Guide to Showroom - January 08 Presentation

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Greetings everyone! As you already probably know we are having another presentation from the IGDA Finland Presentation series. This time we are having it in Papa Giovanni (WTC building) Showroom, central Helsinki. So here us a map to find your way in, there will also be signs posted to help people find their way in however.

See you there!

PS. It's right opposite of System Rock (Public Corner), so it should not be hard finding the building at least.

Map to Showroom

January 08 Gathering and Presentation

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Hiho again! Santa is knocking on the door already but before xmas holidays and celebrations begin IGDA Finland wants to tell you something before you dig in to the ham and pudding. On January 8th, IGDA Finland will be organizing 2008's first IGDA Gathering, what a perfect chance to get that xmas ham or turkey out of your system! But wait... there is more. In January IGDA Finland is also organizing the second presentation in the IGDA Finland Presentations series!

*IGDA FINLAND PRESENTATIONS #2: TOOLS* Place: Papa Giovanni Showroom at WTC (opposite of System Rock/Public Corner) Time: Tuesday 8th January, 17.30

The second session focuses on Tools. Game industry is under constant evolution. Companies have grown and technologies improved which has made it necessary to evolve work processes and tools as well. Agile methods are widely in use but what else is there? What kind of tools the leading game developers use? How tools fit together with novel design processes and alterable teams? On January 8th, Kai Auvinen and Lassi Leppinen from Digital Chocolate (Sumea) and Sami Vanhatalo from Remedy will talk about Tools in mobile and console game development.

The session starts at 5.30pm and end at 7pm. After IGDA Finland Presentations it is pub night as usual! Welcome! The second IGDA Finland Presentations in association with Remedy will take place on January 8th 2008. This time the place is Papa Giovanni Showroom at WTC -- just opposite System Rock!

*IGDA FINLAND JANUARY GATHERING* Place: System Rock, Keskuskatu 4, 00100 Helsinki (map: http://igda.fi/?page_id=5) Time: Tuesday 8th January, doors open at 19.00

One afterword: w00t! Merriam-Webster's Word of '07: 'W00t'

December gathering - Finnish game developers rocked it out with Guitar Hero 3

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The last gathering of the year drew in a nice crowd of 177 attendees total!In December gathering AMD provided drink tickets ensuring the mood was indeed very merry all night long.

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The other sponsor was Microsoft and they provided us with demostands, with which we hosted 2 game competitions, as well as the prizes for those competitions. Both demostands were popular but Guitar Hero 3 demostand even had people lining up to play from time to time so it was clearly the more popular one.

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With Guitar Hero 3 competition the winner was Esko Javanainen from Digital Chocolate, the other competition with Project Gotham Racing 4 game winner was also from Digital Chocolate! Rajeev Girdhar. Way to go Digital Chocolate!

For more photos from the gathering CLICK HERE

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This time there was also the regular SCORE group from Tampere attending the gathering, with even a bigger group this time. Nice to see them bringing in new people with them! The evening carried along well in overall, another successful sponsored event, good job everyone who were part of organizing it!

WidSets Developer Competition

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dev.widsets.com is announcing a developer competition! widsets

According to them, Widsets developer team is looking for game developers to try out their platform. There seems to be plenty of room to show your skills so why not! Anybody from indie to corporate are welcome! Apparently there is only roughly two weeks time left so hurry up!

More details from competition HERE and the developer kit from dev.widsets.com

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