February 22, 2008

The Nordic Game Program Gains Interest

Thirty Nordic game developers, publishers, and industry organizations – hailing from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden – occupy Booth 5605 in the North Hall, the largest exhibition space at GDC 2008. The Nordic Game Program includes; three game developers from Denmark and the Danish developers’ organization; a Finnish developers’ organization, Finnish funding agency, and seven developers from Finland; nine exhibitors from Sweden and an industry organization; one developer from Iceland; and seven companies and organizations (including an investment group) from Norway.
The Nordic region’s GDC line-up this spring includes:

Artplant

Brilliantly Blonde

Bugbear Entertainment of Finland

CCP Games of Iceland

Chat Republic Games of Finland

Industry organization Dataspelsbranschen from Sweden

Norwegian developer ESP Group

E-sports Nordic

Futuremark
Game Incubator
Guppyworks
Hansoft
The Institute of Informatics at Hedmark University College in Norway
Finnish developer Housemarque

The Swedish developer Illuminate Labs

The Norwegian investment organization Innovasjon Norge

Kuuasema, a Finnish mobile game development studio

Muskedunder Interactive of Sweden

The membership-based Finnish developers’ organization, Neogames

Nordic Softsales
Swedish developer Pan Vision Games
 
Power Challenge, a Swedish developer

The Danish producers’ organization, Producentforeningen

Ravn Studio, a Norwegian concept developer and producer of computer games

Rovio, a Finnish developers

Spillprodusentforeningen, the Norwegian developers’ organization
Tekes, a Finnish funding agency
 
Univ Gotland of Sweden

Zeitguyz, a Danish developer

The group exhibition in the Nordic Game Pavilion is a project of the Nordic Game Program which also will occupy space in the booth and which is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.