World In Conflict Showdown 25/8
On wednesday the 25th of august at 21:30 a few selected of our elite students will be participating in Ubisoft Massive’s World In Conflict Showdown during the Malmö Festival. At the “Stortorget” in Malmö you will be able to see the students on the “Stora Scenen” (big stage) lashing it out at each other in intense combat for world domination…
Folkpartiet visiting The Game Assembly
Undersecretary (Statssekreterare) Karin Pilsäter and Member of Parliament Ulf Nilsson will visit The Game Assembly on the 23rd of August.
Karin Pilsäter is the undersecretary in the Ministry of Education and specializes in extension studies, study grants and vocational training. We welcome her an Ulf Nilsson and hope they will experience our fantastic students and our good relations with the commercial and industrial life we have here.
The class of 08 on internship
The Game Assembly´class of 08 are now out in the real world – doing game development. We proudly present the companies below where they are doing their magic:
Sweden
Ubisoft Massive (5 programmers and 8 artists)
Muskedunder (1 artist)
Starbreeze (2 artist)
Royal Republic (5 programmers and 4 artists )
Junebud (1 programmer and 1 artist )
Pixel tales (2 programmers)
A start-up (2 programmers and 1 artist )
Denmark
Serious Games (1 artist)
Finland
Rocket Pack (2 programmers and 1 artist)
Germany
Yager (1 programmer)
England
Codemasters (1 programmer)
Norway
Snow Castle (1 artist)
The Game Assembly Showreel 2010
We just finished our 2010 showreel for The Game Assembly. It features various student assignments and game projects. Have a look at it.
I'm making a note here: Huge Success
Yep, it’s that time of year again.
Summer is here and the students just finished their spring semester. So to uphold our ancient old tradition we celebrated this triumph by sacrificing (eating) lots of cakes to honor the almighty gods of gaming.
The cake was a huge success!
See you all this fall and the best of luck to all our applicants who will be thoroughly tested, interview and probed during the next weeks.
The best developers in Sweden
We are happy to announce that our Programming teacher Niklas Hansson was selected the 57th best developer in Sweden according to IDG.se .
Niklas Hansson is the designer of our C++-curriculum and together with our three other teachers at The Game Assembly, Martin Hammarbrink, Kostas Gialitakis and Danny Antivalidis, the strong link to gamedeveloping reality.
To get a taste of Niklas Hanssons programming skills you can visit his blog Game School Gems , where he shares his knowledge in game programming.
First Person Shooter Games available!
We now have the two top ranked games from 08’s Game Project 7 available for download in our “Games” section. Head on over there and give them a try!
09's Point and Click game installers
We now have the two top ranked games from 09’s Game Project 2 available for download in our “Games” section. Head on over there and give them a try!
Don’t forget that this Thursday is the last day to apply for our programs this year.
29th of May - Test-day for those who apply for the programming course
For all those who apply for our programming course we need you to do a test in math, logic and physics. Since there are so many applying for the course we need to make a preliminary cut before we start calling people to interviews. These tests are meant to do so that we wont have to waste your or our time with interviews when your math skills will prevent you from passing.
We will of course have complimentary testing during the interview day and the results of those will be weighted into the final selection instead of the online tests.
We will mail all the people who have applied through our database with more information. So don´t forget the 29th of May. We will send you a test to your e-mail and you will have a limited time to solve the problems.
Real Time Strategy Games available!
We now have the two top ranked games from 08’s Game Project 6 available for download in our “Games” section. Head on over there and give them a try!
Codemasters visit The Game Assembly
Just before Nordic Game Conference, the 26th of May, Codemasters came to The Game Assembly to catch up with our students who are going out on internship this summer. The response we got was…
Gallery Update, 08's Game Project 7 Video
This video shows a few highlights from the seventh game project for both the Game Art and Game Programming students of 08. The students had 9 weeks to finish this project parallel to working with regular school courses. The groups consisted of 5 art students and 5 programming students each.
The students have one more game projects ahead of them during their education.
Head over to the Gallery page to read more about the project and view the video.
Keep an eye out for the downloadable versions of the games which will be available later.
The FPS games are finished!
Our 08 students have been working hard on their 7:th game project. First Person Shooters this time. Deadline was today and they really put in a whole lot of work in these games.
Head over to the 08 Gallery page for screenshots from the games.
Trailers and downloadable versions of the fps-games will be available soon.
