Hi everybody, I was one of the people who got quite excited when Apple announced their iPad back in January. Not because I wanted yet another gadget to let me surf the internet or read e-books in bed or whatever. No — what I was excited about was the possibilities of playing games together on [...]
Archive for the ‘My Games’ category
Announcing: Shot Shot Shoot
August 4, 2010Shot Shot Shoot Explained
August 3, 2010Kometen update is out with iPad support and tons of new content!
July 20, 2010Hi! It’s a great pleasure to finally reveal the update for Kometen. Me and Nicke have worked hard on this for two months, adding lots of things and tweaking what was already there. Here’s the changes: iPad support through universal binary. You just have to see this in motion Different regions to explore with new [...]
Northern Lights Indie Pack
June 25, 2010Get five great indie games (including Blueberry Garden) for 60% off!
A quick status update for Kometen
June 15, 2010Hi! It’s summer here in Sweden now and when Niklas and I are not sitting at the top of mountains thinking about life, we are working hard on completing the update for Kometen. We are keeping the game very much true to the original experience while trying to make it a lot more varied and [...]
Kometen iPhone backgrounds
May 24, 2010More backgrounds await those who make it to the end of the universe.
Kometen competition!
May 19, 2010Thanks to everyone who has bought Kometen so far, it’s really awesome to see that so many people are playing and enjoying it! We’re currently working on the first update of the game and to spice things up a little we are going to have a competition. To participate you have to draw (or scribble) [...]
Kometen is out!
May 12, 2010Get it on iTunes! Official Page Hope you like it!!! Erik
Announcing “Kometen”
April 26, 2010A while ago my friend Niklas Åkerblad (“Nicke” for short) and I decided to do a little game project together, kinda just for fun (and to see how well we could work together). We decided to work with the iPhone and iPod Touch since it seemed neat and a good fit for our small idea. [...]
Article is up: “Creating Blueberry Garden”
April 13, 2010Finally I have finished writing my article about the making of Blueberry Garden. It’s not a classic post-mortem since it primarily discusses my thoughts on the design while leaving out production details. Hopefully it can give some insight to what I wanted to achieve with the game regarding interactive storytelling and where I think I [...]
Blueberry Garden in museums
February 5, 2010A.L.I.C.E museum Mediateca Expandida. Arcadia Best of IGF 2009
Finally! Blueberry Garden 1.1
December 8, 2009At last I have finished the first patch of the game. It shouldn’t have taken this long and I’m terribly sorry for that… I could give you a bad excuse or two but instead I will present what the improvements are: Blueberry Playground — Brand new play mode where you can place fruits and creatures [...]
Talking at Assembly
August 12, 2009Hi, Last Friday I went to Assembly in Helsinki to give a seminar. The title of my talk was “Creating Blueberry Garden – how to get away with bad design choices (sort of)”. It went pretty ok and some nice people in the audience even wanted to get me as a speaker at their uni [...]
Indie Games Sale!
August 8, 2009Great tip for everyone interested in indie games (and everyone else). This weekend Steam is having a huge bundled sale and Blueberry Garden is included. Read more about it here! 75% off!!! UPDATE: The sale has ended, big thanks to everyone who bought the bundle!
On Blueberry Garden’s Music, by Daduk
June 15, 2009Hello ! What an amazing destiny for these couple of piano tracks I published on the Internet a couple of years ago ! I was miles away from imagining that one day, they would be selected as the soundtrack of such a beautiful video game. I hope you will enjoy listening to the music as [...]
Game is out!
June 10, 2009Ok, finally Blueberry Garden is up on Steam!!! =) =) =) What a great and exciting journey it has been, thanks everybody for all the support and patience! The only thing left now is for you to play the game — Get it here Also, here is the new Official Blueberry Garden information page. Take [...]
Sooooooorrry
June 9, 2009Seems like there are some problems with the Steam release stuff, will probably take a little while to sort it out. I hope you have some patience with this, it’s the first time I’m doing this kind of thing you know. I’m terribly sorry and I will do all I can to get the game [...]
