{"id":283,"date":"2017-02-26T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/?p=283"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:51:37","slug":"swedish-game-awards-in-visby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/updates\/swedish-game-awards-in-visby\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Game Awards in Visby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swedish_Game_Awards\">The Swedish Game Awards<\/a> is the nation&#8217;s largest video game development competition, pitting all Swedish game educations against each other. It has been held annually since 2002 and is organized by a student-driven, non-profit association. They <a href=\"http:\/\/gameawards.se\/post\/398\">just announced<\/a> that the 2017 finale will be held in Visby &#8211; just a few days after the Gotland Game Conference! <\/p>\n<p>Ergo, you might want to adjust your travel schedule to allow for a few more days in this medieval town of ours. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sga_screencap.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[283]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sga_screencap-630x466.jpg\" alt=\"Anouncement over at the Swedish Game Awards blog\" width=\"630\" height=\"466\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sga_screencap-630x466.jpg 630w, https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sga_screencap-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sga_screencap.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swedish_Game_Awards\">The Wikipedia page<\/a> is a good source of information for the SGA, including the competition categories and winners from previous years. We will of course <em>shamelessly<\/em> point out that our students generally fare very well; last year Gotland took home <em>Best Diversity Effort<\/em>, <em>Best Execution in Design<\/em>, <em>Best Technical Execution<\/em> <strong>and<\/strong> <em>Best Execution in Narrative<\/em>. Head on over at our less-official <a href=\"http:\/\/game.speldesign.uu.se\/\">department blog<\/a> for a full <a href=\"http:\/\/game.speldesign.uu.se\/tag\/swedish-game-awards\/\">list of all SGA-awards earned by our students<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Game Awards is the nation&#8217;s largest video game development competition, pitting all Swedish game educations against each other. It has been held annually since 2002 and is organized by a student-driven, non-profit association. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}