The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
Student projects are added irregularly and in no particular order. These are projects stretching back to 2002, from students in their 1st, 2nd and 3rd year and using vastly different tech. Thus; we recommend you use the tag cloud to the right to filter the projects you’re interested in!
3D warehouse horror game where real-life blinking shifts the environment and drives gameplay.
Vigil was awarded a Jury Spotlight at the Gotland Game Conference 2025.
Designing Fear: Voluntary Control of Involuntary Inputs in Horror Games
This project is designed to simulate the experience of being diagnosed and treated for hysteria. Using a custom-made controller integrated with a TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) unit, the game delivers mild electric stimulation to players as a form of “treatment” for their imaginary illness. The game manipulates players into questioning their own perceptions of health and agency.
SCROOBLIES is a fantastically fun mobile game that mixes the complex sorting mechanics of the match three genre with the fast paced shooter elements of the shoot em’ up genre. The game also prides itself on having a very high quality art style and soundscape.
Rogue-lite, dungeon crawler, hack & slash, music-focused game set in Italy (Sicily) during the XVI Century. In a cursed town, people have been deprived of their capacity to hear sounds and music. You play as Last Musician, the only people that can still produce sounds and it’s your duty to re-establish harmony in the abandoned town.
