Lost Between Levels: Stockholm
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Our search to explore to culture of gaming development communities takes us to the city that DICE, Mojang, and Paradox Interactive call home.
What a great episode!
I love my city. It was nice to see DICEs office from the inside. I see it everyday from the bus going to work.
ROBBAZ
Best place in the world, seriously.
tapper101 Not really. Greetings from Finland :D
snaketus tapper101 If (When?) we do an episode on Finland, it's gonna be tough for me to not make the entire episode centered around Future Crew. :p
But there's quite a few big name developers there, and an interesting story with the old guard of classic action games (Remedy) competing with the heavyweight newcomers of mobile with Rovio.
Stockholm looks cool, need to visit that place, shame on me I didn't living so close.
Anyone, next time come to Warsaw :) You got guys from Dead Island, CD Project, and few more.
Thanks Shaun! Really good video. I'm glad you made it.
This excellent show shows that several intriguing strategy games often come from Europe.
notch said that console gaming is for passing time, and for him PC gaming is real gaming, for me its the other way around, i like console gaming way more than PC gaming. (my opinion)
very good piece for sure. im american of swedish hertiage and this let me take some pride in that. Also hit right in the mark in the culture difference of console and pc markets.
is it just me ore does it seem like shaun is about to cry during the interview?
p4kman88 Naturally dry eyes. Combined with the cold, dry air in Stockholm and they look especially reddish.
shaunmc p4kman88 LOL! Super emotional. Combined with the sad, orphan kitten he saw on the street and he's especially weepy.
Stockholm is a cool, cool city!
epic !
Great show! It actually made Sweden one of my top destinations if I ever decide to move abroad.
Great documentary!
Nub :)
nereza Not "nab"?
nereza Nab
that was one of the best videos/mini doccumentrys gamespot has done in a long time.. was very enjoyable!! nicely done shaun!! did a superb! job and was so incite-full was so interesting to see how things are done in that part of the world... brilliant....
Awesome show guys! keep on rockin´!
Love Paradox! Spend some serious time playing their games (or at least those published under that brand)
I loved this. Being a swede myself I love seeing how foreigners react to our culture.
I hope you enjoyed Sweden Shaun!
jlarss We really did. During our time there, Myself, Shaun and Johnny all agreed that "Stockholm Syndrome" must mean when you go to visit the city and then find that you don't want to leave because its a wonderful place full of delightful people.
TylerW I'm glad to hear that! :) I guess you'd think that until winter! :D 3 feet deep snow and like minus ten fahrenheit!
jlarss In all fairness, I did travel to Funcom's offices in Oslo a few years ago in January. It was an atypically mild winter, so the weather wasn't too bad - a little bit colder than when you go up to the mountains here in northern California. What really struck me was the daylight. Yes, there wasn't much of it, but what daylight there was was gorgeous. There's what photographers call "The Golden Hour" which is the hour right before the sun sets and casts a very beautiful light on everything. Wintertime at latitudes like Stockholm and Oslo is like a full day of Golden Hour sunlight.
Well, as long as you don't mind that your "full day" is only six hours long. :)
This is way gamespot is something more than just a "games review website".
Great episode for the show.
really interesting piece. Good job GS! As soon as they mentioned London, I was hoping Shaun was going back via there to do another one.
Please put up the track listing of the music from this feature. Its pretty awesome.
SmallMafia
Have to agree...was very calming at the same time.My fav was the very last track.
Dizzy1976 I loved the very first track.
SmallMafia yes that music was so good, would love to know who it was done by
SmallMafia It's all music from our production library at www.audionetwork.com. But I'm happy to post song titles
0:00 "Ibiza Heavens" (I used multiple mixes of this one)
1:10 "Chillax" (Sorry, I don't make the song titles)
2:31 "Future Shock"
2:59 "String Theory"
5:42 "Gravity Falls"
9:28 "Motion Detection"
13:03 "All Over The World"
16:12 "Jagged Little Symphony"
19:23 "Android Choir"
23:17 "Enlightenment"
great journey, proud to be European :)
As a swede I can't help but feeling a bit proud.
This was a really good story and very proffesional.
Big up Gamespot!
Nice minidoc.
I've lived in Stockholm all my life but I've never been inside a game studio. It's nice to get a little peek every now and then. Well done!
When I grew up in the 80s <-> 90s all the cool geeks had C64s and later on Amigas (or Atari ST). And everyone tried to program or make music. It's just not as fun with PCs
Oh and only little kids had consoles ;)
I jest. Consoles are fine. I have several.
The problem with owning a NES vs owning a C64 was that when you got tired with the 5 games you had and your parents wouldn't/couldn't give you more money then you were screwed. With a C64 you'd just use that double cassette player and copy your friends turbo taped games.. or try to draw a sprite in basic code haha.
I miss the Amiga and the music trackers and the copy/demo parties.
Nostalgia, nostalgia.
In response to your vid. I think we should be a way bigger player in the game development than we are today here in Sweden. It took so long for schools and businesses to wake up and take gaming seriously. I still think there are some problems there. But at least now you can get some sort of education for it without leaving the country.
If you wanted to learn about game development when DICE started you had to do it yourself or go to london (or whatever, but london was close and had alot of studios looking for talent).
This is turning into a rant. I'll shut up now. Nice vid.
Saketume
Still have a C64 in my basement all boxed up. God I feel old
Saketume I was actually really surprised to see how professional and well presented the game schools looked in places as remote as Gotland.
One of the bits that didn't make the cut in this video was a part where Fredrik Wester of Paradox was talking about how the government is starting to get involved with game development, though he felt it mostly seemed like the politicians were trying to take credit for something they have only recently begun to support. Either way, Sweden has a pretty shocking number of game developers per capita, it's certainly in the best interest to see those businesses being looked after.
Anyhow, as a native, I'm really glad you enjoyed it. It means a lot.
Excellent, more of the same please
Have been waiting for this for while now. Really good episode, super interesting and really high production value!
Really fantastic feature. Keep them coming
great video - love these
Didn't know Minecraft was from the Swedes, cool vid.
Vince21C really?
Here are some reasons why Sweden has a huge game dev community:
1) Deregulation and detaxification of the 80's (Die Wende)
2) Economic boom from venture capitalist reorganization of capital flows allowed for the creation of new markets and investment in the 90's.
3) Swedes are hard, creative workers
4) Northern Europeans are culturally enthusiastic about high-tech
