Social Anxiety – A Game about Social Anxiety

“Social Anxiety” is a game that tries to show it’s players what it’s like going to school suffering from social anxiety.
The game attempts to abstract and simplify the concepts and behaviors of being socially uncomfortable in a social setting in order to easily communicate what it’s like to people who might not have had any experience with social anxiety before.
The player is tasked with going through a normal school day while avoiding being exposed to other people and trying to […]

Boundless

Boundless is a single player Cinematic Platformer with real physics and hand-painted animations.
“The moon itself shattered and now spreads its mysterious shards around the world. A mother with her toddler is stranded in the wilderness after the public zeppelin was caught in the shattering. The shards awaken something within her, and she must use her newfound power to fight for the survival of her and her child.”

Cecilia […]

Pop!

“Pop!” is a casual block-matching puzzle game for two players on a single playing field. Bubbles fall from the top of the screen in pairs, and each player control a pair of bubbles that they can move sideways, rotate and drop down. Matching at least four of the same color makes the bubbles pop. Speed and cooperation is rewarded with score bonuses.
The game is over when bubbles reach the top, so you better help each other out when the bubbles […]

Globe:al Racing

A fast paced multiplayer racing game with features such as  speedboosts, checkpoints and level editor!

 

Johan “The Genious” Grahn
Oskar “The Mantis” Lindholm
Karl “Sjöbusen” Jungell
Viktor “Xstuz” Berg Flodström

Surf n’ Slaughter

Surf n’ Slaughter will take you on a amazing and adventurous experience as a surfer in Southern California. In this game you surf and fight deadly creatures of the sea by using your fists and by balancing on a surfing-board.
Surf n’ Slaughter is a fast paced, 2D-dimensional, action-game. In a first-person view, you will be using your own fists which is tracked by the Kinect camera to punch deadly creatures, by doing so you gain more points. To avoid people […]

PowerGamer.se: Velocity Interview

[…] vi på PowerGamer.se tror också på framtidens svenska utvecklare och har under en längre tid bevakat Högskolan på Gotland. Precis innan allt brakade loss med E3 var vi än en gång över och deltog under GGC (Gotland Game Conference) och där fick vi bevittna en rad olika titlar. Ett projekt som fångade vår uppmärksamhet extra mycket heter Velocity och Lead Programmer Anders Andersson svarade mer än gärna på våra frågor.

Anders är 22 år och har studerat […]

First day of School under Uppsala

Looked a bit like this.

To paraphrase our venerable Prof. Ernest Adams; welcome to Gotland, welcome to GAME and welcome home.

Houston; we have t-shirt 2

What exactly is game design? What do you teach in your programs? What is it that you do?
Questions we get more often than we want. And now we have an answer in physical form.

What is it that we do? We…

… build worlds
… tell stories
… engage audiences
… empower players
… provide escapism
… make dreams

These things and many many more, are all part of our programs and in the subject of Game Design.
Hope you like these. Add your […]

Equalising the Industry

In possibly the most important piece you’ll read on Gamasutra in 2013, the editorial staff of the Game Developer magazine shared their view of current trends and the future of the international games industry. They dedicate an entire page to “New Voices for Video Games”.
What they say carries such an overwhelming synchronicity with what we do that we’re simply going to let them speak for us. We’ve quoted the entire page here, adding links to the lectures […]

Pwning the Swedish Game Awards!

Oh, you didn’t attend the Swedish Game Awards Ceremony 2013?
Let us fill you in: there were 95 entries from almost every game education in the country this year. Three teams from Gotland University.
Guess how many of ours were awarded?
All of them!
Read that again with me. All. One hundred percent success rate. One, zero, zero percent.
Our slightly disturbed game design maestro, Marcus Ingvarsson, were so kind as to record the proceedings. Here’s his compilation of the important bits – […]

Gotland Game Conference 2013 coverage

SVT: Tjejer spelar också spel

Inte bara för unga vita män Temat för årets Gotland Game Conference i Visby är hur spelvärlden ska kunna bli mer inkluderande och tolerant när det gäller kön, ras, och sexuell läggning.

tap-repeatedly: Trip Report from the Gotland Game Conference

[…] if you want to hear from many other smart people, it’s worth it to check out the entire speech archive! I would say every speech was worth hearing; highlights include Heidi MacDonald […]

GGC 2013, photos and more!

We’re particularly proud of this year’s GGC.
Not only did we cover the very important issue of gender inequality in the industry, with a view on solutions, we also delivered such high quality student games, we’re sure to clean up at the Swedish Game Awards.
To try and summarise the presentations would require a post that is very tl;dr. So why not move over to our YouTube Channel and watch them all. You should do them in order, because […]