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🌅 Summer has arrived in Sweden! And how to better celebrate this than with barbeque and drinks on the rooftop, a Star Wars themed scavenger hunt throughout the studio, eating ice cream, singing karaoke, playing retro games, and getting on the dance floor? Last Friday, we invited our dear colleagues at Ubisoft Stockholm down to Massive to join us in the studio for an unforgettable evening! ✨

Join us live in LA for #UbiForward! June 10 | 09:00 PM CEST / 12:00 PM PDT Pre-show starts at 08:30 PM CEST / 11:30 AM PDT 

A few weeks ago, the Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora team shared artworks from the game. We wanted to explore those more and talked to some of our artists! 🖌️ One of them is Keyla Meijer, Senior Environment Artist on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Keyla’s main goal has always been to ensure the players feel immersed in the world and feel in awe of its beauty. She wants the players to feel as if they had stepped onto Pandora themselves. In her work, Keyla drew inspiration from the team’s concept art, the movies but also from real-life references from our own planet. 🌍 Keyla often starts from what is called a ‘block-out’; the grey box layout from which the environment is eventually built in the engine. She uses different concept arts for reference and starts off with the bigger picture as she starts replacing the grey boxes with art blocks. Major assets are incorporated and eventually, the general composition of the area is defined. Once this is done, details are carefully added to the environment. To ensure the player experience is solid, the environments are always playtested before final incorporation. The process includes several rounds of feedback from multiple stakeholders, set to ensure that the world is stunning while also enhancing the overall player experience. In the end, the world needs to be immersive, feel real and lived in. A place with a purpose. 🎮   🖼️ You can find more of Keyla’s artworks here: https://lnkd.in/ejvEYZ7H

The Nordic Game Conference took place in Malmö this week and Lead Game Designer Lau Korsgaard and Audio Director Alex Riviere from the Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora team took the stage to share some knowledge and insights!

XDefiant has launched! Congrats to our colleagues at Ubisoft San Francisco and the codev teams around the world 🎉 See you in game 🙌

Yesterday was dedicated to our local game development community. We spent the afternoon with students of The Game Assembly and rounded off the day as sponsors of the local Game Developer Meetup organized by our friends at Game Habitat.

"Game development is like putting on magic gloves that allow us to create the kind of inclusive, colorful, and beautiful worlds that we would like to live in and it's amazing being able to be a part of that." Game Habitat met with Maïmouna Fischer, Project Assistant here at Massive Entertainment to talk about her entry into the Games Industry. Read the full interview 👇

Last week was an exciting one for us in the studio as we revealed the new story trailer for Star Wars Outlaws and announced the game’s release date. To close down Friday, we got together for pizza, drinks, and mingling with our colleagues. 🍕

Creative Director Julian Gerighty sat down with Game Informer to talk about the development of Star Wars Outlaws, advantages of our Snowdrop engine, the creation of Nix, and much more! Make sure to take a look! 👇