Fast Travel Games made strategic decisions early on that have contributed to their success shipping four titles in 4 years - including their recent release, Afterlife. These choices would go on to cement the company’s commitment to inclusive design. Before his appearance at Friday Stories, we asked the Studio’s Creative Director and Co-founder Erik Odeldahl to tell us why they’ve integrated inclusive design approaches, how this shapes the creative process, and why they draw i

Exciting news! Nathalie Ek, Sr UX Designer at DICE is our special guest speaker at Friday Stories! 🕒 When: Date: May 28th Time: 10.00-12.00 📍 Where: Online! Link to sign up here! An email with further instructions will be sent to you after the deadline. 💻 About the talk: I’ll be showing you how we utilize eye-tracking, audio and VO in our UX designs and how even the smallest changes can affect the entire player experience. 📣 About the speaker: Nathalie Ek – Senior Expe

Exciting news! Cajsa Larsson, Sound designer at Sharkmob is our special guest speaker next Friday Stories! 🕒 When: Date: May 21st Time: 10.00-12.00 📍 Where: Online! Link to sign up here! An email with further instructions will be sent to you after the deadline. Read more of Cajsa's thoughts on the role! 💻 About the talk: In her talk she will share her work process & what inspires her using concrete examples from a game called AER – Memories of Old. The talk will also in

Exciting news! Erik Odeldahl, Creative director and cofounder of Fast Travel Games is our special guest speaker next Friday Stories! 🕒 When: Date: May 7th Time: 10.00-12.00 📍 Where: Online! Link to sign up here! An email with further instructions will be sent to you after the deadline. 💻 About the talk: Designing VR games for accessibility, this short talk will highlight a few of the design methods we at Fast Travel Games use to build VR games that as many people as pos

We are getting closer and closer to The Great Summer Pitch!!! We know pitching for the first time is scary and maybe you don't know what is supposed to be in a pitch. During our next Lunch Talk will we introduce you to what a pitch should include and what to think about. What is The Great Summer Pitch?! 👉Do you dream of starting your own game studio? Or maybe you want to study game development? Then our community of game developers is here to support you and your dreams! ✨🙌

The sun has arrived in Karlstad (I'm kidding it is always here!) and we all know what that means?! The Great Journey presents The Great Summer Pitch, a pitch event for game developers to win funding to your game and start your own studio! This is your chance to pitch your game to living breathing game developers from all around Sweden! The Panel will be announced later on, but last year we had people from Embracer Group, Raw Fury and Avalanche Game Studios among the panelists

It can be tricky to find your feet at a big studio as a games professional just starting out. The departments and managers you interact with will only be part of a wider operation delivering vastly different functions. Recognizing the systems and hierarchies that make the studio function can be challenging. And how, exactly, do you fit in? As a newcomer in a long-established company like DICE, one of Sweden’s oldest studios, you’ll be introduced to deeply refined protocols. Y

Weihua Shao used her Friday Stories event to inspire games students and professionals about the opportunities available to Swedish developers in China. We asked her to offer a few more insights for anyone who missed her April workshop. Knowledgeable and experienced in both the Chinese and Swedish markets, Weihua has two ideas for how Swedish developers can raise their game in her home country. Born and raised in China, Weihua Shao first came to Sweden as part of a trade deleg

The experience of developing a game in collaboration with a publisher is difficult to understand from the outside. Can you set creative boundaries? What's the trick to managing expectations? How can you make these relationships positive and productive? Aspiring developers creating or launching games are invited to get a close look at this delicate process. Join us for Friday Stories on April 16th, when Mirage Game Studio's Managing Director Simon Röjder will offer a detailed

Exciting news! Fawzi Mesmar, Head of Design at DICE is our special guest speaker next Friday Stories! 🕒 When: Date: 23th of April Time: 10.00-12.00 📍 Where: Online! Link to sign up here! An email with further instructions will be sent to you after the deadline. 💻 About the talk: The talk tried to describe what are ideas, where do they come from, how can we come up with better ideas and what is originality and how can we become more original? 📣 About the speaker: Fawzi

Exciting news! Simon Röjder from Mirage Game Studio is our special guest speaker next Friday Stories! 🕒 When: Date: 16th of April Time: 10.00-12.00 📍 Where: Online! Link to sign up here! An email with further instructions will be sent to you after the deadline. How to survive as a studio manager while working with a publisher A talk about what it is like to manage a small team of creative developers, while also working closely with a large publisher. It will be a retrosp

Exciting news! Our next speaker for our Lunch Talk-series is Simon Bergqvist, Game Developer and CEO at Agera Games and Björn Toreld, Game Developer and Coordinator at Forgebyte Studio! They will tell us more about their journeys to their respective studio, game development, but not only that! Their journey are also very dear and close to the journey of us, The Great Journey so we will deep dive into that too! 👉Do you dream of starting your own game studio? Or maybe you want