Invitation: IGDA Finland June Presentations & Gathering

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IGDA Finland Season 2009-2010 ends with a blast! The last IGDA Finland Gathering before holidays will take place on Tuesday 8th of June. We will provide everything and more! The evening starts with IGDA Finland Presentations titled “Startup Stories” in association with Sulake and continues as IGDA Finland Gathering at the Cuba Café. On top of that IGDA Finland is collaborating with AVEA research project (by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT). They will organize a seminar on virtual economy at Kiasma seminar room. The seminar will start at 12PM and you are most welcome to join the event. Sign up here: http://bit.ly/9blTED.

AVEA Seminar on Research in Virtual Economies 12.00 Opening words Kai Huotari, Research programme Manager, HIIT

12.15 Virtual Consumption Dr. Vili Lehdonvirta, Researcher, HIIT

12.50 Virtual goods sales as a business model Juho Hamari, Researcher, HIIT

13.25-14.25 Coffee Break

14.25 A micro-economic approach to MMOs Juha Tolvanen, Researcher, HIIT

15.00 Does a player driven virtual world need economic management? CCPs approach to managing the economy of EVE Online. EyjĂłlfur GuĂ°mundsson, Chief Economist, CCP

15.35-16.00 Closing discussion

IGDA Finland evening starts with IGDA Finland Presentations on “Startup Stories”. Finnish game startups will share their thoughts how and why they founded the company, what lessons have they learned and what are they up to at the moment. We will have six startups: Relationship Games, Rocket Pack, Ookoohko, Ironstar Helsinki, Uplause and Fantastec sharing their stories and inspiring the rest of us. Also Ilari Kuittinen (Housemarque) and Trip Hawkins (Digital Chocolate) will share their stories how they got started!

IGDA FINLAND PRESENTATIONS Place: Sulake auditorium, Korkeavuorenkatu 35, 00130 Helsinki Time: Tuesday, 8th of June, 17:00 Obligatory registration SORRY BUT THE EVENT IS FULL! The room will fit first 100 so act now! Only the ones replying “yes” will be on the list. Do follow the video stream at http://igda.fi on Tuesday 8th of June (5PM>)!

IGDA Finland Presentations will also be streamed online at igda.fi. The live stream starts on 8th June at 5PM.

After IGDA Finland Presentations, it is time to head to the bar – super-super party at Cuba! Singing! Drinking! Having fun! Chatting! Chilling!

Mighty Housemarque “The First Game Start-up still alive” together with Rocket Pack, Relationship Games, Uplause, Fantastec and IronStar Helsinki are sponsoring special drink ticket game. Also Microsoft Lipshack singing booth is open! Let’s celebrate current and upcoming Finnish game success stories and one of the most active IGDA chapters in the world!

IGDA FINLAND JUNE GATHERING Place: Cuba Bar, Erottajankatu 4, 00120 Helsinki (map: http://igda.fi/?page_id=5) Time: Tuesday, 8th of June, doors open at 19:00

Invitation: IGDA Finland Presentations & Gathering on 4th of May!

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Happy sunny spring everyone and welcome to IGDA Finland Presentations & Gathering on 4th of May! After Wappu celebrations it is time to get back into business. On May the 4th IGDA Finland Presentations session will focus on Project Management. The event will be arranged in association with Sulake.

We have a killer line up as always ;) Jon Leslie (Hansoft) will talk about Scrum and Lean and how to create the perfect methodology mix for game development using the production management tool Hansoft, Joonas Tamminen (RedLynx) shares lessons learned from RedLynx projects and Jan StorgĂĄrds (Aalto University) will give a briefing of his study on branding value creation in digital games.

IGDA FINLAND PRESENTATIONS Place: Sulake auditorium, Korkeavuorenkatu 35, 00130 Helsinki Time: Tuesday, 4nd of May, 17:00 Obligatory registration: THE EVENT IS FULL! You have a change to meet & chat with presenters at the Cuba Cafe 7PM onwards.

• "Agile for features, Lean for Assets" This presentation will focus on Hansoft products and their approach to project management. Jon Leslie Senior Production Expert, Hansoft

• "100 game-projects: Lessons Learned" Redlynx has been around for long and done plenty of projects for different platforms and target groups. They will present lessons learned in a nutshell through the years. Joonas Tamminen CTO, Redlynx

• “Digital game brand development practices” This presentation will provide a general perspective to brand value creation process which recognizes the diverse value contributors. The results are based on interviews conducted in 19 Finnish game studios and 26 persons representing the game industry. Jan Storgårds Researcher, Aalto University

Note that we have a new venue! IGDA Finland collaborates with Sulake and from now on IGDA Finland Presentation sessions will be held at Korkeavuorenkatu 35, just a few blocks from Cuba Cafe.

After the presentations, it is IGDA party as usual. Join us at the IGDA Finland Presentations or at latest at the Cuba Bar at 7PM.

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