Week 4, Game design

This is the 4th week of our group project and 3rd week using scrum. For those who are not familiar with the scrum method, it is a way of planning projects by breaking them down in to smaller parts and making weekly deadlines. This also helps noticing where problems start to stack up and where deadlines needs to be changed. The team using scrum estimates their work hours and then see how long it actually took when finished. This way […]

ChristmasCrush

I attended to a game jam this weekend and it was both hard and super fun! I ended up being in a group of three first year students with no programmers, so I took the task of being our ”programmer” as far as making a game in game maker goes. The artwork naturally became the highlight of our game. Even tho it is not a game with cool mechanics I´m proud of the fact that we got it to work […]

ChristmasCrush

I attended to a game jam this weekend and it was both hard and super fun! I ended up being in a group of three first year students with no programmers, so I took the task of being our ”programmer” as far as making a game in game maker goes. The artwork naturally became the highlight of our game. Even tho it is not a game with cool mechanics I´m proud of the fact that we got it to work […]

Failing makes success

We started off the sixth of October with getting the assignment. Each team consists of 5-6 people. The task was to design a concept for a simple space shooter type of game with the following requirements:
– 2D
– No gravity (not requiring a gravity system in the game)
– PC controls
– No network
– Single player (Multiplayer and Co-Op can be optional as long as the game is playable as 1 person.)
Each team got two things they had to incorporate in the concept. […]

Failing makes success

We started off the sixth of October with getting the assignment. Each team consists of 5-6 people. The task was to design a concept for a simple space shooter type of game with the following requirements:
– 2D
– No gravity (not requiring a gravity system in the game)
– PC controls
– No network
– Single player (Multiplayer and Co-Op can be optional as long as the game is playable as 1 person.)
Each team got two things they had to incorporate in the concept. […]

What´s so great about games?

A while ago we had to write a Swedish popular scientific text connected to our education. I noticed that several students chose to write about game violence. So I figured it would be a good counter to write about the good things we can get from gaming.
Datorspel kan göra dig smartare
Kan man lära sig något bra utav tv och datorspel eller finns det bara våld att hämta? Trots många krigsspel och klagomål på spelvåld så finns det flertal användningsområden där […]

What´s so great about games?

A while ago we had to write a Swedish popular scientific text connected to our education. I noticed that several students chose to write about game violence. So I figured it would be a good counter to write about the good things we can get from gaming.
Datorspel kan göra dig smartare
Kan man lära sig något bra utav tv och datorspel eller finns det bara våld att hämta? Trots många krigsspel och klagomål på spelvåld så finns det flertal användningsområden där […]

Concept challenge: Arkan Rise

Last week we got a concept challenge. We had to go to a random character generator and create a concept for a game from that.
We used ”They fight crime” to generate ours.
“He’s a suicidal devious master criminal with no name. She’s a wealthy gold-digging femme fatale from aristocratic European stock.”
Starting out with an idea. We got the idea of a steampunk world for these characters and started building our story from there.
At first we needed to […]

Concept challenge: Arkan Rise

Last week we got a concept challenge. We had to go to a random character generator and create a concept for a game from that.
We used ”They fight crime” to generate ours.
“He’s a suicidal devious master criminal with no name. She’s a wealthy gold-digging femme fatale from aristocratic European stock.”
Starting out with an idea. We got the idea of a steampunk world for these characters and started building our story from there.
At first we needed to […]

My first Game Jam

My first jam. This Friday we had the opportunity to participate in a game jam on school campus. I have never done this before so I figured it would be a great opportunity for me to see how things work and test learning under pressure.
Even more important to get to know new people from the 2 and 3 years so I´ll have someone to learn from in the future.

We were a team of 6, two people from first year […]

My first Game Jam

My first jam. This Friday we had the opportunity to participate in a game jam on school campus. I have never done this before so I figured it would be a great opportunity for me to see how things work and test learning under pressure.
Even more important to get to know new people from the 2 and 3 years so I´ll have someone to learn from in the future.

We were a team of 6, two people from first year […]

This is me

Hi there stranger!
I thought I´d start this blog by telling you who I am.My name is Nayomi and I am a 28 year young girl just starting my long fantastic journey as a game designer.I am born and raised in Sweden. I always were a creative person but I had no idea where to put my creativity to use other than tinkering and sketching at home, making t-shirt designs and such.Then it hit me, I love to create in various […]