And that’s a wrap on the Great Summer Pitch 2025!

The Goose
3 days ago
2 min read

On June 3rd The Great Summer Pitch was arranged in Karlstad for the sixth time. Huge congrats to the winners and big thank you to everyone who joined us — over 200 participants helped make this an unforgettable event! 🥳 🎉

We saw 13 great pitches and played 15 demos and prototypes from talented teams from all over Sweden and Poland and here are the lucky winners:

Best Pitch Winners 2025 🎤

🥇 Bonsai 98 by Jakob Ferenius from Noodleloop (100 000 SEK, Lurkit subscription, 8BitDo controllers)

Martin Grabinski, Jakob Ferenius, Mukund Narayan from NoodleLoop

🥈 A Courting of Curses by Sara Persson from Red Rose Interactive (40 000 SEK)

🥉 Pawsta by Harry Heath from Cold Sector (10 000 SEK)

Best Demo Winner 🎮

🥇 Bad Slime by Victor Ulhagen from Tuxedo Gato (25 000 SEK, Lurkit subscription, 8BitDo controllers)

A special shoutout to our fantastic pitch jury — Elisabeth Solberg (Raw Fury), Rebecca Lautner (Landfall Games), Binni Erlingsson (Behold Ventures) and Felix Ekenstam (Midjiwan AB - Polytopia) —for their time and insights. Another shoutout to our friends from the games industry who picked the winner of the Best Demo from 15 showcased games.

The "industry playtesters" consisted of Nickole Li from Mojang Studios, Ali Farha from Star Stable Entertainment, Mikael Brodén from Embracer Group, Viktor Israelsson from Hazelight Studios, Robin Andersson and Olle Brännström from The Gang, Vivy Zhao from Arctic Lamb Games, Kristoffer Jonsson and Fredrik Lindh from Epic Games, Tim Browne from Bright Gambit, David Boström, Natalia Kovalainen and Thomas Sunhede from Embracer Games Archive, David Karlsson from Game Outlet Europe, Tilla Segerstedt from Aurora Arts, Casey Al-Kaisy from Mighty Diamonds and Henrik Jonsson from Radgivery.