A huge chunk of the GAME department is traveling to Leeuwarden (Netherlands) tomorrow, to hang out with our friends at NHL Hogeschool for a week. Before leaving (which we do in… you know. five hours?) we wanted to publish the list of confirmed speakers and jury members.

With apologizes for the passive-agressive formatting, lack of titles, contexts or even logos. But hey; names and companies. More t/k. 😀

(and yes, the registration system will be online shortly. … it’s just – we got it delivered in Swedish. :P)

Register now!

Speakers

• Robert Nyberg, Massive Entertainment
• Irene Hjort, Massive Entertainment
• Jason Vanderberghe, Ubisoft
• Nick De Mey, Board of Innovation
• Shams Jorjani, Paradox Interactive
• Joe Robbins, Unity 3D
• Lee Brimelow, Adobe
• Daniel James, Three Rings

Jury

• Ernest Adams, International Hobo / Gotland University
• Anders Ekermo, Blizzard Entertainment
• Linda Kiby, Paradox Interactive
• Mirjam Eladhari, Gotland University
• Huda Mahdi, Masterstudent, City University of London and freelancer
• Mats Andersson, Pixeldiet
• Peter Stråhle, Might and Delight
• Carl Horned, EA Digital Illusions CE
• Daniel Hillström, Hill Marketing
• Johannes Wadin, TapeDuck
• Kajfa Tam, Massive Entertainment
• Friso Roolvink, NHL Hogeschool
• Eric Jacopin, Military School of Saint-Cyr
• Jan-Jaap Severs, Grendel Games
• Rudy Castan, Bigpoint USA
• Joakim Sjöberg, PowerGamer.se
• Jakob Berglund, Woven Games
• Nils Claesson, Stockholms Dramatiska Högskola
• Ylva Liljeholm, Film På Gotland
• Jonathan Lester, Dealspwn
• Oskar Skog, Loading.se

Partners

• ALMI Företagspartner
• Region Gotland, Näringslivsenheten
• Science Park Gotland

Josef Falkensköld – the one man freakshow band behind the Swedish metal wonder. The diabolic architect of the dance-band renaissance during the 21th century. The fifth member of ABBA.

A self employed composer and sound designer for various media, when he’s not busy touring the world with the Rolling stones he’s making noise for a variety of different gaming companies. And making money in the process…

Today however, he visited GAME to talk to our students about music and sound effects in games. Mucho cool.

Next week we’ll try and visit the students in the dungeons their offices. Stay tuned!

A week has gone by and it’s time for the first year students to pitch their arcade concepts to the department staff.

Marcus Ingvarsson – the primary instructor of the first year students – claims these people (his people) will kick the teeth out of every other year this education ever saw.

Not that he’s partial or anything. 🙂

10 weeks of Project Runway brutal production starts today.

We’ve got 15 first year teams, 12 in the second year. The third year is mostly doing thesis work, so we’re expecting 2 games and a massive art gallery. The fourth year is still shrouded in myth and mystery.

The countdown has started; it’s time to earn that spot in front of the jury and on the showfloor.