New Year, Same Great IGDA

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Happy New Year! The first IGDA Finland Gathering in 2011 will take place on January 11th. After crazy New Year parties we will take a bit slower in January... or... not really :) Grey Area - company behind Shadow Cities LBS game will sponsor the night, talk about Shadow Cities and LBS-gaming! This and a lot of more good times coming, we can assure you! See you next Tuesday!

Come to Cuba bar on January the 11th at 7PM to meet fellow developers and share your plans for 2011!

IGDA FINLAND JANUARY 2011 GATHERING Place: Cuba Bar, Erottajankatu 4, 00120 Helsinki (map) Time: Tuesday, 11th of January, doors open at 7PM

New Advisory Board Members!

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As the new year approaches it is with great pleasure we welcome new Advisory Board Members to the IGDA Finland team. Jyri Ranki, Remedy Koopee Hiltunen, Neogames Elina Arponen, Tribe Studios Mikael Hed, Rovio Ville Miettinen, Lots Osma Ahvenlampi, Sulake

Bold denotes new advisory board members.

A special Thank You goes to the outgoing advisory board members for their service in making IGDA Finland one of the best Game Developer organizations out there. Your help was greatly appreciated! :)

Xmas Xtravangza was Xcellent! :)

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With special guest DJ Joonas Mäntynen (certainly welcome back anytime :D) rockin the house with retro-game styled music and Mr.Goodliving's newly released Bad Air Day driving the humor and big laughs IGDA Finland's Xmas Xstravaganza was certainly a night to remember and a perfect way to finish off a great year. [singlepic id=751 w=320 h=240 float=]

Mr.Goodliving would personally like to thank everyone for coming – visitors, gamers and the IGDA from the bottom of their heart.

In case you were interested just who won the iPod Touch Mr.Goodliving gave away as a prize for the best score playing Bad Air Day the winner was Sini Haapanen who scored 61,676 points which was by far more than anyone else – including the Mr.Goodliving guys. Nice going Sini, now you can tell your family and all your friends that you are the world's best at Bad Air. :D

A night highlighted by the release of Bad Air Day also featured special drinks, T-shirts and snacks provided by Mr.Goodliving as well as many rockin out in the Lipshack.

All in all 163 people enjoyed the Xmas bash many of whom were from our affiliate studios such as Digital Chocolate, Remedy, Tribe Studios (IGDA Finland's new Studio Affiliate!), Redlynx, Sulake, Recoil.

Thanks again everyone for attending and making the IGDA Finland one of best international game organizations on the planet!

Xmas Xtravaganza Just Around the Corner!

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This is big! The Xmas Xtravaganza is quickly approaching.  As mentioned before Mr.Goodliving will be joining us for our Dec. Xtravaganza  as they roll out their new iPhone game "Bad Air Day." The high score competition will feature a iPod Touch as the grand prize with 50 shirts being given away throughout the night. On top of that Mr.Goodliving will have a guest DJ and is generously providing sweet and salty snacks and sponsoring some special drinks. Oh and there will be plenty of iPods and iPads for everyone to play.

Mark it on your calender, put a post-it note on your computer, tell all your friends, just don't forget, Dec. 7th 19:00 IGDA Finland and Mr.Goodliving will be bringing down the house at Cuba Bar!

Do your part, fill out the IGDA Finland Survey to help make us the best Indie Game Organization on the planet!

IGDA FINLAND DECEMBER GATHERING &  XMAS PARTY Place: Cuba Bar, Erottajankatu 4, 00120 Helsinki (map) Time: Tuesday, 7th of December, doors open at 7PM