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Oxeye Game Studio Previews Project B

Jens Bergensten — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:00:45 +0000

Oxeye Game Studio previewed their current work-in-progress, Project B.

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Mårten Brüggemann on An Ode to Gregory Janson

Jens Bergensten — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:00:49 +0000

Mårten Brüggemann told us about his first idol, Gregory Janson, and what he worked with and what became of him.

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Presentation schedule is final

eriksvedang — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:06:36 +0000

Go over to the summary page to see it.

The exact location of the event

eriksvedang — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:30:01 +0000

Ooops… it seems like we’ve forgotten to say exactly where in Skövde the event will be, sorry about that! For those who attended the first NMS — we will not be in the same place!

We’re going to hang out at the business incubator Gothia Science Park that is located next to the university (and very close to the train station).

Click here for walking directions on Google maps

The building looks like this:

Just enter through the front door and you will find us directly to the right on the bottom floor!

Call this number if you get lost: +46 (0)73 75 66 716

it’s your last chance gringo!

grapefrukt — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:23:35 +0000

Come tomorrow it’s only a week until the start of the glorious NMS2010 with more than twenty people signed up already we’re slowly approaching the attendance of last year, but there’s plenty of room for more.

If you haven’t signed up already, make sure you do before Friday (July 2nd). That’ll be our cutoff date. The instructions are in this post.

Stay tuned to this very blog the coming days for more updates about the event. And as always, if you have any questions, post them in the comments!

All claims that this post first had a weird date are untrue. I deny any and all accusations.

What have you been doing the whole winter?

eriksvedang — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:14:23 +0000

Hello!

Another awesome No More Sweden is in the works, hopefully we can soon secure a location. The preliminary dates for this year’s event is July, 1-4th or 8-11th. If you’ve got a big problem with attending any of those weekends, comment below so that we can see how many people want to change it to some other time. The thinking behind the dates is that it’s late enough for people to actually have started their vacation but still far enough from the BIGjam in August. For general questions about the event, use this e-mail: info@nomoresweden.se

The big upgrade this year’s NMS is that we will try to focus more on learning from each other and show off our work. Everyone who is interested in giving a talk should send an e-mail to erik.svedang@gmail.com with a short description off what they’d want to do and how much time they’ll need. Hopefully this can become a great opportunity to get to know more about what everybody is up to; a kind of mini-GDC (but more fun!)

Examples of what YOU could do:

Show prototypes, experiments, unreleased stuff etc. Finished or unfinished, it doesn’t matter.
Show a finished game you’ve made and explain your thinking behind it
Review/show anything that you find inspiring
Talk about game design, art, sound, programming, whatever (maybe you have given a talk somewhere else that you can use again?)
Give a tutorial or “tips & trix”-session for some program that you like (Gamemaker, Unity, Flash, Photoshop, etc)
Rant about something that pisses you off
Panel discussion (suggest other panel members) about a subject matter close to your heart
Share an experience of being an indie game developer
Anything else you can come up with

So please, think of a something you would want to do and help us make this a reality!!!

Also, for those who worry: there will still be a competition (Jens is going to be in charge of that) but it’s going to take less time and be a little less serious than last year.

Hope to see you at this year’s No More Sweden!

The Aftermath

grapefrukt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:23:16 +0000

Thanks for an excellent couple of days. Now all that’s left is to get these games on the internet so people can play them.
We plan to publish the games on the site within a week, but as most of you have your own blogs/sites we figured you may want to put them there instead. So we won’t just put all the submissions up and be done with it.

What to do:

Please send us a screenshot, we *might* grab some ourselves, but your will probably be better. That’s a surefire way get you a lot of more players.
If you want to you can have a small text to accompany your game. Maybe your words or what you tried to communicate. Send us that too.
Choose a publishing option:
- If you want to keep the game on your site, send us a link to your page about the game.
- If you want to update your game, send us a new one.
- If you *don’t* want us to publish, tell us!

Minor tweaks to your game a bit are also fine, but don’t overdo it, it’s supposed to be done within the time limit.

We’ll publish Sunday (2/8) so we need your stuff before then!

Send your updates to this to competition@nomoresweden.se (note that it’s .se not .com)

The Timelapse

grapefrukt — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:15:50 +0000

This is the 58 hours of jamming compressed into about two minutes. You have to be pretty fast to make a game in that time, but this is 1750x faster.

Winners!

Erik Svedang — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:16:18 +0000

Here are the winners of the No More Sweden 09 main game making competition:

Best experience

1st place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

2nd place — Really Shooter + Cleaning Lady vs. Masters of the Universe

3d place – The Mad Man and the Door

Most satisfying feedback

1st place — Really Shooter + Cleaning Lady vs. Masters of the Universe

2nd place – Masters of the Universe

3d place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

Most beautiful moiré effect

1st place — Jack Guzi

2nd place — Jesus vs. Feminist

3d place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

Most procedural

1st place — Flatulance Dungeon

2nd place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

Least controversial

1st place — Goodbye Wave

2nd place — Second Shooter

3d place — Jack Guzi

Most efficient subliminal message

1st place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

2nd place (tie) — Guy in the Desert AND Really Shooter + Cleaning Lady vs. Masters of the Universe

Most emo

1st place (epic tie) — The Tall Man AND Guy in the Desert AND Schizofrenic Man and Woman

Congratulations to all winners!!!

The Games for voting

grapefrukt — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:00:55 +0000

One Trullz of Power (Ian Lundbom) - sa(n)dened envy
Team Awesome (Michael Todd, Daniel Kaplan) – Becoming Collosal
Michael Todd - Second Shooter
Notch (Markus Persson) – Jack Guzi
Magnus Jönsson – Chokläd
Sausage Fest (Jeb, Kinten) – Guy in the desert
Starck
Hästkista (Jonas Pettersson, Henrik Flink, Daniel Starck)
Team Frosty Data (Data, Nicklas Frostgård) - banjo kablooie
Team Hideous (Hideous) - Magic Triangle
The Tall Man (Anders Falk och Olle Lundhall) – The Tall Man
5=£?/PWÌ (Nifflas och Yann) - R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!
Jonatan Söderström – Masters of the Universe
Ex-ex-ex-perimental (Martin Jonasson, Petri Purho) – Mother Sucker
Decimal (Anders Ekermo) - Alain
Copenhagen Game Collective (Lau, Dajana, Doug ?)
Champagne (Richard Olsson & Erik Svedäng) - Jesus vs. Feminist
K.N.A. (Kian, Nils, Andreas) – Spirit Horse of the Cherokee
Four Dimensons (Joel Nyström, Daniel Remar) – Really Shooter + Cleaning Lady vs. The Masters of the Universe
Epic Awesomeness (Gustav Jansson)
Jon – the mad man and a door
Ido – Flatulence Dungeon
Gummilaget (Tommy Preger) – Goodbye Wave
Bernie - C Y A N M A G E N T A S E X