Intergalactic Space Princess

What else have we been up to in our absence? Well let’s catch you up! So before Stugan ended we went to this amazing mine - Falu Gruva. It totally looked like Moria from LOTR. Just sayin’! It was over a thousand years old!?! Crazy!

Last week at Stugan :( WE WON’T LEAVE 😫😭🌄🌅👌💻🙏💛💙💛💙🎮💻 But seriously. Here’s some interesting stuff about the myth of the “lucky indie”. What do you guys think? You just need to be lucky, don’t need to worry quite so much about working hard?

GUESS WHO VISTED US AT STUGAN?..... GUESS GUESS GUESS. HINT. WE’RE AMAZINGLY EXCITED AND IT’S ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK GAMES + SWEDEN. ..... NO? ..... Jens Jeb Bergensten!!!,Lead programmer of Minecraft!!! He did a “fireside chat” with Tommy Palm and then we got to chat with him 1 on 1 as he checked out Intergalactic Space Princess. (See if you can spot me in one of the photos. Clue, mermaid/unicorn hair)

These last two days we  have had a mentor here - Paul Wilkinson from Nio Games! He spoke to us about his experiences and was very helpful with giving us insight into the numbers/drop off rates from his most recent game venture. 

What have we done this week? Hint, not work :P

Sooooo, what are your favourite games? This was really difficult... there is a lot for a variety of reasons. Some because they’re beautiful and inspiring, others because they have sentimental value. Tough, huh? Well this week we discussed that here at Stugan!

We had our hackathon/game jam last week! So awesome! All here in our weekly round up :)

What have we been up to the last few days? WELL! We had a visit from Andy Touch who works for Unity *cheers* He stayed at Stugan for three days - hanging out with us, playing our games, checking out the programming sequences and helping us with all of our tech difficulties. For Intergalactic Space Princess he helped us evolve our animation system! Which is incredibly exciting as it’s just going to make life easer and let us do even MOAR. 

A little snippet of the game art! Super Hipsteroid Brossss! So awesome, right? XD

Guess what we’re up to? ... Well I guess I spoiled it already, but we’re doing a game jam here at Stugan! It’s going to be traffic based to thank the wonderful Trafikverket (Swedish Government Traffic Department) who own the property where we are staying. I’m not going to give too much away JUST YET, but I will say this... I have been looking up hipsters, planets and cats. EXCELLENT COMBINATION!

Yesterday we had a very exciting visitor (well at least for me!) - Tommy Persson! He is an excellent lawyer working with the games industry, primarily contracts,  and came from Stockholm to talk to us. Pretty inspiring stuff for someone like myself who is stuck in law and lost my motivation a bit. 

Yesterday we got to speak to Alexis Garavaryan from Microsoft! He was a bit short of time but managed to get through the 15 games here at Stugan. A fair effort, huh? (Oh and that’s our awesome friend Ditto with Planeter in the first shot. Check him out!)

We’re been up to more! Check it out - how much trouble can 23 game developers get in to? :P

We decided to take a few photos on the way to the sauna and thanks to Izzy, ’s AMAZING photography skills, voilá! :D ><

Keeping up to date with Stugan news? How about picking game engine to use for making your own game? Check it out!

We got visited by Raw Fury publishers - Jonas Antonsson and Gordon Van Dyke! They spent two days here at Stugan homestead and we got to groove to the Pokémon First Movie Album with Jonas’ son :P  

Here at Stugan we were INCREDIBLY lucky to have one of the creators of THE original Stugan game (from 1978!), Viggo Kann, come visit us! He also came with his father Henrik. Both have been/are lecturers at the Swedish Insitute of Technology. It seriously was a great presentation. We were even presented with a gift - the original Stugan game!