Kansallinen pelipäivä 11.11.2012 - part of International Games Day

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International Games Day - Kansallinen pelipäivä 11 November 2012. Press release in Finnish only - sorry: Kansallinen pelipäivä juhlii pelaamisen monimuotoisuutta ja tuo uudet pelaamisen muodot perinteisen pelien rinnalle samanarvoisina. Pelipäivä antaa pelialan toimijoille mahdollisuuden esitellä omaa toimintaansa ja kokoaa kaikki peleistä kiinnostuneet eri sukupolvien edustajat kirjastoihin, kouluihin ja nuorisotaloille pelaamaan yhdessä.

This is an opportunity for Finnish game developers as well. What about coming out of the studios and giving ordinary people an idea what you are working on. More information from the Kansallinen pelipäivä website.

Angels Game – Connecting games and business 13.11.2012

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Tekes Skene-program & Finnvera Venture Capital proudly presents: Angels Game matchmaking event. It brings game companies and business angels to the same table.

How to be part of it: 1. Fill out a form at the Finnvera site by 31th October 2. Angels Game jury will go through the applications on 5th and 6th November 3. Selected game companies will be notified on 7th November 4. Companies will be provided some pitching coaching (date TBD)

The Angels Game event will be on 13th November at Finnvera, Eteläesplanadi 8, Helsinki.

ARTtech 2012 videos online

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This year ARTtech was sponsored and organized together with IGDA Finland. At Assembly 2012 the ARTtech seminars offered jam-packed selection of different topics ranging from 3D printing to next geneneration occlusion culling. If you missed any of the seminars or liked to see them again, here is the link for the videos Assembly 2012 Archives - Seminars.

A big thanks to our honored guests and the awesome crew at Assembly who helped us with the seminars.

P.s. IGDA Finland is slowly waking from its summer slumber and getting ready to host the first IGDA Finland Gathering of fall 2012. We'll start with a bang with Tekes Skene program!

IGDA Finland proudly presents: ARTtech seminar at Assembly 2012

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As a summer job, UGDA Finland team put together ARTtech seminar for Assembly 2012! :) This year IGDA Finland put together the ARTtech seminar @ Assembly2012! The theme is "Tinkering" of games and electronics and you'll have a chance to hear on playful prototyping by Tuomo Tammenpää (Fri 3rd August, 12AM), why Theory Interactive build an entire engine instead of a indie game (Fri 3rd Aug 7PM) and how MiniVegas team uses game engines and C++ frameworks with traditional CG animation (Sat, 4th August 1PM). You'll also learn about 3D printing, building a arcade cabinet, Unity4, Adobe tools and so on.

Full program Thursday - Saturday - bring your sleeping bag with you! We have some presentations not to be missed :)!

Chartboost networking event for mobile game developers

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Join Chartboost and IGDA Finland mingle & drink event with other mobile games developers on Monday 21st May!

Where: Ahjo bar, Bulevardi 2/4, Helsinki When: Monday 21st May, 6-8PM

Register to the event (no need to print out the ticket): Eventbrite.

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