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STUDENT: Alva Blomquist – Your creativity sets the limit

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

17 juni2 min läsning

STUDENT: Hugo Wassén - Learn how to take criticism and feedback.

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

17 mars 20232 min läsning

STUDENT: Oliver Berglund - learn to love it

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

25 jan. 20232 min läsning

STUDENT: Olivia Grönlund - Everything will work out!

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

12 jan. 20233 min läsning

Students Personal Project Presentation

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

13 sep. 20212 min läsning

PSQ-Alumni Julianne Olaussen! Programmer student-17

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

31 mars 20212 min läsning

PSQ-Alumni-friday with Anna Johansson at Toca Boca❤

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

5 feb. 20214 min läsning

PSQ Alumni: KNUT-ASBJORN ANDERSEN ø artist student -18

· 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

21 dec. 20202 min läsning

Catching up with Mikael Danielsson, former design student at PSQ-18

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

4 dec. 20203 min läsning

Catching up with a PSQ Alumni: Torsten

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

4 nov. 20202 min läsning