Johan Andersson is a Swedish

video game designer Video game design is the process of designing the content and rules of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production stage. Some common video game design subdiscipline ...

and studio manager for Paradox Tinto, a Barcelona-based division of

Paradox Interactive Paradox Interactive AB is a video game publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company started out as the video game division of Target Games and then Paradox Entertainment (now Cabinet Entertainment) before being spun out into an independen ...

Career

Before working for

, he was an employee of

Funcom Funcom Oslo AS (, formerly Funcom Productions AS) is a Norwegian video game developer that specializes in online games. It is best known for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) titles '' Conan Exiles'', '' Age of Conan'', ...

where he worked as a programmer for Sega Genesis games, such as '' Nightmare Circus'' and ''

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''. He began working at what would later become Paradox Interactive in 1998, joining the original team that had been developing ''

Europa Universalis ''Europa Universalis'' is a grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published in 2000 by Strategy First. Development The game was originally based on a French board game of the same name by Philippe Thibaut that ...

''. Although he began his career as a programmer, Andersson later became a designer and producer at Paradox Development Studio, working on

grand strategy Grand strategy or high strategy is a state's strategy of how means can be used to advance and achieve national interests. Issues of grand strategy typically include the choice of primary versus secondary theaters in war, distribution of resource ...

games such as ''

Hearts of Iron III ''Hearts of Iron III'' is a grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The Microsoft Windows version of the game was released on August 7, 2009, while the Mac OS X version was released ...

'', ''

Crusader Kings II ''Crusader Kings II'' is a grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. Set in the Middle Ages, the game was released on February 14, 2012, as a sequel to 2004's '' Crusader Kings''. On ...

'', ''

Victoria II ''Victoria II'' is a grand strategy game developed by the Swedish game company Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. It was announced on August 19, 2009, and released on August 13, 2010. It is a sequel to '' Victoria: ...

'', ''

Europa Universalis IV ''Europa Universalis IV'' is a 2013 grand strategy video game in the '' Europa Universalis'' series, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive as a sequel to '' Europa Universalis III'' (2007). The game was re ...

'', '' Stellaris'', and '' Imperator: Rome''. Andersson's design philosophy is "to create believable worlds." In June 2020, he became the lead of Paradox Tinto, a newly established studio based in

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Living people Video game programmers Video game producers Swedish computer programmers Swedish video game designers 1974 births {{videogame-bio-stub