Party
June 8, 2009Ok, so the game is supposed to be released very soon and to celebrate I decided to have a little party, chilling out in my apartment with some friends. I’ll update this post with pics of what’s happening as the evening progresses.
Blueberry Garden Release Date
June 1, 2009On Steam!
How soon is now?
May 31, 2009Really soon. But not today. I’m sorry and I hope you won’t hate me. Official press release will be reliable though. Oh, and I’m so happy people want to play the game, I really hope you will like it… Take care, Erik
Ilinx
May 27, 2009Interviews!
May 11, 2009Hey! A lot of people have interviewed me lately and I thought maybe you want to read some of it: “Of Blueberries and Gardening” by The Escapist “Flying high in Blueberry Garden” by Tuna Snax “Greenfingers: An Interview with Erik Svedäng” by The Reticule “Ten Questions with Erik Svedäng” by Game and Player “Interview: Erik [...]
I won
March 27, 2009Seumas McNally Grand Prize 2009 It’s kind of crazy, thanks to everyone! For those who wonder — the game is not out yet but I will release it for PC pretty soon, hopefully. Take care, Erik
San Francisco!
March 22, 2009Flipside wins a competition
January 29, 2009The Swedish site gameplayer.se arranged a game developing competition together with Paradox Interactive and now they have choosen Flipside of the Divine as the winner. Here’s the motivation: Flipside of the Divine demonstrates that innovation alone is not enough, but innovation, mixed with rock-solid development is the killer formula for a high-quality compelling game. Plus [...]
Blueberry Garden submitted to the Independent Games Festival!
November 1, 2008I killed the bug!
October 23, 2008The Birds in your Garden
June 11, 2008Hi everybody, sorry for not posting anything in a long while. Here’s a couple of desktop images if someone is interested: Take care, Erik
Win
May 25, 2008Swedish Game Awards: Best innovation 2008!
Blueberry Garden nominated for Swedish Game Awards
May 18, 2008Blueberry Garden will compete in the category “Best Innovation”!
Deadlines are approaching
May 5, 2008Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum
April 22, 2008Today I visited the Natural History Museum in Gothenburg to check out how me and my friends’ game Det Goda Livet was doing as a part of the ongoing Science Festival. I watched people from two school classes playing the game and everybody seemed to have a blast! Some of the girls in the last [...]
Swedish Game Awards
April 6, 2008Blueberry Garden is participating in the Swedish Game Awards this year. The organizers of the competition made a spotlight review with me, read it here.
Bird Flew By
April 1, 2008#%&!?$X#§¤?!
March 26, 2008Into the unknown
March 13, 2008It’s been one week since I made the trailer for Blueberry Garden and I just want to thank everyone for showing such great interest in the game. It’s very motivating but a bit scary too! I’m currently looking for playtesters so if you live somewhere in the western part of Sweden and want to try [...]
Blueberry Garden – Sneak Peek Trailer
March 6, 2008I made a trailer today, watch it here. Update: Here‘s a high resolution version of exactly the same trailer.
Kissing Couple
February 27, 2008A Story from The Blueberry Garden
February 26, 2008The birds and the party hats were living their peaceful lives at separate sides of the tower. One day the birds decided to move to the other side of the tower where the party hats had their home. Since the birds could fly they ate all the blueberries before the party hats could reach them. [...]
Blueberry Garden page is official
February 23, 2008Check out the new Blueberry Garden page here!
Name changes
February 23, 2008Oops, two name changes in one day: 1. Flipside changes name to Flipside of the Divine. Why? There already exists a game called “Flipside”, actually it was made at the exact same time we made our game! 2. Landet changes name to Blueberry Garden. Why? “Landet” was a working title and I wanted some thing [...]
Food!
February 21, 2008A Garden
February 14, 2008Party
February 8, 2008There was quite a strong wind blowing in Landet today
February 6, 2008Concept Creatures
January 29, 2008(Click on the image for a full view) Which one would you like to see in the game?!
Trailer: “Flipside”
January 28, 2008I have made a new trailer for Flipside. Unfortunately the YouTube quality is a bit low, please sit far away from the screen!
Announcing Landet
January 21, 2008I have been working on this game for a very long time without any bigger success. From now on I will focus all my time on completing it.
