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    • skarnEnglish
      7·
      15 days ago

      And the devs of Helldivers II are apparently Swedish? Yesterday I suddenly found out that Dead Cells is actually French.

      The European gaming industry seems, from an outsider, to be doing some good work.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        Wait till you hear about Coffee Stain Studios (Goat Simulator, Satisfactory), Paradox Interactive (I’m not gonna name any games lol, they’re literally a genre unto themselves), Iron Gate Studio (Valheim), Ghost Ship Games (Deep Rock Galactic)…

        Oh and if you’re into mobile games at all, maybe you’ve heard of Rovio (Angry Birds), Supercell (Clash games) or King (Candy Crush)

        And this is all just Nordic countries. There’s a lot of stuff coming out of Poland (CD Projekt Red), UK (Rockstar North), France (Ubisoft’s been kinda meh the last decade+, but if you only play every 3rd or 4th iteration of Assassin’s Creed, they’re still kinda fun) and if you consider Iceland to be European which it is, that’s where EVE Online is from!

        We have a very healthy video game industry, spread across many countries, with many developers with their own unique styles. Indie, AA, AAA. It’s lovely.

        • skarnEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          Of course I knew about CD Projekt Red and Paradox. Somehow the titles I mentioned caught me by surprise.

          About France, you could have named Arkane. They did Dishonored which was really really good.

          Only Italy does not seem to have a gaming industry to speak of.

          On mobile, why would I play Angy Birds when I can play Dead Cells (free right now in the Epic Store for Android, though it’s well worth paying for)? Though I have to admit I’m kinda addicted to the open source goodness of Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Mindustry. Likely not made in Europe, but so good, and you can get then straight from F-Droid.

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            14 days ago

            On mobile, why would I play Angy Birds when I can play Dead Cells

            Well I wouldn’t know! 12 or 13 years ago when I still played mobile games, angy birds was the shit lol

          • MrFinnbean@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            13 days ago

            All this talk about France and no mention of Sandfall. Their Clair obscur was without a doubt the best new ip this year.

            Also Belgium hits hard with Larian.

    • BlessedDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      15 days ago

      It’s a show of how huge the demoscene was, and is here in Finland. Remedy Entertainment was founded by a bunch of demoscene veterans, as were most big game studios here.

    • MrFinnbean@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      They lean pretty much to finnish culture in their games. The Old gods of asgard-band from alan wake games is alias for Finnish band Poets of the fall

      The coffee termoses in alan wake and controll are just blue versions of the legendary airam-thermos that was long time basic kitchen accessory allmost in every kitchen,

      Ahti character speaks and sings in Finish a lot and Ahti is Finnish name meaning the god of the water (basically Finnish version of Poseidon)

      In Alan wake 2 there is town of Finish immigrants and the town hall and the sauna next to the lake both are riddled with details. Things like finnish darts boards (tikka taulu) to the old bike leaning to the sauna are really authentic things.

      Also Ahma bear means wolwerine beer, and finlands most popular domestic beer has really similar design and is called Karhu, a bear.

      Max payne has also music from finland, finish vodka bottles.

      All games have also many many nods to Finnish culture. If you ever tought any building looks weird or some poster or picture in the wall does not seem to fit, it most likely nod towards something cultural in Finland.

      Also RedLynx (Trials), Housemarque (Returnal), and Allmost Human (Legend of Grimrock), Frozenbyte (Trine), Bugbear (Flatout, wreckfest) are From finland.

      On mobile side there is Supercell (Clash of Clans), Rovio (Angry birds) and Fingersoft (Hill climb racing)

      Also if somebody likes rogue likes there is game called UnReal world that is about surviving in finnish iron age, its a freeware game that first came out in 1992 and to my knowledge had updates untill 2016.

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        I was not aware of these connections! Thanks for the write-up. Guess I need to check out the full extent of the Remedy-verse