Suddenly homeworks! also gamejam review.

So we finally got proper home works, which is why i’m taking the time to write this as a way of procrastination. I’ll make sure to make a blog post that the end of the week to write down what I’ve accomplished in the week.
Anyways, last Friday we had the game jam, and boy did we fail. Well sort of at least.
Our game was the space shooter where you couldn’t shoot properly, and there was no ammo count. We ran […]

First entry: Getting started with the design project.

Sup dawgs, this is the first entry in my school blog, where I’ll be writing about scchool related stuff.
Last week we started off with our Space Shoot-Em-Up game projects. We’ve got the words “Suburbia” and “Supernatural” to work with. Things have been progressing smoothly, fast enough? Can’t say for sure, but at least we’re making progress. The mood in the group is good, however I must admit we had a few disagreements , nothing we haven’t been able to solve […]

Hello world

Welcome to my blog. My name is Esbjörn Holmerin Nord and I’m a game design student at Uppsala University campus Gotland. This blog will follow me on my journey to become a professional in the field of game development. Here I will share my work and thoughts that are related to the education. Expect drawings, 3D-models, thoughts about projects and assignments as well as game design theory.

Sunday 13/09/2013
Thoughtless Badger
Today our intentions was to take a look at the basic ideas for our paper prototype that one of us was supposed to look at. We also took a look at some of the drawings I had made of some of the main characters: badgers, protagonist (both male and female) and some basic surroundings. I’m not that comfortable with hand drawings, even though you can clearly see what I was going for I feel that I’m better […]

Thoughtless Badger – Development diary

Sunday 13/09/2013
Thoughtless Badger
Today our intentions was to take a look at the basic ideas for our paper prototype that one of us was supposed to look at. We also took a look at some of the drawings I had made of some of the main characters: badgers, protagonist (both male and female) and some basic surroundings.
I’m not that comfortable with hand drawings, even though you can clearly see what I was going for I feel that I’m better suited with […]

Wednesday 09/09/2013
Thoughtless Badger
Today we each pitched our individual high concept ideas, trying to brainstorm a core concept. We each had some good ideas all ranging from distant planets populated all by badgers and other settings were humans ruled the world. Without going into detail, we decided upon one setting where badgers and humans populate the same world, but it is as if they live in separate times and perhaps whole different world. After deciding upon some basic core ideas […]

Thoughtless Badger – Development Diary 2

Wednesday 09/09/2013
Thoughtless Badger
Today we each pitched our individual high concept ideas, trying to brainstorm a core concept.
We each had some good ideas all ranging from distant planets populated all by badgers and other settings were humans ruled the world. Without going into detail, we decided upon one setting where badgers and humans populate the same world, but it is as if they live in separate times and perhaps whole different world. After deciding upon some basic core ideas and concepts […]

Thoughtless Badger – First Meeting

Monday 07/09/2013
Thoughtless Badger
Today we took some time to get to know each other and also got assigned a role based on what we were good at and what we felt we wanted to do. I became lead artist. We started brainstorming a high concept but everyone was tired and after about 2 hours we called it a day. Everyone had some good ideas but the those ideas were things we needed to take care of further on in the […]

Doom’s Date

Last Friday we had a Game jam, On that game jam we had 7 hours to make a game in the program GameMaker. The game it self should have a connection with two words, for this game jam it was: Everyday, Doom.  So we created Doom’s Date.

art: Spader7
 
Doom’s date is a dating game where the players has to win Dr Doom’s heart. Our game were happily met on the show floor and it won the prize for best interpretation […]

Board Game System Meeting

Yesterday, we had our first group meeting discussing our board game system that we are going to make.
We decided on our aesthetic goal for it. We wanted the player to experience different emotions of excitement, intense competition and an element of strategy.
I get excited about the challenge in meeting those requirements in the game and I hope that we will be able to make it happen.
When we had discussed the aesthetic goal that we wanted to achieve then we moved […]

Board Game System Meeting

Yesterday, we had our first group meeting discussing our board game system that we are going to make.
We decided on our aesthetic goal for it. We wanted the player to experience different emotions of excitement, intense competition and an element of strategy.
I get excited about the challenge in meeting those requirements in the game and I hope that we will be able to make it happen.
When we had discussed the aesthetic goal that we wanted to achieve then we moved […]

Getting started

Hey world, as a part of my education at uppsala university, campus gotland i am to keep a blog running where i reflect over things i learn during the coming two years. I’m a second year student at the gamedesign and graphics program and so far i really enjoy it.
When i first applied to this program i thought graphics and design were.. linked together more than they actually are. Ofcourse graphical art and gamedesign are linked together since both are […]