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The Goose
- 4 days ago
- 5 min
Leadership means helping your team fail better
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
The Goose
- 7 days ago
- 3 min
Two ways the Swedish industry can raise its game in China
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 Goose
- Apr 12
- 3 min
The delicate balancing act of the studio/publisher relationship
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
The Goose
- Apr 8
- 2 min
Friday Stories with DICE
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
The Goose
- Apr 8
- 2 min
Friday Stories with Mirage Game Studios
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
The Goose
- Apr 8
- 2 min
Lunch Talk: Our Great Journey
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
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