About this episode

Andreas Thorstensson discusses his journey from Counter-Strike champion to founding GOALS AB, aiming to revolutionize football video games.

Andreas Thorstensson is a Swedish entrepreneur, former professional gamer, and studio founder whose career has moved from the early days of esports to the challenge of rebuilding one of the world’s biggest sports genres from the ground up. Born in Stockholm, he began programming as a child and later emerged in competitive  Counter-Strike  under the name ‘bds’, becoming world champion in 1999 and earning a reputation as both a player, and builder of tools, platforms, and communities around the game. In 2001, he co-founded SK Gaming , helping turn esports into a more professionalised business, and later spent a decade in technology and startups. In 2021, frustrated by the state of football games, he returned to development to found GOALS AB , a Stockholm studio with an ambitious aim: to give football the video game it deserves. Its first title, GOALS , is a free-to-play, cross-platform football simulator built around a gameplay-first, fully skill-based philosophy.   Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Take the Acast listener survey to help shape the show: My Perfect Console with…

People in this episode

Host: Simon Parkin

Guest: Andreas Thorstensson

Topics covered

• esports
• game development
• football games
• entrepreneurship
• Counter-Strike
• video game industry

Keywords

• Andreas Thorstensson
• Counter-Strike
• GOALS AB
• esports
• football simulator
• game development
• SK Gaming
• video games

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GOALS AB, SK Gaming

Products: GOALS

Places: Stockholm

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