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.
Archaic is an active and intensive game where up to four players in spheric avatars meet head to head in a “King of the Hill” game. The goal is to push the other players over the edge and steal their points while each player’s reactions and timing concurrently is tested.”
Archaic was awarded “Peoples Choice – Most Helpful Group” and the “Jade Award” at the Gotland Game Awards 2009.
Team: Joakim Edholm, Phillippe Bolay, Sara Pauni, Lars Johansson, Ted Wikman, Fredrik Larsson, Kristoffer Printz
Freefall is a first-person sky surfing simulator – an arcade machine giving anyone a chance to try sky surfing. The entire game is 3D in a firstperson view, to give the player a feeling that she actually is falling, and give her the adrenalin rush that a real sky surfer gets. The adrenalin is key, so grab the board and throw yourself out in the air and stunt like never before.
Team:
Jakob Hillerström, Niklas Borglund, Jhonny Wretlind, Johanna Sandhammar, Johan Karlsson, Casper Henriksson, Petter Gillman
Insats Afrika is an arcade RTS game, developed in cooperation with The Red Cross.
Insats Afrika was awarded “Best Serious Game” at Gotland Game Awards 2008.
Team:
Producer: Rasmus Davidsson
Lead Art: Robin Flodin
Art: Emma Ströberg
Art och information: Ola Nilsson
Programming: Ted Lindström
Programming: Ted Löfgren
GameRider is a bike simulation game constructed in three weeks by a small group as a side project during a level design class at HGO’s GAME education. The engine used is Valve’s Source Engine and the level was built from scratch in Hammer, the Source Engine’s level editing tool.
In the months since its completion, it’s been on display at the Technical Museum, Stockholm’s Culture House, on Swedish Television, GGA (where it won the best serious game award) and just recently at the Almedal’s Week where it was on display for Sweden’s most important politicians.
GameRider was awarded “Best Serious Game” at Gotland Game Awards 2008.
Team:
Håkan Mattsson
Jona Marklund
Rickard Johansson
Don Geyer
