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Alva is now entering her second year at PlaygroundSquad as a Game Artist student. We took the opportunity to talk with her about her first year at the school! How would you describe your first year at PSQ? – My first year at PSQ has been really good! Before the education, I mainly had experience with traditional and digital art, so at the beginning everything felt quite new, but learning all the programs and tools has not been a big problem. It has actually been really fun to

3D art by Olivia Grönlund You probably haven't missed that we are quite star struck by our students. We’d like to give you the opportunity to meet some of them! Let us introduce: Olivia Grönlund, who attends our Game Artist program. Olivia is doing her internship at the game studio Section 9. 2022 was an eventful year for Olivia, who got the highest rank (A-Rank) at the Rookie awards, won the Rookie’s Adobe 3D Robot challenge, was featured in 3D World Magazine, and was

Say hello to Oliver Berglund, one of our fantastic programming students. Oliver does his internship at PluckyBytes and talk to us about learning to love programming, workflow and the importance of having inspiring people around. Describe yourself in three words? Tenacious, hardworking, communicative What's your background? Regular stuff until high school, where I took some programming courses. I hated them, the way to approach problems made no sense to me at first, but I deci

Hugo Wassén and project that Hugo worked on at Playgroundsquad Get to know our Game design student Hugo Wassén. Hugo is doing his internship at Snowprint Studios working on mobile games. He talks to us about studying Game design, the importance of bonding and growing smarter together and trying to play as many games as possible, regardless of their genre. Finally, don't miss Hugo's list on do´s and don´ts for future students. Describe yourself in three words? Optimistic, Hard

Where do you work right now? -I’m currently working at a Swedish gaming company by the name of Toca Boca as a Quality Assurance Tester in Stockholm. Where we make applications for kids with the “power of play” in mind. I am working on an application called Toca Life: World which is probably best described as a virtual dollhouse. I really enjoy working for Toca Boca and their playful nature. While I haven’t had the pleasure to work in the office just yet due to the pandemic, m

· Where do you work right now and with what? Right now, I am working for Zoink Games in Gothenburg as a VFX artist. · You’re a PSQ Alumni, did you enjoy your time at PlaygroundSquad? Had a lot of fun at PSQ in Falun, it was quite the experience the one and a half year I was there! · Do you miss PSQ? (we miss you!) Well I do miss stay up late with classmates while working on our projects at school. · What was the best thing about PSQ in your opinion? The things I miss the m

We're starting to miss our students a whole lot now and wanted to catch up with some of them! That's why we talked to Mikael Danielsson a Designer Student from 2018, and asked him how's he doing and what he's been up to since graduating from PlaygroundSquad. Where do you work right now? I work at Illusion Labs located in Malmö as a Level Designer. My main job is to create levels using our in-house level editor. I also script different gameplay scenarios for our game projects

We're starting to miss our students who graduated this summer a whole lot now and wanted to catch up with some of them! That's why we talked to Torsten Lareke, a Designer Student from 2018, and asked him how's he doing and what he's been up to since graduating from PlaygroundSquad. Hi Torsten! 👋👋👋 Where and what do you work with right now? Right now, I'm working at King, the company I did my internship at. I got hired after the internship concluded. I've been working here

Martin Larsson is a game programming student at PSQ and is doing his internship right now at Fast Travel Games, where he also will be working after his internship! We had some question for him about the internship period (also called LIA) that you might want to know before applying to PSQ! How is your internship? It's perfect! I'm doing my LIA (lärande I arbete) at Fast Travel Games, which is located at Södermalm in Stockholm. I'll be working there as a Junior Programmer si

This is Sara Karlsson. She is a Game Designer student at PSQ and doing her internship ATM at the London based studio Terahard. Before the summer she will graduate as a Game Designer, and we have some questions for her that could be of use for you who want to study at PSQ! How has your time at PSQ been? My time at PSQ has been awesome! I’ve made many good friends and the work-like school hours fits me perfectly. With so many passionate and hardworking classmates, working and

We just had three amazing former PSQ students who held presentations about their journey after they graduated from PlaygroundSquad. It was really inspiring to hear about. All of our students were welcome to join and get inspired by the former PSQ students' adventures in the game industry! Pontus Wåhlin now works as an Artist at Machine Games and went to PSQ 2005. When he was little, he had a dream about developing games and working at Id Software in the USA. A few years lat

Say hello to Oliver Berglund, one of our fantastic programming students. Oliver does his internship at Plucky Bytes, and talks to us about learning to love programming, workflow, and the importance of having inspiring people around. Describe yourself in three words? Tenacious, hardworking, communicative What's your background? Regular stuff until high school, where I took some programming courses. I hated them, the way to approach problems made no sense to me at first, but I

3D art by Olivia Grönlund You probably haven't missed that we are quite star struck by our students. We’d like to give you the opportunity to meet some of them! Let us introduce: Olivia Grönlund, who attends our Game Artist program. Olivia is doing her internship at the game studio Section 9. 2022 was an eventful year for Olivia, who got the highest rank (A-Rank) at the Rookie awards, won the Rookie’s Adobe 3D Robot challenge, was featured in 3D World Magazine, and was