IGDA Finland x Rovio Holiday Party!

IGDA Finland & Rovio Present: Fireside with Reggie Fils-Aimé, plus more!

Tuesday 15th December
19:00 - 21:00 EET

IGDA Finland and Rovio will be bringing some holiday cheer to all of the studios, homes and home offices out there with a special online holiday party. 
Rovio will host a fireside chat with Reggie, who will share his experiences, thoughts on what the future holds and answer some of your questions.

This will be a one-time live event only, there will be no possibility to see it afterwards so make sure to tune in!

On top of getting your sweet fill of Reggie we have:
- Rovio’s inhouse band 
- Holiday cheers from Finnish game devs
- The traditional Yule Log

The livestream will take place on the following streaming services:
IGDA Finland Twitch
IGDA Finland Youtube
IGDA Finland Facebook

See y’all in December!

Housemarque 20th Anniversary Celebration

Even though the IGDA season is over, the game industry keeps on partying. Last Wednesday Housemarque celebrated its 20th anniversary, where more than 400 game developers and their friends gathered to congratulate one of the oldest game companies in Finland!

Housemarque prepared surprises for their guests: Consoles and PCs with studio's games were available for all guests, the various dishes offered were named after studio’s games. The CEO, Ilari Kuittinen welcomed everyone to the anniversary and started a party by showing recap videos of Housemarque games and company history (including the very special, previously unseen ones!). Finnish attendees were excited about the epic appearance of Apulanta (a Finnish rock band which was popular some years ago, as my Finnish friends told me). Marioke was the last surprise Housemarque prepared for the guests: Karaoke as usual, except that all the lyrics had been changed to game-related texts, for example "You are simply Tempest" or "Monkey Target".

If you didn’t get a chance to visit the celebration, you can check out photos and videos in various social media with the hashtag #hmq20. Also, here is a link to Facebook albums from the event: https://www.facebook.com/Housemarque/photos

Thanks Housemarque for a great evening!

Photos by Sami Välikangas.

IGDA Finland June Gathering with Rovio!

Hey, everyone!

The IGDA Finland summer party is just around the corner so mark this date on your calendars and join us in this season's final gathering! This time we're organizing the party together with Rovio and they will offer us some free cold drinks in this heat! Come and find out what else they have for us!

Also it's been a wonderful year and thank you to everyone for being so active! After the June Gathering it's time to wish you happy holidays and we'll see you again in Fall 2012!

IGDA Finland June Gathering Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at 7PM Cuba Bar, Erottaja 4, Helsinki Finland (map: http://igda.fi/?page_id=5)