Swedish game awards Conference – Day 1 (Part 1)

This weekend me and a few other from school traveled to Stockholm to attend the Swedish game awards conference in Stockholm. The conference was two days long. On the first day I went to two of talks.
The first talk where by Sjoerd De Jong, from Teotl Studios. He talked about Unreal engine 4 and a new feature or called Blueprint. Blueprint is a Visual programming tool that is a mix between kismet from UDK/Unreal engine3 and with some features […]

Level Design Diary Part 1 (10-12 March)

I’m currently working together with Johan Wittrock on the final assignment in our Level Design course. The assignment is to analyse an level in a certain game, and try to arrive at conclusions to as of why it is the most popular map. Me and Johan choose to analyze Payload maps in Team Fortress 2.¨

So far, by looking at server statistics, we have come to the conclusion that Badwater Basin is the most popular Payload map, followed by Gold Rush. […]

Project Aurora, post 9, (Blog Assignment 5) Darkness in the deep

In our game it gets darker the deeper you go in the ocean and I was tasked to implement this feature because I had already worked with the camera and the black filter that covers the view (see earlier posts).
My first thought was to implement this so the changes of opacity are only happening where the camera is but I started with asking my fellow group mates and class mates how they would go about doing this. All of them […]

Before the Beta. Day 1

First day of the week. We decided to do late evenings until Thursday rather than having to do it all on Thursday night(again). 
Today i did the mistake of going after Oliver when updating Git and therefor had to adjust mu code with the changes he had made in his which took over an hour and because of me messing up my updates i ended up wiping part of what i had done during the day and i had to redo […]

SGA Conference – Day 2

Yesterday was the second and final day of the Swedish Game Awards Conference. I attended several interesting talks, among them:
Dan Thronström from Avalanche Studios gave a talk about how the dynamics between publishers and developers in the AAA segment seems to be changing as developers turn to other ways of financing their games, such as crowdfunding or self-funding.
Romi Gråhed from DICE gave a passionate talk on project management, the best part of which was a segment […]

SGA Conference – Day 2

Yesterday was the second and final day of the Swedish Game Awards Conference. I attended several interesting talks, among them:
Dan Thronström from Avalanche Studios gave a talk about how the dynamics between publishers and developers in the AAA segment seems to be changing as developers turn to other ways of financing their games, such as crowdfunding or self-funding.
Romi Gråhed from DICE gave a passionate talk on project management, the best part of which was a segment […]

(Part 1) Swedish Game Awards Conference 2014 Report

Last weekend, Swedish Game Awards Conference 2014 took place in Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm. Me and a couple of other students from Campus Gotland was attending the conference. In the next coming posts, I will give my impressions on the Conference.
I will talk about the talks that was given in the upcoming posts, because there is a lot that can be said about those. The reason to why there aren’t many images in these posts is because my phone decided to […]

Time to worry

Today we had a play testing session during the afternoon but we had to use the more buddy version of the game since Oliver was sick and his computer was the only one who inexplicably was able to run the game without a few major bugs. And such our game was once again not shown from it’s best side but i think we did alright anyways. What’s important right now is to get a bunch of stuff in the game […]

Visuell Feedback

Hej igen, jag har denna vecka suttit och pillat med visuell feedback. Jag började veckan med att sätta mig ner och börja klura på hur jag skulle få animationer att fungera. Min första tanke var att använda mig av kod jag har skrivit till spelprogrammering1 men detta misslyckades fatalt, av anledningar som ingen verkar kunna lista ut. Det hela funkar som så att jag har en textfil som berättar vad av en bild som ska visas och detta laddas in […]

SGA Conference – Day 1

I’m in Stockholm over the weekend for the Swedish Game Awards Conference. After a long day of traveling (got up at 5.30 in the morning to catch the ferry to the mainland), mingeling and lectures, I retreat to a well deserved night’s sleep.
Two highlights stood out for me among the day’s events:
I met Angelica Norgren and Josef Fares, both involved in the Swedish gaming-focused radio show P3 Spel that I enjoy every week in podcast format. […]

SGA Conference – Day 1

I’m in Stockholm over the weekend for the Swedish Game Awards Conference. After a long day of traveling (got up at 5.30 in the morning to catch the ferry to the mainland), mingeling and lectures, I retreat to a well deserved night’s sleep.
Two highlights stood out for me among the day’s events:
I met Angelica Norgren and Josef Fares, both involved in the Swedish gaming-focused radio show P3 Spel that I enjoy every week in podcast format. […]

Arriving in Nynäshamn

This weekend I’m attending to Swedish Game Awards Conference. It’s a conference that has attracted many bug developers and that are going to present different talks.
As I’m writing this we’re heading toward Stockholm, Flemingsberg. Soon I can take a break from the traveling and refreshed up in our hotel room that I share with my girlfriend! Much needed before a weekend of different and interesting talks!
Yours sincerely, Oskar.