On the 17th of September our students showed their games and projects at the popular Estonian gaming event MängudeÖÖ. Compared to our previous expo visit to Comic Con Baltics, our booth in MängudeÖÖ was three times larger. This allowed us also to showcase our current virtual reality (VR) projects, one of which had multiplayer. Overall […]
Back in 2019, our students showed their games at a gaming convention GameOn in Lithuania. Since then we had been waiting for another chance to go to that event, but due to Covid that wait was for a couple of years. Now in 2022, GameOn partnered up with another big Lithuanian convention – Comic Con […]
GameOn is a gaming and game development event in Lithuania. The event includes many interesting activities for different gaming related people. From cosplay and e-sports to game development conferences and presentations to indie games expo and game development awards. Our students Jens-Stefan and Kristo showed their games Vrena and Pompeii during the Indie Town games […]
On Saturday 21.09 there was the Euronics’ E-Sport Day event in Lõunakeskus. Our MSc student Jens-Stefan showed his game Vrena in that event and held a tournament to find the best Vrena team. There were 7 teams of 2 players who competed for the first place in the tournament. Vrena is inspired by oldschool competitive arena […]
In this article series we presented a game design analysis for virtual reality game developers by investigating certain game aspects of a virtual reality game Tribocalypse VR. The given analysis was made possible due to the prior development of Tribocalypse VR by the author and the development team for 6 months. The aspects analysed were level […]
In this article we explore the design choices for different weapons in Tribocalypse VR. We discuss the relation of weapons in regular PC games to weapons in VR games. Again we use immersion and clarity to analyze the different design choices. Items that the player can pick up in TVR are spears, bombs, the bow and […]
In this third part we go through the different interface designs we tried in Tribocalypse VR (TVR) and explain the different levels of immersion and clarity in each of them. The graphical user interface (GUI) in computer games usually consists of informative or interactable elements such as menu screens, score tables, buttons and levers in the […]
In this part we discuss the environment and level design principles. We bring out the rationale game developers should consider when building their levels and positioning the player. The players must feel as if they are part of the created world. Game developers and artists work hard to provoke this feeling in the players. HTC […]
Welcome, reader! This is the first part of a series of articles, which delve into game design for VR platforms. We focus on the HTC Vive platform and room-scale VR. Many of the concepts also apply to other VR platforms and the critical analysis of different game design elements is transferable to other areas as […]
The Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Lab at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia provides video game development, virtual reality (VR), and computer graphics education both inside and outside the uni and a study place for our students.
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University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science and CGVR laboratory recently hosted an event that brought together game developers of all skill levels, though, mostly focusing on beginners. This event saw a record-breaking 83 participants forming 16 teams — making it our biggest game jam yet! A Challenge for (Beginner) Game Developers The University of […]
It was amazing to be back at GameOn with our students and their games after several years. The last time we were, there was back in 2022 when it was organized together with Comic Con Baltics. GameOn is one of the biggest video game conventions in the Baltics. From the 18th to the 20th of […]