We are ending this Mental Health month by continuing. The Great Journey is a new and growing community and we not only have the opportunity to help studios thrive, but we also have the opportunity to help new and young studios to start more sustainable. Mental ill-health is growing, Ukie revealed that anxiety and depression rates in games are higher than that of the general population. Anxiety sufferers make up 25% of the industry, whilst those with depression are close behin

Yesterday we got the fantastic news that our partner Futuregames opened another program here in Värmland! Game Programmer - Mobile Platform, a 2-year YH-education where you will explore a vast range of different programming languages combined with the game engine Unity! "The bottleneck for growth in mobile gaming is the shortage of skills." As a student at Mobile Platforms, you join us at Karlstad Innovation Park, together with our other programs Game Artist and Experience De

This fall, the programs you can study in karlstad are joined by Game Artist, the third educational program with our partners at Changemaker Educations and Futuregames. Besides Game Artist, you can study Experience Designer, Indie Game Developer, and Fasttrack - Your chance to develop your game in our fully funded nine months game accelerator! We asked Tom Løyche, CEO of Changemaker Educations, why Karlstad was THE choice for their new expansion of hubs years back. As an educa