The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
Best in Show: Ball Bash, Kvitter
The Innovation Award: The Curse of the Manor Strange & Beatrice
Best Game Design: Layers of Pest Control
Best Art Design: Illume
Best Audio Design: Bullet Dance
Best Level Design: Overstay
Best Storytelling: Overstay
Best Presentation: Kvitter
Best Arcade Experience: Several Raccoons in a Trenchcoat
Jury Spotlight: Pilgrims on Gotland, Painted Peril, Project 4X
Public Choice: Flap Off
Student Choice: Bullet Dance
Beatrice is a text-based story game for PC. You play as Beatrice who finds herself sitting on a beach. You can feel that you have a connection with someone else and they are doing something in a place close to you. You can write messages to the other person to influence their actions and try to convince them to help you. As the other person finds your messages you learn more about yourself and the possible consequences of their actions.
Tools used: Unity, Visual Studio, Blender, Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, Sketchbook, Twine, Reaper, Garage Band, Trello.
Beatrice won The Innovation Award at the Gotland Game Conference 2023.
Become a bird for a day by putting on feathers and a bird tail and set out into the world of the bird dating universe! Use your body to browse through bird profiles, get a match, and woo your date by dancing to the rhythm of the beat! Perhaps a lumberjack, bodybuilder, or fancy pigeon is the match for you? The more successful dates you go on the higher score you obtain. It’s about quantity, not quality, okay? Compete with your friends, family, or strangers to try to get the highest score and win a place on the high score board.
This game is played on a PC using the Microsoft Kinect and Joycons to detect body movement.
Kvitter won Best Presentation and Best in Show at the Gotland Game Conference 2023!
Nom Köhler- Product owner
Lilly Ahlqvist – Scrum master
Philip Ågren Oskarsson – Programer
William Hammarlund – Programer/ QA
Mirjam Bäck – Grapichs
Hannah Rydberg – Grapichs
Nils Jobs – Sound and Music
Illume is a side-scrolling 3d puzzle platformer where objects only appear when you shine some light upon them. You never fight the world – you create, change and heal it.
Immerse in an atmospheric journey through emptiness, use light to solve puzzles and turn dead and cold darkness into a charming world full of whimsical groves and magnificent gardens.
Illume won Best Art Design at the Gotland Game Conference 2023.
Alisa Kontorovic – Product Owner, Designer, Technical Artist, 3D Artist;
Brian Barikhan – Producer, Scrum Master, Level Designer;
Tereza Palmonová – 3D Artist, Concept Artist, Video Editor;
Hedda Borg Rundqvist – QA, Sound Designer, Composer;
Sebastian Norderäng – Programmer;
Yu Yongqin – Programmer;
Daniel Mardunovich – Programmer.
