- [Narrator] This is not an adventure playground.
It's actually the offices of King,
one of the world's largest gaming companies.
And we're here to look around.
Stockholm is home to the world's
most innovative gaming companies
such as Mojang, EA DICE,
and the company that we've come here to see, King.
You may not have heard of the company,
but you've most certainly heard of its games.
Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue, and over 200 others.
And gaming is big business here.
It has 262 million monthly users --
that's more than Twitter gets.
Its games are played in all seven continents,
with over 1.1 trillion game rounds played.
King has two offices in Stockholm,
claiming to be filled
with some incredible architecture and design.
But is it really that amazing inside?
The first, Apelbergsgatan, hosts a cavernous indoor forest
as a breakout space.
This 33,000 square-foot room
features silhouettes of woodland creatures,
hanging basket chairs, and bean bags.
There's an interactive floor featuring a stream,
which freezes and thaws in a preset seasonal rotation.
The second office is across the street at Sveavägen 44.
- The whole theme here is based
on like a Swedish amusement park,
something that you would find in a smaller Swedish city.
These tables especially spins around like carousels.
- [Narrator] On the first floor is Pavilion Park,
which has rooms filled with board games,
craft stations, and the biggest collection
of game controllers we've ever seen.
The company's fun and funky decor
is down to its Swedish work ethic.
[Marcus] It's very important for us
to make teams work well together.
So, the office, as you will find,
there's a lot of spaces where a team can, with short notice,
get together and find somewhere quiet to work together.
We like flat organizations,
which can from the outside seem a bit chaotic
because it can be hard to understand who really decides.
I think that's a downside with it
because we like a lot of people
to be involved in when we take decisions,
but I think the upside is engagement.
A lot of people feel that they're bought in
to what we're doing.
- [Narrator] So, how are games actually made here?
- [Namie] What I want to show you is how
to create a brand new level.
And what we do here is to hide animals under icing,
or ice as we call it,
and then we place out the animals like this.
What the characters in the Friends [Saga] do
is that when you gather their color,
you fill up this barometer and then,
when I have collected 10 red candies for example,
she will get her fish.
- [Narrator] If you play Candy Crush or other King games,
you might not realize each character voice and music sample
is created here in specially designed studios.
- So, we record all the music for Candy Friends
in New York with real live musicians.
Once I'm done, I hand it over to an orchestrator
who then makes sure
that it's actually playable for the musicians.
- [Narrator] We even had a stab
at voicing Mr. Yeti from the Friends Saga.
- [Charlie] Hey there! Hello.
Hellooooo.
- [Narrator] On the upper floors,
there's more breakout spaces
and rooms dedicated to arcade games.
The library has hundreds of books
from cooking, to building websites.
[Marcus] Really what we need to do
is we need to bring people together
with a different background
and different skillsets. Hence
that's why we have a football table
with a more diverse cast
than what you otherwise would find.
- [Narrator] So, that's it for our tour.
Would you want to work in an office like this?
Or would it be all a bit too much?
Let us know in the comments.