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2013/09/12 - Thu2019/02/05 - Tue - Comments Off
2D games
2nd year, 3rd year, GGC 2013, released

Among Ripples

Control a pond’s ecosystem; experiment with what you can do and see what happens. Among Ripples is a meditative ecosystem management simulator; you add different creatures to the pond and see how they interact.

The students who made Among Ripples went on to found the Visby-based studio Eat Create Sleep, and released the game on Steam and itch.io.

Among Ripples at the Gotland Game Conference 2013
Among Ripples at the Gotland Game Conference 2013

In Among Ripples you are presented to a soothing and meditative experience where you can experiment at your leisure. As the caretaker of a small pond you decide which creatures should be introduced into the ecosystem, and what species will thrive. Study the creatures you introduce and learn more about them in order to shape a pond that you find sustainable. This game is a short but sweet experience where you get the opportunity to relax and think about the balance in nature.

Features:

Sandbox style gameplay where you are free to choose your own goals
Spawn fish, regulate the water’s oxygen level and take care of contamination to find perfect balance
Organic art style drawing inspiration from shadow puppet animations and watercolor paintings
Serene soundtrack with ambience changing with the seasons
Relaxed experience where you can take your time and see how things progress at your own pace

Team:

Oskar Thysell – Lead Designer/Programmer
Martin Greip – Designer/Artist

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2D games
3rd year, GGC 2013, mobile

Mamarazzi

Mamarazzi is a social mobile game for Android where you use your creativity to explore the world through the lens of the mobile phone’s camera! Mamarazzi is all about exploration, creativity and having fun with your friends and family!

Check out the development blog here.

Unlock filters and Special Missions!
Create a own mission and send it to your friends!

Team:

Emma Matson – Game Designer/Producer/Graphical Artist
Johan Eriksson – Programmer

2013/09/12 - Thu2019/02/05 - Tue - 1 Comment
Arcade games
1st year, GGC 2013, winners 2013

Tribal Marathon

Tribal Marathon is a 4-player runner game in the styles on Temple Run or Subway Surfers. The players run on a randomly spawned track with randomly spawned obstacles. The player’s objective is to gather artifacts while trying to tackle the other players into obstacles or out of the track to stop them from getting any artifacts.

Tribal Marathon on the Gotland Game Conference 2013 show floor
Tribal Marathon won Student’s Choice at the Gotland Game Conference 2013.

Tribal Marathon was awarded Student’s Choice at the Gotland Game Conference 2013, and they exhibited with us at Gamex 2013.

Team:

Henrik Andersson – Lead Designer
Simon Öqvist – Artist
Johannes Bahngoura – Artist
Robert Graff – Artist
David Forssell – Programmer
Petter Vernersson

2013/09/12 - Thu2019/02/03 - Sun - Comments Off
3D games
2nd year, GGC 2013

Portentous

Is a first person 4-player co-op game. In which each player has been given a unique objective to complete within a time limit. Once this time limit is met, the players have lost. To make it extra difficult, each objective requires two people to successfully complete it so you need to go with someone that you trust. However, trust is hard to come by in Portentous because one randomly chosen player has been infected by a mysterious organism. This player is no longer acting with the best of his friends in mind, but has also been given an objective to either kill or secretly infect the other players, in effect turning them to his side. With this in mind, non-infected player will know that they cannot trust anyone, but they still have to trust someone in order to finish the objectives or kill the infected.