The Institution of Game Design at Uppsala University campus Gotland; teaching Design, Programming & Art since -01. And we host the Gotland Game Conference.
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Come and join our virtual arcade - gotlandgameconference.com/20… Play the games at any time, or come between 13:00 and 16:00 Swedish time and meet the developers!
Vote for your favourite game in the Public Choice Award. Here are the games!
youtu.be/3GXX39AUD6E
This year's Gotland Game Conference was cancelled due to Covid-19. But our students have produced some amazing games for our, virtual, show floor.
The GGC Showcase is here: itch.io/jam/gotland-game-con… until 23:00 CEST, Thursday. With more than 35 games, there's something for you.
And we have the winners of this year's Gotland Game Conference Awards gotlandgameconference.com/20… #ggconf19 Congratulations to all!
Amazingly - we have 3 lectures already up! I'll thread them and the presentations.
The lectures are here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
And Dr Jen Jenson, Equity in Thinking, Design and Action youtube.com/watch?v=7w_NUUVa… The Slides: bit.ly/31fVLoV and the Tweets: nitter.gq/GotlandGAME/status/113… #GGConf19
Dorthe Hove Olesen (stagescph.dk/) Building your Company, from Indie Darlings to Big Busniess: youtube.com/watch?v=yCWjBo1S…
Tweets are here: nitter.gq/GotlandGAME/status/113…
#ggconf19
We're back after lunch for Dorthe Hove Olesen stagescph.dk/ She's a Corporation Therapist. Her presentation: Building your company, from indie darlings to big business #ggconf19
Sabine Harrer. Roots of Dysfunction. youtube.com/watch?v=kWLTfeNZ… You can follow with the tweets here: nitter.gq/GotlandGAME/status/113… #ggconf19
Sabine Harrer, great friend of the education, is researchgate.net/profile/Sab… up with Roots of Dysfunction #ggconf19
Apologies about the late linking.
Here is Dr Jen Jenson's (jenjenson.com/) paper: Equity in Thinking, Design and Action bit.ly/31fVLoV #GGConf19
Gotland GAME retweeted
@GotlandGAME Conference has been a great experience, SO many cool student games! Also appreciate the #workers rights in #gamedev theme; I had a lot to say about #unions, #guilds and @gcldf in my opening lecture, as well as to @svt (this is a short excerpt) svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/ost/ho…
And that's the conference. We have slides incoming, links will be posted within the hour! #ggconf19
Sabine Harrer, great friend of the education, is researchgate.net/profile/Sab… up with Roots of Dysfunction #ggconf19
Q: I work in board games. All these mechanics are colonial. How on earth do we change this? How do we decolonise these mechanics?
A: That's a hard one. Can you look at other areas for mechanics. Look to non-board games for mechanics and systems. -> #ggconf19
We should grow wild, with the ideas we have locally.
There is a ton of references here. Have a root through them #ggconf19
There are ways of living with nature, rather than colonising. We can learn from those who garden naturally, referring to local plants/ideas and nurturing them. Such as these games #ggconf19
And finally - Threats
We look at the term Indiepocalypse as a thing where indie games lost the ability to earn money. But, it was actually the rise of other games that meant that the early colonisers could no longer dump a platformer with a twist and take all the money #ggconf19
And systemic challenges are not just race, but also gender. And while we say that as we are bringing more diverse people into the industry to make it better - these people are also ones who leave it faster #ggconf19
So - when we look at organising - we should organise for the system, not the individuals we know #ggconf19
But why do we look at the center of the problem. Why don’t we look at the periphery. Look at the people who are making the tools and computers that allow us to make these games/gardens #ggconf19
