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Robin Flodin; 25 years old and founder of Zeal Game Studio – employer of 29 people – was awarded “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” yesterday! Unfortunately all information about the award, the award givers and their motivations is forever lost in the dark cavernous void that is the Swedish language. We apologize for the shortsightedness [...]

Jerry and Lina in Storm Potion Entertainment have been working hard over summer, improving their multiple-GGC-award-winning game. They’re almost ready to let it loose on the world, but want to have some dedicated players to let them know what they think. They have a limited number of spaces in their beta, so if you want [...]

Gamex 2012 might have been the smallest incarnation of the exhibition so far, but our independent game developers saw some good action. Once again gathering under the umbrella of Gotland University GAME we got to see Pixel Ferrets return to Sweden to show off Secrets of Grindea (winner of Swedish Game Awards 2012, and recently [...]

Zeal Game Studios launched A Game of Dwarves yesterday! It’s a classic management and strategy title, which puts players into the metaphoric shoes of a dwarven prince who seeks to expand dwarvenkind’s prestige, underground dominance, and, of course, amass large amounts of treasure. Yay treasure! Utilizing a combination of strategy and management, A Game of [...]

Gotland developed Secrets of Grindea has just been greenlit! Steam Greenlight went live on August 30 this year, as a way for Steam users to help promote which games should be added to the service. It works by developers submitting information about their games and users can then pledge support. Valve regularly goes through the [...]

Storm Potion is an independent game studio that consists of two game design students, Jerry Jonsson and Lina Tonegran. We focus on developing games for social platforms and handheld devices, games that are appealing to a broad audience and can be enjoyed by both experienced gamers and casual players. We are passionate about playing and [...]

Little Warlock is a casual browser based collectible card game that’s suitable for a broad audience. It’s very easy to learn yet offers a great diversity and multiple playing style choices for the experienced player. Collect, create and trade hundreds of different cards that can be used to summon creatures, build structures or cast spells [...]

Pixel Ferrets’ Secret of Grindea just won Game Of The Year at the Swedish Game Awards! These awesome news arrives just a week after them receiving the Public Choice at the Gotland Game Conference. Teddy Sjöström – solo programmer at Pixel Ferrets – is a veteran. He ran PowerOf2 Games (in collaboration with Robin Flodin) [...]

Sundsvall. The capital of Norrland. 100 000 inhabitants. 50 000 in the city. The stone city, after no less than four raging fires throughout its history. Heavy industry; forest, paper, aluminum. 1 percent of the Swedish population, using up more than 5 percent of the electricity. Apart from industry also banking, insurance and IT. And [...]