He describes it as if Tarsier Studios just have come out of the game development bunker. [They're in] a period where unique products are worked out and the company is building its identity. Tarsiers is probably most well known for the critically acclaimed Playstation Vita game Little Big Planet, where the user controls his character through different tracks in a fantasy landscape.
But what will happen in the future at Tarsier, Ola Holmdahl is careful to say.
- With broad strokes, I can tell you that we are looking at doing something for the Playstation 4 that will be released this holiday season.
As game companies are growing larger, so are also the requirements for gaming companies' employees, says Ola Holmdahl.
- You could say that the industry has left the entrepreneurial start and is now in a more structured phase. Gaming companies no longer consists of three people, but rather companies with hundreds of employees.
Ola Holmdahl also think that the industry starts to be taken more seriously in Sweden. During his time at Junebud he was met by a lukewarm interest from Swedish investors and venture capitalists, he felt that the understanding of the industry's potential was significantly higher in Finland and the USA. - Sweden has long been willing to embrace modernism and invest in technical infrastructure. But it has always been difficult to get respect and attention as a person working within the arts here.
