Big Game Project Weekly Roundup: April 7-11

My first, real week of the Big Game Project is now finished. From now on, I  will blog at least once a week, and do some weekly roundup on what happened during the week.
April 7-9: Talking to my teachers about what to doI spent the first three days of this week talking to my teachers about what I should do during the course since I was the last man standing while every other Big Game Group was filled. In the […]

Announcing "Project Clint"

Since I was the last man among my class that was without a group after all groups were filled, I talked to my teachers about what to do. After listening to a few suggestions and having discussions about it, we arrived at the conclusion that I would work on a vertical slice/prototype about a certain part of the idea that I pitched to my teachers last week, and then make the full game once the third year starts.
So that’s why […]

Preparing for year 3 already now.

Right now, the Big Game project course has started. Some groups are already well underway with their projects, others who lacks groups will pitch their game ideas tomorrow (Friday 4th April) and try and find the members they need.

I talked to two teachers at Campus Gotland, Håkan Mattsson and Adam Mayes, about the idea I had for big game project. And they really liked my idea. But the scope was to big for the time that is left on the […]

(Part 2) Swedish Game Awards Conference 2014 Report – Talks

Another thing that also happens during SGA Conferences is talks from various people in the game industry. Below is a short summary of the talks that I could attend.
Romi Gråhed from DICE had a talk about development of games in general, what pitfalls a developer might run into and some general tips and tricks for better development of games.
Linnea Harrison from DICE has a talk about something that DICE calles Levolution. In short, it’s how you can change a level in […]

Level Design Diary Part 1 (10-12 March)

I’m currently working together with Johan Wittrock on the final assignment in our Level Design course. The assignment is to analyse an level in a certain game, and try to arrive at conclusions to as of why it is the most popular map. Me and Johan choose to analyze Payload maps in Team Fortress 2.¨

So far, by looking at server statistics, we have come to the conclusion that Badwater Basin is the most popular Payload map, followed by Gold Rush. […]

(Part 1) Swedish Game Awards Conference 2014 Report

Last weekend, Swedish Game Awards Conference 2014 took place in Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm. Me and a couple of other students from Campus Gotland was attending the conference. In the next coming posts, I will give my impressions on the Conference.
I will talk about the talks that was given in the upcoming posts, because there is a lot that can be said about those. The reason to why there aren’t many images in these posts is because my phone decided to […]

Analyzing: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s Competetive mode.

Earlier this week, we had our first real lecture in our Level Design course. In the lecture, our teacher (Ernest Adams) mentioned a couple of principles that you need to take into consideration when you are designing a game and design the levels inside the game. During the lecture, I started to thinking that I should do an analysis of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s competitive mode after those principles.
But before I start talking about that, you will need to understand how […]

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.

Hello again.I know it has been quite for some time now, but in the middle of studies, studies, canceled ferries, more studies, Christmas, working with studies during the Christmas break and even more studies, I haven’t had much chance to write here.
Anyway, lets write a blog post about programming and one of the assignments we have in that course.
Assignment 2 – Develop a game
One assignment was to develop a simple video game and write a report about it. I choose […]

Programming, cotainers and games

Hello Again.Sorry for the period of silence for me, but things has been getting in the way for me. Anyway, lets talk a bit about the programing course. In the course, we have two assignments that needs to be done before the end of the course
Assignment 1
The first assignment is to write three different container classes, classes that can store several other objects, and run tests on them. The first test is to see if the classes works properly, which […]

Advanced Game Design Postmortem

My groups and my personal postmortem for the course in Advanced Game is now available on our group’s wiki.My individual postmortemThe group’s postmortem

Board Game Progress Report (Advanced Game Design) – The End

Yesterday, we presented the final game that we came up with for the other groups and some staff at Campus Gotland. Below are some of the changes that was made to the final version of the game.
In addition to a slightly reworked board, there are also a few tiles on the board that only the monster can move on (marked green on the image below). The reason for adding those tiles is because we thought that the monster needed to […]

GAMEX 2013 Report – Other Higher Educations

Uppsala University Campus Gotland where not the only high education seat that was present at the expo. Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (Blekinge Institute of Technology) and Högskolan i Skövde (Skövde University) were also present at Gamex with their game educations.
Even though I did not manage to get much good images from Skövde’s booth, I still managed to get the image below from the game Grief. The game is also made with the multimedia library SFML, which is what we learned […]