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 [...]

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) [...]

Casey Baker over at Destructoid writes; At the Paradox Interactive preview event I attended during GDC, ZEAL Game Studio showed me an interesting active real-time strategy hybrid game called RED Frontier. It fuses the strategy of RTS games with much more action-oriented combat play RED Frontier is a multiplayer RTS with a focus on accessibility [...]

Swedish gaming site Level 7 interviews Zeal Game Studio – talking about the company’s origin at the Gotland University, their development history and one of their current projects Team Assault: Baptism of Fire. The interview is in Swedish; [...] Startades under skoltiden Fredrik Nilsson är ansvarig för Zeal Game Studios ekonomi och administration och likt [...]

It’s been a good month for Vilya, Teddy and Fred – the three founders of Pixel Ferrets, currently slaving away at their premiere title. Shortly after publishing their development log at TIGSource, the project was picked up by NeoGAF and from there exploded onto the indie-focused news sites! Here’s some quotes and link-love; Oh, hello [...]

Jesper at EuroGamer.com ends his three part series on Gotland’s game developers by visiting ThreeGates and having a chat about their Action-RPG Aethereus. Follow these links for part one and part two. Den sidste spiludvikler, vi besøger på Gotland, er ThreeGates, der allerede i navnet afslører deres Gotlandske oprindelse. Det hentyder til de tre byporte, [...]

Jonathan Lester over at Dealspwn.com tried an early version of Lucid Dreams‘ iOS-port of Walkabout; A team of second year students from the presigious game design course at Gotland University, Sweden, are designing what could quite frankly be the most impressive mobile/tablet game since Angry Birds – and what’s more, it’s shaping up to be [...]

Jesper Kristiansen continues his series on “Gaming Gotland” with an interview with Robin Flodin – CEO at Visby-based Zeal Game Studio. Velkommen til anden del af Eurogamer.dk’s sensommer-serie, hvor vi kigger nærmere på nogen af de mange spil-startups på den svenske ø Gotland. Denne gang er turen nået til Zeal Game studio. En af de [...]

Jesper Krogh Kristiansen over at the Danish EuroGamer.com spent a couple of days on the island this summer, interviewing several of our indie startups and faculty at the game education. His research turned into a three-piece article series, the first of which has just been posted! Gotland… – En svensk ø i Østersøen cirka 90 [...]