Projects

2010/06/16 - Wed2018/12/23 - Sun - 3 Comments
2D games
2nd year, gga 2010, winners 2010

Colorless (2010)

Colorless is a short game revolving around eight specific levels with a focus on co-operation and the concept of closeness.

While players move around freely in the world, the camera pans out when the players are further away from eachother. The two main characters have different skill sets and they need to be combined in order to overcome obstacles and take care of enemies. Basic skills are running, jumping, kicking, sliding, opening doors and climbing. Leveldesign force the players to split up but, the only way to regenerate health is to stay close to eachother, the most effective way of recharging energy is by hugging!

Colorless was awarded “Best Serious Game” at Gotland Game Awards 2010.

Features:
– A romantic, multiplayer, 2D side-scrolling, co-operative, platformer game.
– Played on classic 8-Bit controllers ported to a PC.
– Black and white versus colored backdrops, 50-ies retro inspired.
– Dark humour with increadolous plot twists.

Team:
Albertinna Sparrhult – Producer
Niklas Åhs – Lead art / Lead designer
Pernilla Sparrhult – Art / Lead designer
Björn Bergren – Programmer
Mattias Bertilsson – Programmer / Assistant designer
Pontus Granström – Sound Effects
Mattias Lissmyr – Music Composer
Website: http://zamarkand.com/

2010/06/16 - Wed2018/03/10 - Sat - 4 Comments
2D games
2nd year, gga 2010, winners 2010

Pawns

Pawns is a 2D side scrolling co-op action game for the Xbox360. You and a friend must work together and combine your powers to defeat the human invasion!

Pawns won “The Award for Human Rights” at Gotland Game Awards 2010.

Team:
Producer: Nina Moritz
Graphics: Esteban Soto, Jonatan Hagström, Alexander Oltner, Ruben Johansson, Simon Öhman
Programmer: Mikael Gullberg, Thommy Siverman
Sound: Mikko Jokela
Website: http://pawns-northerngate.blogspot.com/

2010/06/16 - Wed2018/12/22 - Sat - 2 Comments
3D games
2nd year, gga 2010, winners 2010

Midnight

Midnight is a real-time strategy game for three players. Each player plays as either the easy-going Rocks, the proud Papers or the wicked Scissors; miniscule creatures that crawl out of the shadows at night and face each other in an eternal battle.

It goes without saying that the papers live in constant fear of the scissors, which in turn are hunted by the rocks. This gives all the players a predatory/prey relationship towards each other, forcing them to use stealth, deception and ambushing to prevail. In short, Midnight is an RTS that focuses on stealth, exploring and mobility rather than numbers and micro-managing.

Midnight was awarded “Best Presentation” at Gotland Game Awards 2010. Tobias Andersen got an individual award for “Best Effort in Art”

Midnight was awarded "Best Presentation" at the Gotland Game Awards 2010

Susan Gold handed out the "Best Effort in Art"-award, to Tobias Andersen, at the Gotland Game Awards 2010

Tobias Andersen got an individual award for "Best Effort in Art"

Team:
Producer: Alex Karlsson
Design: Per Lingvall
Graphics: Alex Lusth, Niklas Hallin, Tobias Andersen,
Graphics: Ola Persson, Martin Paulsson, Erika A. Porath
Programmer: Johan Sköld
Trailer: Stina Boberg, Victor Öhman Holmberg
Website: www.luciddreams.se

2010/06/16 - Wed2018/03/15 - Thu - 5 Comments
2D games
3rd year, gga 2010, released, swedish game awards, winners 2010

Dwarfs

Dwarfs was released on Steam!

Dwarfs is an Arcade/Strategy game for PC and Xbox360 where you are put in the middle of a vast, underground playfield. The goal of the game is to explore the randomly generated map as much as possible, while at the same time protecting your Town Hall from harm, such as water floods, lava or hostile creatures.

What makes this game unique and interesting is that your greatest asset is also your greatest threat: the Digging Dwarfs. While you need them to explore the dungeon and increase your score, their random behavior is the source of most your troubles. Taking control of them is easy, but costs gold, so you have to be careful with your choices! Pointing a Dwarf towards those juicy minerals might look tempting, but what if you need that gold to stop lava later on? In Dwarfs, there is a constant flow of risk/reward decision making.