Ina Bäckström, a student of FG-11 was recently named IT-girl of the year by Microsoft. Well deserved, bearing in mind her valuable efforts in promoting women in both gaming and e-sports and her immeasurable enthusiasm for the latter, organizing the popular BarCraft events, and founding the Frizon Gaming Guild for female gamers among other things. Read the full motivation here.

Also, remember to visit FutureGames Academy March 22 for a chance to meet other talented students!

Plats: Berghs School of Communication, Sal 41
Sveavägen 34, Stockholm

Välkommen!

Visa karta

Mer information hittar du här:

FGinfokväll_22 mars (pdf)

Kolla in filmen på youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxSzk9JHtgE&list=UUgUwU5Kw-1HL1j6kTwNKfaQ&index=1&feature=plcp

Memento
A man, old and dying lies jacked in to a machine designed not to save his life, but to judge it. He is being forced to relive his memories, both joyful and horrifying, in the largest public trial since those of Nuremberg. The whole world watches with horrified anticipation as the hated old man spends his final hours reliving bloodstained fragments of his dreadful life.

Memento development team:

Rennfahrer
Rennfahrer is an high octane racing game set in the near future. Burn through a stunning city vista high above the clouds while trying to stay alive as the cities defense system tries to hinder you from reaching the goal.
With games as “Wipeout” and “Trackmania” as inspiration, buckle up and get ready for adrenaline pumping speed and insane jumps as you race against the timer and drive for your life!

Rennfahrer development team:

The Awesome Box
The Box Project is an environmentally puzzling platform adventure where you control a swiss-army box. The box contains all the contraptions needed to save the over-polluted world that remains, now that the humans have left for newer worlds. Spring over the junkyard, float through jets of steam, and collect fairies on your path to cleanse the world and make it anew.

The Awesome Box development team:

Alex the axolotl
You play as Alex, a axolotl. You and your family gets taken from your natural habitat by man.
Set in a aquarium where you will have to swim through dangerous environments to try and find out what happened to your family.

Axel development team:

Goliath
Goliath is a side-scrolling puzzle platformer with a shooting element. Play as a seek and rescue bot as it tracks a distress signal deep into the wreckage of a downed mother ship and discover where you are and how you ended up there. Overcome hazards and enemy turrets as you progress through 4 distinctive environments to reach your objective.

Goliath development team:

Bad Luck
Bad Luck is a game which involves two different types of gameplay, a fast paced side scrolling shoot ‘em up, and a top-down logical puzzler. Each level swaps between these two modes in a challenging and different way, always keeping the players mind and reactions alert. You control a character whose bad luck has left them stranded alone on a planet, trying desperately to make their way to the surface. Unfortunately, bad luck keeps sending you in the opposite direction. With the help of the character’s various abilities (shooting, grabbing, dashing and manipulating time) it’s up to you to reverse the players luck and make your way out of this predicament.

Bad Luck development team:

Var kommer du ifrån? din bakgrund?

Datum och tider:

Onsdag 29 februari kl. 18.00

samt Torsdag 22 mars kl. 18.00.

Plats: Berghs School of Communication, Sal 41
Sveavägen 34, Stockholm

Välkommen!

Visa karta

Mer information hittar du här:

FGinfokväll_20120229

Puss in Boots. Courtesy of DreamWorks Animation.

Ingen har väl missat att DreamWorks nya film, Puss in Boots, precis har haft premiär. Filmen fokuserar på Shrek’s coola sidekick, katten Puss in Boots, med röst lånad av Antonio Banderas.

Något som kanske inte är lika känt är att det faktiskt finns en liten koppling till Futuregames här: Under förra året genomförde vi en distanskurs med den svenska animatören Tommie ”Pigbelly” Löfkvist. Tommie satt just då och arbetade med animationer till ovan nämnda film borta i Los Angeles där han bor och arbetar. Nedan ser du lite bilder från en av lektionerna. Vill du kolla in mer vad Tommie har gjort så kan du kolla in hans blogg här.

Animatörerna uppkopplade mot Tommie i LA.

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.