This article is part of a 3-part series called Why Värmland? where we deep dive into different reasons for you to move to Värmland! One of THE things Värmland has been known for is the forest industry. We have a vast cluster called Paper Province that, according to their website, "By using the forest, we can create a fossil-free society." They are also our office neighbors and super nice! Our wast, enchanting forests are filled with an opportunity, but another industry is gro

Robin Eyre, the 3D artist at Iron Gate Studio, is not only a videogame-artist self-learner. He also has self-learned topics as diverse as car mechanics and archery. Here's how he did it! Pros Discipline: No one checks up if you are doing your homework or not, so you need lots of commitment and discipline to succeed in self-learning. Free learning: There is no fixed program. You can paint, animate or 3D model, whatever you want, whenever you want. The sky's the limit. Good ha

Start your studio and release your game! That is the dream for many of us, but that dream is often killed before we event start. How are you going to finance it? Will you work on something else and develop your game in your free time? That is an option many studios do; contract work to keep them afloat while slowly working on your own project. Many of our studios do that. Or maybe you are a student during the day and a game dev at nighttime? Or you just dream about what games

After graduating from the Game Development Animation program at the University of Skövde, Lisa Kofjord began hunting for jobs driven by the need to pay the bills. But little did she imagine that this first job at Iron Gate Studio was going to turn into a fully-fledged adventure in the games industry. Join us to find out how fresh graduate Lisa ended up as a Community Manager and 3D artist for the survival and sandbox hit Valheim. Lisa's journey Around 2008, Lisa was a 10-year

It took Robin Eyre 7 years of disciplined self-learning to become the 3D artist of the new videogame hit Valheim from Iron Gate Studio. Robin shares with us how he went from caregiver to videogame artist; tips for self-learning and reaching the industry, and the pros and cons of his approach. “I slipped on a banana peel and, accidentally, got into the games industry” Robin's love for video games began at the age of 6, in the early 1990s, with the NES console. He was amused wi

This article is part of a 3-part series called Why Värmland? where we deep dive into different reasons for you to move to Värmland! Picture by our amazing community member and part of studio Team Velocita, Oscar Svan. In Karlstad, water is never far away. (This is not a threat!) The city is built on a delta where Klarävlen joins Vänern, Sweden's biggest lake and gives the amazing feeling of living by the sea. Sandgrundsparken After visiting the inspiring art galley Sandgrund

This article is part of a 3-part series called Why Värmland? where we deep dive into different reasons for you to move to Värmland! You can find the other two blogs here. Picture by our amazing community member and part of studio Team Velocita, Oscar Svan. We welcome you to Kronoparken! “I wanted to experience a new city than the one I grew up in. Many of my friends told me that Karlstad was a beautiful city so I got curious.” Our Community Manager Niki moved here from the bi