No i’m not making a “hello world”-joke!

Alright.
After being distracted by the internet cutting out(repeatedly) yesterday i finally got around to make a blog post. 
This blog will either follow me slowly learning to be responsible with my own time, or me complaining about my failure to do so. Only time will tell.
If i feel like it i might write about the video games i play on my spare but i’ll make sure to tag post properly to keep study posts from video game posts unless both a […]

Today we got the teams and words for the big assignment. My team got the word Romantic Pencil… We will meet up Tuesday to discuss and share ideas. I’m looking forward to this assignment and I believe that it will be very educational.

First post in the rest of my life?

That is a really pretentious name for a post….
So, first post in my blog goes here.
My name is Max Nordlund, born and raised some 50 kilometres from Skellefte in a small village callde Bjurön, some 7 kilometers from Bjuröklubb and Laleh can go lie in a ditch, bitch be tripin if she see dem bluewhales, and the place hasn’t been an island for hundreds of years.(insert the sound you make if you form your mouth to a ”o” and inhale)
I am […]

First post in the rest of my life?

That is a really pretentious name for a post….
So, first post in my blog goes here.
My name is Max Nordlund, born and raised some 50 kilometres from Skellefte in a small village callde Bjurön, some 7 kilometers from Bjuröklubb and Laleh can go lie in a ditch, bitch be tripin if she see dem bluewhales, and the place hasn’t been an island for hundreds of years.(insert the sound you make if you form your mouth to a ”o” and inhale)
I am […]

Grey 2.0

Pardon my cursing but jesus fucking christ. I played the Battlefield 4 beta and damn the guys over at Dice must hate colors. I would love to give you some examples but for some reason it doesn’t let me screenshot. The frequent use of the same scale of grey in the game is outraging, I couldn’t tell if it was a lamppost on the road or just a piece of rubble. what happened to the bright colors of Mirrors Edge […]

Maya mirror tutorial

Today I started modeling a head for a  character im making in Maya. I’m gonna use the character to train and learn bone rigging so I then can make it move. What I have found usefull before is using a mirror duplication so I only have to edit one side of the object and it will look the same on the other. To do this in maya was a little different.
How I did it in Maya.
Step 1: Go to front […]

Analysing Board Games During Nightmare Week.

So this week has been tough, mainly because of the three analyses of board games that was due for today in my Advanced Game Design class, but also because Serious Games, the other class I’m reading is unexpectedly ramping up with assignments.
On top of this I got to know earlier this week that Almedalsbiblioteket wanted to exhibit our game Alienation through an arcade machine they are putting up. The installation will be this Saturday, tomorrow at 18:00. This is great […]

Board Game Analysis

I recently finished a assignment in which we had to work in groups and play three different board games that we then had to analyse and write a report on. We were doing this to better understand how systems work as well as training how to better analyze board games.
I really liked this assignment. Not only because we got to play board games as well as a role playing game but that it gave me the opportunity to train on […]

Board Game Analysis

I recently finished a assignment in which we had to work in groups and play three different board games that we then had to analyse and write a report on. We were doing this to better understand how systems work as well as training how to better analyze board games.
I really liked this assignment. Not only because we got to play board games as well as a role playing game but that it gave me the opportunity to train on […]

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my blog!
My name is Valdemar Ribbing. I am an 18 years old Swedish student currently studying Game Design and Graphics at Uppsala universitet – Campus Gotland. I am aspiring to be a concept or 3D artist for games and that is my current goal in life. There are tons of reasons why I have chosen this path but mostly it’s because it’s really fun and enjoyable.

This blog will be gradually be filled with my concept art […]

Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace (shooters)

Since our assignment Mayes gave us for this week was to play Space Shooters I decided to look up some retro shooters. I have been playing a whole bunch of games like Asteroids, Captain Skyhawk, Dragon Spirit and Captain Planet and the Planeteers. I must say that I really liked the 2.5D isometric graphic style of Captain Skyhawk. Captain Planet and the Planeteers had a nice mechanic which let you turn around and fly back a short distance for taking out enemies you have missed.
This have given […]

New game project

When they first announced that we would get our first real game project to work on I got pretty excited. What could the genre be? Yeah, none other than a wonderful shoot ‘em up! Boy did my ears get tickled! Before I applied for this education I felt that shoot ‘em ups and RPGs where my types of games to design. Even though shoot ‘em ups may be pretty easy to code and animate and this coming from a rookie […]