Mats Andersson (Avalanche)

Mats Andersson (Avalanche)

Date: May 7, 2011

Mats Andersson started his career as a computer specialized arctic warrior, which is not as cool as it sounds by far, and a writer/illustrator for the very very nerdy swedish roleplaying magazine ‘Runan’. As a true pioneer, he visited the island of Gotland to be apart of the first class ever to graduate from the HGO GAME education back in 2004 – his proudest accomplishment being a real, human sized muppet, who insulted you until you beat it to death. After a short detour at Dice in order to write a bachelors thesis on their conceptual development methods right during the worst of the BF2 crunch, he landed at Avalanche studios, best known for Just Cause 1 and
2, where he has been toiling away designing games and leading small teams for the past 6 years – last time he checked, he had apparently earned the title Senior Game Designer.

He has also managed to be head teacher at the leveldesign school The Garden during a couple of years as well as lecture game design and production methods at HGO and FutureGames Academy whenever he can get out of the office without the producers noticing.

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