IGDA Future Workshops at Assembly 2022!

We have big announcements especially for those who are attending Assembly this weekend and joining us to celebrate 30th anniversary of this epic event!

IGDA Finland (IGDA Future) is proud to once again host series of workshops at Assembly, presenting:

✨ 3D Modeling Workshop with Oskari Tamminen

✨ Character Design Concept Art Workshop with Natasha Skult

✨ Minecraft Mod Workshop with Ren Soharab

✨ Game Boy Workshop with Samuli Jääskeläinen

✨Series of Game Design Workshops with HypeHype

The workshops will take place on Friday and Saturday at the Creative Zone at Assembly 2022, you can learn more from the Assembly program and sign up for the workshops below:

https://lnkd.in/dFVC7SuA

Sign up form:
https://bit.ly/3br3M4d

Get 15% Off Your Tickets to DevGAMM

DevGAMM Vilnius will take place on July 28-29, 2022 featuring business meetings, talks from industry experts, an expo with new games and company booths, and a career wall at the Radisson Blu Lietuva.

The game developers can also submit their games to the DevGAMM Showcase, which is an opportunity to present projects to the conference audience and get feedback. The submission deadline is July 13. Apply here.

For participants interested in hot topic discussions, there will be a number of round tables with experts. Each table will have a moderator and everyone will share their experiences and get insights. Attendees will also get access to networking parties, as well as, PINE for scheduling business meetings.

Visit the conference website for more information. Tickets are already on sale.

IGDA Finland members get 15% off tickets using promo code IGDA_Finland_15 during checkout.

This conference was born in Ukraine and most of the team are Ukrainians. Money raised from the tickets and sponsorship packages will go to special funds to for Ukrainian relief.

Post-mortem: IGDA Finland Volunteer Bonanza Cruise Spring 2022

Couple days after the Bonanza - I can safely say that we have survived the IGDA Finland Volunteers Bonanza Cruise 2022 with only some minor injuries! Other than our chairperson Professor Charles Xavier cosplay attempts, most people landed on their feet.

IGDA Finland volunteers took part in the biyearly Bonanza event in which we talked about things close to volunteers' hearts and volunteering in general. Cruise took part on the Baltic Sea with the Silja Europa cruise ship. We boarded the vessel on the evening of the 28th of May and headed straight for dinner. With a good buffet dinner done - volunteers joined with the IGDA Finland board members to a conference room for a quick hour of introductions and schedule presentation for the cruise.

On the cruise we had volunteers from most of the hubs and plenty of! With a total of 28 people joining, we managed to fill 8 cabins total. Some were more full than others but everyone enjoyed their time and hopefully nobody felt alone on the cruise.

After a night of relaxing at the nightclub, some of the volunteers visited the breakfast in the morning and headed out in Tallinn. Some volunteers got to taste Tallinn for the first time in their life so IGDA is also expanding their volunteers' life-experiences! Unfortunately the cobblestone roads of Old Town Tallinn became hostile to IGDA Finland's chairperson Häll and he ended up with a twisted ankle after the incident with the cobblestones.

With a quick taxi ride - we had the chairperson back on the ship once more. Just in time for the Sundays workshops! For the workshops we had the volunteers talk with themselves about best practices that their hubs are using for volunteering, event planning and event hosting. Good ideas were shared and they were even remixed into better ideas during the conversations.

The other workshop included some thinking about things volunteers could and want to do in the future and what kind of support they would need from IGDA Finland. That included a speaker listing for the hubs to have an idea of who to ask to speak at their own meetups or other events.

At the end of the workshops we had our very own Natasha Skult, the chairperson of the IGDA Global Board of Directors, go through our Emmi system for event management and website and how to post your hubs’ events there. Some volunteers got to see these for the first time and some this was a good repeat of the old learnings.

Overall the IGDA Finland Volunteers Bonanza Cruise 2022 was a huge success and many funs were had! Hopefully more volunteers can attend the Autumn Bonanza later this year.

Best Regards from the Board and me,

Joni Finne

Vice-chair of the IGDA Finland

Mobidictum: Call for Speakers

The Mobidictum Business Event is the largest game industry conference in Turkey and MENA region and aim to grow the game industry in the region by bringing world-class publishers, service providers, and game companies to Turkey. The event will take place in Istanbul on Sept 5-6, 2022 and is organized by Mobidictum, a mobile gaming news platform focusing on Turkey.

Anyone interested in speaking should fill in their application form before the July 1 deadline.

Indies wishing to showcase at the event should contact the organizers and apply for a demo spot. There are a limited number of free spots available.

IGDA Finland members wishing to attend the event can get 20% of their ticket by using code IGDAFI when checking out.

For more information visit the conference website.

Get 10% Off Tickets to Develop Brighton

Develop:Brighton will bring the game development community together from July 12-14, 2022 at the Hilton Metropole in Brighton, UK. The three-day event provides opportunities to learn from each other, share experiences, keep up-to-date, pitch games, network and do business in a fun social setting.

Early Bird passes will be on sale until Wednesday, June 5 and IGDA Finland members can get an additional 10% off when using the following code: DQDXAG