IGDA Finland Presentations! Funding and Investments

After such a great October Gathering it would only be fitting for us to follow up with an event even greater. For that reason we are pleased to announce IGDA Finland Presentations: Funding and Investments in the Video Game Industry. THE EVENT IS FULL! LIVE VIDEO STREAM WILL BE AVAILABLE! Taking place at Sulake Auditorium (click for map) the presentation focuses on the industry's funding instruments, valuation, connections between product volume vs. hit products, new avenues for success outside of the video game industry and why certain companies receive funding and others do not. Each speaker will have a case study highlighting one of these areas.

This event is sure to be extremely informational for anyone involved in the gaming industry so quick book your seat through the IGDA Finland Facebook page as there are only 100 places available. If you don't use Facebook, send an email to sonja [.] kangas [@] igda [.] fi if you want to join the event. We will close the registration when we have 100 names on the list. Maybe list at the Facebook doesn't count.

We will have the pleasure of hearing presentations from:

Marko Tulonen of Mediatonic. Case: Nitro Games

Mari Isbom of Tekes. Case: Digital Chocolate

Hannu Jungman of Veraventure. Case: Ironstar Helsinki

Atturi Tarjanne of Nexit. Case: Hybrid Graphics

The event is presented by the IGDA in association with Sulake, Pelikehittäjät ry and Neogames and will be moderated by Koopee Hiltunen of Neogames.

Oh and do not forget! After the presentation there will be our November Gathering at Cuba Bar (click for map) where the doors open at 19:00 and cold weather never keeps the party from heating up.

See you there!

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IGDA FINLAND PRESENTATIONS: FUNDING AND INVESTMENT Place: Sulake auditorium, Korkeavuorenkatu 35, 00130 Helsinki Time: Tuesday, 9th of November, 17:00-19:00 IGDA FINLAND PRESENTATIONS: FUNDING AND INVESTMENT EVENT IS FULL! WE CANNOT ACCEPT ANY MORE REGISTRATIONS!

We will be streaming the presentations, the stream can be found here at igda.fi site.

IGDA FINLAND NOVEMBER GATHERING Place: Cuba Bar, Erottajankatu 4, 00120 Helsinki(map: http://igda.fi/?page_id=5) Time: Tuesday, 9th of November, doors open at 19:00

October Gathering Rocked!

With coldness in the air things got a whole lot warmer at IGDA’s gathering last Tuesday (Oct. 3) at Cuba. As always the gathering was full of action with 101 friends and colleagues networking and enjoying rich conversation and in the back Retro games ruled with players rocking out with Contra and Super Mario Bros. [singlepic id=711 w=320 h=240 float=] See the Gallery here.

We are also please to congratulate EveryPlay’s Amplifier for winning Mindtrek’s Launch Pad. Applifier helps social game and app publishers of all size to grow their social applications through cross promotion. Over 100 apps use Applifier to promote their application to over 55 million monthly active users on Facebook. Congrats EveryPlay!

Also cool news, TAIK (Aalto University School of Art and Design) started a Game Design and Production Master of Arts program. It is a 2-year degree program that provides unique possibility for building game design skills while building theoretical and conceptual understanding on games. More Info.

Well that's it from here. Our next gathering will be Nov. 9th so keep your eyes open for more information.

September Gathering kicked off IGDA Finland season 2010-2011!

Busy fall started along with IGDA Gatherings! The first Gathering attracted 130 people to Cuba Cafe. We had a lot of good networking, students visiting Igda Chapter from Aalto University and Outokumpu college and good news from Recoil & Colossal Order! Good to see positive things happening at the game startup scene as well. Thanks to everyone joining the fun and see you again at the October Gathering! IGDA FINLAND OCTOBER GATHERING Place: Cuba Bar, Erottajankatu 4, 00120 Helsinki (map) Time: Tuesday, 5th of October, doors open at 19:00

Invitation: September Gathering

Back to work - back to work and to IGDA Finland Gathering! We'll kick start the Season 2010-2011 on Tuesday September the 7th. Despite the sunny weather Finnish game developers worked hard over the summer. There were several good news and impressive progress. Join us at Cuba bar to catch up the latest news from fellow game developers. Besides chatting and cheap drinks, we'll have also some retro games (on Wii)!

See you next Tuesday!

IGDA FINLAND SEPTEMBER GATHERING Place: Cuba Bar, Erottajankatu 4, 00120 Helsinki (map: http://igda.fi/?page_id=5) Time: Tuesday, 7th of September, doors open at 19:00

You can find the preliminary dates for IGDA Finland Gatherings 2010-2011 here.

PS. The 2nd round 2010 of Nordic Game Development Support is closing on 1st October. Check out Nordic Game website for more information and don't forget to apply! http://www.nordicgameprogram.org/?id=23

IGDA Finland May: Talking about project management

IGDA Finland Presentations in association with Sulake was organized along with the usual IGDA Finland Gathering at the Cuba Cafe. This time we teamed up with Sulake, the company behind Habbo Hotel. Sulake kindly offered a venue for IGDA Finland Presentations at the city center of Helsinki. Project Management issues were discussed by Jon Leslie from Hansoft, Joonas Tamminen from Redlynx and Jan Storgårds from Aalto University. The presentations session was also streamed online and the recording can be found from: USTREAM.

On a general level Hansoft talked about agile project management, Scrum as a process and Hansoft tools. RedLynx has over 10 year of experience in game development and their CTO Joonas Tamminen gave a nice overview of different attempts, different type of projects, platforms and technologies as well as described how their take on project management has changed over time. Jan Storgårds is a PhD candidate at the Aalto University in Finland. He has been studying brand value creation process. In his presentation he went through results of the study based on interviews conducted in 19 Finnish game studios and 26 persons representing the game industry. If you want to get more in depth with the topic, see the interviews with Joonas ja Jan IGDA volunteer Reina Magica made after the presentations.

The IGDA Finland Presentations session got fully booked (nearly 100 people joining) within first 12 hours and the room surely was packed! Still everything worked smoothly. A big hand goes to Sulake for hosting this and future IGDA Finland Presentations sessions.

After the presentations, it was time to head to the Cuba Cafe just a few blocks away. This time IGDA Finland Gathering attracted 115 developers. The evening continued with topics touching project management. All lecturers were present at the Cuba Cafe. There were also lots of people from Remedy due to the fact that Alan Wake was done and shipped. Congratulations Remedy!

The last Gathering before summer holidays will be on Tuesday June the 8th. See you there!