Futuregames is a Rookies Certified School. At Futuregames we offer a range of programs & courses in game development, game design, games marketing and more!
"To analyze and compete at a high level always helps in other aspects of life where it’s tough and complex". Don't miss the whole interview with Jacob "Daydee" Stenberg. Photo:
@Vexanie
Read now:
#SSBM
Check out this breakdown by Oscar Hallberg, 3D student at Futuregames, creating the awesome sea creature Vlod – Harpooner of Sea Rok.
#3Dart
#zbrush
#substancepainter
#UE4
Congratulations to our students at The Swedish Games
Awards
@swegameawards
!!!🏆🏆🏆
🥇 OUT OF SIGHT
· GAME OF THE YEAR
🏅HOW FISH IS MADE
· BEST NARRATIVE
🏅ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS
· BEST AUDIO
It's picture day! FG17-Design, our first-year game designers decided that it was time to take a proper group picture and here’s the result. Look carefully - these are the faces of the future of game design.
We're very proud to have been announced as the runner-up of
@TheRookiesCO
Awards of Best Game Development Schools 2018! Amazing job by both students and teachers. Read more:
At Invest in games event by Dataspelsbranschen, our students won the Dragons Den pitching contest with their project Out of Sight!
Congratulations to the team!
Have you ever wondered what it's like to work at a AAA game studio? Alumni
@JoelZakrisson
at
@EA_DICE
shares his work on Star Wars: Battlefront II and Battlefield V in this in-depth article. Read more:
We're proud to announce that student projects Knåddskogen, Ley Lines and Symbiosis have been nominated to four different categories in
@SweGameAwards
. Best of luck to all of you! Find out more:
Interesting things are happening at the school! Today and tomorrow we have
@ChrisNordgren
, VFX and 3D-artist at
@Mojang
in the house, showing our 3D-art students how to create stunning effects for their games. Read more -
Knåddskogen
Play as a kindergarten teacher in her hunt for her missing students in a Swedish forest. Chill, fun, and quirky.
(free game
#17
, by
@FuturegamesEDU
students)
⬇️
Today 120 excited students have officially started their journey towards becoming the next generation of game developers. A warm welcome to the class of 2018!
Olivia Follin is a creative game programmer and junior game developer on her way into the games industry. Today she shares her journey and tips on how to start out with programming. Read the full interview: .
#juniordev
#gamedev
#futuregames
#programmer
We're super proud to have no less than five students in the finalists of
@TheRookiesCO
's Rookie of the Year - Game Development this year! 🥳🎊Make sure to check out their work:
A big congratulations to Team Knåddskogen who took home the trophies for Gamers' Choice and Best Execution in Art at
@SweGameAwards
2018! Play the game here:
Meet Krister, our new Head of Programming who has spent the last ten years working with education and development for games. Read more:
#futuregamesedu
#gamedev
#changemaker
Today we're at Spelbranschens Arbetsmarknadsdag 2018. If you want a future in the games industry, come hit us up at at Nalen, Stockholm. 16.30 - 19.00.
Our annual Meet&Greet event is one of the absolute highlights for the second-year students at Futuregames. In preparation for their 6 months of internship we invite big & small game companies to interview students for open internship positions. Read more:
FG17, Game Project 3 - Altiia and the Trial Islands - Be ready to embark on a journey filled with exploration and challenges. In this game you play as Altiia, a feisty creature named after her passion for high altitudes. Watch the trailer:
FG17, Game Project 3 - Godly. Godly is a fast paced, twin stick shooter where your aim is to defeat the Greek God Hades and his servants, who have emerged from the underworld to ruin your vacation. Watch the trailer:
Not only are our students awesome at making games, but Team Futuregames also ended up at 3rd place in yesterday's Brännboll Tournament hosted by
@spelbranschen
!
#teamwork
#gamedevs
⭐️NEW Event⭐️ added to the
#gameconfguide
database
🔍: The Ting
📆: 11 - 14 Oct
🌍: Stockholm, Sweden
Registration →
Follow →
@FuturegamesEDU
Find out more about
#gamedev
events at Game Conference Guide.
FG17, Game Project 3 - Knåddskogen. Imagine being a kindergarten teacher on a field trip in the Swedish forest. Suddenly realizing they are all gone. All but one... Now it's up to you to get them back. Watch the trailer:
Time to introduce yet another new colleague! Meet Johanna, our Communications Manager, straight from the game industry who handles all external communication for FutureGames and has a burning passion for Overwatch. Read more:
A little birdy told us that
@thegameassembly
will be joining us in Stockholm. A warm welcome from us at Futuregames and we're looking forward to seeing you here soon! 🎉
We were lucky enough to catch Kate Edwards (
@geogrify
) for a lecture at FutureGames, talking about Building Better Worlds through Game Culturalization and Advocating for Yourself: Changing the Public Perception of Games and Game Creators. Read more:
Today the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education approved two new program starts for Futuregames. Game Designer and 3D Artist will also start in the spring of 2020. 🎮🎈
Peter Horvath, agile consultant and experienced game producer is here today to share his knowledge with our students, focusing on the framework Scrum. 👍
“In music it’s something that happens, and you experience it". "With games there is so much more involvement because the music needs to be dynamic depending on what the player is doing”. Meet John Walden, former DJ, studying Game Design at Futuregames.
