Swedish Game Awards arranged the fourth and final Game Developers Evening together with Starbreeze Studios on the 22:nd of April. As usual, the evening was started with Steve Olofsson, Project Manager SGA08, who gave new information on the prizes and nominations for SGA08. A total of 100 000 SEK will be given out in prizes. Karl Palmskog, head of Swedish Game Awards website development, demonstrated the technology feature recently got a new update.
After Steve and Karl, Robert Nyberg, HR Manager at Starbreeze, entered the stage to talk about Starbreeze as a company and how they work with games and publishers. A very informative Q&A session followed and was much appreciated.
Robert had brought with him several developers and artists from Starbreeze, and during the longer minglebreak, visitors got a chance to talk to them and get an even more personal view of Starbreeze as a workplace.
For the final part of the evening, Jens Andersson, Lead Designer on The Darkness and Jury Member for SGA08, gave a detailed look at how Starbreeze works with their own technologies. Jens demonstraded some key points with specially prepared animations from within a scene in the game engine. An interesting Q&A session followed where Jens answered a lot of good questions. Look out for the upcoming Video Coverage from this event.
It turned out that all three of our Concept Art Challenge winners was present, so we gave out the prizes to all three, the prize was a Wacom Bamboo Fun A5, congratulations to Cecilia Bexander, Björn Silfverberg and Rickard Westman!
