Game Testing Day!

We spent today with other groups from the course and helped test each other’s board games. We then gave each other feedback on them and generally discussed a lot of interesting suggestions for the games.
We had at least three different groups play our game and give us feedback on it. Most people that played it agreed that our movement system was a solid and fun core base for the game. Unfortunately we still hadn’t gotten much further than that, so […]

Making Board Games

This week i have been working on making two different board games for two separate courses. The two different courses are the Advanced Game Design course in which we are going to make a board game and then the Serious Games course in which we are going to make a board game that focuses on a more serious topic.
The board game for the advanced design course is more focused on making a complete board game that is balanced and well […]

Making Board Games

This week i have been working on making two different board games for two separate courses. The two different courses are the Advanced Game Design course in which we are going to make a board game and then the Serious Games course in which we are going to make a board game that focuses on a more serious topic.
The board game for the advanced design course is more focused on making a complete board game that is balanced and well […]

Angry glass!

Right now we have this assignment in school where we’re supposed to make a concept for a game. Every group got two words to work with and my group got “angry” and “glass”. The most fun words a group got was according to me “surprise” and “panda”, looking forward to see what they do with that.
I’m the producer in my group, “The Ladybugs”, which means I have the final say in almost everything if we don’t agree as a group. […]

Welcome to the week of hell

This week has almost come to an end. I meant to write in the beginning of the week but I have not had time to do so. This week has been the start of hell. It started with us having our assignment in advanced game design to create a board game and getting our assignment in Serious Game. And guess what, it is to create a board game! Only that we only have two week to complete this assignment. In […]

Welcome to the week of hell

This week has almost come to an end. I meant to write in the beginning of the week but I have not had time to do so. This week has been the start of hell. It started with us having our assignment in advanced game design to create a board game and getting our assignment in Serious Game. And guess what, it is to create a board game! Only that we only have two week to complete this assignment. In […]

Building a Board Game

We’ve recently started working on our final assignment in Advanced Game Design. We’ve been tasked with making a board game, or rather a well polished system to be used in a board game.
One of our first priorities has been to set an aesthetic goal for the project. We got kind of hooked on a pirate theme where players sail their pirate ships into a thrilling sea battle, but in order to focus on polishing the core system (ship movement), we later […]

Spline Level Editor

Inspiration
Hi, I recently found this video about how some of the things worked when Rayman Legends was made and I thought that the way they could bend and form their platforms when creating levels looked really useful.I wanted to try doing something similar just for fun and I had never worked with programming meshes before and thought it could be useful in the future.

My version
I used Unity for creating my spline thing, mostly because I also want to learn more about unity […]

Board game progress report (Serious Games) – 20131016

Today, my group in serious games sat down and started working on our board game assignment that we got in that course. The main purpose of our game is to inform people about disease transmission. So we began by doing research on the subject, put together what each of us had found and worked our way from there. Note that the design below is the current rough version of what we got, it will most likely changes as we keep […]

Paper Prototype

This Monday my group and I started working on a paper prototype for our shoot em up.In the first version of our game we tried to make the prototype turn-based, where the player was supposed to kill the enemies who were controlled by random (We used Random.org) movements and predetermined actions. This didn’t work out very well so we scrapped that Idea. Then, this Tuesday we used a battle-ship like system. This worked much better, the only problem was that […]

Hello World!

Hello and welcome to my blog. 
My name as you might have figured out is Petter Vernersson. I studying my second year at Uppsala University Campus Gotland within the program Speldesign och Programmering (Game-design and Programming).This blog is going to be about my work in school but also my personal projects related to programming and games.

Game Jam – Friday

This post is gonna be a little bit out of date, but whatever…
Last friday I participated in the Uppsala University Campus Gotland Game Jam. which is basically an event in which all the students pair toghether and make games in a short time. The tools that were allowed to use was Game Maker and seemingly most graphics-oriented programs.
I paired of with two friends and a guy I had just met in the passing. We were a total of four people, […]