Open house the 24th of March
The Game Assembly had another succesful Open House at the 24th of March. Over 50 people showed up and we hope that all of them got a good idea of what we do here. Almost all our students were in our facilities and answered questions and showed what they were doing at the moment.
And don´t forget to join our our Facebookgroup
Meet and Greet the 23rd of March
The 23rd of March The Game Assembly invited 18 companies to meet our students. It was a great success and our students got a good idea of their future employment if they decide to stay in the region. The energy was strong in the room and the food and beverage tasted excellent thanks to Välfärden.
Cookie Monsters
As a part of their concept art and texturing course, our 09 students participated in conceptart.org ‘s Creature of the week challenge “The Real Cookie Monster”.
Have a look at some of the cookie monsters at the 09 gallery page
09's gallery update
Our 09 students are currently working hard on their concept art and texturing course.
Head over to the 09 gallery page for some samples of what they have produced.
Meet and Greet the Game Assembly
The 23rd of March The Game Assembly have invited companies with an interest in interactivity and 3D visualization. We want to present our students to a possible future and we have of course several game companies on board. For example Ubisoft Massive, Southend Interactive, Illusion labs , Serious Games (DK), Junebud and Tarsier Studios. Other companies that have announced that they are coming are TAT och Ugly Duckling .
OPEN HOUSE at The Game Assembly 2010
OPEN HOUSE at The Game Assembly on the 24th of March.
Date: 24th of March
Time: 17.00-20.00
Location: Kalendegatan 9, Malmö
We will give information all through the evening in the lecture room.
If you just want to talk to us or the students there will be opportunity for that.
There will be a person letting you in at our main door and you will need to sign in with your name, address, phone number and e-mailaddress due to security.
The Game Assembly on Facebook
Gallery Update, 09's Game Project 2 Video
This video shows a few highlights from the second game project for both the Game Art and Game Programming students of 09. The students had 8 weeks to finish this project parallel to working with regular school courses. The groups consisted of 4 art students and 4 programming students each.
The students have 6 more game projects ahead of them during their education.
Head over to the Gallery page to read more about the project and view the video.
Keep an eye out for the downloadable versions of the games which will be available later.
A visit from the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education
On the 11th of March we had a visit from Director-General Pia Enochsson, Margareta Landh and Per-Åke Bladh of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education. Hans Henecke, Enterprise Manager of region Skåne was invited to show our close collaboration with southern Sweden’s digital media investment. We also invited Martin Walfisz (CEO and founder of Planeto), Petter Sydow (Development Manager at Ubisoft Massive) and Orvar Säfström (board member and cultural journalist) to show our close collaboration with the business community.
As usual, it was really our students who contributed the most by showing their commitment and motivation.
In the evening we had an open house for people interested in applying to the school. There were roughly 30 curious people.
We are really looking forward to the applications and to the next open house, the 24th of Mars.
Welcome!
Gallery Update, 08's Game Project 6 Video
This video shows a few highlights from the sixth game project for both the Game Art and Game Programming students of 08. The students had 9 weeks to finish this project parallel to working with regular school courses. The groups consisted of 5 art students and 5 programming students each.
The students have 3 more game projects ahead of them during their education.
Head over to the Gallery page to read more about the project and view the video.
Keep an eye out for the downloadable versions of the games which will be available later.
Prominent visitors on their way to TGA
The 11th of March the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education sends their Director General Pia Enochsson.
As rather new in her position she wants to get to know their core business, education, and The Game Assembly is a good example since we have so excellent students.
Our Art teacher Kostas shares knowledge about shaders
Our game art teacher Kostas Gialitakis is working hard to be as inspirational as possible when it comes to game art. In his home page he has some interesting material that might come you readers in handy.
And as all personnel at The Game Assembly Kostas have a strong belief in sharing. We feel lucky having Kostas on board.
Game School Gems launched!
Niklas Hansson, The Game Assembly´s head game programming teacher, has today launched his blog with programming tutorials; Game School Gems.
For those who has a special interest in game programming this is the perfect spot to find more inspiration. For those who are interested in applying to The Game Assembly ´s game programming course, this is the blog to get the general picture of what our second year programmers learn to do.
Space Shooter Games available!
We now have the two top ranked games from 08’s Game Project 5 available for download in our “Games” section. Head on over there and give them a try!
