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.
Wobble Trouble is a new take on the classic wood-labyrinth game, but in full 3D and controlled by standing on a balance trainer.
Awards: Wobble Trouble won Best Serious Game at the Gotland Game Awards 2008.
Team:
Kristoffer Landin, producer
Julius Wengelin Grantén, hardware
Daniel Martis, programmer
Emma Johansson, art
Povel Gulin, art
Shopping Havoc is a shopping-cart racer, built by first year students for the Gotland Game Awards 2007.
Head Banger is an arcade game produced by first year students for the Gotland Game Convention 2006. It was awarded first prize and the team (and their game) got to tour Sweden; participating in Spelfest 06 and the Swedish Game Awards 2007.
The challenge is to head-bang to the beat and playing air-guitar to the sounds of a rock video. The game can be played alone or in a showdown with a friend and features bands like Refused, Morgana Lefay and The Haunted.
The cabinet had smoke machines, wireless controllers and even (in version 2) a camera recording the players and offering to print a poster of the raging rock gods after the game!
… and beer holders. These guys sure thought of everything. 🙂
Some of the people from Team Ninja went on to create Databox Games in 2008.
KRAAMP is an arcade game produced by first year students for the Theme Park course, way back in 2005.
