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In Behind Massive Screens, we talk about the ins and outs of game development and the gaming industry with the people behind the games. Hosted by Massive Entertainment – creators of The Division, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and the Star Wars Project – the show gives you a greater insight into how game development actually works and an opportunity to learn about the different roles at a gaming studio, straight from the experts themselves. In this inaugural episode we meet Lead Data Scientist David Renaudie, who will tell us more about how data science can help us understand our players and our games better, and what it means for future development. Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our second episode of the Behind Massive Screens podcast, we sit down with Lead Game Designer Fredrik Thylander to discuss game design, how it works in practice and how you approach designing a new game from scratch. And how do you, with various tricks (and cheats), create fun, second-to-second gameplay? Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Cinematic Animator Soo Kang tells us how cutscenes in games are made – from script to motion capture, to ending up in a game.
 How do you plan for a recording, how do you use the motion capture data once it’s done, how do you go from a pair of moving dots to a complete scene? How do you create drama and how do you connect it to gameplay? How do you use a mix of technology and storytelling to draw a player into the world of the game? Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Technical Animator Rasmus Björk gives an insight into what technical animation is, how it works and its place in bringing characters to life in video games. How do you make sure that a human, or an orc, or even an animal moves in a realistic way? How do you build a skeleton that animators can then use to work their magic? Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What goes into adapting a huge AAA video game to other languages and markets than simply English? How do localizers and translators work on the text, but also on voices and UI? How do you work with voice casting and actors, dialects, language differences, and any potential translation mistakes? Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter meets Concept Artists Topi Pajunen and Marie Isacsson to talk about their job, concept art’s role in game development, and how art can inspire the development teams and communicate ideas. Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sat down with Chella Ramanan, Narrative Designer at Massive Entertainment, to dig into the complicated subject of storytelling in video games – in everything from smaller indie projects to giant AAA games. Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Petter and new co-host Dori as they sit down with Palle Hoffstein, Art Producer for The Division 2, and dive into his job and his long history in the games industry.
 What does an Art Producer do and how do they work with the artists? What was it like to work in the industry back in the 90s? How did you develop a fully fledged FPS with only 20 people? And how was the experience of moving from North America to Europe? Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter and Dori sit down with Lead Game Designer Lau Korsgaard to talk about experimental game design, indie development versus AAA, what uses a regular controller can have beyond the norm, and how games without rules can encourage social interaction. Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Petter and Dóri as they meet Keltic Vermeersch, Environment Artist at Massive Entertainment, to find out how environments in video games are created - from "simple" hallways to sprawling open worlds. They also learn brand new creative uses for lamps. Yes, lamps. Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wondered how to start working on artificial intelligence in a video game and how the AI in The Division was put together? What do you need to keep in mind when creating AI for an NPC? How do you get started in modding games and what can you create using the tools available? In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Associate Game Director Drew Rechner covers these subjects in detail, since he’s worked with both – and has built one of the most ambitious Neverwinter Nights mods ever created. Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do you become a playtester for video games and how does a playtest work? And what are the User Researchers, that are running the tests, looking for? In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, we meet User Researcher Hanna Rosvall, who will give us a look behind the scenes. What tools do User Researchers use, how does a games lab look, and what’s going on behind those mysterious one-way mirrors? Let’s find out! Subscribe or follow “Beyond Games” wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.