The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
Symbio just returned from Hamburg and the PLAY18 Creative Gaming Award 2018. They brought home both the “Most Innovative Newcomer Award” and “the Audience Award“!
See all the other nominees and winners on the PLAY18 website. If you’re curious to try Symbio you only need to get yourself to Gotland – the game is on exhibition at the Almedalen Library until June!
Ett dataspel, som ska kunna hjälpa personer som har svårt att få jobb för att de har funktionsvariationer i autismspektrat, håller på att utvecklas av studenter vid Uppsala universitet.
Tanken är att spelet ska få arbetsgivare och chefer att förstå bättre och att personer i autismspektrat ska känna igen sig, och få hjälp att förklara hur de har det.
Sveriges Radio 2018-11-01
The course they are talking about is Product Development for Games, a part of our international Bachelor Programme in Game Design and Project Management. Are you interested in using game design to save the world? Apply to the program via universityadmissions.se! The international application deadline is 15th of January, while Swedish applicants have until April 15th.
Ever considered advanced studies? We now have an honest-to-god Masters programme in game design on Campus Gotland! It’s 2 years and meets the entry requirements for PhD studies in human-computer interaction and neighboring subjects, both in Sweden and internationally.
To be eligible you need a bachelor’s degree with a field of study specializing in games or gaming (e.g. game design, game development, game programming, computer and systems science, information technology). Knowledge of English corresponding to English 6 is also required (a Swedish bachelor’s degree meets the requirement for English).
The programme leads to a Master of Arts degree (Master of Arts, 120 credits) with game design as the main field of studies.
Science Park Gotland – our local incubator – has helped run Game Camps around the baltic the past couple of years. Game Camps are recurring events for individuals and businesses that are working with game development, or wish to do so. The final installment took place in Visby this weekend!
More than 80 participants attended this 72h business development bootcamp, from Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Sweden. During three days the 19 teams focused on building the business side of their startups, further developed their business models as well as establish roadmaps to launch their game to the market.
While here the teams (and their game prototypes) received input and support from game development veterans and investors. At the end of the weekend the most promising teams were awarded financial support, invites to further publisher/investor events at the Game Developers Conference and Casual Connect.
Four teams from Gotland (student teams and alumni) were there, and two of them brought home prices. Eat Create Sleep took home the special price – All Access Passes and travel to Casual Connect. Emily and Max over at BetterBuild Studios took home the grand slam – €10000 euros to invest into their business as they see fit.
Big huge congratulations and well played to all of you!