New Game Art Teacher
The Game Assembly has SOFE-student doing his internship at our 3D department, Niklas Elling. He´s going to be here for about 20 weeks and he has already made our marketing material and held a lecture in UV-mapping for characters. We really appreciate his presence and hope he will develop as a 3D-instructor here. In the end we hope he´s got a good insight in both how we do games and how we make our students understand that they need to take charge over their own development.
08's rts preview and new 09's gallery
Our 08 students are working hard on their latest games. Real Time Strategy this time.
Head over to the 08 gallery page for a preview.
Our 09 students have been making weapons, buildings and low poly characters.
Have a look in the new 09 gallery page.
Gallery Update, 08's Game Project 5 Video
This video shows a few highlights from the fifth game project for both the Game Art and Game Programming students of 08. The students had 10 weeks to finish this project parallel to working with regular school courses. The groups consisted of 5 art students and 5 programming students each.
Head over to the Gallery page to read more about the project and view the video.
Keep an eye out for the downloadable versions of the games which will be available on our later.
The Game Assembly got High score!
The Game Assembly have had a routine visit from the National Agency for Higher Vocational Education. They interviewed The Game Assembly´s staff, our students and our Board of Education, asking questions about what we do and how we do it.
I have translated two quotes from the report The Agency wrote after the visit. I think they say alot about about our education.
“The educational pace is very high, partly because there is no limit on how good a student can be, you can always be better.”
TGA09's top 3 Text Adventure Games...
…are now available for download in our Games section! Go get em while they’re hot.
Vertical Tic Tac Toe-tournament 09
The Game programmers at The Game Assembly ends their first term in challenging each other in a Vertical Tic Tac Toe-tournament. Everybody has written their own AI and the price is to meet….
2 new games available!
We now have the two top ranked games from 08’s Game Project 4 available for download in our “Games” section. Head on over there and give them a try!
The Game Assembly rocks!
The National Agency for Higher Vocational Education was here yesterday to check out our education. They met our staff, our students and our Board of education. I think we answered a thousand questions between 8.00 to 15.00. In the end the two agency-people people didn´t have anything to comment. They just congratulated us on having super students (and we know that) and we are now waiting for the report.
They also said they never had such well formulated answers from students before. Our students showed such commitment that they were astonished. I know that our students sometimes think that we drive them to hard but it´s just because we want them to become what they dream of – game developers!
I, Ann-Sofie, also want to say (again) that I am a lucky person who gets to work with the future of Sweden, with that I mean our students, and with my dream team crew, Danny Antivalidis, Kostas Gialitakis, Martin Hammarbrink and Niklas Hansson. The world is waiting!
ps. And thanks to our Board of education. You were well prepared, gave the agency a lot of facts and gave us a lot of love. ds
Gallery Update, various Game Art 08 artwork
We just updated our Gallery site with some recent artwork from the Game Art 08 students. Head over there to check it out!
Fall at The Game Assembly
So what’s new?
One of our many talented art students Simon Persson has a feature article in the latest issue of CGArenas digital magazine…
We have a The Game Assembly floor ball team since about a month ago…
This week we’re starting our figure drawing evenings here at the school…
And last but not least. Emma Mellander, in our board of education, visited us and brought a bag of stuff from Tokyo Game Show…
Our new name - The Game Assembly!
The Game Academy changes name to The Game Assembly today!
Hermods changes the name on The Game Academy to The Game Assembly. This is due to a dispute to the trademark with a German company plus we wanted a name that portrayed our education better. We educate both game artists and game programmers here at The Game Assembly. The games our students create and build they do together, both game artists and game programmers. And that´s because The Game Assembly work hard with with communication skills. Because it´s in the communication mistakes can appear. The word assembly means meeting place. forum and gathering – to put together. And that´s The Game Assembly. We meet up and put together games.
Gallery Update, 08's Game Project 4 Video
This video shows a few highlights from the fourth game project for both the Game Art and Game Programming students of 08. The students…
Head over to the Gallery page to read more about the project and view the video.
I'm making a note here: Huge Success
So summer is here as most of you must have noticed by now, and what better way to celebrate these two great first terms at our school than with some “Portal cake”?
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Illusion Labs guest lecture
We had Carl Loodberg and Andreas Alptun over from Illusion Labs to tell us about their company and what they do. They showed us their applications running on an Apple iPhone and…
2 new games available!
