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 [...]

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 [...]

The Department of Game Design, Technology and Learning Processes at Gotland University has just opened the registration for Gotland Game Conference 2012! Board of Innovation is headlining with two sessions on innovative business models for games. You might’ve seen their amazing work over at slideshare? Gotland University tells us the Board will create new material [...]

Science Park Gotland hosted a talk by Massive-founder and serial entrepreneur Martin Walfisz. Several of Gotland’s indie studios were in the audience, as well as a bunch of university students and staff. Video and slides after the jump!

We at Zeal are holding a focus testing day, this weekend, at Saturday. So if you are interested in visiting us at our office and play some Red Frontier, please do sign up here. We will have room for about 25 people. If you have any questions or such, grab us on Facebook. The times [...]

Science Park Gotland invites to another Web & IT-bar. This time they’ve invited Martin Walfisz – one of Swedens most successfull gaming entrepreneurs – with experience from Massive Entertainment, Starbreeze, Planeto and much more. Tommy Person, our most recognized games-specific lawyer will also share some valuable tips and insights. Web & IT-bar starts at Science [...]

Science Park Gotland regularly arranges these sweet guest lectures, open to anyone to participate. Today they had invited Daniel Daboczy – creator of Funded By Me (a Swedish kickstarter) – to talk about crowd funding and financing your projects. Fantastic timing, considering the huge success of Double Fines’ Kickstarter coup. Meow Entertainment also took the [...]