More in the papers about our student Ina Bäckström, this time in PC Gamer (Swedish paper edition). Check out what she thinks about our school!

FutureGamers!

Join us in welcoming Niklas Strid from Paradox to Berghs! This February, Thursday the 16th, he will be visiting our old home to hold a lecture on scripting and the lives of our students in the industry after they graduate. Being an old FutureGames student himself, he will surely have many a valuable lesson to teach all of us! This is followed by SpaceBar#7 later that day.

So join us for a marvelous evening – learning about and celebrating the most wonderful part of our lives; games! Bring your loved ones, colleagues and persons of interest to this evening of festivities, starting at 17:00 with Niklas Strid’s lecture. The bar opens at 18:00 and as always, everyone is invited!
More information regarding both Niklas Strid’s lecture (including which room it will be held in) and SpaceBar will be published shortly.

Niklas Strid is an Assistant Developer at Paradox Interactive, a Swedish game developer and publisher situated at Götgatan 78 in Stockholm. He recently graduated from FutureGames and is specialized in scripting, historical research and screenwriting.

What a year! Not only did FutureGames move to new offices (from Sveavägen 34 to Åsögatan 119!) even closer to the game industry, we also kept ourselves very busy. Here are some examples;

FutureGames student Ina Bäckström was interviewed by Swedish newspaper DI regarding her important role and devout interest bringing E-sports into mainstream entertainment.

Sublime Interactive, a new company was formed. FutureGames students open up a indie game developer studio.

They also went to the Swedish Game Conference, as well as Dreamhack, where they did the following lecture about FutureGames and their company;

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FutureGames game project Unmechanical was hosted at Gamex and interviewed by Game Reactor;

http://www.gamereactor.se/spel/11444/Unmechanical/

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These are just a few of the exampels of what happened at FutureGames during this year. If you are interested at what we’ll do next year, be sure to attend to our “Öppet hus” events and keep a look-out at our Facebook page and Twitter feed!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

/FutureGames staff and students

Join us on the 27th for a devilish night filled with cheap beer, music, blood and gaming! Indulge on gruesome snacks and beer, listen to some music and play the terrifying Amnesia The Dark Descent in a pitch black room if you dare…and this will only be the start of your journey into the night.

Costumes are optional and very welcome, just please be sure to RSVP at least once even if you intend on bringing friends.

RSVP here: http://alturl.com/8oiaz
We will be waiting…

Our FutureGames students Marko and Jesper traveled to Spain in order to compete with their game “Embrace”. Embrace had been selected as a finalist in the second International Videogame Festival hóPLAY’11, Spain,  in the category “best design”. Embrace was the only game from Sweden among the 26 chosen games. With support from FutureGames, Marko and Jesper went to Bilbao to attend the event – this is their story.

While not snatching any of the prizes, we gained awesome friends and contacts during our visit in Bilbao, and spread the word of Futuregames. Congratulations to all the winners!

Alhóndiga had arranged a great event, with a cool exhibition, competitions and lectures.

The plan was to save as much money as possible, so we took the flight from Skavsta to Madrid, and a bus later on to Bilbao, meaning we’re aleady incredibly sleep deprived. Arriving to Bilbao, we didn’t find any non-scary hostel until 3 hours later. After crashing for a few hours, we figured it’d be fun to check out Alhóndiga, where the presentations and awards ceremony was going to be held the next day. Once there, we met Paolo whom we’d been acquainted with a few weeks earlier at No More Sweden 2011 which was held at our school! Paolo informed us that the presentations were held this day and not the next, in just an hour in fact, so it was a good idea we decided to check the place out

After the presentations, Shailesh joined our gang of non-spanish speakers. We also met the awesome Marc and Cinta who joined in on cool discussions during the party. The following day, we went to check out Guggenheim which we unfortunately had to just speed through cause we were as usual in a hurry someplace. This time to buy tickets back home, as well as getting to the awards ceremony. Interestingly enough two of the winning games were made by people we got a great connection with! Congrats to Shailesh winning with It’s just a thought, Marc and Cinta with Sr.Mistu! We celebrated/drowned our sorrows, shared some philosophies around games with Lara (who really should start writing her blog in english!), and met Eneko shortly before we had to take another painstaking walk->bus->flight->bus trip, this time back to the foggy cold north.

Without feeling particularly defeated at all, we are looking forward to what the future has in store for us, both as individuals and as a team. Hóplay 2011 in Bilbao was an awesome experience!

Embrace life

//FutureGames students Marko & Jesper

This year FutureGames co-hosted No More Sweden 2011, an international game developer Jam.

FutureGames students were of course invited and did some amazing stuff. How about a game called “Jedi Knighting Ceremony”, where the goal is to knight new Jedi’s. Just be careful, that laser sword is pretty HOT…

Congratulations to the winners of the event – Baad Gringos!

Thanks for everyone who came and big thanks to the guys at NoMoreSweden, Erik Svedäng and FutureGames student Christoffer Hedborg for picking us as their partner for this years event.

/Almir

Hello everyone,

Hope you’ve had a great summer! The FutureGames students are back in business, returning refreshed and full of new ideas.

One of  our teams game project has been awarded a finalist spot in an international competition!

We would like to announce that Embrace has been selected as a finalist in the second International Videogame Festival hóPLAY’11, Spain,  in the category “best design”. Embrace is the only game from Sweden among the 26 chosen games. Of course we are thrilled and honored, and we will send one of our team members to the ceremony in Bilbao in September, where the winners will be announced.

Read more about this and the other contestants here and here.

If you want to play the game, visit the games site here.

Please have a look at these screenshots of the game.

Hello everyone,

We at FutureGames just want to say thanks to everyone who’s helped us making this semester as awesome as it’s been.

Here’s some pictures from our last event of the semester – SpaceBar #4.  Now we take a well deserved break but we’ll be back in August again with more news about our old and new students – and of course – the game industry that we work in and love.

We will also be posting the games that our class of ’10 students just finished making last week. Stay tuned!

Have a great summer!

/FutureGames staff and students.