We now have the two top ranked games from 08’s Game Project 3 available for download in our “Games” section. Head on over there and give them a try!
Gallery Update, 08's Game Project 3 Video
This video shows a few highlights from the third game project for both the Game Art and Game Programming students of 08. The students…
Head over to the Gallery page to read more about the project and view the video.
Keep an eye out for the downloadable versions of the games which will be available on our site in a day or two!
New programs at The Game Assembly
Is it time for the next step?
The Game Assembly starts up with two new educations; Casual Games – Entrepreneurship and Production and Middle Level Management in Digital Creative Industry
Check out our new "Games" section
We now have a “Games” section on webpage where you can check out our students game projects. The featured games are also available for you to download and try them yourselves…
OPEN HOUSE at The Game Assembly again
We have an OPEN HOUSE at The Game Assembly the 22nd of April.
Date: 22nd of April
Time: 17.00-20.00
Location: Kalendegatan 9, Malmö
Gallery Update, 08's Characters, Vehicle & Environment Assignments
Hey hey,
There’s an update over at our gallery showing of a few selected Character, Vehicle and Environment assignments that the students of Game Art 08…
Head over to the Gallery page to view the update!
Why choose The Game Assembly?
From day one the students at The Game Assembly get to make games. All in all they make eight complete games throughout their education. They start off with a text based adventure game and then move on to a point and click game and then a shoot-em-up game and so on and so on.
Gallery Update, 08's Game Project 2 Video
This video shows a few highlights from the second game project for both the Game Art and Game Programming students of 08….
Head over to the Gallery page to view the video.
So what's new?
Well, yesterday we opened our doors for the public to come and visit our school. We held presentations to inform all the visitors about our educations, people got to speak to the staff, talk to students, etc…
Paper article
Our education was featured in the February issue of “Vårt Malmö”, a monthly regional paper…
OPEN HOUSE at The Game Assembly
We have an OPEN HOUSE at The Game Assembly the 4th of March.
Date: 4th of March
Time: 17.00-20.00
Location: Kalendegatan 9, Malmö
At 17.30 and 18.30 we´ll gather everybody up in our lecture room and go through information about application and how we work here.
If you just want to talk to us or the students there will be opportunity for that.
The Game Assembly/Hermods - Support members in Dataspelsbranschen
Per Strömbäck from the Association of Swedish Game Developers, Dataspelsbranschen, made a visit to The Game Assembly. To have a good relationship with the Swedish game industry is essential to us and our education.
Gallery Updates!
We finally have some nice images in our student gallery. Head over there now and check them out!
Gabriel, Art Director from Ubisoft Massive
Gabriel Odgren, the Art Director at Ubisoft Massive, gave the Game Art students at The Game Assembly a load full of information, inspiration and valuable knowledge from his work.
Board of Education at The Game Assembly
We had a Board of Education Meeting the 3rd of February. We didn´t catch everybody in the picture but from the left there is; Ann-Sofie Sydow from The Game Assembly, Johan Rönnqvist game programmer at the Game Assembly, Samuel Henningsson from Netport…
Late Friday afternoon
The Game Assembly students has just started a new project this week. The activity is high and there are people sitting in groups talking about rigging, story, dates and so on and so on…On the picture you can see Felix in heavy thoughts. He is selected the art lead in his group and that means a whole lot more than just doing nice art.
Albert from Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore
Albert Lim from Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore came to The Game Assembly on his way to Karlshamn. We showed him our facilities and discussed possible collaborations in the future exchanging students.
Vertical Tic Tac Toe-tournament
The Game programmers at The Game Assembly ends their first term in challenging each other in a Vertical Tic Tac Toe-tournament. Everybody has written their own AI and the price is to meet….
Microsoft at TGA
The 14th of November Microsoft came to…
Swedish Game Awards
Swedish Game Awards came to The Game Assembly and and told us about their competition.
TGA at SACO-fair i Malmö
Cajsa won the Ipod at the SACO-fair in Malmö…
Starbreeze wishes TGA a Merry Christmas
We thank Starbreeze for sending us a sweet Christmas present; The Darkness game for both XBOX and PC. We welcome you to our humble establishment any time.
From Unity with Love
The Game Assembly had a house raming party and Sten Selander from Unity (Copenhagen) came with a nice Wii plus an extra Wiimote.
From Massive with Love
We thank Ubisoft Massive for sponsoring our recreational area with an XBOX and a PS3 including games.
