The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
Category: Projects
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!
In Gate Sealers, two players take the roles of wizard seals trying to defeat more enemies coming from the gate than your co-player. By acting like a seal, you unleash devastating spells upon the enemies and try to be the seal who gets to seal the gate.
Gate Sealers at the Gotland Game Conference 2019
Team:
Andrei Cojanu – Project ManagerArvid Kallin – Designer
Penguins, snowball cannons and a massive ego. This is an arcade game where penguins defeat each other with big fancy cannons in a competitive showdown.
Snowdown at the Gotland Game Conference 2019 showfloor
A penguin with a snow cannon represents the player inside the game world. Each player starts with a certain amount of ammunition in their cannon and starts shooting at each other while dodging the other players’ shots. When a player presses the shoot button on the cannon input, a snowball is also fired in the game. To aim where you shoot the snowball, the player must rotate their physical cannon. The ammunition can be reloaded by putting “snowballs” through a tube. When a player runs out of ammunition, they then make the decision to either run to the “snowball” basket for more ammunition and risk getting hit by the enemy or wait until the enemy is out of ammunition themselves and then run to reload.
The game also adds an extra challenge by having randomly spawning covers. The first player to deplete the others health points wins. Some of the more interesting tools we have used include lasers and sensors in order to make the in-game reloading by putting the balls through the tube.
Snowdown won Best Arcade Experience at the Gotland Game Conference 2019.
Team:
Adam Berghäll – Project manager (SCRUM Master)
Daria Dragana Paunchici – Project manager
Marika Elisabeth Ohlsson – Game Designer (Product Owner)
A game which is meant to motivate people to get over differences and just support each other with their strengths. A dragon and a raccoon use their similarities and their differences to achieve goals they could never reach alone. They drag each other across ground, they cannot walk on. They throw each other on places, they could not reach alone. But most importantly, the raccoon uses his marshmallow collection to create newly reachable paths and the dragon uses his fire to open up paths.
This game got created with Unity, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Illustrator, glue, knives and effort!
Team:
Ruta Sapokaite – Programmer and Marketing Designer
David Naußed – Scrum Master, Programmer and Marketing Designer
Urszula Wasik – Art Director and Game Controls Designer
Devon Jokic – Graphics Designer and Film Editor
Hampus Paulsen Hansen – Particle Effect Artist and Level Designer
Linus de Witt – Social Media and Project Manager
Momin Miah Chowdhury – Game Controls Designer and Project Manager