Houston; we have t-shirt

Well. We’ve always had t-shirts, but this design is new. Code-literate people would read these as “Gotland University – Game Design AND Programming OR Graphics” – mirroring the structure of our educations (game design major, art or code minor).

… programmers will then likely realize how silly it is to do Boolean comparison when clearly we’re aiming for something like a bitwise assignment. 🙂

The shirts are for sale in the university reception (plastic only people!). GAME students can sign up here to allow us to restock.

Level 7: De vill bli nästa svenska spelunder

Swedish gaming site Level 7 interviews Zeal Game Studio – talking about the company’s origin at the Gotland University, their development history and their current title Team Assault: Baptism of Fire.

[…] Startades under skoltiden
Fredrik Nilsson är ansvarig för Zeal Game Studios ekonomi och administration och likt majoriteten av de ungefär 20 anställda läste han spelutveckling pÃ¥ Gotlands högskola. Under Fredriks första Ã¥r pÃ¥ skolan formades grunden till vad som sedan blev Zeal Game Studio. […]

De vill bli nästa svenska spelunder

Gamex 2011

We’ve just returned from this years Gamex. We invested in a large booth and exhibited 60 sqm of student projects – Carnage, Clockwork, Fields of Glory, Robotorusama, VeloCity, Victorious Skies and Walkabout – allowing us to meet and talk to thousands of people interrested in game development- and design.

It was great to see how well represented Gotland was; with Three Gates showing off Aethereus and Zeal Studios exhibiting together with Paradox, 6% of Swedens largest game tradeshow was from our island. 🙂