The Game of Life Preview

What you see before you is a collection of comic samples from the inaugural The Game of Life anthology. Each comic was developed by a series of students enrolled in Uppsala University’s Introduction to Comic Making course, which is hosted by the Department of Game Design. The teams were tasked with drawing a comic that is inspired by something personal to them in a choice of traditional comic formats (comic books, bandes dessinees, graphic novels and manga), webtoons (scrollable comics normally hosted online) or even interactive/ motion comics. As you will see before you, the theme was interpreted as uniquely and diversely as each member of the course.

Of note, you’ll encounter stories based upon memories of a moment from a roleplaying game, expressions of wanting more or something different, stories of loss, stories of triumph, but most importantly, stories that our comic makers wanted to be told. As a small content warning, some comics feature mild violence and a reading age of 13+ is advised.

Webtoon pieces have been reformatted for print purposes, but we recommend reading them in their intended format, which can be found in our digital collection or on the supplied links in some of the comics (you can also find them on the main Jam Page). While each example in this book has a very small sample of pages, you willfind the full length comics hosted on our Itch.io page (accessible via the QR link below).

We hope that you enjoy the work as much as we loved making it!

Sincerely, Ray Whitcher (Course Coordinator) and the Game of Life team.