Regarding the Demo

Hi folks, just wanted to clarify something about the demo version of Blueberry Garden.
The main purpose of the demo is for you to make sure you can run the game and to see if you like the mood etc. There is no goal or ending to demo so if you like what you see, please [...]

“Bloodline Champions” wins Swedish Game Awards

I’m at the annual Swedish Game Awards in Stockholm right now and (as I was hoping) the very cool game Bloodline Champions won the Grand Prize!

The game was made by a group of students from my university and I know things will go very well for the in the future because [...]

Fjord

A view from my parents’ house.

Potatisochpurjolökssoppa

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m in shock.

Games made by friends

While I am putting the last pixels in place on Blueberry my hard working friends here in Skövde are releasing a lot of games. I thought it would be a good idea to tell you something about them!
Puzzlegeddon
(Windows XP & Vista)

A puzzle and action game at the same time. Earn resources through the puzzle to [...]

Somewhat frequently asked questions

So, what are you doing?!

Right now I’m preparing Blueberry Garden for the Independent Games Festival. It’s going fine.
The initial release for Blueberry Garden was planned for “summer 2008″ so why can’t I play the game already?
A couple of reasons:

The game isn’t polished enough
I haven’t decided how to distribute the game

I’m sorry for keeping you waiting [...]

No More Sweden in Super Play

The Swedish game magazine Super Play wrote about the little indie developer party I arranged this summer:

I really appreciate that they put the name of the games on the front page too, that’s awesome!

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(Blueberry Garden concept art from the summer of 2007)
Today is my birthday and since I haven’t written very much here lately I thought I would give a little news roundup of the last couple of months:

I have graduated from the University of Skövde with a degree in Computer Game Design
Three weeks ago I started working [...]

No More Sweden (awesome indie party)

Top: Erik Svedäng, Emil Berner, mr anonymous, Petri Purho, Jens Bergensten, Andreas Jörgensen & Jonatan Söderström (Cactus). Bottom: Gøksel (Decipher), Nicklas Nygren (Nifflas), Joel Nyström, Kian Bashiri & Mårten Brüggemann (laying down). Missing: Erik Sjöstrand.

This weekend I arranged a meet-up for Nordic indie game developers. It was really fun hanging out and we created a [...]

Super Play

I was interviewed for this month’s issue of the Swedish video game magazine Super Play.

Nordic Game

Yesterday I got back from the Nordic Game conference. It was two interesting and fun days even though most of the speeches and “debates” really wasn’t that inspiring. Here’s my top three of good things during the visit:

Meeting awesome game developers like Petri Purho, Martin “Grapefrukt” Jonasson and Oxeye Game Studio
Fumito Ueda showing his [...]

Crunch

Now Blueberry & Flipside are both handed in to the Swedish Game Awards competition. It’s been a hectic weekend with a lot of work and only a small taste of the lovely weather. Hopefully the following time will be more relaxed…
A big thanks to everyone who has play tested Blueberry Garden, it’s been great!

Restart

This is my new attempt of creating a personal website. It will contain special pages about some of my projects and a blog with the latest news. I hope you will enjoy it!
Sincerely yours,
Erik