Hello!

I’m Svante Jakobsson, currently in my final year studying Game Programming at The Game Assembly in Malmö.

Video games have been a major part of my entire life, growing up on the WII and then being introduced to PC gaming by my older brother.

When I was around 10 I really fell in love with a game called Tribes:Ascend, now sadly for me at the time, that game was on its last legs. I remember my road to becoming a game developer started there, I wanted to become a game developer so I could eventually create something like Tribes.

Now 12 years later, having followed that road, I studied Game Development at LBS and then went straight to TGA. In the process I’ve fallen in love with almost all facets of game development, having experience in gameplay, graphics, tools, systems and animation programming.

But my favorite aspect has to be working with other disciplines, something I’ve had the opportunity to do so much of being a graphics programmer in our last 2 projects. Helping our artists and technical artists bring their ideas into the engine has been so much fun.

When I’m not working, I spend most of my free time playing video games. And on the rare occasion that I’m doing neither, I really enjoy spending time in nature, climbing things that look climbable.

While I probably won’t be recreating Tribes any time soon, it is something I hold very dear to myself and something I hopefully, some time in the future will be able to act upon.