Their game is released in Japan

In the spring, LTU student Jonas Roininen and his co-founder Conny Nordlund launched the game Hayfever on Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox and PC in Sweden. Now he is looking forward to the game being released in Japan.

Since 2017, Jonas Roininen from Luleå has put everything into his dream of working with games full-time. Together with his friend Conny Nordlund, he has developed Hayfever, a game that has won awards and been well received on the Swedish market. Soon it will also be released in Japan.

How did you get the idea for Hayfever?

- Conny sneezed a lot during his schooling at Game Assembly in Malmö and explained to me how cool a sneezing game could be. I jumped on the idea because I thought it sounded fun. We made a prototype and started our company Pixadome in 2017. Then it took about two years before we had a full product for all game consoles and PC. In February, Hayfever was finally released in Sweden and now we are waiting for the date of the Japanese release, which feels very big," says Jonas.

Along the way, the team has won several awards in various pitch competitions, including Arctic Game Lab where they won exposure during Nordsken Expo.

- We did a lot of networking while working hard on our product. Through Nordsken we got in touch with Zordix Publishing who chose to become our publishers. They have helped us bring the games to PC, Nintendo Switch, XBOX ONE and Playstation 4.