jab. By incorporating short pauses in the game mixed with stunning particle effects whenever the player hits an enemy, each hit feels as exciting as the previous one.
Team:
A Knight’s Flail is a chaotic jousting game where the player moves using a coconut to mimic the sound of a horse. Once going, they then impale things.
With a lance.
A Knight’s Flail is a jousting game where you move your horse by banging two coconut halves together while aiming a lance using the Kinect.
Team
Sebastian Rosenblad – Producer
William Nordin – Lead Designer
Viktor Nilsson – Lead Programmer and Lead Tech
Valdemar Ribbing – Lead Artist
Rebecka Nyström – 2D Art
Max Nordlund – 3D Art
The game is 3D and the models are created in 3ds Max and Blender while the game is developed in Unity.
