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Grow your team via Västerbotten
- Tap in on the league of experienced
programmers and artists
Regional Partner
Magicka, Arrowhead Studios
Expansion opportunities
– a studio in Umeå
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A team of senior game developers ready to go
> 10 years of experience in game development
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A high density of game developing companies
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Excellent recruitment grounds for new talent
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World leading IT-infrastructure and communications
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A young population
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Dynamic, creative and talented people in an inspiring
environment
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The team’s company experience
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UbiSoft
Montreal
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Starbreeze
Sweden
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Dice
Sweden
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Grin
Sweden
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Coldwood
Sweden
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Resolution Interactive
Sweden
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Daydream
Sweden
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Team Bio – Released titles
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Syndicate (2012), Starbreeze
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Samurai Rush, iOS and Android (2012), Level Eight
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Bionic Commando (2010), Grin
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Battlefield 3 (2011), Dice
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Top Gear: Stunt School, iOS (2010), Resolution Interactive
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The Fight (2010), Coldwood
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Legio (2010), Ica Games Studios
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Battlefield 1943 (2009), Dice
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (2007), Grin
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (2006), Grin
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Released titles cont.
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Freak Out: Extreme Freeride (2007), Coldwood
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Ski-doo Snow X Racing (2007), Coldwood
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Clusterball ( New Release 2005), Resolution Interactive
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Ski-Doo X-Team Racing ( New release 2005), Resolution Interactive
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Ski Racing 2006 - Featuring Hermann Maier (2005), Coldwood
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword (2004), Ubisoft, Inc.
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow (2004), Ubisoft, Inc.
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Ski-Doo X-Team Racing (2001), Daydream Software AB
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Clusterball (2000), Daydream Software AB
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Platforms
The team in Umeå has experience from working with
common platforms such as;
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Xbox360
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PS3
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PC
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iOS
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Android
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Legio - Ica Games Studios, Paradox Interactive
Setting up a studio
The Umeå team is well suited for
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High-profile iOS/Android game
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Medium budget PC/XBLA/PS3LIVE game
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War of the Roses, Fatshark
The Umeå Team ready today
Senior Producer
Senior Artist / Level designer / Game designer
4 Years in Producer or Director role
7 Years as programmer.
12 years in the game industry in various positions. ( Artist,
Level designer and Game designer)
Background as a programmer with over 4 yrs experience
of different management positions such as Technical
Director and Producer.
Companies: Starbreeze, Grin, Resolution Interactive
Deep knowledge in game design and 3D game engines.
Senior Programmer and Game designer
10 years as programmer. 1 yr as a project manager.
Expert knowledge in game programming, 2D/3D, Online
UI and Web integrations. A great game designer and well
oriented in 3D graphics and network.
Companies: Ubisoft, Coldwood, Daydream and Ice Games
Studios
Senior Programmer / Lead Programmer
12 years as programmer. 5 yrs in the game industry, 4 yrs
as multimedia developer and 2 yrs as web developer.
Companies: Ice Games Studios
Companies: Dice, Grin and Resolution Interactive.
Senior Programmer
10 years as a system programmer and 2,5 years as system
architect.
Artist
8 year in the game industry. Experience from
smartphones.
Companies Coldwood, Resolution Interactive
Art Director, Concept Artist
7 years as a freelancing concept artist.
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Game industry in Sweden
Sweden is one of the leading nations in the world when it
comes to the development of internationally respected and
accessible games of the highest quality.
