Awarded! Finally

So the Swedish Game Awards ceremony went down at the 18th of June so here is the update!
After presenting our game, the station was crowded due to the exterior design of the game and a lot of noises coming from the gathered crowd, we were finally ready for the ceremony that would be held the day after. I was getting everything ready for the evening, chosen my outfit and checking with my brother if he was ready to be picked […]

First Year: Done!

Participating in this game design course at Campus Gotland, University of Uppsala, made me evolve artistically and as a designer. I had come to realize a lot of things, gained experience in new areas, and finally but not least: Taking up drawing again. And this Blog will be the proof for me to recognize my own development.

Three projects where made:
1- Project minetrain: This was to learn how to build and create game concepts, design documents and how to pitch our […]

Defunct

Travel through an open world by picking up boosts to accelerate forward. Speed through tunnels, make incredible jumps and explore a fantastic earth abandoned by men and colonised by robots! Find the ideal path through the levels to grant yourself the best score possible on each map. Join your friends in this adventure to explore the world together.

Defunct is a 3rd person adventure game for PC. Played best with an Xbox 360 controller. You travel through the world by picking […]

Veer

Teleport and change your gravity to walk on walls. Use your wits to veer across the puzzles, and find the optimal path. Simple mechanics. Complex situations.

Veer is a avatar based 2D “reach the goal” platformer entirely focused on puzzles. The player utilizes teleporters and gravity shifts to reach the goal. Simple mechanics. Complex situations.
The levels are short and mostly resolves around a single problem, and you get ranked based on how fast you solve it. The vast majority of levels […]

Mechropolis

Mechropolis is a first person action puzzle game set in the ruins of a lost civilization. The only remaining lifesigns are small rusty robots carrying out the orders of their long gone masters. Fuse the robots together and exploit their new abilities and properties to overcome the challenges of Mechropolis.

The game is developed using the Unity engine, along with a number of plugins to enhance productivity.
Mathias Andersson – Producer, Level Design, Programmer
Viva Ivarsson – Designer, Artist
Kenth Ljung – Programmer
Ylva […]

The GGC! Presenting our games! Receiving awards! What a way to finish the year!

Gotland Game Conference invites people from the business with experience from the game developing world and foreign universities, people from japans industry were roaming around the game hall and trying out some innovative games. A selected few of the people from the business acts as a Jury, evaluating the games presented during the GGC, to later on present the results at the game awards ceremony. Attending and  presenting games are students from first, second and some from the third year.

The […]

Rearranging the puzzles

Our main idea was to make two different levels. The one we started on was meant to be the second one,the factory level. The first one would work like a tutorial level to present the different robots and solutions for the player and would be a city area. Apart from makin meshes, I have spent the last weeks designing the different puzzles and rooms for this set up, but by the end of last week we realised that we wouldn’t be able […]

Cogwheels, Design and UVs

This week I’ve continued with the UVs for the different robots. They are now finished for every robot, except the Controller. The player will be able to controll different robots when they fuse them with the Controller. We’ve discussed how this will be handled ingame and what it will look like for the player. At first we had the idea that the player would stand behind the robot and have a view from the robots back. This turned out quite […]

Puzzle design and UV-map

This week I was supposed to continue on the UV-mapping of the different robots. I had a meeting with our graphic teacher, Jonatan this tuesday and he gave me some advice on how to make the UVs in such a way that I could use them for both the fusion and the base version of the robots.
Instead of making an extra UV-map with the added details in the fusions, I UV-map the fused version of the robots. I also make […]

Theme Park

This week the next course began. In the course we are supposed to work in groups to make a game and input system for arcade machines.
My team is going for a game where you feed a crocodile and help it eat. You move the “crocodiles” teeth in a puzzle manner to eat the different kinds of foods that the crocodile is going to eat. The teeth have to be placed in certain places for it being able to eat the […]

3D3, real-time 3D

The Big Game Project has already begun and most of my time goes into developing our game. But before I’ll begin writing about that journey I’ll sum up what I’ve done in the previous 3D course.
Our first assignment was to create two tile able textures, to get some challenge I decided to go with realistic grass and a brick wall texture. I had most problems with the grass texture because I did didn’t want the texture to look to boring […]

Summer work and studies

Today the strangest thing happened when I was driving home from the grocery store.. I already had a workplace for the summer and plans to study life drawing aside, then suddenly my phone rang and I got an offer to work on a app this summer. We’re going to have a lunch meeting on Wednesday to talk about it more, I don’t want to spoil more details until things are decided but I’m really looking forward to it!
When […]