The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
This weekend, the Swedish Game Awards celebrated the best in gaming, featuring an exhibition and awards ceremony. Uppsala University was well represented by the talented student team behind Rug Racers: Ultimate, who were nominated for Best Art and Best Audio, securing an invitation to exhibit their game and showcase their outstanding work on a national stage.
Väsen is a card battler with roguelike elements where you each turn choose which of the closest cards to interact with. Create a unique build from over 35 unique passives and abilities. Fight monsters to earn money. And make your way to the Fire Giant.
Väsen won Jury Spotlight for Academic Excellence at the Gotland Game Conference 2022!
Robots in Battle (RnB for short!) is a roguelike deckbuilder where you play as a hotshot mecha pilot looking to take on all comers as they climb to the top of the mecha fighting league and claim the RnB belt! Customise your deck, upgrade your mecha, enjoy some jazzy tunes and face off with the current champion! And if you prevail and claim their belt, you will become the boss.
Robots in Battle won Best Art Direction at the Gotland Game Conference 2022!
Hugwave is a 2D rhythm game, developed for PC and driven by art and music. The player presses the spacebar with the beats of the music and at the same time interferes with the signal of the picture in order to complete a full painting. In the end, the substance of the painting will look different depending on the players being able to fully synchronise with the music with which the virtual world beats with.
A group of creatures get lost in an infinite and chaotic binary forest made of 0s and 1s. They are hidden behind the trees and look from a distance at each other as well as the player. The screen begins to change with the player’s interventions, casting evermore solid grounds for the creatures to connect. The binary trees become real trees, some animals emerge and the forest becomes more lively. After that, the creatures get braver and they get closer to each other. In the end, the creature walks towards us for a warm hug.
The game was inspired by vaporwave, a popular art and music style on the internet. We also hope to provoke players to think about the communication and relationships between people in the age of the Internet.
Hugwave won Best in Show and Best Audio Design at the Gotland Game Conference 2022!