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Swedes are a people of high technical skills
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Swedes work well collectively
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Swedes deliver on time
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There is a great entrepreneurial approach
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The education and research level within
gaming is of a high standard
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Game industry in Västerbotten
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Västerbotten has the highest density of game companies in
Sweden
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Umeå is a member of the Swedish Game Incubator Network
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The majority of the started companies in the region have
sprouted from the two universities
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Västerbotten is hot
• Västerbotten has Sweden’s largest growth in export
• Planned investments in the region well over € 30 billion
until 2020
• Facebook is building it’s first datacenter outside the US in
northern Sweden
• Västerbotten has the highest concentration of game
developing companies in Sweden (per capita)
• Umeå will be European Capital of Culture in 2014
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The game companies in Västerbotten
• Coldwood
• Cassius Creative
• Turborilla
• Dohi Sweden
• Zordix
• Frostware
• Level Eight
• Nifflas Games
• North Kingdom
• Coffee Zombie Games
• Algoryx
Regional Partner
The game companies in Västerbotten
Coldwood
Zordix
Coldwood Interactive is an independent game studio founded
in 2003 by a tight knit group of veteran game developers, with
over 40 years of collective industry experience, and a passion
for creating great, innovative games. Coldwood has an excellent
track record, with six different titles published on six different
platforms (fourteen different SKU’s in total), and we’ve got
many more exciting projects on the way. We’re licensed
developers for all major formats, including PS3, XBox360 and
Wii.
Zordix AB is an innovative game and application development
company, with special expertise in handheld games
development. Services provided to our customers include
design, animation, 3d modeling, programming, web, marketing,
sales and CRM.
Released titles
Valet Parking 1989
1950’s Lawn Mower Kids
Released titles
The Fight – Lights Out
onGOLF
Ski-Doo Challenge
Freakout
Ski-Doo Snow X Racing
Skiracing 2006
Skiracing 2005
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The game companies in Västerbotten
Dohi Sweden
Cassius Creative
A holding company for high-potential brands and
services within the audiovisual industry.Always looking
for new, interesting products to take from idea to
market. Striving towards perfection along the way. The
unit consists of highly educated and experienced
specialists.
Cassius Creative is run by CEO Mattias Johnsson who has his
background in writing pen-and-paper role playing games and fictional
literature. The company provides computer game developers with the
production of all non-technical aspects of the game, offering
customized services based on the clients specific needs regarding the
following: Game play, Concept development, Story, Setting, Characters,
Text and Game design.
Released titles
Snow moto racing
Dirt moto racing
Aqua moto racing 1
Aqua moto racing 2
Lawn mower kids
Bio Defence
Table drum
Released projects
Impire
Work done by CC: Story; Characters; Text
Client: Cyanide Studio Montreal
Co-workers: Paradox Interactive
HEARTS OF IRON – The Card Game
Work done by CC: Basic Game Design (with Conny Gustafsson), Text
and Project management
Client: Paradox Interactive
TEMPLARS – The Gehenna Crusade (game pitch)
Work done by CC: Concept development, High Narrative, Text and
Project management
Client: Armagent AB
LEGIO
Work done by CC: Background story and Introductory Narrative
Client: Ice Game Studios
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The game companies in Västerbotten
Frostware
Level Eight
Founded in the summer of 2010, Frostware AB is a consulting
company located in Skellefteå, north Sweden, that designs and
develops applications for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
Level Eight is an independent game development company
located in Umeå. The company is currently developing games
based on original IPs for the Apple iOS and Google Android
platforms.
The first application, a game called Skycat and the Starchildren,
was released in App Store October 2010. Skycat was well
received with reviews from TouchArcade, SlideToPlay,
Theportablegamer and the Swedish magazine “Allt om iPhone”
among others. Skycat has now been downloaded 180,000 times
so far and has an average score of 4.5/5 on the App Store.
Released titles
Robbery Bob
Megastunt
Nifflas Games
Chicken race
Independent game studio in Umeå that focuses on 2D-games.
The unique style has brought international attention within the
genre of indie-games. The company has been awarded by
jayisgames.com and nominated at the IGF (International
Gaming Festival).
