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Guest Lectures
human rights

Richard Bartle on Virtual Human Rights

Professor Richard Bartle is coming back for a new lecture, September 14th!

This marks the first of a series of public lectures hosted by GAME this autumn in our course Human Rights and Diversity in Serious Games 2010. Like last year we’ll invite speakers from the industry, arts, academia, press, government and more, to discuss human rights and diversity in the context of modern interactive technology. All lectures are free and open to the public!

Bartle is a professor and game researcher at the University of Essex. He’s most famous for having created MUD (multi-user dungeon) – the first of what would later evolve to become massively multiplayer online role-playing games. He’s one of the regular writers over at the popular science blog Terra Nova, with a focus on the study of virtual worlds and he was the examiner for our own doctor Mirjam Eladhari’s dissertation. 🙂

He will be talking about human rights in virtual worlds and his work with the European Council to create an HR-manifest for games.

Time: Wednesday, September 14th, 10:00-12:00
Location: E22

Keep questions and discussions in the student forums please.

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Guest Lectures

Three lectures, monday!

Senior game designers give their take on the subject of game design and how it can be developed in the future.

Monday at 13:00 there will be three short lectures by legendary game designers; Ernest Adams, Richard Bartle, and Mike Sellers.

This is a part of The International Research School of Game Design (IRSGD); a collaboration between Uppsala University and Gotland University. The aim of the IRSGD is to create a greater understanding in and development of game design and its applications in other fields. The research school is made up of an international gathering of leading game designers and academics working towards this goal.

Time: Monday, September 12th, 13:00 –
Location: E22

Keep questions and discussions in the student forums please.

2011/09/06 - Tue2011/09/19 - Mon - 1 Comment
Publicity

Eurogamer.dk interviews Meow Entertainment

I løbet af de seneste 5 år er en lang række spil-startups begyndt at stikke hovedet frem, på en ø der vel ellers ret beset må betegnes som Sveriges svar på Bornholm.

Efter at Universitetet på Gotland startede deres spiluddannelse for godt ti år siden, er der poppet en række nye små spilfirmaer frem på øen, i en grad der ikke lader nogen af de større byer i Norden noget efter.

I dag er der mindst 10 registrerede spilfirmaer i Visby og derudover et stort antal freelancere. Og det i en by på størrelse med Ringsted.

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Det første firma vi har fat i er Meow Entertainment. Her fik vi en snak med Max Tiikiainen – en ung karismatisk mand, med et let genkendeligt viltert rødt hår, og sorte kassebriller.

Gaming Gotland – Meow Entertainment – Artikel
Pirates of Scurvy Pond

2011/09/03 - Sat2018/02/23 - Fri - 1 Comment
Publicity
mobile

Walkabout Preview | Gotland Will Turn Your World Upside Down

A team of second year students from the presigious game design course at Gotland University, Sweden, are designing what could quite frankly be the most impressive mobile/tablet game since Angry Birds – and what’s more, it’s shaping up to be a bona fide work of art.

The project’s name is Walkabout, from fledgeling student studio Lucid Dreams. Look upon their works, ye mighty yet artistically bankrupt AAA publishers, and despair! Or better yet: pay attention.

Walkabout Preview | Gotland Will Turn Your World Upside Down