Creating

creative regions

Building game clusters since 2014

About

We started building game clusters in 2014 where Arctic Game Lab was our maiden mission. The team assembled consisted of experts in business development, game development and event management as well as expertise in EU and soft money funding.

Since then we have been part of a large number of game industry related projects with municipalities, regions and other organisations as our customers. Our mission is to assist in the creation of creative cities and regions outside the capital areas by using the games industry as a catalyst.

The games industry is today the largest entertainment industry in the world, it scales really well, it is born globla and it requires a lot of different talents often found in the creative and cultural industries which makes it ideal for the creation of creative regions.

The game industry is in rapid growth – but it needs new ideas, games and studios.

We help by creating game clusters together with municipalities and regions!

Projects

InnoGS – Innovation through Gamification Solutions

The ”Innovation through Gamification Solutions (InnoGS)” project addresses regional and rural development by tackling common challenges like youth and underrepresented group integration, skill shortages, and talent retention. InnoGS focuses on digitalization and gamified approaches, which make activities for users engaging and motivating, usable to benefit public and private sectors. Pilots create vibrant place-based communities in the forms of innovation ecosystems (regional “Digital Innovation Districts”, hubs, clusters) provide a physical co-creation space for end users andRead more

X Border Support4Games

This Interreg Aurora project aims to strengthen competitiveness and collaboration of the games industry SMEs in the Ostrobothnia and Västerbotten regions. Branch: Digitalisation Duration: 1.1.2024 – 31.12.2026 Region: International Financed by: Interreg Aurora Regional Council of Lapland Skellefteå kommun https://www.interregaurora.eu/approved-projects/x-border-support4games/ Project Manager: Ville Autio, Centria The games industry has many success stories both in Finland and Sweden. During the years, some successive companies have accumulated lots of experience on company development, leadership, and networkingRead more

Baltic Sea Game Incubation

The extension project “Baltic Sea Game Incubation – Piloting Network Activities to Foster Game Incubation in the BSR” (BSGI) builds upon the BGI-project and continues to work on boosting the game industry in the Baltic Sea Region – giving special attention to capacity building. Its main objective is to enhance business support of game incubators through strategic transnational collaboration with other game incubators in the Baltic Sea region (BSR). Joining forces in transnational cooperation willRead more

Georange – Mining Innovation Program

The purpose of this project is to strengthen the competence in the mining cluster Georange and by doing this support the continued development of participating companioes. The overall purpose of the Swedish S3 Cluster Platform Pilot is to strengthen the clusters prioritized within the smart specialization strategies of their regions as well as their work addressing innovation and development in the private sector. Tillväxtverket considers the clusters as one important tool – among others –Read more

Distribuerat Förkroppsligat Lärande

Distribuerat Förkroppsligat Lärande för Processoperatörer i Framtida Batteriproduktion This project aims to develop, test and implement a distributed XR-environment to educate future operators in the process industry. It is developed iterative, in continuous co creation with managing functions for education and onboarding at Northvolt, and connected to the existing educational infrastructure in Skellefteå. Focus are long-term sustainability from both environment and business model perspective, to secure long-term values. The work will result in a pilotRead more

Innovation Game 2.0

A stronger game industry in the region with more game studios, higher turnover, more employees and more equality witch will lead to creation of a number of international game successes. Innovation Game 2.0 is a continuation of the first project: Innovation Game. It is a cooperation project between Skellefteå Science City (owner), Luleå Business Region, Piteå Science Park and Boden Utveckling as partners. The overall goal of the project is to support a more diversifiedRead more

Innovation Game (finished)

Innovation Game is a project aimed at stimulating the establishment of a sustainable innovative environment for game development and game-related businesses, through interaction and cooperation with partners within northern Norrland’s innovation system. Unfortunately, it is very limited geographically and the largest cluster is in Stockholm, which often is ranked as the best environment for game development in the world. In 2014, Skellefteå municipality, together with the municipalities of Piteå, Boden and Luleå, decided to investRead more

Innovation

We help by creating game clusters together with municipalities and regions and thereby nurture creativity, involve new players and support innovation resulting in new pioneering companies and creative regions.

Investment

The game industry is built on investments – to go from a great idea to a great game you need capital (and time). Therefore, attracting game investors are crucial. We support companies during the process from soft money to getting investors involved.

Education

Competence is key – to get the job done you need a skilled crew. We help by building clusters for collaboration, creating new education programmes and attracting developers and creatives to regions.

Marketing

The best games are not necessary winners when it comes to sales. To help create a global success you’ll need a large network of contacts within the business. By providing distribution and marketing support as well as community building we help clusters and studios reach their full potential.

In the projects where we are involved
we typically work with:

Project development – Project financing – Project management
Project administration – Project implementation – International collaboration – Event organisation

Team

Anita Vidman

Business Administration Manager

Anita is a very experieced business administration manager who handles both ours and our clients finances with good results. She knows the rules and regulations by heart and is a safe heaven for all companies and projects that she manages.
anita.vidman@creativecrowd.se
+46 705 636 655

Emma Prieto

Community manager

Emma is our community manager. She works close with students, the studios and our partners to create a creative, positive and inspiring community.
emma.prieto@creativecrowd.se
+46 737 253 371

Erik Okfors

Motion Capture Technician

Erik Okfors is skilled in both programing and computer graphics with a passion for Motion Capture. He is maintaining the tech in Arctic Game Lab and supporting the educations and companies in the region with expert knowledge in how to use our mocap lab.
erik.okfors@creativecrowd.se

Johan Linder

CEO and co-founder

Johan is the CEO and co-founder. He works with business development and creative events using his vast network and deep understanding of the games industry.
johan.linder@creativecrowd.se
+46 768 233 460

Magnus Johansson

Project manager and co-founder

Magnus is senior project manager and co-founder. He specializes in combining tech, industry, innovation, sports, culture and creativity.
magnus.johansson@creativecrowd.se
+46 767 613 116

Lars Lindblom

Investment manager and co-founder

Lars is senior project manager and co-founder. He is a veteran in the field of business development, creative project strategy as well as EU and municipal financing.
lars.lindblom@creativecrowd.se
+46 706 552 875

Jobs

Join the Creative Crowd

Payroll Administrator We are looking for a payroll administrator to join our team in Skellefteå. The payroll administrator will be an important part of our team as our projects, number of clients as the companies in our company group grow. This position requires an administrative person with experience or at least an education in payroll administration. Experience in accounting and human resources are meritorious. What we offer: A fun, creative, international and inclusive environment OpportunitiesRead more