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Just got the news that I won the prize for “Swedish talent of the year”, given out by the Swedish games industry organization Dataspelsbranschen. Thank you guys!

Some very good friends are releasing their latest creation on Steam today! It’s a really fun little game where you fly around with a space ship and solve physics-based puzzles. You also find spare parts that you must use to modify your ship so that it can handle different situations. Get it here now!

Water color painting by Niklas Åkerblad (more about him in a bit). Hi! I just wanna thanks everyone who has made this year so awesome. So many fantastic friends (new and old), so many great experiences — I feel extremely lucky. Next year will be no less exciting, I have a lot of projects coming [...]

I live here now.

Hi folks, just wanted to clarify something about the demo version of Blueberry Garden. The main purpose of the demo is for you to make sure you can run the game and to see if you like the mood etc. There is no goal or ending to demo so if you like what you see, [...]

I’m at the annual Swedish Game Awards in Stockholm right now and (as I was hoping) the very cool game Bloodline Champions won the Grand Prize! The game was made by a group of students from my university and I know things will go very well for the in the future because they are awesome. [...]

A view from my parents’ house.

I’m in shock.

While I am putting the last pixels in place on Blueberry my hard working friends here in Skövde are releasing a lot of games. I thought it would be a good idea to tell you something about them! Puzzlegeddon (Windows XP & Vista) A puzzle and action game at the same time. Earn resources through [...]

So, what are you doing?! Right now I’m preparing Blueberry Garden for the Independent Games Festival. It’s going fine. The initial release for Blueberry Garden was planned for “summer 2008″ so why can’t I play the game already? A couple of reasons: The game isn’t polished enough I haven’t decided how to distribute the game [...]

The Swedish game magazine Super Play wrote about the little indie developer party I arranged this summer: I really appreciate that they put the name of the games on the front page too, that’s awesome!

(Blueberry Garden concept art from the summer of 2007) Today is my birthday and since I haven’t written very much here lately I thought I would give a little news roundup of the last couple of months: I have graduated from the University of Skövde with a degree in Computer Game Design Three weeks ago [...]

Top: Erik Svedäng, Emil Berner, mr anonymous, Petri Purho, Jens Bergensten, Andreas Jörgensen & Jonatan Söderström (Cactus). Bottom: Gøksel (Decipher), Nicklas Nygren (Nifflas), Joel Nyström, Kian Bashiri & Mårten Brüggemann (laying down). Missing: Erik Sjöstrand. This weekend I arranged a meet-up for Nordic indie game developers. It was really fun hanging out and we created [...]

I was interviewed for this month’s issue of the Swedish video game magazine Super Play.

Now Blueberry & Flipside are both handed in to the Swedish Game Awards competition. It’s been a hectic weekend with a lot of work and only a small taste of the lovely weather. Hopefully the following time will be more relaxed… A big thanks to everyone who has play tested Blueberry Garden, it’s been great!

This is my new attempt of creating a personal website. It will contain special pages about some of my projects and a blog with the latest news. I hope you will enjoy it! Sincerely yours, Erik