Sky cat and the starchildren
Released titles
Released titles
Rushing ninjas
FiNCK, Saira, NightSky
Knytt Stories, Knytt
Within a Deep Forest
Miscellaneous
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The game companies in Västerbotten
North Kingdom
Turborilla
International Award Winning Digital Agency, that has won awards from
CANNES CYBER LIONS, NEW YORK FESTIVALS, D&AD, ONESHOW
INTERACTIVE, FWA, LONDON INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, ART DIRECTORS
CLUB and more...
Turborilla is an Umeå based independent game
developer founded in 2006 by Tobias Andersson.
Our mission is to work hard to bring joy into the
gaming world by turning our passion into fun
games. We’re best known for our title Mad Skills
Motocross (iOS/PC/Mac/Linux), and we’re
continuing our action sports franchise with Mad
Skills BMX (iOS).
Storytelling is the trade. We provide unique interactive communication,
e.g. online board games, interactive browser games and much more for
clients who want their customer base to engage and interact with the
brand. In short - connecting brands with people.
Released titles
Client portfolio – a few of their game projects
Mad Skills Motocross
Weetabix - Weetakid is an intergalactic gameplay for kids.
Vodafone – Net guys
Vodafone – Buffer Busters
Google - Beat the boot
Woodbot Pilots
Walt Disney Parks - The Great Piggy Bank Adventure
Adidas – Team Geist
Victoria´s secret pink panty poker
Planet M.U.L.E
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The game companies in Västerbotten
Coffee Zombie Games
Algoryx
Coffee-Zombie Games is a small game developing company
located in northern Sweden. Right now we’re focusing on
games for iPhone and iPod.
Algoryx Simulation is a leading provider of software and
services for visual and interactive physics based simulation,
a.k.a. serious games. Algoryx currently provides two products,
AgX Multiphysics for the professional market and Algodoo for
the education market.
Released titles
CineMania
Wheel of Pwnag3
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Educating the next generation
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Luleå University of Technology / Gscept
- Computer Graphics, Computer Game Engineering and Set Design & Prop
Making
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Luleå University of Technology
- Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Bachelor in Audio Technology
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Umeå University
- Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Master in Computer Engineering
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Cross Media Interaction Design
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Umeå Institute of Design
- Internationally top ranked, over 30 nationalities represented
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Graduated students are recruited by premium brands worldwide, e.g. DICE,
Ubisoft, Double Negative, Framestore and MPC
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Said about creative Västerbotten
”I can honestly say that I've never been to any place that has a higher concentration of
ridiculously creative people.”
Jeff Voris, Disney
”…we’ve held on to what we feel is important – creative freedom, quality of work and
curiosity – always with our feet on the ground and in high spirits. We like to see
ourselves as a small, flexible, fast-moving team with big ideas. We have friends and
partners all over the world to help us make those ideas come alive. ”
North Kingdom, International Award Winning Digital Agency
”New York or Umeå doesn’t really matter in the creative IT- world. Umeå is a great city to
work from as an IT-business.”
Emanuel Dohi, Dohi Sweden
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A creative melting pot in Västerbotten
• ”Live locally work globally”
• Quality of Life
• People, Relationships, Ideas and
Talents spark each other:
- A creative cluster;
a community of creative people!
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Extensive communications infrastructure
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Redundant national coverage
Total 150,000+ km fiber optic networks
100 dark fiber suppliers
10 Swedish IXPs from North to South
~ 50 international carriers and service
providers
• Europe´s fourth highest avg. traffic
IXP: 105 Gbps
• TeliaSonera the only tier 1 carrier in Europe
• 85% of Europe’s ISPs connect directly
Luleå
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Stockholm
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Malmö
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Contact information
Björn Ursing
Investment Promotion Manager,
Phone +46 708 111268
[email protected]
www.viavasterbotten.se
Västerbotten Investment Agency (VIA) is a regional investment promotion agency dedicated to
make the Västerbotten province the most attractive choice for foreign investors and companies
thinking about establishing or expanding their business operations in North Sweden.