The first year students did a public play test of their first playable prototypes recently! You can click through and follow our Instagram to keep track of the games in development! (#GGConf18 is where it’s at)
Wonder Play
Wonder Play is a tabletop role playing game aimed for kids. In Wonder Play you and your friends play as your own made up adventurer to seek glory and help the people.Together you will need to find what is needed to help them, you need to work together to overcome hardship and solve problems that arise during your adventures in the lands. Together you will have to come up with creative solutions to what lies before because not all encounters in the wilds will have obvious ways to overcome them.
Build your character, pick your adventure, plan your journey and roll some dice as you try to save the people of the lands.
Team:
Joel Ahlgren – Designer – Product Owner
Emilia Daniels – Designer
Tobias Holm – Designer
William Herner – Producer
Jihyun Lee – Artist
Symbio
The game is a 2D two player coop jump puzzle game. The players play as animals trying to escape a flood by climbing up a tree. One player plays a night animal that can only see when they are inside the tree and the other plays a day animal that can only see when they are outside the tree. They need to guide each other through jump puzzles and obstacles when one of them can’t see.
Team:
Jesper Bergman – Product owner,
Kristina Stiskaite – Scrum master,
Alexander Sinn – Artist,
Songqiao Cai – Artist,
Merve Metinkol – Artist,
Hangning Zhang – Programmer,
Kaijun Wang – Programmer.
facebook.com/SymbioTheGame/
Game developed for PC in Unity and using Photoshop, After effects, Maya.
Awards:
Symbio won both The Almedalen Library Award and the Jury Spotlight (shared with Bolt & Bobby) at the Gotland Game Conference 2018.
Symbio also brought home the “Most Innovative Newcomer Award” and “the Audience Award” from PLAY18 – Creative Gaming Festival in Hamburg!
Development:
Announcing the HEVGA European Symposium (7-8 June)
Are you a game educator with an interest in connecting with other educators across the globe? Are you willing to share your experience and insights to improve the field? Join us on Gotland this summer!
- Register for the symposium, and…
- … optionally, submit a presentation!
- See all details on the symposium page.
Last year, as part of the Gotland Game Conference, we hosted our first Game Educators Summit in conjunction with the Higher Education Videogame Alliance (HEVGA). This was an attempt to bring educators together specifically to discuss Game Educations in Europe, our unique needs within and across borders, and how to best expand HEVGA in Europe.
This year, HEVGA is continuing to grow their efforts in Europe by holding their first annual European Symposium on our beautiful island of Gotland, Sweden. Uppsala University has been chosen by HEVGA as the first school to host the symposium and will co-locate it with the Gotland Game Conference to maximize cross-pollination.
The two day symposium will take place on June 7 & 8. The first day will feature presentations across a wide variety of areas such as research, game educations, pedagogy, game design, games, institutional barriers and successes, within and across borders, and other programs or initiatives unique to Europe. Presentation slots are available in 15 – 45 minute increments.
The second day will be a working meeting designed to bring together diverse institutions and individual backgrounds to take stock of where games and game educations in Europe are at now. The working meeting will explore how to create a platform that can further establish a European games community in higher education across borders. Specific topics include: how to secure funding, creating a network that connects educations, amplifying local achievements globally, and avenues for unified advocacy.
To join us for the first European Symposium of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance hosted by Uppsala University;
- Register for the symposium, and…
- … optionally, submit a presentation!
- Details will be added to the symposium page.
