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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

Efter ett glädjefyllt besked från Myndigheten för Yrkeshögskolan (MYH) kan vi på PlaygroundSquad berätta att vi nu förlänger samtliga utbildningar med 100p (från 450 till 550 YH-poäng), adderar nästan ett helt år och slänger in ett extra spelprojekt för er som blir antagna fr.o.m 2024! De nya kursplanerna sätts i verk till höstterminsstarten 2024, i Augusti, och kommer gälla fram till Mars, 2029. I och med de förlängda utbildningarna på 20 veckor kommer nu de första två åren

-För tjejer, transpersoner och icke-binära. Mellan 13 - 17 år Headerbilden är från PlaygroundSquad alumni Carolina Elvelins slutprojekt....

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

FÖRELÄSNINGAR | MEET'N GREET | SE LOKALERNA PlaygroundSquad arrangerar Öppet Hus den 17e mars 2023 där du som funderar på att ansöka till...

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

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

Hey peeps! Say hello to Patrik, our Business partnership manager and Artist supervisor. Patrik is kind of new here at PSQ. He’s a former...

Our 1st-year students ended the year in the best way possible - they had their Final Presentation of their 1st Game Project! All the...

It's been a while now, but our 2nd-year students had their gold presentations of their final game project and it. was. AWESOME! If you...

Last Friday was a big day for our 2nd-year Artists students. They had been working on some personal projects for about 3 weeks, and the presentation was due last Friday - and WHAT a presentation it was. The project was to create an environment of your own choice. It could be just as big (or small) as you wanted. Some of the students realized that it is not time that is short, but it is I who must work faster towards the deadline. Just like it is in the real world in the gamin

We just had an open house here at PSQ and it brings back memories of our former students. Which made us wanna' see what they're doing now! Lets meet: PSQ-Alumni Julianne Olaussen! Former Programmer student here at PSQ 2017🎉 https://julleftw.wixsite.com/home Where do you work right now? (and with what?) -I Work at Thunderful Skövde as a programmer. You’re a PSQ Alumni, did you enjoy your time at PlaygroundSquad? -Yeah my Time at PlaygroundSquad was great, so I miss it a b

We're having an virtual open house for you guys and we want YOU to join us!✨ Save the date: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Meet us, our...

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

It's their gold presentation! Well done. So without further ado, we present their games below. Enjoy!😍 Nuclear Opera Four sopranos...

· 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

It's that time of the year again when the gaming industry gathers (well, digitally this year) to hand out awards to the games released...

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

Our second-year students have just finished their final game projects! Kudos to everyone who put it together.🎮 Now they're heading out...

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