Browsing 'Game Design': Posts from either of the Game Design programs
Optimizing Bubbles
Once again we have been asked by our university to display a game (Yomi’s Bubble Adventure) at the annual gamex exhibition at Kista in Stockholm. This is due October the 30th so before that I decided to fix some bugs, minimize memory usage and improve stability. First up is a ninja-fix for the message system used by components which is using more memory then it should. The original system looked like this:
First we had […]
Optimizing Bubbles
Once again we have been asked by our university to display a game (Yomi’s Bubble Adventure) at the annual gamex exhibition at Kista in Stockholm. This is due October the 30th so before that I decided to fix some bugs, minimize memory usage and improve stability. First up is a ninja-fix for the message system used by components which is using more memory then it should. The original system looked like this:
First we had […]
Switching to English.
Switching to English.
I will write the blog in English from now on. The education at Uppsala University Campus Gotland that I started this year want all students to have their own blogs.
Since I started this blog last year but stopped writing in it I thought now would be a good time to bring it back to life. (I might try to translate my Swedish posts later)
So what has happened since last year? Trying to learn how to make games after […]
Switching to English.
Switching to English.
I will write the blog in English from now on. The education at Uppsala University Campus Gotland that I started this year want all students to have their own blogs.
Since I started this blog last year but stopped writing in it I thought now would be a good time to bring it back to life. (I might try to translate my Swedish posts later)
So what has happened since last year? Trying to learn how to make games after […]
Serious games “case study” & board games
This week we have only had 1 lecture, which was yesterday (Monday). The lecture was from a former student, who now works for three games and has a past experience as a developer for serious games. The interesting thing to note is how coincidental it seems when some people are lucky enough to land a contract in the gaming industry. They knew someone who had created a webpage (iirc) and that client wanted to create a game about their company.
The […]
Serious games “case study” & board games
This week we have only had 1 lecture, which was yesterday (Monday). The lecture was from a former student, who now works for three games and has a past experience as a developer for serious games. The interesting thing to note is how coincidental it seems when some people are lucky enough to land a contract in the gaming industry. They knew someone who had created a webpage (iirc) and that client wanted to create a game about their company.
The […]
Let’s get this started, now shall we?
…and what better way to start is there if not Unity?
Let’s get this started, now shall we?
…and what better way to start is there if not Unity?
Postmortem on the Reverse Prototyping Workshop
Yesterday, on October 7th, we had a quick lecture on reverse prototyping. After that we got about two hours to analyse any digital game, take out the core mechanics from it, to make a paper prototype using those mechanics. We did this in order to learn how to create certain aesthetics of a game. This is my postmortem of our paper prototype game.
The Game We Chose
So we picked out The Walking Dead, the video game. It is a heavily story-based […]
Postmortem on the Reverse Prototyping Workshop
Yesterday, on October 7th, we had a quick lecture on reverse prototyping. After that we got about two hours to analyse any digital game, take out the core mechanics from it, to make a paper prototype using those mechanics. We did this in order to learn how to create certain aesthetics of a game. This is my postmortem of our paper prototype game.
The Game We Chose
So we picked out The Walking Dead, the video game. It is a heavily story-based […]
Group 12
We have now gotten our groups for designing a game. And we got the words, interesteing and suit, to work with. It wassent the easiest words to work with but we landed on a game were you are gonna make a suit by making the individual parts, by flying with a machine that sew it all togheter. While you do it, moths and other things will try to eat the cloth. So you will have kill them by shooting them.
We […]
Group 12
We have now gotten our groups for designing a game. And we got the words, interesteing and suit, to work with. It wassent the easiest words to work with but we landed on a game were you are gonna make a suit by making the individual parts, by flying with a machine that sew it all togheter. While you do it, moths and other things will try to eat the cloth. So you will have kill them by shooting them.
We […]
Got some work done!
I was working on a sword for a while in 3DSMax that did no quite work out and because of that, I had to start over.
A few days have passed and I’ve actually managed to create a new sword from scratch and I’m quite happy with the result so far.
All that needs to be done now is to properly texture it. (I think)
Got some work done!
I was working on a sword for a while in 3DSMax that did no quite work out and because of that, I had to start over.
A few days have passed and I’ve actually managed to create a new sword from scratch and I’m quite happy with the result so far.
All that needs to be done now is to properly texture it. (I think)
First post
Hello
This will be my first post here.
So I’ll introduce myself and tell you what i´m going to write on this blog.
My name is Viktor Nilsson, i´m 20 years old and lives in Gotland. I´m studying Game Design and Programming at Uppsala university Campus Gotland.
In this blog I will reflect and write about my studies at the university.
See you later. Bye
First post
Hello
This will be my first post here.
So I’ll introduce myself and tell you what i´m going to write on this blog.
My name is Viktor Nilsson, i´m 20 years old and lives in Gotland. I´m studying Game Design and Programming at Uppsala university Campus Gotland.
In this blog I will reflect and write about my studies at the university.
See you later. Bye
”Sky in a pond”?
One might wonder what that means, and indeed it is up to each of your interpretations. Whatever conclusion you may come to though, you can refer to me as simply ”Sky”!
Now who is this ”Sky” person? To be perfectly honest, I have no idea. There have been times when I’ve thought I knew myself, just to be slapped across the face by life and all it’s wonderful and horrible experiences. They change us, for good or for bad, and […]
”Sky in a pond”?
One might wonder what that means, and indeed it is up to each of your interpretations. Whatever conclusion you may come to though, you can refer to me as simply ”Sky”!
Now who is this ”Sky” person? To be perfectly honest, I have no idea. There have been times when I’ve thought I knew myself, just to be slapped across the face by life and all it’s wonderful and horrible experiences. They change us, for good or for bad, and […]