Ari Arnbjörnsson

Be Licensed is an Unreal Authorised Training Center - and the only one in Sweden. ⭐️ Since 2023, we’ve partnered with Epic Games to deliver professional training in Unreal Engine for game development. 🎮 Our Unreal portfolio includes 10+ self-developed courses covering storytelling, level design, blueprints, animation and advanced 3D audio, with new courses continuously being added. All courses are led by authorised Unreal instructors and often feature guest lecturers from the game industry, connecting learning with real production environments. An Unreal & Wwise webinar with distinguished guests is coming up, stay tuned! Learn more about our Unreal courses: https://lnkd.in/evdpW4N2

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What Game Development Has Taught Me After years in the industry, here are a few lessons that stuck with me: 🔹 Iteration beats perfection 🔹 Small teams can do big things 🔹 Cross‑disciplinary communication is everything 🔹 A great player experience starts with great team culture Every project—big or small—has taught me something new. Excited to keep learning.

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Still on my way to AD and wizardry, but it is nice to have clear goals:) Come to Turku next week if you like gamedev. The event is not focused on art, but being cross-discipline is a super power. In my talk I will make a humble attempt to connect dots between game design, visdev and neuroscience. #gamedev #event #neuroscience

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Tomi Toikka from Makea Games shared with us the story of developing and launching Supermoves: World of Parkour, discussing the game’s concept and the challenges that the studio faced when launching the project. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eSMfTKjy #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indiegamedev

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Congratulations to Sustainable Games Alliance on the development of three power-saving plugins for leading game engines: Unreal, Unity and Godot! 👏 💭 As Torbjörn Söderman, Technical Director of the SGA Energy Efficiency Network, highlights: “By making these power-saving tools available across Unreal, Unity, and Godot, we’re helping the entire industry reduce its carbon footprint without compromising the high-fidelity experiences players expect.” Energy efficiency improvements can deliver measurable benefits for players and businesses, particularly on handheld devices: 💠 Longer battery life  💠 Decreased fan noise and device heat 💠 Lower electricity consumption and carbon emissions This is a great example of how sustainability and performance go hand in hand in game development. 👉 Access the Plugins and the SGA Energy Efficiency Guide here: https://lnkd.in/dC3mg5CJ

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Our team at Aska Studios just wrapped up the latest Steam playtest for Gang of Frogs and I'm happy to say it was a great success. We decided before the test to focus all our efforts on improving the core of the game: running around as a pirate frog 🐸, shooting alien crabs 🦀, and becoming more powerful by building synergies through poker hands and deckbuilding 🃏. We removed a bunch of features we had in the last test simply because we felt they detracted from the clarity of the experience. The result was less content, but what's there is clearer and more polished than before. The result: - Almost as many people played as in all our previous tests combined 🎉 - Time played per playtester is up significantly ⌚ - We had our highest concurrent player count yet 💥 - We broke 100k wishlists on Steam and rising! 📈 On to the next one, this pirate frog space ship has the wind in its sails 🐸 🏴‍☠️ ⛵

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Good interview with Wooga's Holger Wurst 🔜 PGC Nordics Helsinki on how June's Journey, now well into its second decade, still gets designed. Two things stood out to me: - First, he says senior players, who make up a big chunk of the audience, "outsmart me on several occasions," so he researches with them before pitching anything, not after. When Wooga did the Wicked tie-in, players themselves set the condition that the IP could not overshadow June, and the team built the whole collaboration around that one rule. - Second, on AI: his designers build their own tools, and prototypes now come together about 70% faster, but he draws a hard line at synthetic players built from audience data, calling it "dangerous" because it lets teams stop thinking about real players. His exact words: "you can't build something for people without people in the room." For anyone running LiveOps or player research on a long lived title, this is a genuinely useful read, not just another AI hot take. Full interview here: https://lnkd.in/eYvDbHDE

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We are excited to share that Peliosuuskunta Expa (Expa Game Business Co-operative) (Peliosuuuskunta Expa) is now an Epic Games - #Unreal licensing partner (only one in Finland at the moment) Expa now supplies professional teams the tools and support they need to scale their work with confidence. Why Professional Licenses Matter? While Unreal Engine is famously available for free, professional license holders gain important advantages that go far beyond cost considerations: professional licenses unlock capabilities, support, and scalability that serious teams rely on. We are also an official Unreal training partner - Unreal Authorized Training Center (UATC). And we don’t just sell Unreal — we teach it. As an Unreal Authorized Training Center, we help teams adopt Epic tools smoothly and effectively. As a professional license reseller, EXPA doesn’t just handle licensing — we help organizations choose the right setup for their technical and business needs. Read more and get in touch: https://lnkd.in/dbEwWDuy So if you know someone that needs a Unreal license, You know who to contact in Finland. #gamedev #unreal #unrealengine #digitalcreator #jyväskylä #finland David I. García Chris Ebeling

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CCP Games recently participated in a community-run charity livestream, “EVEAthon,” which raised funds for Girls Who Code , a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and inspiring girls pursuing careers in technology. As part of the stream, three CCP developers Anna Guðbjörg Cowden, Kristín Fjóla Tómasdóttir, and Julia Elisabeth H., shared their experiences working in game development, discussed the paths that led them into the industry, and offered advice for young women interested in careers in technology and games. Featuring Anna Guðbjörg Cowden CCP k1p1 — Producer for EVE Online Kristín Fjóla Tómasdóttir CCP Keys — Senior Distributed Systems Engineer Julia Elisabeth H. CCP Esja — Senior Data Scientist Watch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/gKTcmd92

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