Angels Game – Connecting games and business 13.11.2012

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Tekes Skene-program & Finnvera Venture Capital proudly presents: Angels Game matchmaking event. It brings game companies and business angels to the same table.

How to be part of it: 1. Fill out a form at the Finnvera site by 31th October 2. Angels Game jury will go through the applications on 5th and 6th November 3. Selected game companies will be notified on 7th November 4. Companies will be provided some pitching coaching (date TBD)

The Angels Game event will be on 13th November at Finnvera, Eteläesplanadi 8, Helsinki.

ARTtech 2012 videos online

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This year ARTtech was sponsored and organized together with IGDA Finland. At Assembly 2012 the ARTtech seminars offered jam-packed selection of different topics ranging from 3D printing to next geneneration occlusion culling. If you missed any of the seminars or liked to see them again, here is the link for the videos Assembly 2012 Archives - Seminars.

A big thanks to our honored guests and the awesome crew at Assembly who helped us with the seminars.

P.s. IGDA Finland is slowly waking from its summer slumber and getting ready to host the first IGDA Finland Gathering of fall 2012. We'll start with a bang with Tekes Skene program!

IGDA Finland proudly presents: ARTtech seminar at Assembly 2012

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As a summer job, UGDA Finland team put together ARTtech seminar for Assembly 2012! :) This year IGDA Finland put together the ARTtech seminar @ Assembly2012! The theme is "Tinkering" of games and electronics and you'll have a chance to hear on playful prototyping by Tuomo Tammenpää (Fri 3rd August, 12AM), why Theory Interactive build an entire engine instead of a indie game (Fri 3rd Aug 7PM) and how MiniVegas team uses game engines and C++ frameworks with traditional CG animation (Sat, 4th August 1PM). You'll also learn about 3D printing, building a arcade cabinet, Unity4, Adobe tools and so on.

Full program Thursday - Saturday - bring your sleeping bag with you! We have some presentations not to be missed :)!

Chartboost networking event for mobile game developers

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Join Chartboost and IGDA Finland mingle & drink event with other mobile games developers on Monday 21st May!

Where: Ahjo bar, Bulevardi 2/4, Helsinki When: Monday 21st May, 6-8PM

Register to the event (no need to print out the ticket): Eventbrite.

Chartboost offers a cross-promotion technology that allows mobile game develpers to buy, sell or trade users directly with especific apps, skipping the mediation and the 50% cut of an ad network. Learn more about Chartboost and chat with other mobile game developers.

IGDA Finland April Gathering: time to party with Ovelin!

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Ovelin, a company behind the widely-praised, award winning WildChords is yet another success from Finland. Ovelin got €1.1M seed funding from True Ventures in February 2012 enabling them to develop Wildchords further. Besides Wildchords, Ovelin is working on other ways to make world more musical. It surely is quite an achievement not only to make it in the competition but to innovate and create an original product, too. Ovelin is going full speed ahead with Wildchords and the next products. IGDA Finland April party is a fantastic opportunity for you all to see what the future holds for Ovelin. You'll have a chance to try Wildchords if you haven't already. Also if you dream of being a part of the success story, better be at Cuba on 3rd of April and meet the team behind Wildchords!

IGDA Finland chapter is one of the most active IGDA chapters in the world. We have the greatest parties, see you in April! Ps. You do not have to be a member to join the pub events at Cuba bar.

IGDA Finland April Gathering - time to party with Ovelin Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 at 7PM Cuba Bar, Erottaja 4, Helsinki Finland (map: http://igda.fi/?page_id=5)