Website for the Finnish chapter of the International Game Developers Association.
Ho-Ho-Ho! Have you been a naughty or a nice game developer in 2008?
We have heard rumors that Santa will be visiting the IGDA Gathering on the 9th of December. Santa will give drink tickets and gingerbread to all the nice game developers. Welcome to spend a merry-merry little X-mas party with us at Cuba Café!
IGDA FINLAND DECEMBER GATHERING
Place: Cuba Café, Erottajankatu 4, 00120 Helsinki (map:http://igda.fi/?page_id=5)
Time: Tuesday, 9th of December, doors open at 19:00
11th of November was IGDA Finland’s Super-Tuesday! We arranged both IGDA Finland Presentations at White Hall and a pub night at Cuba club. This time IGDA Finland Presentations session was organized in association with Remedy Entertainment, Sigchi and Sulake.
The presentation session was biggest so far with over 130 participants, organized in White Hall at the center of Helsinki. The session focused on interaction design and game usability with an impressive line-up of speakers from Insomniac, Sulake, IronStarHelsinki and HeavyMetal Helsinki. Presenters covered areas from scrum & usability, tutorials in games, lessons learned, user studies and usability on mobile. Presentation session was finished with three quick presentations from researchers and usability experts looking for possibilities of collaboration with game developers.
Continue reading ‘November Gathering: Interaction design and usability under the loupe’
Our ‘About Us’ -page has been updated to reflect our current organization and responsibilities, including an organization chart of how we have structured our coordinator team for this season.
Basically we’ve formalized the split of responsibilites a little more than previously. For our most important areas of events and the website, we’ve also tried to form partnerships where two coordinators always work closely together, able to cover for the other one if they get sick or something.
IGDA Finland Organization Chart for 2008-2009 Season (click chart for full-size image)
Sonja and Vesku take care of all events, where Sonja takes care of the more over arching stuff and Vesku handles the concrete details. Vesku also coordinates the efforts of our sizable volunteer pool.
Miikka and Teemu handle the website. Miikka acts as the Editor-in-Chief and is responsible for all the content, Teemu concentrates more on the backend technical stuff but is also responsible for the visual looks. Juho is our new webmaster and Teemu’s right hand man. He is also the hand and eye behind our current logo. Teemu and Juho are helped by the volunteeers of the web team and Miikka has been putting together a group of volunteer to act as the content team.
Whereas Sonja, Vesku, Miikka and Teemu concentrate on the ongoing activities of our chapter, Mats takes care of our ‘one-of’ projects. These are initiatives that actually have a ‘finish date’. Right now he is concentrating on getting the chapter team new chapter t-shirts and updating our out-of-date banner.
As the lead coordinator, I try to help out where I can. 
- Jay
Lead Coordinator