We finally got our beautiful trophy from
@TheRookiesCO
for winning second best game development school in the world! You can read more about The Rookie Awards here: .
Freya Holmér, Co-Founder of Neat Corporation talks about indie development and accelerating your learning. Check out the full interview:
#indie
#indiedev
#BudgetCutsVR
Hello everyone who has applied for a Futuregames education starting this autumn!
Next week, we will start sending out the admission notices, so keep an eye on your inbox. The Futuregames crew is looking forward to meeting you when the semester begins!
Happy Midsummer! 🌞
Get ready! Applications to our Autumn 2022 educations opens on 1st February!
Do you dream of pursuing a career in the games industry? Our education programs are designed to train the new generation of talents and change-makers for the games industry!
Today our design students of FG17-Design were invited to
@maginteractive
for a UX workshop with Matthew Buxton. Concepts and prototypes are on the schedule!
This week, Immersive Experience Creator 21 in Stockholm and QA/Game Tester 21 in Boden graduated after 1,5 years of studies and internships. We wish everyone the best of luck in your future careers!
#immersiveexperiencecreator
#qagametester
Some highlights from my 3-week 'Intro to ZBrush' class at
@FuturegamesEDU
⭐ If this is just the beginning I can't wait to see what they create in the future!
#zbrush
#creaturedesign
“Futuregames is great at educating all kinds of game developers. Fact is most of Hazelight’s experienced team members are Futuregames alumni!"” - Josef Fares, CEO/Game Director of Hazelight.
Join us for our Open House Online March 28 17.30-19.00.
A big congratulations to all of our 2D-students of 2017 who graduate today. It's time to sharpen your pens and start your careers - best of luck from all of us at Futuregames!
”I want to inspire more women to let go of demands, dare to break the norm and stand out, because that’s what you must do as a female programmer today.” Don’t miss our interview with Mehrnaz Amanat Bari, awarded with the Elisabeth Tegner Scholarship!
Just 2 weeks into the Autumn semester and we hosted a game jam with
@SvenskHandel
, with over 170 talented students from Boden & Skellefteå putting their heads together to tackle the issue of "Sustainable E-Commerce"!
Read more > 📚
"I applied for this program because I've always been incredibly interested in both UX and game design."
Read our interview with Game & UX Design student Wictor Sundstedt!
#gamedesign
#ux
#uxdesign
Really cool Partisan Soldiers concept by Johannes Palmblad of the 2D class of 2017, now working as a concept artist at
@EA_DICE
. Check out more of his work here:
Under Line - Deep Sea Solutions is out!
This was a 4-week project at
@FuturegamesEDU
and I was fortunate to be a part of a team of incredibly generous and talented devs🧡
Get it on Itch:
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
Narrative Designer Amelia Dale (
@AmeliaLKD
) is guest lecturing for the upcoming two weeks, teaching our second-year design students all about her field of expertise. Read more:
This week we have the pleasure of having Jonas Wallin guest lecturing our first year students of the 3D program in Animation. Jonas is a Senior Animator at
@AvalancheSweden
and an alumni of Futuregames. We're very happy to see him back at the school!
Today our first-year 3D students have the pleasure of being visited by freelancing character/technical artist and indie game developer
@BjornAlbihn
, who's hosting a lecture on lighting and rendering in
@unity3d
.
FG17, Game Project 3 - Dilán. Dilán’s friend, the Mountain Cat, has overslept for a few hundred years, and Dilán feels lonely, and wishes to wake its friend. Watch the trailer:
Former Executive Director at IGDA, Kate Edwards, who has previously guest lectured at Futuregames, shares her thoughts on why
#gamedevs
should form unions. Read more:
Sebastian Ojala, Max Bryngelsson and Emil Dahlberg are the founders of Frozen Waffle, the first indie game studio in Boden. Read more about their first game project Perfect Summer and future plans!
#indiedev
#frozenwaffle
#perfectsummer
FG17, Game Project 3 - L.U.X: In the Temple of Shadows. Have you ever been afraid of the unknown? Scared of the monsters that lurk in the shadows, terrified of the darkness? Watch the trailer:
Next week FutureGames crew will attend Nordic Game Conference 2018! Being a top tier school providing educations in game design, 2D- and 3D-graphics and game programming,
#NG18
is the perfect place to meet new and old friends! Who will we see there?
“Det svenska spelundret” made by the Swedish national television
@svt
is a 5-part documentary on the Swedish video games industry from its infancy through now. Check out our students & community!
Our first year student FG20FT have had their first game project togeter. For two weeks they have worked with reinventing some of the classics with a new twist in
@unity3d
.
All game trailers are up for you to see.
#unity3d
#gamedev
#madewithunity
Great Friday vibes when Game Designers 22 in Stockholm showed their latest project: board game design!
In the games shown today there were elements such as rivalling necromancers, overworked demon librarians and mushrooms for wizards!
Omar Chaouch, Cofunder as well as Lead Artist and Character Artist of Talawa Games is hosting a three week long course in Character Art for our 3D Graphics students. Read more:
Game Project 4 just started for some of our second-year students. This time the focus is innovative 2D and narrative by design for five weeks. We can't wait to see what these visionary devs will create!
Today we're attending Studentum's YH fair at Norra Latin in Stockholm, 10.00 - 18.00. Come ask us any questions you may have about our game educations!