Travel

As you may know I’m currently on sabbatical from the games-industry and my company Starbreeze. After having the best job I can imagine for 8 years, I felt I needed a change of scenery and decided to take the money I had managed to put away and burn it on things that makes me feel wiser. You can see some of those things on this site, with small projects of different kinds; some art-projects, some game-projects and some other things that may or may not be good ideas.

The biggest of these projects is one that I haven’t really started on. It’s the project that I’ve been hoping to do for quite some time, and it’s the project that made me create this site in the first place. It’s the Collecting Smiles project.

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Posted: December 17th, 2007 under Art, Projects, Travel.
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Mud and plenty of wind can turn a tent into a flying dragon!

Oh sweet mud. I had the pleasure of attending the Roskilde Festival and watch a few bands like BJÖRK-INFLAMES-ROKYERICKSON-BEASTIEBOYS-DIZZEERASCAL-CSS-QUEENSOFTHESTONEAGE-MUSTASCH-BONDEDEROLE-FLAMINGLIPS-CULTOFLUNA.
But since this is a gaming-blog I will not bore you with that. Instead I’d like smoothly move the topic over to licensed music in games. In The Darkness we did a pretty cool thing. We crammed the disc full with video content that ran on the in-game TVs that were scattered all over the game. Read more »

Posted: July 17th, 2007 under Game design, Travel.
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As a final US stop, San Francisco was really perfect and took the top spot of my favorite city ever. I got to hang out with Jordan from Irrational as well as Steve from Perpetual which was really cool.

San Francisco is also the home of GDC (apart from a year in San Jose). I’ve never been there myself, but it seems to have become bigger and more interesting every year. Still, it seems a bit on the hefty side to charge so much for a conference ($1450 for a classic pass), and of course the total becomes much higher for people traveling from Sweden.

Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Games, Travel.
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I think I’ve been to Los Angeles about 10 times and have spend about two weeks per year here the last 5 years. Mostly due to E3 of course and this will be the first time for a long time that I’m not going. E3 is quite different this year as well since they have moved it from being in the main convention centre into a couple of hotels in Santa Monica. It’s probably not a bad idea. Still, Leipzig seems like a very good replacement for E3 and is maybe more interesting since it’s for most part open for consumers as well. And you don’t have to fly for 15 hours to get there, of course.

Posted: June 29th, 2007 under Games, Travel.
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Quick stop on my way to the airport

Washington was very nice as well. So much cleaner than New York and with much more space for everything. Still, I prefer New York. Perhaps working with Darkness have made me appreciate dark and broody environments. :)

Posted: June 28th, 2007 under Travel.
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View from my hotel

I love New York. I’m off on a short US promotional tour that will take me through a couple of US cities but I’m pretty sure this is the one I’ll like most. The Darkness is released over here today (yay!), but I’ve haven’t had time to check out any stores yet. Instead I’ve met Nate Wells who will promote Bioshock. It’s pretty amazing to be able to meet people behind legendary games like System Shock 2.

Posted: June 25th, 2007 under Travel.
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I hate these

Why can’t they just print them out at the airport? They obviously have all the information. I never got a pen with me and no, I’ve never commited mass-murder. Nag nag.

Posted: June 25th, 2007 under Travel.
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