In this podcast Nick Sweetman interviews Sergei Panin a 3d environment artist currently working at Remedy entertainment. Sergei's latest releases include Remedy's Crossfire and he is now working on the highly anticipated Alan Wake 2.Sergei's Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/leoluchThumbnail Fox character by Rayner Alencar…

Nick Sweetman interviews 2D Character Designer Alfred Achiampong (aka Yo__Qwick) on how to stand out as a freelancer when targeting your work at the entertainment industry. Alfred's clients include the concept art studio Mooncolony,9B collective, Supercell , Suncreature, Triggerfish animation& Portfolio Entertainment.Full Video podcast here: https:…

In this podcast Nick Sweetman meets Mikko Eerola (aka AngryMikko) a freelance Digital Artist, with 10 years experience as a concept artist in the games company Housemarque in Finland. Mikko's game credits include classic games such as Outland & Resogun.Full Video podcast here: https://youtu.be/wO18EBWflvsMikko's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com…

In this episode we meet Charlotta Tiuri the Art Director of Frozenbyte in Finland. Charlotta specializes in both 3D Character and environment art and has worked on Trine 3 & 4, Nine Parchments & Shadwen. Charlotta has worked over 10 years in the games industry starting her career at Trip Hawkins (EA Founder) company Digital Chocolate.Full video pod…

In this podcast we meet Kshiraj Telang currently working as an Art Director at Moon Active. Kshiraj has been working in games for 16+ years and during his career has also worked at King in Barcelona and Rovio in Helsinki as an Art Director. Full video interview here: https://youtu.be/_CUB_nMLhr0Kshiraj's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kshiraj…

Tatu Petersen-Jessen the global studio art director at Rovio gives his personal view on what he looks for in a game artists portfolio. A seasoned game industry professional with a creative and artistic background Tatu has worked in different creative and management roles in more than 40 published games from AAA to mobile.…

After years of software development and technology consulting Tommi Koivisto decided to change his career path and break into the Games industry by joining Rovio Entertainment. Starting as a project manager at Rovio cloud services, he moved to Rovio PMO, changed to a game producer at Rovio Stars, and currently works as a senior producer / product l…

Game Artist Ilkka Leino talks about his personal view on how to structure your portfolio to break into the game art industry. Ilkka works at Supercell one of the worlds most successful mobile games companies. Supercell was crowned the world’s top mobile games company in PocketGamer.biz Top 50 Developer list 2017.*This interview was recorded over th…

Writers Guild Award-winner Anne Toole is a creative writer whose credits include video games, webseries, animation, television drama, comics, and short fiction. With a penchant for telling stories with a light tone and a dark underbelly, she prefers writing contemporary mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, horror and the occasional romance. She mos…

In this episode we discuss game programming and ways to break into the industry as a coder. We are joined by Ville-Kalle Arponen founder of Quicksave and Alberto Alonso founder of Action-Reaction Games. Ville-Kalle has over ten years of game development experience in programming, design & management. Alberto Alonso is a natural born C++ programmer …

In this episode we discuss advice for starting up your own games company, building a team and tips for getting company funding. We are joined by Elina Aponen CEO and co founder of Quicksave Interactive and Olesja Marjalaakso founder and CEO of Polka Dot Studios. Elina has been in the games industry since 2005 and Quicksave is her second company ven…

In this episode we discuss tips and tricks for learning game design and how to make sure your first job application shines out from the crowd. We are joined by game designers Arash John Sammander & Emyl Merzoud. Arash is lead designer at Rockway, game design & art teacher. Arash has also worked at Digital Chocolate as a game designer and is now a d…