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.