Game Concept Challenge 2009 is finished

Game Concept Challenge winner announced

Game Concept is a seven week course where the students are divided into groups and develop a design and playable game concept. After the course the different groups compete in Game Concept Challenge where they present their game infront of a jury with people from the game industry. This year there was members in the jury from Microsoft, Sony, Paradox Interactive, Grin, Avalanche and Team17.

The winner this year was Accelerando! Accelerando is a fast-paced, 3rd person platformer where the music beat is law. Time your jumps to build up combos because the better you perform, the more intense the music gets.

The game world is played upon a cylinder where gravity always points “down”, and there are no forbidden zones where you are not allowed to go; thus you are free to explore the entire world without restiction.

The jurys motivation was “The Winner Is Accelerando for a charming, unique and innovative game concept with pure mechanics, exciting online feature set and commersial possibilities, all presented in a confident and professional manner.”

The Accelerando Team;

Nassima Kesraoui
Sarah Kimblad
Linnéa Olsson
Tan Jun Li
Jonathan Björkman
Daniel Remle
Kian Bashiri
David Bengtsson

Sound and Music:
Calle Leppäjoki
Fredrik Häthén

During the two days that Game Concept Challenge took place we also ran a couple of 24 hour competitions and here are the winners:

Winners 24 hour competitions:

Tarsier Studios Concept Art Challenge

1st place – Winner of this year’s Concept Art Challenge
With best overall movement and a great artistic style. She has created art that looks like professional work.

Jenny Chen

2nd place
For creating a concept with great movement and for executing it with a striking style.

Sofie Augustsson

3rd place
A different take on a warrior god and well performed art of a character in motion.

Björn Håkansson

Kreativum Serious Games Challenge

1st place – Simon Gustafsson with “Hoppla”

Microsoft Coder Challenge

1 Daniel Dimovski – Gravity Balls

2 Joachim Bengtsson – Aurality

3 Fredrik Kuylenstierna – LaserGame 3D